Nothing else matters ...

OMG! I didn't do ANYTHING today and I'm sooo tired right now. I was trying to think if I even left the house today and... umm ... no? I do remember standing by a window and gazing wistfully out. All dramatic and Gothic heroine-esque. And then I saw a ghost on the moors and ... no, wait. That didn't happen.

I did however watch some movies. And read some books. Yeah, yeah. I go back to work on Monday. This insane book-reading, movie-watching schedule will stop.

Anyway. I watched ... Death Race (OMG! SO GOOD! "Do what you do best. Drive." Best line ever!), the end of Dante's Peak (What? I was trying to take a nap.), Armageddon (a classic tale of oil drillers in space), The Golden Compass (I've been watching Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig movies a lot this week), and I'm watching Tomb Raider right this moment (Daniel Craig's in that one also). I have a sneaking suspicion that I missed a movie somewhere in there, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was. You know, they all start to blur together after the fourth or fifth. :)

As mentioned above, I also read.
Book #17 - The Diamond of Darkhold (4th book of Ember) by Jeanne Duprau - I kinda skipped the 3rd book. I mean, I started it, but it takes place before the big disaster that sends the inhabitants of Ember into, um, Ember and I really wanted to know what happened after they came out. So I started book 3 and then skipped ahead to book 4. I'll get back to it. Someday. Anyway. Enduring their first winter above ground, the former inhabitants of Ember find their food running out and illness threatening them all. After finding a book addressed to the "People of Ember", Lina and Doon head back to the city to find a great gift that was left for them by the Builders. I really liked this book, but I could have done without the pages and pages of wrap-up at the end. Yes, I like my story lines neatly tied up, but this was almost too much. Still, it was a good series and I do plan on reading the 3rd. :)

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Book #18 - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie - I'm not sure about this one. The book was good, but I wasn't terribly keen on the characters. I think I'm going to have nightmares about a fat, bloated spider of a woman hovering over me tonight. I guess that's good writing, isn't it? Once again, I wasn't thrilled with the wrap-up at the end. It was too convenient. All the people on that particular journey end up marrying one another? Interesting. Although I guess two of them were married before the journey began. Hmmph. I, of course, didn't guess the killer. Do I ever?

Honestly, I did nothing today. I lounged around in bed with my a book at my fingertips and the TV on. Best day ever? Or am I the most boring person in the world? Hmmm. I'm going to go with the 2nd best day ever. The first is always going to be the first day of a vacation in Disneyland. When you're all excited and you haven't been jaded by the long lines and expensive food yet. Awesome.

I'm rambling.
Byyyyeeee!

One of the things I've been planning to get done this "vacation" (or whatever you want to call it) is getting the oil changed on my car and getting the smog certificate so that I can pay my registration. Well, I finally got that done. iron_knife was kind enough to go with me to drop off my car so that I wouldn't be stranded there waiting. Yay! We wandered down to Gilroy to go to the Barnes & Noble and Best Buy (what? Sometimes they have different things at different locations.) and ate at Sonic. I've never eaten at Sonic. It was very exciting with the ordering and all that. The food was good, but not outstanding. I totally got tater tots with my burger. That was cool.

Anyway. After picking up my car from the service station and Cole from school, I came home and took the longest nap. It was one of those naps that you can't wake up from. I kept trying. It just wasn't happening. So two and a half hours later I finally dragged myself out of bed and forced myself to get moving. I really hope this isn't the medication I'm on. I don't think I can afford to take those sort of naps on a workday. Or maybe I can.

While Cole was playing on the Wii with his dad earlier I decided to watch The Invasion. The one with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. It wasn't terrible. It wasn't really good either, but I didn't hate it so much that I turned it off. I think Nicole Kidman is so pretty. But Daniel Craig's hair in this one? Terrible. It was like they forgot to hire a stylist for him and let him comb it himself. Bad. Very bad.

Now I'm watching Jumper. That movie is always on one of the movie channels we get. Seriously, I've seen it 10 or so times. It's great background noise.

I think I'm done now. Later.

*sigh* We're still not in our house. We didn't get that eagerly awaited phone call telling us to come on down and pick up our keys. I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but I really, really wanted to move today. To kill the time while waiting, I read a book.

Book #105 - 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie - I've dedicated myself to working my way through the rest of the Miss Marple books by the end of this vacation. I have five more to go. I can totally do it. I had a good time with this one. Of course anything that will take my mind off this incessant waiting is a good thing. *sigh* Once again, I didn't have a clue who the killer was. I'm terrible at that, aren't I?

I have nothing else to talk about. Because I did nothing today. I watched the newest episode of True Blood. I read. I watched cartoons (not Scooby-Doo this time). I packed my car up a little tighter. I took a nap. And that's it. Entertain me, people. Entertain me. I need something to take my mind off this nothingness.

I might be back later. Because this tale of woe needs to be retread. Again and again and again. :)

Book #99 - Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie - The hardest part about reading this set of Christie books is that I only have them on the computer. It's difficult to sit at the computer for a couple of hours while reading. About this book? Yeah, I didn't see the murderer coming. Not one bit. That Hercule Poirot is brilliant. He always figures out what's going on.

