Hallmark Movies

I have never been one to sit and watch the Hallmark movies for the holidays.  I rarely watch the Hallmark channel ever anyway, let alone get too excited about the movies that come out during the holiday season.

Others do.  I know.  I have heard people talking.  I have seen the FB posts.  I have heard that entire afternoons, evenings, and sometimes weekends are devoted to the Hallmark movies at Christmas time.

But not me.  No way, Jose.

Until today.

I have spent the day in the family room, working on catching up on the Advent devotions, the daily devotions, and the intent was to finish the OBS on Max Lucado's book about Bethlehem, but that didn't happen.

Instead after lunch I focused on another throw.  I wanted to lay it out on the floor and let the edges relax since they tend to curl.

As I worked on the floor, the television seemed like good company for the afternoon of my crawling around on the floor, cutting squares in the corners, slashes 1" apart around the permeter, then tying the strips together.  I usually watch the Game Show Network, but when I turned to that channel, the LEAST favorite of all of the game shows I ever watch was one and that didn't seem too feasible for the afternoon entertainment.

So I found the Hallmark Channel.  After all, working on Christmas gifts and all....it seemed like a good idea to watch Christmas movies.

I came in at the end of one about a single mom and a guy who was looking for something meaningful in his life after quitting a job in the city so selling Christmas trees in a lot with an older man who had lost his wife seemed like a great idea.  I knew the single mom and the guy were going to get together and I knew that they would come up with an idea to help out the old guy and guess what?  They did!

The next one was about a gal who was a lawyer in New York City.. She was up for a promotion and had worked really hard in the firm.  When she went home for Christmas, she met.....a guy who was a few years ahead of her in high school.  You know there was instant attraction, and you know that their family had to be rivals in the business world.  In this case it was each family had a local inn and a larger resort was trying to buy up all of property and run them out of business.  I KNEW the guy and the gal would get together and I KNEW she would get the promotion and decide to turn it down so she could stay there and be with her family and this guy.  And I knew that they would work together to eliminated the feud between their families.  I taught Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.  I know how these things work.  And it all happened as I thought it would. 

But this next one?  I finished the throw and I am working on doing some online ordering.  I haven't really been watching the screen, but I can hear the dialogue.  I am not sure what it is but the main female character's voice is driving me nuts.  It is shrieky and high-pitched, and I just can't stand it.  She also is a choir director, and when she directs the students (or whatever they are), she barely moves her hands and is the worst director I have ever seen.  At least she is not like any I have witnessed during music programs.  THEN....she began to sing and that was like fingers grating on a chalkboard (old fashioned analogy because classroom do not have chalkboards but white boards instead and fingers would never scrape across those). 


Before I could change the channel, Gary came downstairs and I told him I just couldn't stand another minute of that movie, so I am back to the Game Show Network and watching Cash Cab.  Much better than that grating shrill voice!

A few more tasks to complete, then dinner time.  I would LOVE to work on another throw, but I think my knees need a rest.  Back to it again tomorrow and who knows?  Maybe another Hallmark Christmas Movie!