This Week on Main Street...

Drink of the Week: 
Martini & Rossi - Asti Spumante 

One of my favorite drinks!

Soup of the Week: 
Clam Chowder Snap
Easy, quick and good. 

 
App of the Week:
My Fitness Pal

New Year's resolutions of course.
Keeps tracks of food and exercise.
I'm amazed at how many calories tortilla chips have :/

TV show of the week:
House 
Season 1: Episode 14

Movie of the Week:
Nebraska

This movie.
I left and felt like I had spent 2 hours with my Dad.
I don't want to give any spoilers away, but I may just have to do a blog post entirely on this movie.
If you've never spent time caring for the elderly, you might not think much of it.
If you have spent time with an aging parent, you will see yourself on the screen. But not in a "in your face way"…and that, is the beauty of this film. The reality is so subtle and underplayed…only those who have been there will see how well the actors have captured the heartbreaking bittersweetness of this simple story that is common to many parents and children.
Bruce Dern deserves an award…he is beyond Oscar good in this role.

Song of the Week:
Dancing Queen

I'm slowly rebuilding my iTunes library, since when my computer crashed I realized the only backup of music I had was on my iPod.
I'm revisiting my favorites…
I would have Abba and the Dancing Queen in my favorites anyway, but anyone who has seen or heard me talk about the movie "Muriel's Wedding," knows that this song is more than just a song.
It's an adjective…a way of measuring things up.

Album of the Week:
AC/DC : Back in Black

Shaking the cobwebs out of 2013!

Book of the Week:
The Bible
Again with the resolutions.
"In the Beginning…."



Directions to here:

Little known fact:
Abba's Dancing Queen was originally known as "Boogaloo."

Here's the lost verse!