Hitting the Vacation Stride

Well, I can finally tell I'm on vacation. I did wake up at 6:30 this morning, but I went back to sleep and didn't get up until 8:51. Not bad! And I spent the morning playing the Sims. I moved a family into a house that I built a long time ago but had never played, and I love it! I swear, if I won the lottery I would build it for myself. Unless I fell in love with another house by then, anyway. :)

I spent the afternoon over at Jamie's today. We watched The Goonies, which I had borrowed from Sarah, and then we watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the movie, not the TV show. I hadn't watched the movie in a long time - I forgot how fun it was, even though the show was much better as far as the slayer storyline went. Anyway, we watched movies and I played with his kitten and we ate ham and tater tots for dinner, and it was a fun time. Even if his kitten did give me some new scratches! She's a playful one.

Tonight I watched a movie that my sister had given me for Christmas last year but I had never watched. It's actually a disc with two Elizabeth Taylor movies on it. I've never been a huge fan of hers, but I was in an old movie mood tonight, so I popped it in and watched Father's Little Dividend, which would really be more appropriate on a Spencer Tracy DVD, because it was definitely more his movie than Elizabeth Taylor's, but it was very good. I love old movies. I used to love watching them on AMC before they started playing commercials - now I pretty much boycott that channel, because I can't stand watching commercials. I don't like them on TV, I don't like them on the radio (I listen to my mp3 player in the car, with a cassette stereo adapter), and I especially don't like them on channels that didn't used to show them but now do. Anyway, the movie was very good. And you've gotta love a movie that still has married couples sleeping in twin beds. What the heck is that about? Oh, the '50s. The era of women staying home and taking care of babies that somehow magically appear even though the parents slept in separate beds. Thank goodness for women's lib and a more accepting viewing public that finally let married couples sleep together on TV and in the movies.

And on a totally different subject, I didn't write about this the other day, but my sister and I are planning to take a trip in June. It's going to be our first annual sister's trip (although my nieces may end up coming too), and we're planning on going to Virginia to go to Busch Gardens, as well as to go shopping at the area places. I grew up in Williamsburg - we lived here in New York until I was 10, then we moved down there. I haven't been back since I moved back to NY in 1994, so it'll be really interesting to see how much has changed. And I can't wait to go to Busch again. My first job was there, the summer between junior and senior year, the first roller coaster I ever rode is there (the Loch Ness Monster), and I just can't wait to see it again. And that gives me six months to get back into shape a bit. Now if I can just stop this habit of eating when I'm bored...

Okay, now it's 9:40 at night and I am not tired (see above, re: getting up at 8:51 this morning). There's nothing on TV and I'm done with the Sims for the day, so I'm off to find some other way to waste time. Have a great night!

Picture of the day:


Willow poses pretty for the camera. Seconds after this picture was taken, I'm sure she started barking for no reason and generally started annoying the heck out of me. It's just lucky for her that she's so darn cute.