Day 624: The Nine Kittens of Christmas
Nov. 30th, 2021 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I had to get up before I'd had quite enough sleep, so the guy could finally, finally cut down and haul away the blackberry vines. I don't function terribly well if I'm even a little bit short on sleep, but at least I could plan ahead for this. They spent about an hour on the project, using a chain saw right outside my bedroom window (which is fine, in a sense, because the gentle roar of chain saws is actually a soothing sound from my childhood, but not right outside my bedroom window and not accompanied by cursing). Once they were done and I'd paid them and they had gone away, I then settled in for my planned activity for the day, watching a Hallmark rom-com called The Nine Kittens of Christmas, an activity perfectly suited to only partial wakefulness.
Here's the premise. Seven years ago, veterinary student Marilee and very handsome but socially anxious firefighter Zach bonded over their mutual love of cats, a love story told in a previous movie, The Nine Lives of Christmas. But after two years they broke up - Zach hadn't wanted to risk marriage because things were good as they were. So Marilee went off to Miami and started a veterinary practice with a man who became her boyfriend, Miles. Now it's Christmas and Marilee headed home to Bend, Oregon, to visit her family, and realized she wanted to move home. Miles was such a workaholic that he even cancelled his plans to join her, so they broke up. Meanwhile, someone left a box of nine kittens at the fire station, so Zach needed to find good homes for all of them, and Marilee, since she's a vet, helped. At the end, Zach apologized for the mistake he'd made five years previously, which he'd regretted ever since, and he asked Marilee if she would join him in adopting the remaining kitten, Rudolph, then dropped to one knee and proposed marriage, which of course she accepted.
At the beginning of the movie, the very first character we meet is Zach's cat, and I was completely delighted that his name was Ambrose, the same as the fluffiest of our new kittens. Then when I discovered that one of the nine movie kittens, obviously a female because she's a tortoiseshell, had been named Blitzen, just like my feral-born friend, I shrieked out loud. Another Blitzen!
The actor had played Superman in a 2006 film and more recently had played "The Atom" in a bunch of TV shows, so they worked in some comments on his superhero status. Cute.
Tonight we went to Safeway for our big weekly grocery run, and I realized the woman behind me must be D's coworker Andrea, in the bakery. I introduced myself, and she was so effusive. She said, "Have you heard about my 'D - - - - days'? I call Saturdays my 'D - - - - days' because he makes my life so much better." (He's only working Saturdays during fall term.) Such a nice thing to hear!
Here's the premise. Seven years ago, veterinary student Marilee and very handsome but socially anxious firefighter Zach bonded over their mutual love of cats, a love story told in a previous movie, The Nine Lives of Christmas. But after two years they broke up - Zach hadn't wanted to risk marriage because things were good as they were. So Marilee went off to Miami and started a veterinary practice with a man who became her boyfriend, Miles. Now it's Christmas and Marilee headed home to Bend, Oregon, to visit her family, and realized she wanted to move home. Miles was such a workaholic that he even cancelled his plans to join her, so they broke up. Meanwhile, someone left a box of nine kittens at the fire station, so Zach needed to find good homes for all of them, and Marilee, since she's a vet, helped. At the end, Zach apologized for the mistake he'd made five years previously, which he'd regretted ever since, and he asked Marilee if she would join him in adopting the remaining kitten, Rudolph, then dropped to one knee and proposed marriage, which of course she accepted.
At the beginning of the movie, the very first character we meet is Zach's cat, and I was completely delighted that his name was Ambrose, the same as the fluffiest of our new kittens. Then when I discovered that one of the nine movie kittens, obviously a female because she's a tortoiseshell, had been named Blitzen, just like my feral-born friend, I shrieked out loud. Another Blitzen!
The actor had played Superman in a 2006 film and more recently had played "The Atom" in a bunch of TV shows, so they worked in some comments on his superhero status. Cute.
Tonight we went to Safeway for our big weekly grocery run, and I realized the woman behind me must be D's coworker Andrea, in the bakery. I introduced myself, and she was so effusive. She said, "Have you heard about my 'D - - - - days'? I call Saturdays my 'D - - - - days' because he makes my life so much better." (He's only working Saturdays during fall term.) Such a nice thing to hear!