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Today we’re talking about the 2017 film Coin Heist.
Story
The build-up and teen angst were forefront on this movie. Despite the name, there was very little heist. The film was disjointed with too many undeveloped threads. The heist was jumbled and not explained. Meaning we weren’t sure where the mistakes in the heist happened. It felt like it wanted to be a heist movie, a teen drama, and an independent art film all at once.
The ending set up a perfect revenge scenario that would have been a great pay off, but didn’t use it and that pisses me off.
Score: 0
Characters
The characters were boring, stereotypical, and angsty-er than a WB show from the early 2000’s. The acting was passable but it felt like they were as confused about what was going on as the audience.
Score: 0.5
Dialogue
The only thing more grating than the bad heist dialogue or the teen angst was the annoying trope that was the teacher.
Score: 0
Visuals and Music
The visuals were close in and pretty basic. There wasn’t anything that was particularly pretty or impressive but nothing terrible.
The music was okay, lots of angst-ridden heist-like music and a good song.
Score: 0.5
Fun
When they were in heist mode (maybe 20 minutes of the movie) it was fun and exciting. Beyond that it was a little boring.
Score: 0.5
Overall
I’m really angry at the ending. If they’d used the extra coins to flood the market and basically devalue them, they could have gotten back at the jackass that caused the entire thing. Instead they melt them down and add them to a statue… sigh.
This story has been stuck in the back of my mind since my daughter was a few months old. I plotted it out in my head as I bounced her to sleep.
It’s the second in my Northern Ontario / horror / LGBT+ romance novellas that I have in various states of writing. The first Paragenesis is at 35,000 of 50,000 words.
This one will follow the main character going up north to meet his boyfriend’s family. His family that has been tasked with protecting their community and the world from mind-controlling aliens.
I walked along the shore of the little lake. In summer this must have been the favourite beach area for the small town, but now that it was closer to Halloween, it felt dead. The leaves had fallen weeks ago and all the trees were bare.
There was a sense of impatience in the still water and surrounding nature. I imagined great ancient gods rising from the lake, or fay hiding behind the birch and pine trees. It was forced and didn’t fit.
This lake with its still water was man-made and its depths hid the construction equipment that hit an underground river. No dinosaurs, monsters, or eldritch horrors, just a man-made happy accident. There were no mythical creatures hiding in this land; Northern Ontario was too ancient and too new all at once for that sort of silliness.
“You’re being silly, there isn’t anything to worry about.” I spoke out loud and was only replied by my own muffled echo. The only answer I got was from the crows. Those I recognized, smaller than Ottawa but just as annoying.
I took in the stillness and felt the anticipation for winter coming from the lake and forests. It was the same country, same province even, but home was busy. The leaves there were just finishing their fall, winter loomed but not like this. This was a hunger that radiated off everything. “You’ve been reading to many comic books. I half expect the Westmeath Shadow to come out and fight some aliens.” Both of those were made up. I thought.
As I often did in the city, I had let my feet do the walking as I did the thinking. The lake was far behind me and I was surrounded by trees. I still couldn’t wrap my mind around how small most of them were. The whole area had been burned a hundred years ago and the trees still hadn’t reached the massive size I was used to.
I smelled something wrong before I saw it. The smell of earth and moulding leaves gave way to rotting meat and trash. I’d somehow walked into the local dump. “Who builds a dump near a lake?” I asked aloud and I think the crows actually laughed in response.
The smell was horrible and I turned away but something caught my eye. Something moved deeper in the dump. I followed, I’m not sure why. My fight with Matéo must have hit me harder than I thought. “Great, now I’m following a bear,” I whispered this as the smell of rot grew stronger.
I walked around a large assortment of garbage bags pilled on top of an old boat and that’s when I saw Herman. He was one of the silent people that lived in the big house on Principle Street, that Matéo had referred to as, “The Germans”.
Herman walked into a shed and came out with a shovel. To get to the shed he had to avoid what looked like hundreds of bodies in various states of decay.
