The Queen's Rambles

This has been a really weird virus for all of us. Twenty four hours of sickness, 24 hours of wellness, 48 hours of sickness. Weird.

I’m on my second round. Someone send me my mommy.

It turns out our progressive gay neighbors aren’t progressive or gay. When we moved in they told us they had been roommates for years and living in that particular townhouse since 2000. They had two teenage boys with them. I just assumed they must be gay. Progressive, because they are from Africa and I think it is really, really hard to be gay in African culture, just from what I’ve seen in the news.

They’re moving out and came over to thank us for being good neighbors. Turns out they are brothers and they finally saved up enough money to each move out on their own and order brides from their home country. So not progressive.

We’ll miss them because they were quiet. You hardly noticed them, even with two teen boys. They’ve had a worker in all day yesterday and it is LOUD. I am hoping he is doing a lot of hammering and the walls aren’t just a lot thinner than I thought.

Do any of you watch The Event? I do, but I don’t recommend it. It’s ok, I guess. Nothing spectacular, but I am curious to see how it plays out. I don’t even care if it gets renewed (I’m thinking it won’t).

One of the characters has seemed so familiar to me ever since I started watching it. I couldn’t place him and I guess I didn’t care enough to google him, but I finally did last night. My jaw just about dropped. Luke Danes! Lorelei’s paramour! Even knowing that’s who it is and that’s why I have a primitive positive response to him, I still have a hard time picturing him as the same guy who played Luke. He’s bulked up, he doesn’t wear a hat, and he plays a competent action-adventure gun-toting kind of guy. My wee little mind is blown.

Speaking of TV shows, here are my recommendations from this season. I know you’ve been dying for them.

1) Terriers was a great little show. Just ten episodes and everything wraps up. It feels a lot like Veronica Mars if she was an old, alcoholic detective.

2) Detroit 1-8-7 was a cop show that knew how to bring it. The acting was superb. The pace and mood, intense. I would be sitting on the edge of my seat the entire time. It never caught on, so has been canceled. The first season has an arc and feels finished so you can watch it as a mini-series.

3) Outsourced is laugh out loud funny every episode. I thought it would be racist or uncomfortable to watch, but it’s just plain funny.

4) Raising Hope is one I just started watching, but I think it’s even funnier than Outsourced. Well worth the watch.

And now I have a crying baby, so I guess that’s it.