fings and I spent a few hours on New Year's Eve with my parents. We had some dinner and watched "Like Water for Chocolate", which my parents had never seen and they thoroughly enjoyed. My mother in particular appreciated that it was a Mexican film and my folks had fun pointing out the people who they recognized from the Mexican soap operas. My oldest ( Read more... )

So, I fell asleep on the sofa Saturday night around 11:00 pm after a few minutes of reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" (such an excellent book!), fings was playing his Star Wars video game. Around midnight my sweetie woke me up and I blearily followed him into bed, whereupon I fell back to sleep almost instantly. After sleeping crappily every night since ( Read more... )

On Friday night, fings and I had many rum and cokes, and sang (possibly way too much) on his newish karaoke playstation game. Good times. I kicked ass on "Killing Me Softly" and "Against All Odds", impressed with how well I did on "Unchained Melody'--come on, that's a hard song to sing! Failed utterly on "Don't You Forget About Me" and "You're the ( Read more... )

I didn't get around to my "real" post yesterday (yesterday being like, 15 minutes ago) as I threatened on Sunday night so I'll make a little one now.

I managed to whack fings in both eyes this past weekend. The left eye got whacked with my right elbow on (I think) Saturday night right before bed, and the right eye got whacked with my left elbow on ( Read more... )

I messed around with my icons, and now I'm sort of wishing I didn't. Perhaps I'll feel differently tomorrow. Or maybe not, I effed up and lost my dancing Grover icon, I really liked that one ( Read more... )

Many thanks to those who expressed sympathy over my recent health woes. The dance program fings and I attended on Friday night was a fun outing. Like he mentioned in a comment in my previous post, there were 3 very good dances (well, one of those excellent, Maureen Fleming is amazing!) and the others ranged from good to eh. But for me the experience ( Read more... )

Well, Friday night was fings' birthday party and it was a fine one. Even though I was running on only 2 hours sleep and had an ouchy back I had a great time and boy, did we have a packed house! Met jungle_goddess and her hubby nsingman who Fings had met at the Fantasm convention, and we met jinzi, her hubby inner_linbo and their son Mooseman for the first time (thanks again for coming way ( Read more... )

fings needed to pick up some items in Manhattan, so yesterday we took the PATH to the World Trade Center (only the 2nd time I've gone to the stop since they reopened it, gah, depressing). We strolled through Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side and then eventually walked over to the PATH's 9th St. station to get back to Hoboken. It was a ( Read more... )

I spent most of the weekend feeling guilty that I wasn't around to help my dad shovel the snow like I usually am when storms hit (both at home and the sidewalks in front of his workplace that he's responsible for keeping clear). I called my younger brother and oldest nephew and berated them to help. My brother helped for a while this morning and ( Read more... )