Another email from the Maternal Unit

My parents' condo is undergoing renovations. My mother wrote to me this weekend, and the first email is here in case you missed it.

And now, the saga continues.

Angel,

Phase II of the Great Kitchen Chaos.
I'm sure I will never ever find anything again.

I've always found it rather daunting to find things that have disappeared - large or small -
and I am aware they have a way of vanishing because there is a Great Conspiracy
afoot to prevent my retrieving the lost thing. However, by mobilizing everyone around me to
join in my quest for the lost thing, the drama takes on friendlier dimensions.
Substantive Indiana Jones: "The Quest For the Lost ....(fill in name of object here)"

On the positive side though, in the frantic search for the lost article, I do find other
things that disappeared months or years ago. Which is encouraging because it makes you
immediately forget what it is you're actually looking for. So you feel much better.
"Empowered" is the current buzzword describing the situation, I think, although I prefer
"triumphant" which describes the heady feeling more explicitly. The question that arises though, is:
in finding what you haven't lost at the moment, are you thus "empowered" to lose more things?
C'est difficile. It's an existential problem.

I am presently in triumph mode since I've found my computer under the bed this morning and
I have carefully stored the address books in a frying pan in the living-room, and filed
important messages for daddy somewhere in the bathroom where I'm sure to find them.

Woohoohoo! Or, ramblings about TV

Mission: Impossible is going to be out on DVD in its entirety in November!

Squee!

Also, I bit the bullet and signed up for Zip.ca, and so far I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the service. The DVDs come quickly, and so far only one has come "out of order" since I've put only TV series on my wishlist. It's an exercise in patience for me, since I like to do marathons of TV seasons, but watching them four at a time and then waiting a week or so for the next four episodes is working out pretty well thus far.

I rented "Tru Blood" from my FLVS, and while it was very different from what I expected, I thoroughly enjoyed it once I revised my expectations. I have to say that the show does unsexy sex scenes remarkably well. The writing was solid, and made me laugh and laugh.

I have been renting "Prison Break," but someone else in the neighbourhood had the same idea as I did, and so I am currently being thwarted by the fact that the second disc of season 2 is out and has been for days. So I'm going to have to wait a little while before I find out what happens next.

So tonight I have a choice between Criminal Minds, Supernatural, and Deadwood. All in all, I can't complain. :)