Sometimes you just need to escape for a bit. And without a Bahama vacation on the horizon, I have to find other means. My favorite form of escape is reading. Funny to think that after reading voraciously for years, a few years ago I had just stopped. I’m so glad I picked this habit up again.
Anyway, here’s a little peek into my current and past escapes from the past few weeks.
Let’s start, obviously, with books.
Reading
I’ve been working my way through the book pictured. It’s actually a collection of short stories. The first one is Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a Netflix movie made from it. Not sure why it was considered movie worthy as I’m finding the other stories to be far more interesting. Enough so that I’ll forgive Mr. King for apparently having no clue what states comprise the Midwest.
My other fun reads have been from Kimberly Belle. She writes pretty good suspense novels though I think so far The Personal Assistant definitely is my favorite. All her books seem to be set in Atlanta and have a pretty decent twist. By the third one I read, I expected the twist.
Moving on…
My Game
I feel as though I should preface this by saying I do play Wordle every morning.
And this game does have a puzzle element (my youngest son quickly points out it is luck but I do think there’s a bit of skill involved in the match 3 type games). It’s not as mindless as it seems. Or maybe it is and I just don’t care.
I’m not sure if I’d love this game as much if I were playing on a tablet as opposed to a small cellphone. Maybe. As I tell my family, it’s really like 3 games in one. First, there’s the match 3 levels you must win to get the coins for the makeover portion. And then, there’s the makeover portion. I recently “helped” an astrophysicist with a new look and an apartment makeover. You get to makeover both the person and their living quarters or office. And then, you also get to makeover your avatar and their dressing room.
There’s an option for other locales, I have the beach house. However, I lucked into a “sale” on that where I had enough gemstones. The other locales take more gemstones than I could get without spending real dollars. And I’m too cheap to do that.
Finally, let’s move on to the bigger screen known as TV.
Movies and TV Shows
First, I have no idea why in the beginning of March I’m on a scary book and tv show watching binge. That is so unlike me. However, these were really good.
Megan
Actually, this probably doesn’t qualify as scary. My husband turned this on last Saturday. And I threatened that I might not be able to sleep. I slept just fine. Pure entertainment.
Oh my, it was so funny! I’m not sure if it was meant to be. Had to get on my husband for cheering for the killer doll. It’s at the theaters but I’m glad we were able to stream it on Peacock. We were laughing out loud at this one.
The Watcher
This is a Netflix one based on a true story. I just wanted something short (it has just 7 episodes) and accidently found myself sucked into this story. Family moves into a super expensive house in New Jersey and starts getting super creepy letters from someone calling themselves “The Watcher.” The whole show has a super creepy but engaging vibe to it. I was busy trying to solve the case. Let me know if you watch/have watched this one.
Regular TV Shows
Masked Singer is back so I’m happy about that one. If you do watch, is it just me or are they way over hyping Medusa’s talent? Next Level Chef usually holds my attention but I’m struggling with it this season, not sure why.
And I did actually catch La Brea this week. Oh my, that doesn’t disappoint. I love that I can say, hey they’ve got time travel, saber tooth tigers, now all they need is a….and there it is! Ha. I might have to find a way to catch up a bit though as I was rather lost on some parts of it.
Classic Movies
After watching Megan, we did also watch Tommy Boy. Not sure why my husband added it, maybe to keep me from being scared from the first movie (I wasn’t). Tommy Boy is one of my all-time favorites though so I stayed up a bit late watching the whole thing. (My husband fell asleep)
J, my non-movie kid, walked through the living room while I was watching and said at least he’d seen that one. So, it reminded me of some other classics the kids need to see. And tonight’s plan is a family movie night with another of my favorite “stupid” comedies: Dodgeball.
What are some of your favorite (or recent) escapes with games, books, and movies or tv shows?
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Day 61/365
“If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!” A favorite of mine as well! I loved Megan! Also really enjoyed The Watcher. Last weekend we put on the movie “Dog” expecting a totally different kind of movie but it was SO GOOD and even my 17 and 13 year old watched the whole thing with us. I’d definitely recommend that one.
We watched it last night (my youngest fell asleep before the movie but it was nice to spend some time with just our oldest) and I’d forgotten how funny that movie was. We laughed so much. And we were talking during the credits…did you know that movie had an end credit scene? I’d never seen it. Ben Stiller is so funny. I’ll have to check into the movie “Dog.” Not sure I’ve heard of it. Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
We all need an escape from time to time.
I’m so glad you found things that relax you.
Thank you! Yes, it’s good to have a few relaxing activities to fall on when things are stressful or just to relax.
It’s good to read all the books and programmes that you enjoy. It always amazes me the variety of things to watch on TV. Whenever we stayed with my in-laws, it was like a different planet… all the different shows etc. We came home and often adopted some of their favourites Cx
There’s almost too much to watch on TV. And I know we have way too many streaming services, not even sure how that happened. I remember when the boys were little and we had nothing but maybe Netflix and we’d go on vacation and the tv choices were almost the highlight of the trips for them. Hope you are having a great weekend!
I am currently playing Scrabble on my phone most evenings. I am reading quite a bit as well. I do find that Medusa seems to be the rage on The Masked Singer and I have thought that others were much better. Do you have any idea as to who it is?
I really don’t have many ideas on who she might be. At first, I really didn’t think Ken was too far off in saying Meghan Markle but I don’t think it’s her anymore. Somebody young, I think. Feels a little fixed how they keep saving her though.
We watched The Watcher and I was very disappointed to find out on the last episode that the case was never or still hasn’t been solved. So I guess we will never know. I was trying so hard to figure it out. 😩
Yes, that was so frustrating to me. Like you I was working really hard to figure it out as well. Ended up researching it a bit afterward because I was so curious, the makeup of the family in the show is completely different than the makeup of the actual family (they had very young kids, makes it even scarier I think). Creepy stuff. There’s going to be a season 2 on Netflix, I think. Guess it will be good for entertainment value or maybe Netflix will at least provide an answer for the series mystery.