Are you watching Warrior Nun, and if not, why do you hate fun? This The O.C. meets The DaVinci Code meets Van Helsing hybrid is HIGHLY ENTERTAINING to me right now and I am not normally a person who has a lot of patience with comic book adaptations (comic nerds please don’t @ me).
I’ve also been watching I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, but only during the daytime. I can definitely watch a show about a sect of demon-hunting warrior nuns and immediately drift off to dreamland, but True Horror Tales are too disturbing to be viewed before bedtime. Speaking of disturbing, we also tried watching Pennyworth but it is incredibly violent. Perry Mason is no slouch in terms of disturbing content but I will soldier on due to my belief that Matthew Rhys is extremely cute. (By this logic I should also be watching Matthew Goode in A Discovery of Witches but alas, I am not.)
Yesterday I did something I have not done in a while: made a dinner plan and shopping list for the week. I ordered the groceries and again went to Amazon to order One Weird Ingredient: this week, coconut vinegar. One thing I miss from Before Times is a lazy couple of hours spent driving around to different markets: Park to Shop in Asiatown, the Russian store in Mayfield, Parivar Spice Market. These places are all open of course, but my appetite for multiple-errand trips has diminished as the number of new daily coronavirus cases continues to rise. Perhaps having used the last of my Parivar-obtained bay leaves will be the impetus I need to venture out and buy some more – plus turmeric and coriander and tamarind paste and chutneys and and and – in bulk. (Or at least in large packages as I gather bulk buying is a no-no in Pandemic Times.)
One thing I decided to do this weekend is ask my sister-in-law if she would be okay with sending my niece over for a quarantine-friendly sleepover. She (my sister-in-law, although my niece also brings it up a fair number of times in that way small children do, where it’s partly Hey remember this? and partly I bet if I mention this, you will want to do it again…now) brought this up a few weeks ago and I suppose this is one of the million little choices we’ll all make over the next couple of years, to balance staying safe with not all turning into weird awkward hermits.
Anyway, we won’t be able to take her anywhere exciting but then again many mundane things are thrilling for four-year-olds. We could go to Swenson’s drive-in, or make ice cream sundaes, or play in the sprinkler (counterpoint, this could be a huge letdown for a kid with an in-ground pool at home), or just watch Frozen II a bunch of times.
I mean whatever we do, I am certain Frozen II will play a big part, and I am also sure I will have to endure many episodes of whatever bizarre anime she is currently into. In the past, this has included Paw Patrol, Spirit, and True. At this point I’d like you to know that I googled to make sure the cartoon about the girl and the wishing tree was in fact called True, and that is how I found out that one of the top-googled questions about that show is Is Cumulo a boy or a girl? My dude, Cumulo IS A CLOUD.