My Couch Potato Story

On Sunday night I had a bad tummy night (there is no need for more details than that). Needless to say, I did not go into work on Monday. I had a true couch potato day instead.

Started the morning off with a black and white movie "A Letter to Three Wives"about three young women who receive a letter saying that one of their husbands ran away with her. Each contemplates whether or not it was her husband. I have to admit I did not pay as much as attention to this movie as I could have since I did not know any of the actors.

Then watched first episode of Jeeves and Wooster (given to me by Jonathan) with my dad. Bertie is being engaged to Honoria but fortunately his new valet (Jeeves) gets him out of that pickle. Stephen Fry is GREAT as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie has such a clayface that that you are never certain what expression he will make next.

Second black and white movie: We’re Not Married! with Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe. Basically 5 different stories about 5 couples who learn that they are not married and the distinct ways each handles it. Most touching is the young soldier who goes to great length to make sure he and his pregnant wife become legally married before he leaves for the war.

Episode of The Cosby Show was next. Vanessa surprises Dr. and Mrs. Huxtable with news that she has been secretly engaged for 6 months! If you have ever watched this show, then you can imagine all the funny stares/glares they give Vanessa and her fiancé (Dabnis) as they recount their story. Dr. Huxtable compares Vanessa’s presentation of her fiancé to presenting a fine slab of steak and mashed potatoes on a garbage lid. It doesn’t matter how good the steak is because it is coming on a garbage lid. I think they got the point after this.

Unfortunately I fell into a Lifetime movie at this point. Wife/Mother is kidnapped and ransomed for a million dollars. When she tries to escape fearing that she will be killed instead of returned, her female captor dies. The male captor blames her and starts to destroy all aspects of her family’s life. In the end, the bad guy gets caught and the family is all back together and happy again.

I took a break here to study Mark 10, definitely the best part of the day.

Watched an episode and a half of “Road to Avonlea,” the last two episodes of season 4. Neither particularly interesting but I always feel very nostalgic when I watch this show. I used to watch every day during the summer in 1999 and I think also 1995 summer.

Next Dad, Mom, and I watched parts 1 and 2 of the Pilot for Lost. It was far more scary than I had anticipated. The show itself is usually intriguing but does not normally scare me. However, I must admit that I have only watched the second season. Perhaps the first season is a bit more rough.

After this I watched a Superman special on A&E. I have always enjoyed the stories and tales of Superman. I grew up reading the comic books from the 1950s and 1960s. Clearly, this show was set up as an advertisement for the new Superman movie but the movie itself was only really discussed in the last 10 minutes. The rest of the time showed the various ways that Superman had been popularly presented to the world, including several TV shows: The Adventures of Superman; Lois & Clark; and Smallville.

After all this, I finally went to bed.