Sunday, November 16, 2008
I do not recommend going to see Appaloosa. If you absolutely love westerns, then you may want to go, but I'm personally glad I didn't have to pay to see it. It wasn't a horrible movie, just really slow moving with some moronic character moments. One thing I did like was that it was sort of a secret comedy, but no one else in the theater seemed to consider anything funny so I quietly giggled to myself. My favorite character was Everett because he had a good vocabulary, among other things. I also thought the character of Mrs. French was obnoxious and gave women a bad name. And Virgil still wanted her... I totally don't understand (and you probably don't either if you haven't seen the movie, so feel free to ignore my ramblings here).
Earlier today I went and met Karen for lunch at Red Robins. I ordered this turkey sandwich on a croissant which turned out to be really good. I may have to start going to Red Robins more often now that I've discovered something I actually like. Haven't been eating any red meat for a while, so a regular burger was out, and I used to like their rice bowls, but recently they changed them and the new ones are gross. Anyway, food aside, Karen and I had a great time chatting, as usual. We're going to try and go see a musical in the next few weeks. Hopefully it will work out and won't be too expensive.
After lunch and before the movie, I went in to Office Depot to get a poster board-sized BSB collage I made back in '99 laminated. I totally should have done that years ago, but I only thought about it on a previous trip to Office Depot when I heard a lady asking about it and I was like, "they do laminating? Humm." While I waited for it to get done, I went browsing around the store. Looked at laptops and pens (though I actually refrained from buying the latter, which is amazing), and then I found my way to the clearance bins. I found a pad of Post-It notes (the actual brand too, not a crappy knock-off that doesn't stick well) in one of the $1 or less bins. I figured someone had thrown it in there by mistake because that seemed like too good of a price, but I figured I'd take it up to the register and see how much it rang up for. Then I found some computer chair mats on sale, so I was looking at those since my current one has cracks in it. I thought I found a nice one for $16, so I pulled it off the shelf it was on, and then pulled down a second. When I went to put one back, I thought I'd straddle it so I could lift the end easier. Only problem was that my foot landed on the mat, not the carpet, and the mat was partially on the other one, and they were the kind that don't have the pointy grips on the bottom. So, I sort of did the splits (not all the way, thank God), and then fell on my butt. Intelligent, yes. I laughed it off though, as I was not seriously hurt, and thankfully no one embarrassed me further by coming over and asking if I was okay.
After that I thought it was best to see if my collage was done being laminated and check out. It was finished, and it looks awesome. It's so shiny now, and the colors actually look more vivid, however that worked out. I told the guy my thoughts on the Post-Its, and when he did the price check they came up as 14 cents. Yup, 14 cents. "I'll take them!" What a deal man. I should have run back to see if I could find any more. Oh well. The chair mat ended up not being on sale (I must have been looking at the wrong label), so I didn't get that. But here's something that amused me greatly: when he handed me my receipt he said, "okay, you've got your sticky notes, and there are your boys." Like I said, it amused me greatly, his choice of words. My boys? I wish.
Yesterday I got more accomplished in the cleaning, downsizing, and packing of my room. There is still more yet, but at least the dent is increasing. I could go faster at it, but I'm going through a lot of stuff I haven't looked at in years to evaluate if I want it or not. The more stuff I can get rid of, the less I'll have to pack and move. I might be around half-way finished, I think. It's a little hard to judge that though. Soon I shall have to take down all of my movie posters and then my room is going to be freakishly bare. I shall not like that. I have one painting that I can put up that's "acceptable," but other than that, my walls are going to be bare for a while. Already the hole from the BSB collage is freaking me out.
I think, now, that I shall go watch an episode of North and South, even though I'm tired and it'll end past when I should go to bed. I'm now on "book 3," which I've only watched once before, when I originally got the DVD set. I saw the series on TV a few times prior to that, but apparently had never seen the last "book," and when I did I found I didn't like it much because characters I really like get killed off. We'll see if it bothers me any less this time around.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
I'm continuing to have busy days, and no sign of it letting up just yet. What the heck is going on? I used to not leave the house for days and now I'm going out almost every day... I'm having to do laundry too much. It's nuts I tell you, nuts. Okay, so it's not real bad, but it's a definite adjustment for me and I think I could do with being a little less busy, but will likely have to wait until the month is out before that happens. At least some of my busy is fun stuff as well. Much of it has been cleaning and prepping the house for sale, but there's been other things.
Tuesday was group, at which we finished our study of James. I'm kind of glad. I like a lot of that book, but I just wasn't feeling it the last few weeks and it felt like it was throwing a lot at me. Anyway, next week we're watching a video and then discussing it, so yay for media.
Yesterday Emily came over do do some work for my mom and earn some extra cash, and then afterward she went with my mom and I to the pool. We did some laps and Emily and I had a few competitive ones in good fun, which I lost all of. But not by much! Then, after a while, the shallow end was empty enough by the basketball hoop, so we played one-on-one. I kept slipping on the bottom, but at least I only fell into water so it never hurt. I lost that too... but I'm not bitter... I swear. Heh.
I've also been watching a lot of North and South since Monday. I just felt in the mood to watch the first episode on Monday and ended up watching four, then two the next day, and another two yesterday. Sadly, won't have time to day, and may not tomorrow either, but at some point I'll finish it out. I'm probably about halfway through the whole thing. It's totally nuts that spectators turned out for some of the first battles of the Civil War. They brought their kids and had picnics. I've no idea why anyone would ever think such a thing was a good idea. I suppose they were all thinking "honor and glory" rather than the truth: people dying.
Today I went to work with my mom so that I could run some errands. I took a large bag to Half Price Books and got a whopping $19.50 for it all. Well, it's better than not getting any money at all for the stuff, I suppose. The cash was gone within a few hours though. It's far too easy to spend.
I had called Andrew in the morning to see if he wanted to meet me for a last-minute lunch, but he already had plans. However, he asked me out HSM 3 was and said he still hadn't seen it. After a few calls back and forth we managed to make it work out to see it tonight. So, my mom and I got home, and then I left right away to get to the theater. When I got there, I had a little time to wait for Andrew so was standing outside. I look over at these cars they have parked up on the cement and see "Aston Martin" across the window of one. I immediately thought of Sam and when Andrew arrived shortly after, I had him take my picture by one of the cars (and I took one of him) so that I could send it to Sam.
Andrew enjoyed the movie a lot, though he didn't like the ending. I can see why, though most of it doesn't bother me as much. He agreed with me on what the top few songs of the movie were, and we spent a while freezing our butts off in the parking lot talking about it. Then I'm all, "pause for a sec... want to go to Starbucks where it's warm?" The first one we tried was closed, but luckily there was another one real close (it's Seattle, they're everywhere). They weren't open for real long, so we froze a little more toward the end, but had a very nice chat. He's just real easy to talk to.
Tomorrow looks as if it will be busy as well, though hopefully part of that will be fun busy in the form of another movie for me to see. If not tomorrow, another day. There's also a new Atlantis episode tomorrow night, but I'm not super looking forward to it because it has the Genii in it and I don't like them. I think I dislike them even more than the wraith, which is just odd. Oh yes, in the last episode Michael supposedly "died," but it wasn't a conclusive death for a wraith, so I won't be surprised if he pops up again later, though they may not decide to do that. Anyway, it's getting late now so I must be off to sleep so I can wake up at a reasonable time for tomorrow.