Coming out of the shed, he walked towards a giant hole reminiscent of a pit mine. I was trying to swallow down bile and a scream when someone cupped their hand over my mouth and pulled me back.
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Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano
Crochet
The project she is working on (currently she is making herself a poncho)
Basic Information
We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.
Printing words
Download materials
Counting objects/math-type activities
Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type –in download materials
Virtual school went well this week, for the most part. The teacher asked Dragon a question when two other kids had their mics on, and Dragon couldn’t filter out the extra noise (I don’t blame her; I was on the verge of tears myself from the overstimulation) in order to answer the question properly. (Note to self: remember to put the microphone on her table before school starts!) She got to present her Halloween costume in the afternoon (a pink bunny costume that my mother made for me. This was her 4th year wearing it, and her last. Pegasus will inherit it next year) and she was able to show off her letter m worksheets in the morning.
Work for virtual school this week
Even better, though, was the conversation I got to have with her teacher after school. She pointed me in the direction of Mini TFO youtube channel, which helps both Dragon and I learn the vocabulary necessary for math stuff (like patterns – les suites) and stuff like that. I was also able to show her this blog, and Dragon will be presenting her stop-motion movie next Tuesday (yesterday, when this posts).
Home school was a little more relaxed this week, as most of the activities were verbal. Good thing, as irl stuff was a little overwhelming this week.
Dance
No martial arts again this week, but she did ballet 2-3 times this week.
Music
Her letters are doing well.
She had a rhythm piano lesson on Wednesday afternoon at our house. She did very well. Whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests were clapped (or not).
We listened to a bunch of French music. We listened to Isabelle Boulay, whom I very much enjoy. (I forgot to change the CD again…)
Crochet
We did not crochet this week. I am crocheting advent calendar boxes all the time!
Basic Information
Working on the days of the week verbally is going well. She remembers without prompting, and can tell me the day before and the day after any given day. As for the months of the year, she has the first 6 down and can repeat them without prompting. The second half of the year is getting there. She’s SO close!
Printing words
Tracing letters went well on Wednesday. Friday was decent, but it required a lot of nagging to get her to focus.
une phototographe! 😛
Counting objects/math-type activities
She seems to be doing better with verbal counting. Her printing needs work on some numbers, but she is working hard. She can count to 12 in French, but not consistently yet. She did it without help on any number for the first time on Friday.
the counting was very easy for her. Next semester, I’ll have to make these harder for her
We did multiple different patterns this week, after watching the mini TFO videos on Les Suites. She greatly enjoys doing them…probably because she can do them with absolutely anything.
I started this pattern and she completed it easily.
Storytime
We read stories from the teacher’s outline that was sent to us on Monday. She enjoyed that, and we will continue to do it next week.
Activity
Remember the dead: go through old photo albums – my mom and dad really came through on this. My mom brought over a banker box full of photo albums from both sides of her family (three generations back plus half of the one before that!), and she told stories about all the people in them. My dad emailed my aunt, who sent him pictures all the way up to three generations back of the grandparents. So Dragon’s great-great-great-grandparents.
Yes, my family is awesome like that.
My father’s familyStories about my father’s familyMy mother’s parentsDragon’s family tree. We could easily have gone further back.
Bake traditional Mexican food – Dragon and her Papa made Conchas. And they were delicious. A couple slight modifications to the recipe that we made, if you use the one in the link: – Extra tbsp of evaporated milk to the dough because it felt flaky and dry. – Extra 2 tbsp of butter to the topping (and green food colouring) because it wasn’t sticking together. In the future, we will split each ball in two – these are quite large! Dragon did the following to assist: dumped the ingredients, scooped the sugar and dumped it, kneaded the dough, formed the dough into balls, flattened and placed the topping, cut a few of the toppings
kneadingfoldingyum!she cut this oneit’s practically the size of her head!
Learn about Dia de Los Muertos (watch Elena of Avalor special episode) – we mostly did this verbally. She had lots of questions, and I can’t remember any of them!
P.S. The bruise on her cheekbone is because she decided to run in circles, got dizzy, and fell into a bookcase.
