Went to Boston on Saturday. It was my friend's birthday. We have a group of 6 that like hang out together, though one of us lives in CA, so she calls in. We had a secret Santa, where we exchanged gifts. Then we celebrated the birthday. I bought special fruit shaped desserts that were filled with cream. This was a request by my friend's husband. We had food, cake and sweets. Then we went to see Avatar in downtown Boston. Seeing the Boston Common lights was nice plus they had a drone show which was fun. The movie (the new Avatar movie) was not much different than the previous Avatar movies. Hollywood is only about predictable sales No risks are ever taken any more. I hope Hollywood gets liberated from so much corporate heavy handedness. They have choked the life out of it. No good story telling. Avatar was no different. I do like the anti-colonial messages, but at this stage, they're beating a dead horse. This is really just to squeeze more money from the franchise, nothing more. The 3D technology wasn't very impressive and the CGI is not different from the original. The story is similar as before. Lots of fighting and battle scenes. I do appreciate the spirituality in the story though (that they connect to their planet's spirit with the braid like structure that grows from their head and visit a different dimension). They will probably recycle this again in a few years. With all that said, this does not mean I did not enjoy sitting in the comfortable chairs eating popcorn and being entertained. I'm grateful for the experience regardless of the recycled story.
I brought my test prints with me to show my friends so they can give honest reviews of some products to help the trust factor for my store. Every little thing helps. I gave some away as gifts.
Then I visited other friends before heading home. I'm always happy to see them. I get to talk science for a bit, which is intellectually stimulating.
Still, I'm glad to be home with my cats. I'm not going anywhere for a while. Today is the actual solstice. After today, days are getting longer. In the spiritual community, between the new moon and the solstice is a time that has meaning. I unfortunately could not sit and reflect as I should have. Still, I felt the energies and generally speaking, the energy felt good. Though I did toss and turn a lot overnight and woke up with a headache, which is common for me when the energies are intense.
So, this week I hope to ski some and skate. I'll take some horse drawn sleigh rides. I'll try to learn to crochet. We will see how I do. I'm making some holiday foods for myself. Since it's just me, it'll probably last a week. My holiday foods are a meatless meat pie and baked beans. A traditional Canadian meat pie uses fatty pork. I would prefer to be a bit more health conscious so I will substitute lentils for ground pork. I'll still use all the same flavorings as I normally would. A potato will hold the lentils together. I also intend to make homemade baked beans. My family used to always have baked beans and Canadian meat pie (I'm ethnically half French Canadian) for Christmas. All I'm missing is tamale's (I'm also ethnically half Mexican) but I don't have a good source for tamales and these are too hard to make by myself. Tamale's are usually consumed during the Christmas holidays, and typically a group of women make them together like an assembly line. So, I'll omit that tradition.
So, I'll have a week of fun activities, delicious food and on Christmas morning, Santa is coming to give presents to my 2 cats. Unlike my former dog, who lives in Florida with my ex-husband, the cats can't open presents on their own. They need my help in that department. There's probably only a 20% chance these toys will be played with, since cats are notoriously picky about what they like, but Santa tries to keep them happy.
I'll probably try to design more products this week for my store.
So, it should be a fun week. I'll try not to think too much about the future. I'll try to stay in the present moment more and let life unfold how it's meant to. I think my mind wants to control when its more like my mind gets in the way of the best outcomes. The universe knows what's best for me. Let's see what happens. If a job is right for me, it'll happen. But, lets see.
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