Mom's Birthday, etc.
It's been a sort of busy few days. Saturday I felt very productive tidying up the kitchen in piecemeal fashion all day long and also eating pretty much normal meals. Slept terribly Saturday Night - started thinking about Thanksgivings Past and could not stop. I'm kind of dreading it. But that's fodder for another post closer to the day.
Sunday was my mom's birthday. She wanted to go to the Pixar exhibit at the Oakland Museum, where my folks are members, so my dad called up and made reservations for noon (which meant missing the Saints game (I set it up to record on the DVR, but recorded football just doesn't work for me, I can't get emotionally involved when it isn't live) we headed out and were only a tiny bit late and then discovered that admission is free on the first Sunday of every month (it's a good deal, people, if you are looking for free stuff to do - includes the special exhibits! And they've recently reorganized the permanent exhibits very nicely, imho) which both me and my mom were sure the 7th couldn't possibly be, though of course it was. Which also means they don't do member reservations, so we got tickets for Pixar at 3:30. So we got lunch and went through the Art exhibit that we usually skip in favor of History, and it was pretty cool. I like looking at art with my mom, we have similar taste. My dad was kind of bored, but he could follow the football cores on his iPhone, so that was fine. I have to say, my favorite parts were the bits that were set up to be like curator's offices and museum storage. Oh and the gigantic paintings of Yosemite from the 19th century - so beautiful. We had our fill of that after about an hour, then wandered through the museum store, which is always a good time. I got a guidebook to the Bay Area Ridge Trail to add to my local trails library. The Ridge Trail has pieces that are nearer to me than the Bay Trail, but it's not at all continuous out here, so I'm not sure how best to approach it. But the piece that is near me is 7 miles long, so, really, that should be enough to keep me busy for a while. I mean, walking the 3/4 mile down to the train station is kind of a lot for me right now, since I have been such a slug the past few months (being a slug was so the right choice for me, it's what I needed to do, but it has inevitable consequences).
Anyway, after we were done poking through the store, we had about 50 minutes before we could go into the Pixar exhibit, and my dad was all anxious that there might be a line so he wanted to be early for that, and I was kind of tired of walking around and wanted to save my energy for Pixar, so I gave History pretty short shrift, really just racing through and seeing how it's all laid out and then sitting down partway through ad watching other people look at the exhibits. I really like how it's arranged, though, and next time I go I'll give it more attention.
The Pixar exhibit was fantastic. Unfortunately, they kicked us out at 5 and I didn't see everything, because I have to look at every picture and read every sign and watch all the short films (and the ArtScope film on the enormously wide screen which was pretty darn neat). But it's there through early January, so mom and I will go back sometime when we can go in the middle of the week and probably have the place largely to ourselves.
I love Pixar movies an awful lot. I saw Luxo Jr at a Spike & Mike animation fest when I was college, probably my freshman year, and was astounded enough to make a mental note of the Pixar name. I was working in a movie theater when Toy Story came out, and that was huge. I guess it was when Moster's Inc. was coming out and I was convincing H we needed to go see it as soon as possible that I found out he'd never seen any of their movies, so we immediately rented DVDs of Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life (we had gone to see Antz in the theater because of Woody Allen, but not ABL) and watched them on my iMac, the only DVD playing device we had at the time. He was completely won over. We really fell down on our going out to the movies ways the last few years, but we always managed to see the Pixar films. Toy Story 3 is the first one I didn't see in the theater since.
The Up portion of the exhibit almost broke me, but I held it together okay.
BARTed back with the leading edge of the Post-Raider game crowd - easy to tell that they won, and my dad got a rundown of the end of the game from someone who was there. Dinner at Yankee Pier in Lafayette - oven roasted scallops = yum. Got home much later than I expected to, but Wednesday hadn't broken anything, and the older cats were eager to come inside and get fed, so that was all fine.
Really wanted to sleep in yesterday morning, but I had my ER followup appointment with my doctor. The hospital hadn't gotten her the report yet, so she could only go by what I could tell her and examining me now, but she thinks probably gall stone. I've lost 20 pounds since I was last in, which is nice, I guess. I was trying to lose weight for some of that time, I think, and it's nice that my recent sluglike ways have not completely undone whatever progress I made then. After lunch I called the vet to make an appointment for Wednesday - they said they could take her that afternoon, so she's had her initial check-up and first round of shots. And they turned me on to a way of administering Advantage (which I can use on the cats and the dog, same formula just different amounts) that I think will be better than the disposable Frontline thingies. She goes back in a month and then a month after that, and then I guess she can go outside with the grownups.
