One Year Ago Today in KC |
Painting mess |
We watched FROZEN RIVER last night, a depressing movie about a family about to lose their house; to keep things together, the mother gets involved in smuggling immigrants into Canada, across the frozen river. A great performance by Mellisa Leo (she was up for an Academy award for this performance) and her son kept us watching the poverty and tragedy of other people's lives and, fortunately, it has a happy ending. Though she ends up in jail for a few months for smuggling, she makes the moral decision at the end to sacrifice herself for others. A difficult movie to watch, as we see how desperately some people live, either just getting buy, or being smuggled across a frozen river to another country to make a new life. How lucky we are in comparison to have a home, a family, and health.
First coat of the ceiling in living room is done, all is taped and ready to go. Second coat of ceiling tomorrow, all the walls, perhaps twice, done either tomorrow night or Wednesday morning. The end is near, I think, so we can then start worrying about a carpet. It looks good, we like the soft buff color of the walls. Not a great change but fresh, rich, and new. I went to the paint store for the third straight day; I wonder if this is the usual, you never get enough, you always need more of something, whether paint, rollers, tape or whatever.
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