Movie & Weekend Update
So, after posting my movie invitation on PDXCF and my LJ, I ended up having one taker. ghstintheshl and I caught the 4:30 PM showing of Hellboy II: The Golden Army and it was amazing. I just love the visuals and creatures of a Guillermo Del Toro movie. He really does create new worlds! Action was great and we got to see more of the deeper character traits of the main characters. Plus more kitties for Hellboy! After the movie I headed home.
Saturday morning I went out to a showing of Journey to the Center of the Earth and also enjoyed that. I suppose I should have expected to see "Play" instead of the adult First Look, but it came as a suprise. I guess since one of the three main characters was a kid, that qualified it as a kids movie. The CGI flying pirahnas were amazing, and I loved how they designed the underground world. Adventure and a bit of romance fit the bill nicely.
Saturday afternoon I decided to tackle one of the projects I've been procrastinating on. I sorted through 3 boxes and 3 bags of piled up paperwork. I ended up with two large bags of paper recycling and 1 large and 4 small bags of shredded documents. While sorting through the stuff I found some interesting things: $26.27 in money (a check from my folks from Easter and some promotional money from marketing things), the original requested documents from my adoption (including a two page letter including commentary from the social worker who viewed me after my adoption... which I had totally blanked out on receiving back in 2001), a three inch stack of emails and IM conversations with my ex A (which I'm trying to decide if I should shred or burn), lots of pens, travel maps from Utah & Arizona, and a ton of floppy disks and ZIP disks, for which I no longer have a functioning drive to recapture the documents and data, so I'll have to figure something out with that.
While sorting, recycling and shredding I watched the SciFi Channel's Dune Miniseries and Children of Dune Miniseries. Did more shredding and whatnot on Sunday afternoon too. Sunday morning was spent ferrying a friend to an Urgent Care Clinic since she hasn't been feeling well for a month or so. They've recommended an MRI, and I'm hoping that she'll make it there today, as the possible diagnoses they gave her at the clinic are not good and could potentially require surgery! She treated me to lunch at Red Robin (I paid the tip) and I had a grilled chicken sandwich on foccacia bread with garlic parmesan fries. I feel proud of myself because the fries portion was much smaller than the usual one provided there, and when E ordered another basket, I didn't have a single one from that. Sure I could have ordered a salad, but that would have been another few dollars extra.
Last night I got calls from both my Mom's. P had been to Sisters and back on Saturday for a quilt show. and T called to tell me that my Dad had been in a huge car accident that blocked the Alsea Bay Bridge on HWY 101 for over an hour. He was okay, but their truck might be totalled. The crash was fortunately at a very low speed, 5-15 mph and involved a lady jamming on her brakes, a truck with a boat on a trailer behind her doing the same, followed by my Dad with his truck and a new tenant's travel trailer hooked on behind him. He stopped, but the momentum of the trailer pushed him forward, and he pushed the guys boat up into the bed of that pickup! Also fortunately the tenant's trailer was totally okay, but they had to pay to tow it to the rental property. When Dad called my Mom, he was sitting in the boat in the pickup bed of the guy in front of him. It all sounds hilarious after the fact, but could have been horrible, as they were on a very high bridge over the bay!
If their truck is actually totalled, I suggested that they look at getting a Toyota Highlander Hybrid or other SUV Hybrid, because they drive a ton and the truck had awful gas mileage. They are planning on selling their large boat, and no longer have a big travel trailer, so the need for massive pulling capacity is about over. They do travel with a lot of stuff and do have to tote around tools for projects at their rental properties and the dogs, which is why I suggested a hybrid SUV instead of a smaller hybrid car or wagon. Hopefully they'll get a fair amount of money back on the truck since it is a 2005 model year and was in pristine shape prior to the accident.
Guess that's all there is to report about my mostly boring weekend. Time to get back to work!
Saturday morning I went out to a showing of Journey to the Center of the Earth and also enjoyed that. I suppose I should have expected to see "Play" instead of the adult First Look, but it came as a suprise. I guess since one of the three main characters was a kid, that qualified it as a kids movie. The CGI flying pirahnas were amazing, and I loved how they designed the underground world. Adventure and a bit of romance fit the bill nicely.
Saturday afternoon I decided to tackle one of the projects I've been procrastinating on. I sorted through 3 boxes and 3 bags of piled up paperwork. I ended up with two large bags of paper recycling and 1 large and 4 small bags of shredded documents. While sorting through the stuff I found some interesting things: $26.27 in money (a check from my folks from Easter and some promotional money from marketing things), the original requested documents from my adoption (including a two page letter including commentary from the social worker who viewed me after my adoption... which I had totally blanked out on receiving back in 2001), a three inch stack of emails and IM conversations with my ex A (which I'm trying to decide if I should shred or burn), lots of pens, travel maps from Utah & Arizona, and a ton of floppy disks and ZIP disks, for which I no longer have a functioning drive to recapture the documents and data, so I'll have to figure something out with that.
While sorting, recycling and shredding I watched the SciFi Channel's Dune Miniseries and Children of Dune Miniseries. Did more shredding and whatnot on Sunday afternoon too. Sunday morning was spent ferrying a friend to an Urgent Care Clinic since she hasn't been feeling well for a month or so. They've recommended an MRI, and I'm hoping that she'll make it there today, as the possible diagnoses they gave her at the clinic are not good and could potentially require surgery! She treated me to lunch at Red Robin (I paid the tip) and I had a grilled chicken sandwich on foccacia bread with garlic parmesan fries. I feel proud of myself because the fries portion was much smaller than the usual one provided there, and when E ordered another basket, I didn't have a single one from that. Sure I could have ordered a salad, but that would have been another few dollars extra.
Last night I got calls from both my Mom's. P had been to Sisters and back on Saturday for a quilt show. and T called to tell me that my Dad had been in a huge car accident that blocked the Alsea Bay Bridge on HWY 101 for over an hour. He was okay, but their truck might be totalled. The crash was fortunately at a very low speed, 5-15 mph and involved a lady jamming on her brakes, a truck with a boat on a trailer behind her doing the same, followed by my Dad with his truck and a new tenant's travel trailer hooked on behind him. He stopped, but the momentum of the trailer pushed him forward, and he pushed the guys boat up into the bed of that pickup! Also fortunately the tenant's trailer was totally okay, but they had to pay to tow it to the rental property. When Dad called my Mom, he was sitting in the boat in the pickup bed of the guy in front of him. It all sounds hilarious after the fact, but could have been horrible, as they were on a very high bridge over the bay!
If their truck is actually totalled, I suggested that they look at getting a Toyota Highlander Hybrid or other SUV Hybrid, because they drive a ton and the truck had awful gas mileage. They are planning on selling their large boat, and no longer have a big travel trailer, so the need for massive pulling capacity is about over. They do travel with a lot of stuff and do have to tote around tools for projects at their rental properties and the dogs, which is why I suggested a hybrid SUV instead of a smaller hybrid car or wagon. Hopefully they'll get a fair amount of money back on the truck since it is a 2005 model year and was in pristine shape prior to the accident.
Guess that's all there is to report about my mostly boring weekend. Time to get back to work!