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Good morning. 'Tis early. Of course, it was even earlier at 4:00 this morning when the cat woke me up. Urgh. And that was after I'd woken up at 2 and not fallen asleep until 12. Oh well--at least I got to talk to samirant last night, and I haven't talked to her in ages (and she is someone that one of these days, I must meet)!
Yesterday turned out to be wonderfully relaxing. Actually, both Sunday and yesterday were nice that way.
Sunday, we went to church in the morning, then the choir sang at a wedding in the afternoon, then we helped my dad do some work on my car before we sell it to Esther and Justin (well, Colin helped; I sat there and looked pretty), and then we watched a couple of movies--Mozart and the Whale, which was a cute, The Other Sister-type movie, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which means that I'm now (finally) caught up enough to go see the latest movie. I'm still not ready to read book 7, but I'm getting there.
Yesterday, I slept in until 10:30 (and Colin slept in until 12:30, I think), and then we eventually made our way down to Prince's Island Park for the afternoon. There were some Heritage Day events going on, but we didn't really do anything specific; we just had a picnic and played cards with Colin's friend Carl, his wife Kelsey, and his sister Rachel. Devin and Lori were there for a while, but we literally passed them crossing the bridge into the park as they were on their way out, so we didn't overlap with them at all.
"As You Like It" was playing at Shakespeare in the Park last night, so we hung around the park in the evening and watched that, and then went back to my house (or, at least, the house where I'm housesitting) and watched one more episode of Battlestar. I seriously wonder if we'll even finish the first season in time to give it back to Scott and Heather before we leave.
Yeah, it's nice to have a long weekend that actually kind of felt like a long weekend. Yesterday felt like a holiday, believe it or not, and we so needed that.
Today, we've got an appointment at the bank to discuss a car loan and see what kind of financing we can get from the bank, as opposed to the dealership, and then we should be able to make the final decisions and finish up with that today or tomorrow. Exciting! And then, once we get the car, we'll sell mine to Esther and Justin, and I'll drive Colin's until we leave. I get the new car without sharing it for the next however-many months, so he can have it for the next few weeks. That, and if he's driving it, it's not going to be on my parents' awful gravel roads every day.
Yesterday turned out to be wonderfully relaxing. Actually, both Sunday and yesterday were nice that way.
Sunday, we went to church in the morning, then the choir sang at a wedding in the afternoon, then we helped my dad do some work on my car before we sell it to Esther and Justin (well, Colin helped; I sat there and looked pretty), and then we watched a couple of movies--Mozart and the Whale, which was a cute, The Other Sister-type movie, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which means that I'm now (finally) caught up enough to go see the latest movie. I'm still not ready to read book 7, but I'm getting there.
Yesterday, I slept in until 10:30 (and Colin slept in until 12:30, I think), and then we eventually made our way down to Prince's Island Park for the afternoon. There were some Heritage Day events going on, but we didn't really do anything specific; we just had a picnic and played cards with Colin's friend Carl, his wife Kelsey, and his sister Rachel. Devin and Lori were there for a while, but we literally passed them crossing the bridge into the park as they were on their way out, so we didn't overlap with them at all.
"As You Like It" was playing at Shakespeare in the Park last night, so we hung around the park in the evening and watched that, and then went back to my house (or, at least, the house where I'm housesitting) and watched one more episode of Battlestar. I seriously wonder if we'll even finish the first season in time to give it back to Scott and Heather before we leave.
Yeah, it's nice to have a long weekend that actually kind of felt like a long weekend. Yesterday felt like a holiday, believe it or not, and we so needed that.
Today, we've got an appointment at the bank to discuss a car loan and see what kind of financing we can get from the bank, as opposed to the dealership, and then we should be able to make the final decisions and finish up with that today or tomorrow. Exciting! And then, once we get the car, we'll sell mine to Esther and Justin, and I'll drive Colin's until we leave. I get the new car without sharing it for the next however-many months, so he can have it for the next few weeks. That, and if he's driving it, it's not going to be on my parents' awful gravel roads every day.