I’ve been watching, A Thing Called Love a lot lately. I tweeted the breakfast table from GMFB because they showed The Bluebird Café‘s awning just before they went to Nashville for the 2019 NFL draft. I asked all of them if anyone has seen that movie. I plugged it by letting them know River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis star in it. It also has vintage Sandra Bullock as well. I absolutely LOVE that movie!
My favorite part reminds me of a memory I have from high school. I was in my honors English class (I’m not sure which year) and I remember having a conversation with one of my friends about the type of engagement ring that I wanted. I was telling her the size of the diamond and the cut. It was before class and Ms. Graybill was taking attendance.
She stopped for a moment, looked at me, and told me that, “[I]would take a ring from a candy machine [as my engagement ring].” I loved my English class and Ms. Graybill knew me! I stopped talking to my friend and looked at her and thought for a moment. I responded with a nod, shrug, and a, “Yeah, probably.” I’m not married but I did accept a plastic ring from a machine that I wore every day for a few years until it broke. That ring was from my son and I wore it like it was the huge diamond ring I described to my friend when I was in high school.
I am not a movie spoiler but if you watch the movie, you’ll know the correlation to the movie I have with this ring. I’ve been really into country music recently, probably because I miss Barwis so much!
Ms. Graybill is the reason I was an English teacher. I actually wanted to double major while I was at WMU. I was planning on double majoring in English and history because two of my favorite teachers taught those subjects to me! (That’s a shout out to you, Mr. Dean, as well!). By the time I became an upperclassman at U of M Dearborn, after having had my son, I just wanted to get the hell out of college so I majored in English and minored in history. I ended up teaching English at CCA because back then, I told the person hiring me that students can’t pass a history MEAP test to save their lives!
The OnDemand part of my cable is a little wonky. I think I need a newer cable box! I think I got a letter from them a while back. Maybe I will call my cable company tomorrow. Now, I just got to figure out how to watch the end of this movie!