Still no word on when my mom and I will be signing our paperwork. Dammit. I'm still convinced in the darkest part of my heart that we will be in that house by the end of next week. Only time will tell at this point. *sigh*

Oh, and I didn't pack up my bookcase today. Sometimes I like to be a hardcore rebel. You know what I'm sayin'?

This vacation (day 2 of it, thankyouverymuch) is making me think about what I can do so that Cole and I eat healthier. I already try to eat as little processed food as possible, but I think I can do a lot better. I've been researching online and looking at healthy-eating cookbooks. I really do think it's doable. It's just something I have to apply myself to.

I really want to go to Borders tomorrow just so I can get an extremely tasty coffee from their cafe. They use Seattle's Best coffee and it's the most delicious coffee in the history of forever. Rock on.

I'm done now.
:)

OMG! I'm finally on vacation! AND I have an appointment to sign my paperwork on Thursday. That means I could be in my motherfucking new house by the beginning of next week!

I think my brain just exploded!

It felt painfully good.
Later.

Book #95 - Demon Lord of Karanda: Book Three of the Mallorean by David Eddings - The heroes battle their way through uncertain lands, dodging demons and magic wielders, on their way to the Place Which is No More and the climactic showdown between good and evil. Also, people get chopped up when they get in the way. Hey! That's what happens when everyone carries a sword.

I changed my mind on when I'm starting my vacation. Again. I was going to work through this week and start on Monday. Now I'm going to work through this week and either as much of next week as I can before my paperwork gets signed for the house OR until the following Monday (the 6th). See? I totally have a plan.

I have to admit that at the beginning of this week I couldn't even imagine pushing out my vacation another week. Yet, here I am. Doing it. Crazy stuff. The upside of doing it this way is that I'll be on vacation over malkovich03's wedding. Cool.

Okay. I'm off to watch Supernatural. Those boys are very pretty. :)
later!

I'm home! I had a great time.

( Par-tay talk! )

So, I'm home. The house is is even more packed up than when I left. I figure that I'll be signing my paperwork this week and in the house either by the end of the week or the beginning of next week. PLEASE! I think that I'm going to start my super long vacation (THREE WEEKS!) on Thursday whether I've signed at that point or not. I so need to have an extended amount of time away from work that it hurts. On the other hand I might just wait to start it on Monday the 29th. I just don't know yet.

There you have it.
I'm going to watch part of Terminator 2. Just because I can.
Later.

Book #93 - Guardians of the West: Book One of the Mallorean by David Eddings - A remarkably fun book, this one picks up where the Belgariad series leaves off. The heroes are settling into normal lives when the prophecies reveal that they have one great task left to them. Off they go. Adventuring. Making war. Kicking some magical booty. It kinda rocks.

My throat still hurts. I'm going to have to buy a couple of bags of cough drops for my trip this weekend. Speaking of which, I packed all my overnight bags and have to take a real suitcase. Blech. I always hate lugging a suitcase around. It just bugs me.

I'm going to go read until SPN starts.
True story.

I have a ridiculous amount of comments to catch up on. I'm not even sure some of my responses will be relevant at this point. Disco is still the wave of the future, right? I mean, I'm not so hopelessly out of date that my neon leg warmers are ready to make a comeback. Or am I?

Yeah, I've been wrapped up in my own little world lately. It consists of taking my son to school, reading an insane amount of words, and worrying about when I'm going to get to move into my house. That said, I took Cole to school this morning, started a new book while I had my hair done, signed some paperwork for my house (not the big stuff, just some minor paperwork), went to lunch with my mom (wherein we talked about the new house and how much longer it would take to get into it), picked Cole up from school, stopped at Target to buy some school supplies (of which they were out of quite a bit) and came home. I decided to try to chain my events together today since I had things to do in MH and didn't feel like driving back and forth.

Now I'm back to work tomorrow after my two lovely days off. Boo.

I did finish a book, though.
Book #86 - The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey - A bunch of short stories. They were good.

I also had to ferry my mom to Best Buy to buy a new computer. Her old one (it was only a year and a half old!) just died. The tech said it was the motherboard and it would cost more to fix it than the computer was worth. Okay. We bought a pretty new Dell that's amazingly fast and very quiet. Such a change over the old one.

Alright. I'm done.

I can't believe that I only have one more day of vacation! Why does it go by so quickly????

*sigh*

So, if anyone's wondering, I totally cleaned out the china cabinet with my mom this afternoon. I kept saying things like, "Mom, what is this?" and "Mom, do we really need 5 glasses for highballs?" and "Mom, what is a highball?" Thankfully, my mom decided to get rid of some of the stuff. On the plus side, we've already packed up all the china and shot glasses (don't ask how many of those I found!) so we won't have to re-pack them again before moving. We also got rid of 2 decorative plates that broke in the '89 earthquake. Yes, the earthquake that was in 1989. On my birthday. Yes, we actually had broken plates from 1989 because my mom's a sap (in a good way) and didn't want to get rid of them.

In other news, I'm totally excited by how many things it looks like I'm going to sell this auction. Rock it! I guess people still like the BtVS stuff. Word.

I need to finish my book.

Later!