Disappointed nerdgirl is disappoint.
I WAS going to see Avengers yesterday, at the 1 pm showing.
Then it sold out online before I was even showered or remotely ready to head over to the theater and physically buy a ticket. :(
This left me with the option of shelling out $13.75 for a 3D showing at 1:15 (which 'astonishingly' did not sell out), or going to a later non-3D showing, which would have interfered with eating one of Tom's awesome weekend dinners OR resulted in me driving home after dark (curse my genetically-poor night vision).
So I'm doing Avengers for Mother's Day instead. :D
Revamped plan for getting out of the house yesterday involved trips to Walmart and Lowes, to obtain different plants than were available at the local nursery I visited earlier in the weekend. The front porch now has
- a red geranium, which is in a pot and location where last year's geranium thrived beautifully.
- a scaevola aemula, aka a fan flower, which is a perennial with really pretty purple flowers that blooms from planting til frost and can handle drought well.
- a gomphrena globosa, also purple, but annual, and meant for arid conditions, which means my watering habits of benign neglect bordering on near-death for many plants will be just fine. :D
- and a bright orange... something.... whose name currently escapes me and for which the tag has gone awol. :( But it's pretty, it also handles drought well, and it attracts butterflies. :D (Query from Tom: "What about moths?" ((We are admittedly having the spring outbreak of miller moths.)) Me: "Meh. If the neighbors' lilacs aren't giving us more than a few in the house per day, I'll risk it." The moths are supposed to migrate up to higher elevations for the summer feeding season soonish anyway. I can cope with the faint risk of luring them here by accident during their spring and fall migrations in return for butterflies.)
Yesterday's shopping trip also led to my resolving not just to get back on the caffeine wagon, but on the soda wagon entirely. Target's clothing has been hit-or-miss for my body type for many years, but even granted that, clothes shopping was more unpleasant than it should have been, and the easiest way for me to fix that in the short term is to cut down on soda.
x_x I'm already aching for a nice fizzy cold Dr. Pepper...
Then it sold out online before I was even showered or remotely ready to head over to the theater and physically buy a ticket. :(
This left me with the option of shelling out $13.75 for a 3D showing at 1:15 (which 'astonishingly' did not sell out), or going to a later non-3D showing, which would have interfered with eating one of Tom's awesome weekend dinners OR resulted in me driving home after dark (curse my genetically-poor night vision).
So I'm doing Avengers for Mother's Day instead. :D
Revamped plan for getting out of the house yesterday involved trips to Walmart and Lowes, to obtain different plants than were available at the local nursery I visited earlier in the weekend. The front porch now has
- a red geranium, which is in a pot and location where last year's geranium thrived beautifully.
- a scaevola aemula, aka a fan flower, which is a perennial with really pretty purple flowers that blooms from planting til frost and can handle drought well.
- a gomphrena globosa, also purple, but annual, and meant for arid conditions, which means my watering habits of benign neglect bordering on near-death for many plants will be just fine. :D
- and a bright orange... something.... whose name currently escapes me and for which the tag has gone awol. :( But it's pretty, it also handles drought well, and it attracts butterflies. :D (Query from Tom: "What about moths?" ((We are admittedly having the spring outbreak of miller moths.)) Me: "Meh. If the neighbors' lilacs aren't giving us more than a few in the house per day, I'll risk it." The moths are supposed to migrate up to higher elevations for the summer feeding season soonish anyway. I can cope with the faint risk of luring them here by accident during their spring and fall migrations in return for butterflies.)
Yesterday's shopping trip also led to my resolving not just to get back on the caffeine wagon, but on the soda wagon entirely. Target's clothing has been hit-or-miss for my body type for many years, but even granted that, clothes shopping was more unpleasant than it should have been, and the easiest way for me to fix that in the short term is to cut down on soda.
x_x I'm already aching for a nice fizzy cold Dr. Pepper...