Playing catch up again

1. Viewed Black Book last evening, a Dutch film which couldn't have stayed in the theaters two months. It is definitely worth the DVD rental though. Highly recommended. Be warned: it is long, subtitled, and adult.

2. We have also recently watched the entirety of the PRIME SUSPECT series, produced for the BBC over 15 years. Helen Mirren's Jane Tennyson is a delight to watch as she matures in her role of police officer and woman.

3. A friend has loaned us the first season of HEROES and we're going to give that a whirl. Might as well, as we haven't added any of the new shows to our watching repertoire and have eliminated several from last year. This year, it's slim pickings at the Sisk television stable: Bones, Boston Legal, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Meerkat Manor, Friday Night Lights, and the occasional Masterpiece Theater. All the better to read?

4. Tried another Bertolli frozen dinner for two, this one the Mediterranean style, Chicken, Rigatoni and Broccoli. It's long on rigatoni and broccoli and rather short on chicken, but the flavor was very nice. Probably won't buy it again. Shrimp Diavolo still calls.

5. And, we have our first Blue Norther, taking our lovely 80 degree days down into the 50s with rain and wind. Guess that means it's time to switch the closets, or at least divest the main one of the tank tops.