February 5, 2018: Altered Carbon

Monday.  I was the first one up this morning.  We lost power for a little bit this morning, but not for very long.  It is very cold and Texas is prone to power outages in the ice.

This evening the girls decided that they wanted to do face painting, and they painted my face.  The things you do as a dad.

Tonight, Dominica and I started watching the new Netflix miniseries Altered Carbon.  So far, it seems pretty good.  Something a bit different.

February 3, 2018: Lord of the Rings Marathon for Liesl

It’s the weekend.  Liesl got up and played Steam the moment that she was out of bed.

This afternoon I ran to the library here in Carrollton and borrowed the other two Lord of the Rings movies that we had not seen yet just before the library closed.  It’s great, they have a decent movie selection there.  We’ve never used the library for movies before.  It’s a very cool idea.  Dominica has recently started using them for audio books, too, although we are having terrible luck with those as the CDs are so abused that they tend not to work.

So this evening turned into a Lord of the Rings evening.  Luciana decided that she didn’t want to watch with us, so is saving watching the movies for some other time.

Liesl had to watch the last half of an hour of The Fellowship of the Ring because she had missed it last night.  Then we went directly into The Two Towers.  After that, Liesl still wanted to keep watching, so we sat and watched The Return of the King as well.  Liesl nearly did a full Lord of the Rings marathon as a nine year old!  Not many can do that. She did manage to do it in two days, but nearly all in one.  But it wasn’t the extended editions, which we have in storage somewhere.  Sometime we will do it all again with those.

 

February 2, 2018: Starting the Lord of the Rings

Friday. Just a normal work day today. Was productive, but things were slow, which was nice.  Wasn’t too stressful, which was good as there are so many other things to take care of.

The cleaners were at the house in Peekskill today all day getting it cleaned and cleared out and the last remaining broken things fixed around the house.  In theory, we get to set the closing date on Monday.

Dominica and I have finally gotten around to catching up on Sherlock on Netflix.  We are ready for season four, after today.

This evening, we decided to make a movie night of it.  Luciana saw The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Netflix and asked if we could watch it.  Dominica and I had already decided that we wanted to just make it an easy night of Domino’s pizza, so that fit well.

So we set up the living room, I added a box of firewood under the television on the hearth so that it would be at a proper viewing level, and we fired up the movie, ordered our pizza, and settled in for a nice evening.

The girls really liked the movie. Unfortunately, only the first one of the trilogy is available on Netflix right now, so we can’t continue the series.