Saturday evening, I got to Mom & Dad's around five. Mom, Dad and Jason were in Illinois for the weekend (visiting Aunt Julie, Uncle David and Matthew) so it was just me, Kimba, Anna and Kayla. We bummed around for a while, watching this really long count-down on VH1 about 100 teen stars, only for Anna and Kimba to gripe when Molly Ringwald turned out to be number one.
Around 8 or 9, some of Kimba's friends (and Camille) started showing up. There were 9-10 people in the living room once they all got there. We watched Shooter on the projector and screen, and had a couple of frozen pizzas.
After the movie, we played Scene It! twice, with three people to a team (four on one team, once the last person showed up in the middle of the first game). My team didn't win either game. Oh well.
Everybody left around 2am, then the four of us girls got ready for bed. Anna and I watched Danny Phantom, then Anna put in an episode of Family Guy and fell asleep. I made it through the episode awake, then stopped the disc and turned off the TV thinking I was going to go to sleep too. That was around 3:45 or so.
I ended up tossing and turning, unable to get to sleep for a while. The last time I looked at the clock, it was 5am.
Yesterday, I woke up at around noon and had a bowl of cereal. Then Anna, Kayla and I watched the first episode of Angel season 5. Kimba kept calling Anna downstairs in the middle of it though, so Anna wanted to find a way to watch it downstairs on the projector despite the light of day. She ended up covering the windows with her comforter and blanket, then turning off or dimming most of the lights.
We didn't watch anymore Angel though. Kimba decided to stay downstairs too, since we were all down there. Her original plan was to go upstairs to her room while we were in Anna's room, but since we were going to be downstairs anyway, she stayed.
Kimba doesn't care for Angel or Buffy--anything Whedon-esque, really. So, we watched the movie that Kimba bought yesterday while getting ingredients for dinner: Nancy Drew. That was a cute movie.
After that movie, we made dinner and ate it. We had chicken, broccoli, cheese, scalloped potatoes, and fruit salad. It was extremely yummy . . . and extremely filling. I wanted more, but I would have exploded if I'd actually eaten more.
After dinner, we cleaned up the mess, and cleaned Oreo's (my brother's hamster) cage. Anna found a way to hook up Kayla's Play Station 2 to the projector (and the speakers) using Jason's stereo, and we played Sing Star until a little past midnight, when we got ready to go to sleep.
The rodent got put back into her nice, clean cage, and everybody went to their respective rooms (I went to Anna's) to sleep. Anna and I watched another Danny Phantom; it was one I'd already seen before at least twice . . . the one with the nerd in the locker who tries to take over Danny's life. Then she fell asleep during Family Guy again, and this time I feel asleep pretty soon after the episode was over. That was around 1:30, I think.
I woke up this morning, got dressed, had breakfast, and came to work.
Man, I hate Mondays.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sooooo Tired
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Whoops! It's been a few days.
Let's see . . . what's happened since I actually posted something that wasn't the FoLC map?
On Thursday, Smallville was a re-run, so I actually *gasp!* went to Institute. It was pretty fun. Sister C. was teaching though, so I didn't see Brother M, who taught Institute when I went before.
Something I need to remember:
I can never remember all of the apostles, so I decided to make a list and put it here so that I can look at it more often.
- Boyd K. Packer
- L. Tom Perry
- Russel M. Nelson
- Dalin H. Oaks
- M. Russel Ballard
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Richard G. Scott
- Robert D. Hales
- Jeffrey R. Holland
- Henry B. Eyring
- Dieter F. Uchdorf (spelling?)
- David A. Bednar
There. Maybe I'll remember them all now.
The lesson in Institute was about Paul, and the first group of letters that he wrote, which was to the Thessalonians. I've got a bunch of notes about the chapters 2, 4 and 5 of 1 Thessalonians, but I don't feel like typing them all out. It's pretty much a lot of encouragement and advice for missionaries and stuff.
I finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets while I was at work on Friday. Since I was only a little more than half-way through when I left for work that morning, I hadn't brought another book with me, so I didn't get to read anymore after that.
After work, I called Comcast to figure out why our wireless network had disappeared from the list of available networks, but they didn't have anything to do with it. It was LinkSys. I called LinkSys, and the techie guy helped me to re-establish a network from our wireless router using Kayla's computer. I had to use her on-screen keyboard though, because the one on the desk was broken.
That evening, Anna and I went over to Jason O's house for movie night. Kayla and Cassie came too, but Patrick J. and Kendra (or is it Kendall?) didn't.
We watched a couple of movies while we played Twenty Questions the board game, and then played three different kinds of Scene It! -- Harry Potter, regular, and Disney. It was Me, Jason and Devon against Anna, Kayla and Cassie. Cassie was pretty much their "mascot," and Devon just sat there, so it was really just me and Jason against Anna and Kayla. Anna and Kayla won all three games. Anna won Twenty Questions.
When we first got to Jason O's house, I slipped down the stairs to get into the TV room, and my right foot ended up underneath me, bent with my toes pointing up toward the top of the stairs. It throbbed for a minute or two, then it felt better.
Yesterday when I went to check the mail, I was coming back upstairs after getting it, but then I realized I forgot something. So I started to go back down to the entry way, and must've missed the step, because I slipped off that step too. And my right foot ended up twisted on its side that time. It throbbed for a couple minutes and I limped for a little bit. Other than a twinge every now and then, it's feeling mostly better though. But two twistings in two days is kinda painful.
I went over to Mom & Dad's house yesterday to get Anna so she could help me with my grocery shopping, since Kimba was borrowing her Cabrio and the Fairlane wouldn't start. I got a keyboard from Dad's spares so that Kayla would have a working keyboard on her computer again. I left a note for her on Notepad too. Anna helped me get a lot of stuff while not paying too much--and thank goodness too--as it was, the bill was $111 and change!
Today was the 2nd day of General Conference. I didn't watch though--I was doing other stuff. I got up around 10:30, got something to eat and checked my online places for updates. Then around noon-ish, I went upstairs to start on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
I got through Chapter Three before my eyes wouldn't stay open. I had a pretty long nap--about two hours' worth--and then decided to get some sort of snack. I had some toast and a couple sweet pickles, then got ready to go to Mom & Dad's for dinner.
When I got there, Dad asked me whether he should make meat balls or meatloaf. I said meatloaf. Then, Jason and I played Dragonriders (a computer game based on the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey) on his computer, which Dad finally got up and running correctly.
After a bit, Dad asked us to peel and cut potatoes for dinner, so we did that and got back to the game. Then we had dinner and played until 9pm, when it was time for Jason to go to bed. We got pretty far and got quite a few quests done before we had to stop. We've decided to play every week, and Jason said he'll either not play during the week, or create a new game for playing on his own so that he and I can play the game we started today together.
Next Saturday, I have to remember to go to the pool house between 10am and noon so that I can get my picture taken for a pool pass. Then early next month, the neighborhood is having a community yard sale, so I've been going through my catalogue at LibraryThing to see which books I could stand to get rid of. I've tagged them all "to sell," and there are 209 of them.
Sometime this week, I'm going to look at the physical books on that list (I printed it out) and decide which ones are in "read 'em and pitch 'em" condition, which ones are in fair condition, and which ones are in great condition. Then I'll price them $0.25, $0.75, and $1, respectively. If there are any hard-backed books on the list, they'll be $3 each.
After I've gone through the books, I have to go through my other stuff and see what I want to get rid of. There's probably a bunch of clothing that can go, and I have three towels I never use (I have two that are much fluffier, which I just switch when I do my laundry each week) . . . but I'll figure the rest out later.
