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Bought my family's tickets for their trip out here for the holidays. Was pleasantly surprised by how fast and easy Orbitz made it to do, and how delightfully inexpensive! Ok, comparatively inexpensive, all things considered. Still, that takes care of a nice big portion of my Xmas shopping for the year. Hooray!
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cyranocyrano and aelfsciene. Yay uppity progressives! We had a weird moment when C- made a funny comment about the CIA and crack, and then it was echoed on the film by someone in the audience. Got to bed later than intended, but it was well worth it.
Getting to the SJ Flea Market on Saturday was fabulous, and I got some amazing deals. Some gorgeous plum colored silky-looking fabric for $2.50 a yard, and the most spectacular sage and white sari I've ever seen for $15. I made the woman at the stall repeat the price three times before I would believe her. I gave her my money and ran out of the place before she could tell me she'd actually meant $50 (which was what I was expecting). If the temperature at the market hadn't be roughly that of the surface of the sun I would've enjoyed staying longer. As it was leaving around 1 gave Aelf and I time to run errands before going to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that evening. Have I mentioned recently how much I love Shakespeare productions in the great outdoors? Sitting in a forest glade watching the play with stars overhead and few to no mosquitos is damn near bliss as far as I'm concerned.
Sunday was off to the shelter where I heard the bad news. Apparently the woman who runs it is being hassled by her neighbors and she may be moving, so who knows what's going to happen next. If anyone was even considering taking on another kitty now would be a very good time. There are some absolute dolls there.
After that zoomed home to get my own cats' litterboxes taken care of, and managed to sweep and mop beforetersa arrived for a viewing of "Chicago". My reaction to the film was about what I'd expected it to be. ( Mild rant behind the cut. )
Glad I got that out of my system. Now I can smile fondly on having a roommate who allows me to watch 4 hours of Sherlock adventures in a single evening without complaint. We watched some incredibly good ones, "The Naval Treaty", "The Crooked Man", "The Dancing Men", and "The Solitary Cyclist". Mmm, Jeremy Brett in period costume, mmm English countryside, mmm violins, and mmm well written and clever mysteries! Oh how I've missed them. I re-watch those episodes and remember why it is that I can't watch most American mystery movies or t.v. shows. I am a mystery snob, I admit it.
Oh and I got a great deal done on my Halloween costume, yay! I might just get this sucker completed in time to wear it this year.
Busy weekend, but lord did I accomplish a lot. Friday night I got to enjoy great angry liberal flicks with
cyranocyrano and aelfsciene. Yay uppity progressives! We had a weird moment when C- made a funny comment about the CIA and crack, and then it was echoed on the film by someone in the audience. Got to bed later than intended, but it was well worth it.Getting to the SJ Flea Market on Saturday was fabulous, and I got some amazing deals. Some gorgeous plum colored silky-looking fabric for $2.50 a yard, and the most spectacular sage and white sari I've ever seen for $15. I made the woman at the stall repeat the price three times before I would believe her. I gave her my money and ran out of the place before she could tell me she'd actually meant $50 (which was what I was expecting). If the temperature at the market hadn't be roughly that of the surface of the sun I would've enjoyed staying longer. As it was leaving around 1 gave Aelf and I time to run errands before going to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that evening. Have I mentioned recently how much I love Shakespeare productions in the great outdoors? Sitting in a forest glade watching the play with stars overhead and few to no mosquitos is damn near bliss as far as I'm concerned.
Sunday was off to the shelter where I heard the bad news. Apparently the woman who runs it is being hassled by her neighbors and she may be moving, so who knows what's going to happen next. If anyone was even considering taking on another kitty now would be a very good time. There are some absolute dolls there.
After that zoomed home to get my own cats' litterboxes taken care of, and managed to sweep and mop before
tersa arrived for a viewing of "Chicago". My reaction to the film was about what I'd expected it to be. ( Mild rant behind the cut. )Glad I got that out of my system. Now I can smile fondly on having a roommate who allows me to watch 4 hours of Sherlock adventures in a single evening without complaint. We watched some incredibly good ones, "The Naval Treaty", "The Crooked Man", "The Dancing Men", and "The Solitary Cyclist". Mmm, Jeremy Brett in period costume, mmm English countryside, mmm violins, and mmm well written and clever mysteries! Oh how I've missed them. I re-watch those episodes and remember why it is that I can't watch most American mystery movies or t.v. shows. I am a mystery snob, I admit it.
Oh and I got a great deal done on my Halloween costume, yay! I might just get this sucker completed in time to wear it this year.
