How to Lose Grey Cells Fast!

It's Saturday in The West! Shouldn't All Americans be out at The Mall right now? Returning more unwanted gifts and falling into SALES-SALES-SALES temptations? Isn't the economy on an Upswing where everyone (except The Poors) can buy more "things" beyond basics such as groceries and toilet paper like "the bad ole' days"? With exception of The Midwest of late, the weather on the East Coast is unusually warm this weekend, allowing those who normally are spending Saturday's shoveling and/or plowing snow to go out in mere sweaters, if that, and run amok through their cities/towns doing healthy things like skateboarding, riding bikes, going for a woodsy hike, or taking the boat out for a turn.

Whereas, here, on the West Coast, although the skies couldn't be clearer, the sun brighter, we are having freezing weather, wandering around in Wool Coats and hats – even gloves! But then, the exceedingly crisp air is a bit of a novelty in a flip-flop, shorts-wearing culture. So, for those of us who prefer Winter Clothes & Styles, it's a time to strut our It's Finally Winter Here attire. The change in fashion due to weather considerations is another incentive to The Fashionistas who MUST go shopping for more clothes today. And after that, get a Mani-Pedi, a Blow-Out, and back home to prepare for any parties that might be on their China Plates.

Should you not be dashing about with handled shopping bags weighing you down, or getting ready for an evening event of some sort, you might want to stay inside, turn on the TV, and, if not lulled to sleep by watching Golf Tournaments or Increasing Your Natural Testosterone Levels through the aggression of Football Games or going about a hobby, I suggest you give your brain a rest and watch Really Bad/Insipid Movies wherever you can find them.

There's nothing like staying away from the crowded fray, slipping into whatever makes you feel soft and comfortable, positioning one's self on the couch/chair/bed to watch films where "lost children" show up at the door of Leave It To Beaver parents who readily take their "long-lost abducted/ mixed-up-at-the-hospital/runaway/thought 'dead'- now-half-grown-up-child" into their lives with heartfelt hugs and kisses offering a home (usually Upper Middle Class), a credit card, "family" – only to discover the kid wasn't theirs and had plotted to kill or bilk both of them. Now that's my kind of Soul & Intellectual Nourishment way to spend a Saturday if I'm in town! NOT watching the Academy DVD Screeners of decent films.

Nope. I want my Perry King/Harry Hamlin/All Canadian Actress's/Jennifer Lopez messes. Not that a decent Old Classic Film Marathon won't fill the day. I'll watch "The Philadelphia Story" every time. Or "The Thin Man." But, newer films are best seen on the Big Screen, and I confess I don't have a large enough TV or a leather-seated comfy Home Screening Room for that sort of viewing. And so, I'm finding new ways to lose grey cells and encourage anyone who has an overabundance of them to join me in my Saturday Ritual of Film Marathoning (if not writing, of course…or sweeping the balcony of it's daily three-thousand leaves…or walking across the street to get the mail).

Yes, yes. I "should" at least go for a walk, as I often write. But hey, I might miss Patty Duke playing another pissed-off mother of a murdered-by-the-wily-wife, son! Can't have that, now can we?

Until next time, you'll find me continuing to devolve. Have a Lovely Whatever! 

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