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It’s a lot like musical chairs
Every Tuesday night I come home from grad school to find that Goldilocks (that’d be Zoe) is in my bed. I don’t dare try to move her because it’s been years since we’ve been able to successfully move her back to her own bed without her waking up. She’ll most likely just walk directly back to where we moved her from – proclaiming: “I wasn’t sleeping!”
If she is in her own bed, she almost always wakes up and crawls in bed next to me during the middle of the night. Sometimes I don’t even realize she’s there, until I wake up due to the fact that I’m feeling claustropohobic since I’m scrunched between my husband on my left, Zoe on my right, and two large dogs at my feet. I have to scoot up to free myself from them and the covers. I’ll take my pillows and go to sleep in her bed — aaaaahhhhhhhh, I’ve got the whole bed to myself. Can someone remind me why we didn’t get her the full-sized mattress instead of the twin??
There are times that she’ll wake up (in my spot in my bed), and realize I’m not there, come back to her bed, and crawl in next to me. Then I’m smooshed between her and the wall, and most usually a dog at my feet, or a cat on my head … possibly both.
I’m telling you, there are fun times in the middle of the night over here. I think we should install one of the conveyor belts to run from Zoe’s bedroom to mine (ours), you know, like they have at the airport so that people don’t have to walk so much.
On a different topic …. I’m looking for a good book to download into my ipod to listen to. Any recommendations?
Gege will be so proud
Not a day passed by when I was a kid when my mom didn’t vacuum. She was constantly running that thing through the house.
She bought me my first vacuum cleaner when I moved out of the house about 15 years ago, but not until she got me the Dyson “The Animal” vacuum cleaner did I completley understand her love affair with vacuuming. The purple vac is my very most favorite household appliance! I think it’s the “dirt factor” that I enjoy the most. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing dust and dirt swirling around like a tornado inside the bagless capsule — it’s clear for a reason folks, so we can be wowed by it.
Here is Zoe, vacuuming away. Gege (what she calls my mom) will be so proud.
Please resume to your normal life
Oscar season is over and I’ve watched a lot of movies. Here is my ballot, which has been on my person since the nominees were announced. I’ve watched everything highlighted in orange. This weekend alone I saw Half Nelson, The Black Dahlia, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Marie Antoinette.
The Departed won for best picture — well deserved if you ask me. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. Of all the movies on the ballot, I think my favorite is Little Miss Sunshine. How about your’s?
My husband is happy that we can get some “normal” movies in our Netflix queue now. I’m not sure if these are normal, but this is what’s at the top: For Your Consideration, A Good Year (which I’m sure will not be as good as the book), The Shaggy Dog (the original), and Hollywoodland.
Success
Blockbuster is my hero.
Tonight I rented Flags of Our Fathers. There were about 20 copies on the shelf. Half had the Overnight Rental sticker on them, the other half had the Two Day Rental sticker on them. Sweet! I grabbed one of the Two Day Rental cases and headed to the cashier. My plan was to watch it tonight, then give it to my dad at work tomorrow so he could watch it (after business hours of course, we don’t watch movies at work). I mentioned the sticker to the cashier as I was handing over the cash.
Me: Some of the cases have an Overnight Rental sticker on them, others have the Two Day Rental sticker. I get two days for this, right?
Blockbuster Guy: No. We ran out of the Overnight Rental stickers so we put Two Day Rental stickers on them instead. They are all overnight rentals though.
I was waaaaaaaaaaay too tired to point out to Mr. Blockerbuster Guy that what he just admit to was pretty darn stupid. Why not omit a sticker altogether if you don’t have enough of the correct ones?
Whatever. I watched the movie. It was okay. It wasn’t Saving Private Ryan. I kinda feel a little bit cheated actually. I mean for an entire month now my quest has been to see this movie and it wasn’t even the end all be all of movies. I might have even fallen asleep during it. I can’t be sure because I’ll never admit to falling asleep on the couch in the living room at 7 p.m. on a Thursday night. Not me, noooooo waaaaay.
Thursday Thirteen
I had every intention of participating in the Thursday Thirteen today, however it’s been retired. After all the crap that was going on with the Question of the Day, I completely understand and appreciate why Leanne felt that it was time to close it.
What will the blogging world do with themselves on Thursdays? Any ideas?
I think people are still participating one last time, yet there is no code, and that’s fine. Me and “code” don’t always go together very well. In any event, here is my final Thursday Thirteen …….
A recap of 13 Oscar nominated movies that I’ve watched to prepare myself for Sunday’s Academy Award Ceremony
(in no particular order)
- Blood Diamond
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Departed
- Volver
- The Queen
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Babel
- Cars
- The Good Shepherd
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
- The Prestige
- The Illusionist
- United 93
You can read my reviews of these movies here.
It’s buckle-down time for me, and these are movies I’ll be watching prior to Sunday yet:
- The Black Dahlia
- Half Nelson
- Marie Antoinette
- Flags of Our Fathers (COME HELL OR HIGH WATER I WILL RENT THIS MOVIE!)
- Letters From Iwo Jima (my fingers are crossed, I may run out of time)
Dear Netflix
Dear Netflix,
I’ve had Flags of Our Fathers at the tippy tippy top of my Queue for the last four weeks. I put it to the tippy tippy top before it was even released so that I could be one of the first in line for this movie. Would you pretty pretty please with sugar on top ship me this movie today?? PLEASE? I’m begging you —- I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE BEFORE THE OSCAR’S ON SUNDAY NIGHT!!!
Thank you so much,
Indigo
The following letter has been produced by myself, based on the information provided by Netflix when I look at my Queue.
Dear Indigo,
Here is what we are shipping you:
Marie Antoinette, The Black Dahlia, Half Nelson, The Prestige.
Better luck next time.
Sincerely,
Netflix
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