(NOT SO) MILD, MILD WEST
I don’t mind the rain; nope, not one bit. While I’d rather be in a skirt and flip flops, I love that the rain outside allows me to do what I love to do inside, guilt-free. Though at work during the day, there’s nothing better than coming home after yoga practice, indulging in an ultra hot bath, toasty warm lemon water, reading, puppy cuddles, legwarmers, a duvet and movies.
One thing I will complain about is the bewildering and unseasonably cold temperatures. It’s June 11 and I am wearing wool tights under my dress pants!
Wool!
In June!
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But I can suck up the princess act and be thankful. The more days and nights the rain falls, the more I can pamper myself in the form of endless hours of Deadwood. I was never much of one for films and stories from the Wild West, but during a weekend at the end of February on which I was very sick, my friend Jack fed me a steady diet of western movies, hot tea and nasty cough syrup. I developed a taste for the genre and have been stuffing myself full of HBO’s Deadwood over the last few weeks.
Unlike other HBO programs, I haven’t experienced any sense of moral direction from this series, nor has it taught me anything of import. Deadwood is simply storytelling at its very best. Though loosely based on the historical gold-mining camp of Deadwood, South Dakota, it’s largely fictional. Many of the characters and establishments, though at one time real, have been exagerrated for entertainment’s sake.
It’s a down and dirty, cuss-filled and smartly written depiction of a time when characters such as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane became legends in the making. I am quite sure I can’t get into my legwarmers and hit “play” soon enough. Besides, who needs the sun when this guy cranks up the heat enough for me?
I’m so weird!
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Nah, you’re only a little bit weird…
I secretly agree with you on the rain. While I would rather not be wearing gumboots in June, I’ll be quite happy to get home tonight and snuggle up with a dvd as well…even though I don’t have Mr. Powers to heat up my apartment like you do…I am, however, really getting into ‘Big Love.’
I share a similar story, though my tv comfort is South Park. I take it my letter to miss Mother Nature hasn’t gotten through yet.
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It’s kinda the same in England right now, We have had sun, but it’s apparently going to disappear tomorrow, who know when it will return again
Timothy Olyphant. Deadwood is very entertaining indeed.
As for this weather – gawd. The landlady turned the heat off in the building and it was soooooo cold, we complained because we need heat right now, it gets pretty cool over night. It is unusually cool for June here. Thankfully there are hot baths ahaha.
Well, it is officially the rainy season here in Japan now. Utter joy, I tell you.
and this whole time I thought you were talking about the WB’s The Deadwood…lol I am mental – can you tell I don’t have HBO ??
My mom sent my daughter an email yesterday.
108 degrees in Tucson
I want to do Timothy Olyphant – until he basically drops exhausted and begs me “Raul, can we please take a break?”