Spudguns! Morning! Happy Canada Day!!!
If you follow my movie blog, then you know that this morning I kicked off the theme week for July which is Clearly Canadian...and really no surprise there, as it's Canada Day and I announced it yesterday.
I also did a shout out to the July host for the food blogger group I'm part of. And let me take a moment to just say something. It's not as easy as it looks.
You would think, watching a movie would be the stupidly easiest thing ever. No people it's not. You have to first find a copy, and not all of us can afford to buy the dvd if we don't have a copy already, and some of the older movies that get picked are no longer available new, so unless you want to spend a fortune buying from some hoarder who is charging $90 or more for a "rare out of print copy", your out of luck. Me, I've resorted to watching pretty much all the movies so far online...sshh don't tell cause none have been on Netflix Canada at all...
THEN once you have located a copy, you have to watch it. I mean watch it, pick it apart. That means pausing, rewinding, pausing etc. Write down ever little scrap of food either shown or mentioned even background signs of restaurants. Lucky for me, that's how I used to do my wrestling reviews back when I did them still. So got the method down.
Then comes the hard part, deciding what to make. You can take the obvious route and pick something in the movie or the hard route and come up with something that the movie sparked in your imagination.
Yeah, I love hard things...um...er...coffee!
THEN you have to actually cook/bake it, take the photos, write up the recipe, talk about the movie, and be social about it.
What started off as a 90minute film has now turned into a two day event. Then what do you do when you've picked a movie either everyone choose to skip or just plan hated? Feelings get crushed like a skunk under a semi. Only the smell doesn't linger as long with the skunk.
That's how I'm spending my Canada Day...how you spending yours?
There is a Full Moon tonight, the first of two for July. This marks the point in the year where the "order" of full moon/new moon changes. I have no clue how that really works either? I guess it's got to do somehow with how you pay attention to the moon phase for the next few months until Yule or something?
And I still want to give a progress report on my weight...but can't figure out how to do so without sounding like an infomercial douchebag? I can tell you this much, I was able to fit into a pair of jeans I haven't fit into in two years. So very happy about that.
This post took way longer then I had planned, really need coffee!
