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This post contains spoilers for the movie Rental Family.

Rental Family staring Brendan Fraser is about an American actor living in Japan. He works for a company where citizens hire actors to play parts in their lives. He could be paid to be a groom, a mourner, a biographer or even a father for a fatherless child. Of course any of those roles could become personal if he gets too attached to a client.

This movie is not at all what I expected. I'm not sure why I thought it would be heart-warming or a comedy. What I got was something sad, something that made me think about how grim it is that people have to hire others to be part of their lives. The fact that it's become a common practice made it even more depressing to me.

It was an interesting movie, but not something I really enjoyed. It did, however, make me think about the human condition in modern times.

Happy Friday!

What fanworks have you enjoyed this week?

I Really enjoyed Sheepsquatch Stole my Rodney by friendof_dorothy - Eerie, Indiana: the Other Dimension - Mitchell gets out of dodge, and goes looking for Rodney.

Good morning!

In an effort to be more active on Dreamwidth, I'm going to try to do some daily posting. So this is the inaugural Meta Monday post!

What is Meta Monday?

Meta Monday is an invitation for you to post recs of your favorite metas, ask if meta on a specific topic exists and either get a recommendation and/or possibly inspire someone to write some on the topic!

So. Bring on the Meta!

January felt like a holding pattern month for me, as I waited for the various house purchasing processes to work their way through the system. I had hoped, indeed expected to close in January, but it ended up being a couple of days later. Oh well, the deed is done now and I am so happy.

In looking at my list, there weren’t very many accomplishments. In fact, there were only three goals that got any action, but it still feels good to make progress.

7. Purchase tools/gadgets to make cooking/life easier as needed
I bought a few smallish gadgets – a different type of vegetable peeler that is easier for me to use, a long handled shoe horn and am looking at one of those long handled grabber thingies, because it feels like the bottom of my new washing machine is halfway to China.

10. Perform annual reallocations on retirement funds
Yep, did this. Takes about 5 minutes to do, once I actually remind myself it needs to be done, lol!

21. Review/change homeowner and auto insurance policies annually
Had to do this, of course, due to moving, but it was a rewarding experience that saved me a chunk of money.

Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan

Well hello, everyone. It's been a while since I posted about fic. I've been reading but in a haphazard way, which doesn't lend itself to posts. I'm finally ready with a batch of write-ups from my Old and New Project, though. (For anyone who's forgotten, that's where I reread the fics in my Beloved Collection of favorites, accompanied by new-to-me fics by the same authors.)

For a while, I've been toying with the idea of only writing up the fics I like as part of this project. I think I'm going to do that, possibly making exceptions if a fic I didn't like still provoked interesting thoughts. I did read some fics by today's authors that I didn't care for or felt neutral toward. As I noted in the last Old and New Project post, that can happen even with authors who have also written favorites, which is a useful lesson.

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