Indulging my laziness today. I may do some laundry, but so far I've really done nothing, and it's nice.
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Sunday was my mom's birthday. She wanted to go to the Pixar exhibit at the Oakland Museum, where my folks are members, so my dad called up and made reservations for noon (which meant missing the Saints game (I set it up to record on the DVR, but recorded football just doesn't work for me, I can't get emotionally involved when it isn't live) we headed out and were only a tiny bit late and then discovered that admission is free on the first Sunday of every month (it's a good deal, people, if you are looking for free stuff to do - includes the special exhibits! And they've recently reorganized the permanent exhibits very nicely, imho) which both me and my mom were sure the 7th couldn't possibly be, though of course it was. Which also means they don't do member reservations, so we got tickets for Pixar at 3:30. So we got lunch and went through the Art exhibit that we usually skip in favor of History, and it was pretty cool. I like looking at art with my mom, we have similar taste. My dad was kind of bored, but he could follow the football cores on his iPhone, so that was fine. I have to say, my favorite parts were the bits that were set up to be like curator's offices and museum storage. Oh and the gigantic paintings of Yosemite from the 19th century - so beautiful. We had our fill of that after about an hour, then wandered through the museum store, which is always a good time. I got a guidebook to the Bay Area Ridge Trail to add to my local trails library. The Ridge Trail has pieces that are nearer to me than the Bay Trail, but it's not at all continuous out here, so I'm not sure how best to approach it. But the piece that is near me is 7 miles long, so, really, that should be enough to keep me busy for a while. I mean, walking the 3/4 mile down to the train station is kind of a lot for me right now, since I have been such a slug the past few months (being a slug was so the right choice for me, it's what I needed to do, but it has inevitable consequences).
Anyway, after we were done poking through the store, we had about 50 minutes before we could go into the Pixar exhibit, and my dad was all anxious that there might be a line so he wanted to be early for that, and I was kind of tired of walking around and wanted to save my energy for Pixar, so I gave History pretty short shrift, really just racing through and seeing how it's all laid out and then sitting down partway through ad watching other people look at the exhibits. I really like how it's arranged, though, and next time I go I'll give it more attention.
The Pixar exhibit was fantastic. Unfortunately, they kicked us out at 5 and I didn't see everything, because I have to look at every picture and read every sign and watch all the short films (and the ArtScope film on the enormously wide screen which was pretty darn neat). But it's there through early January, so mom and I will go back sometime when we can go in the middle of the week and probably have the place largely to ourselves.
I love Pixar movies an awful lot. I saw Luxo Jr at a Spike & Mike animation fest when I was college, probably my freshman year, and was astounded enough to make a mental note of the Pixar name. I was working in a movie theater when Toy Story came out, and that was huge. I guess it was when Moster's Inc. was coming out and I was convincing H we needed to go see it as soon as possible that I found out he'd never seen any of their movies, so we immediately rented DVDs of Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life (we had gone to see Antz in the theater because of Woody Allen, but not ABL) and watched them on my iMac, the only DVD playing device we had at the time. He was completely won over. We really fell down on our going out to the movies ways the last few years, but we always managed to see the Pixar films. Toy Story 3 is the first one I didn't see in the theater since.
The Up portion of the exhibit almost broke me, but I held it together okay.
BARTed back with the leading edge of the Post-Raider game crowd - easy to tell that they won, and my dad got a rundown of the end of the game from someone who was there. Dinner at Yankee Pier in Lafayette - oven roasted scallops = yum. Got home much later than I expected to, but Wednesday hadn't broken anything, and the older cats were eager to come inside and get fed, so that was all fine.
Really wanted to sleep in yesterday morning, but I had my ER followup appointment with my doctor. The hospital hadn't gotten her the report yet, so she could only go by what I could tell her and examining me now, but she thinks probably gall stone. I've lost 20 pounds since I was last in, which is nice, I guess. I was trying to lose weight for some of that time, I think, and it's nice that my recent sluglike ways have not completely undone whatever progress I made then. After lunch I called the vet to make an appointment for Wednesday - they said they could take her that afternoon, so she's had her initial check-up and first round of shots. And they turned me on to a way of administering Advantage (which I can use on the cats and the dog, same formula just different amounts) that I think will be better than the disposable Frontline thingies. She goes back in a month and then a month after that, and then I guess she can go outside with the grownups.
Indulging my laziness today. I may do some laundry, but so far I've really done nothing, and it's nice.
This entry was originally posted at http://multipurposegoddess.dreamwidth.org/139426.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Or comment here, it doesn't matter, I will see it regardless.