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Inspirational song: Someone at Last (A Star Is Born [1954])

It was just too hot to leave the house. I have a few things I need to acquire to keep making this AIP diet work as advertised, but stepping out on a record-setting (or maybe it was just tied) hot day was more work than I was interested in. I stayed in and read ahead to the phases yet to come, after the liver cleanse I'm on, through the adrenal reset I'm entering, to the gut rebalancing I'll attempt in a month. I sure hope I get even half of the results promised: reduction in pain, inflammation, and weight, with improvements in skin, senses of smell and taste, and mental clarity that has been non-existent for years. Of all of that, so far my skin feels pretty soft. So I've got that going for me.

One of my old library friends said something about it being a good day to watch the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. Once I'd had my fill of reading, I thought I would give that a whirl. I looked for it on Netflix, and it was a no-go. I tried Amazon Prime, but it was with purchase of BritBox, and since I am using one of the kids' logins, I don't have the chutzpah to add subscriptions to it. I remembered that my cell phone plan gives me access to HBO Max. I just had to remember how to add apps to my television, and then remember my login to AT&T. I was pretty proud of myself for successfully navigating tech stuff I never touch, and then I got distracted.

I was scrolling through the offerings (slowly, and I don't know whether the app was glitchy or the tv was), and I saw that it had Turner Classic Movies. I dropped in to see what was there, and the 1954 A Star Is Born was featured. I thought it would be fun to compare it to the more recent two that I have seen. It was interesting, but wow, is it hard to watch a movie from the 1950s with 2020 sensibilities. It was going along just fine, and then casual racism and sexism would just fall out of it. In the abovementioned song (Someone at Last), no one was safe. Judy Garland was pretending to be from different countries, and as soon as the "China" section started, I visibly winced. You know, I was thinking about pulling out the 1970s version to watch after, and now I'm nervous about it. Was 20 years enough to filter that kind of thing out? Fingers crossed.