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I'm taking a lazy day today. I'm in my comfy clothes and catching up on the internets this morning. The little one is home "sick". He's not really ill, but he does have a little bit of a cough. Since it's raining, and it's Friday, and I didn't have to work, and his teacher was going to be absent, I decided he could miss the day. I just have to run out in a couple of hours to get the older one from school. I'm planning on returning to the same spot on the couch once I return. Possibly with an alcoholic beverage.
We had to do a family trip to Dick's the other day because baseball season is starting up. While there we hit the mall (Freehold again lilyvalley73) and went into a Planet X/Game Stop/EB Games. They were selling original Playstation games. During our Playstation revival a month or so ago, my older son and I went through Spyro 1 and 3, but we couldn't find Spyro 2. Well, thanks to the store's 75% off clearance, we got our hands on a used version of the disk we needed. Needless to say the Playstation will be making its appearance from the basement as soon as the boy comes home.
And speaking of being geeky with the old Playstation, DH and I went into NYC to see Third Eye Blind Tuesday night. This is a band I've wanted to see for at least eight years, or when their second CD came out. My mother kept asking why we were both so hell bent on seeing them, since she never knew we were that big fans of the band. The geeky answer? Third Eye Blind's Blue CD was our nightly Playstation Tetris tournaments music of choice. I can't tell you how many hours of 1999 were spent in our room above the garage listening to that CD and seeing who would be the champion of the night in Tetris. The non-geeky answer is that their music brings back so many memories of our life in Jacksonville and Memphis. I was telling DH as the concert was winding down that 3EB was the first "our" band. I have a list of bands that I like, that he likes too by default, and vice versa, but 3EB is one we discovered and liked together. Anyway, the concert was a lot of fun. Since we're old fogies we were thrilled to see that the general admission theater still had seats and waitress service. We parked our butts in a pair of seats, and let the youngsters stand around on the floor. It was a good setlist too, and they played some new songs which hopefully means they'll come out with a new CD some time soon.
It made for a long night though, and a very long and tiring day on Wednesday. DH and I went to bed literally minutes after the kids did. Therefore, I completely missed desert_vixen's birthday. Happy belated birthday wishes! Also, I got your package of Supermysteries yesterday. I can finally dive into the canon material of ND/FH. Thank you again!
If anyone wants to share in the love of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, I now have an extra copy of The Last Resort. Let me know if anyone wants it.
TV has made me very happy this week. At first I was a little "meh" on the episode. It was jumping around way too much, and Adrian Pasdar - you are a very pretty man. But please don't do the grief thing again. And I still want to smack Mohinder every time he comes on the screen (which was thankfully little this past week). However, HRG in Parkman's head was awesome. And then Linderman's speech about sacrificing .07% of the population game me chills and lots of food for thought. When they showed Hiro in future New York, I was thinking about how much I would love to see what happens and the aftereffects, but how that would probably not happen. So when the previews came on, and they said they were going to do a "What If" episode I became so excited. OMG, a What-if apocalyptic based episode? So my Sci-Fi dream ep.
And The Office was such a great episode. The minute opening scene was so freaking hilarious. And while I saw the "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." line on my flist twice before I saw the ep (when I saw the same line in two different journals I knew this was an ep that needed to be watched ASAP) I actually thought Jim's mumbled "Lord beer me strength" was even funnier. It took DH's ears and a rewatch to catch the actual line, though.
We had to do a family trip to Dick's the other day because baseball season is starting up. While there we hit the mall (Freehold again lilyvalley73) and went into a Planet X/Game Stop/EB Games. They were selling original Playstation games. During our Playstation revival a month or so ago, my older son and I went through Spyro 1 and 3, but we couldn't find Spyro 2. Well, thanks to the store's 75% off clearance, we got our hands on a used version of the disk we needed. Needless to say the Playstation will be making its appearance from the basement as soon as the boy comes home.
And speaking of being geeky with the old Playstation, DH and I went into NYC to see Third Eye Blind Tuesday night. This is a band I've wanted to see for at least eight years, or when their second CD came out. My mother kept asking why we were both so hell bent on seeing them, since she never knew we were that big fans of the band. The geeky answer? Third Eye Blind's Blue CD was our nightly Playstation Tetris tournaments music of choice. I can't tell you how many hours of 1999 were spent in our room above the garage listening to that CD and seeing who would be the champion of the night in Tetris. The non-geeky answer is that their music brings back so many memories of our life in Jacksonville and Memphis. I was telling DH as the concert was winding down that 3EB was the first "our" band. I have a list of bands that I like, that he likes too by default, and vice versa, but 3EB is one we discovered and liked together. Anyway, the concert was a lot of fun. Since we're old fogies we were thrilled to see that the general admission theater still had seats and waitress service. We parked our butts in a pair of seats, and let the youngsters stand around on the floor. It was a good setlist too, and they played some new songs which hopefully means they'll come out with a new CD some time soon.
It made for a long night though, and a very long and tiring day on Wednesday. DH and I went to bed literally minutes after the kids did. Therefore, I completely missed desert_vixen's birthday. Happy belated birthday wishes! Also, I got your package of Supermysteries yesterday. I can finally dive into the canon material of ND/FH. Thank you again!
If anyone wants to share in the love of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, I now have an extra copy of The Last Resort. Let me know if anyone wants it.
TV has made me very happy this week. At first I was a little "meh" on the episode. It was jumping around way too much, and Adrian Pasdar - you are a very pretty man. But please don't do the grief thing again. And I still want to smack Mohinder every time he comes on the screen (which was thankfully little this past week). However, HRG in Parkman's head was awesome. And then Linderman's speech about sacrificing .07% of the population game me chills and lots of food for thought. When they showed Hiro in future New York, I was thinking about how much I would love to see what happens and the aftereffects, but how that would probably not happen. So when the previews came on, and they said they were going to do a "What If" episode I became so excited. OMG, a What-if apocalyptic based episode? So my Sci-Fi dream ep.
And The Office was such a great episode. The minute opening scene was so freaking hilarious. And while I saw the "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." line on my flist twice before I saw the ep (when I saw the same line in two different journals I knew this was an ep that needed to be watched ASAP) I actually thought Jim's mumbled "Lord beer me strength" was even funnier. It took DH's ears and a rewatch to catch the actual line, though.