If you are the type of person who likes meatballs, may I recommend this recipe? We had them Saturday and again last night and I am sad to bid them farewell.
Yesterday was a pretty quality lazy Sunday. We started watching The Plot Against America. If you were initially excited about The Man in the High Castle and then lost interest in its impenetrable plot and goofy supernatural elements, perhaps Plot is the show for you? It’s also a WW2-era alternate history story and I find it much more to my liking than The Man in the High Castle. Your enjoyment may hinge entirely on your tolerance for characters saying things like “He’ll never get elected!” and “[His opponent] will wipe the floor with him!” and also plotlines such as gradually emboldened fascists among the rank-and-file. GRIMACE FACE EMOJI, but also Winona Ryder is in it and that one guy from Derry Girls.
It pains me to admit this but we watched two godawful movies over the weekend. The first one was that Chris Hemsworth Netflix movie Extraction, which was so bottomlessly terrible I don’t even know how to describe it. On Saturday night we watched Sex and the City 2, which is worse because I’ve seen it and I know better.
We mostly watched SATC2 so I could prove a point, which is that it is terrible. I think my husband was like “how bad it could it possibly be?” and now he knows, to his detriment. Aside from the BOATLOAD of culturally insensitive awfulness there’s also the fact that the jokes are bad? And there’s no…nuance? Also why is it two-and-a-half hours long? It doesn’t even need to be an hour-and-a-half long. Actually, it doesn’t need to exist at all.
Last night I picked up my knitting again, starting in on a blanket I began making my 18-month-old nephew before he was born (whoops). This morning I lost concentration for about 90 seconds and now I have to unravel the whole thing. Now I remember why I find knitting so endlessly frustrating. It goes well until it doesn’t and then you are in trouble, my friend.
Today the puppy goes to school so I will have time, I hope, to make and send some masks to people who have asked for them. I have a pile of finished masks but sometimes I like to make a particularly cute one for somebody. And since we seem to be in a position of needing them for the next several months, they might as well be cute.
Personally, I have gotten a lot out of the mask-making. I feel like it is a concrete way to help (and also I finally bought a sewing machine). When I’m making masks I think about the people who will be wearing them, and about how everyone deserves to be safe, even if they are in jail or homeless or yes, even if they are marching in the streets because they…want to get their roots done?
Anyway if putting masks out into the world helps us all be a little safer then I’m happy to keep making them as long as I can. Fortunately I seem to have ordered enough elastic in time, not that I am hoarding it of course. But I have enough. And, I don’t know, having enough of anything right now is as good a reason as any to pass something along, even if it’s just kindness and consideration and staying your ass at home.