Non-spoilery reaction: THAT WAS AWESOME, AND I LOVED IT.

( Everything else is under the cut )

I think I like living in the South. (If one can assume that southern Virginia is the south.) So Gonzo, the RAV4, has had a tire indicator light on the last couple of weeks, despite having decent air pressure in the tires, and when I went to check the tires on Saturday, I noticed that the treads on the front pair were seriously low. As in, ( Read more... )

Bill and I went on our date tonight, and through a comedy of errors, ended up seeing Saving Mr Banks, which was totally all right by me because I'd wanted to see it anyway. Bill wanted to see American Hustle.

My Parents: What are you going to see tonight?
Bill: Saving Mr Banks.
Me: That's not true! We're going to flip a coin.
Bill: And then we' ( Read more... )

So, as previously mentioned, Bill and I were able to go on a date yesterday. It was preceded by a bunch of screaming from Andrew, as soon as the babysitter showed up. (This kid is no one's fool.) But we managed to get out, and we dropped a bunch of clothes off at Goodwill, and then we headed to the movie theater, which is one of those tavern ( Read more... )

The gist: Bill and I went to see Star Trek yesterday morning. A bit late (it’s been out here since Wednesday), but it took a while to find someone to watch Andrew. (Who ended up going to a friend’s house to play with his trains. He barely noticed we were gone because Trains ( Read more... )

1. Andrew v CleoCleo snuck into Andrew's room just before I put him to bed tonight. Normally Cleo does not hang in Andrew's room at night, because we keep his door closed so that we can watch TV and not worry about noise. Also, because Andrew doesn't need the distraction of OMG CLEO IS ON MY BED when we're really rather he go to sleep ( Read more... )

Andrew slept until the ridiculous hour of 10am this morning. Which, had it been Sunday morning in most places, wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but it being the UL, the week runs on a Sunday-Thursday schedule, so today was a school day. School opens at 8.15 ( Read more... )

So Bill and I watched Midnight in Paris last night - I've been carrying the DVD around with me since we basically got to the States, in hopes that at some point we'd be able to watch it. Stands to reason we watch it a few days before finally returning to the UL.

We also saw The Hobbit today, but that's another post, once I've processed it. ( Read more... )

1. The cold that has been lurking somewhere over my shoulder caught up with me again today. I've had some degree of unwellness for the last two weeks (coughs, runny nose, etc), and sometime overnight it decided that today was a good day to strike. (It also struck on the day we flew from Connecticut to Indiana, and silly me thought I'd licked it ( Read more... )

Writing continues to go as the bunnies dictate - which is basically that I'm writing one larger Sherlock story at the moment, and frantically scribbling notes/dialog for several others during the day. I don't remember if I've ever had so many bunnies bite at once - usually I get one bunny who latches on and sticks for weeks/months at a time, until ( Read more... )