I love these rostered days off - even if I have to slave at work an additional fifty minutes the other eighteen days of the four week roster, the pay off with two days off is worth it. I woke up initially this morning at five past seven ayem, about my normal wake up time, but I could just close my eyes and doze for another two hours, was very happy with that. More happy with that than the other day waking up, thinking it was Saturday and realising it was Tuesday - ick.
Was pay day for me yesterday, and for the first time in two weeks it seemed that I actually had some spending money available - I cut my finances so tightly last pay day, and then the whole seizure/prescription/cold thing, while the parents were away back home as well, I felt very very stretched money wise until yesterday. And today I could spend it LOL.
Not that I went nuts of course, but I did recharge the credit on my mobile, I did have a haircut, I did get the prescription filled, I did get popcorn with the movie that I went to see (the first eats that I had with a movie in three weeks, feeling so stupid LOL) - as well as getting some photo reprints done, a DVD, Monty Python and the Holy Grail - it's just a flesh wound indeed.
The movie I went to see was The Family Stone, I have a feeling it won't be showing tomorrow, what with New Movie Thursday reschedulings and such. I was in half a mind whether to actually see it or not, thinking that perhaps because I was just catching it at the last minute, I was building it up too much, especially with some people saying it may be too much of a chick flick.
Those fears of me hyping the movie up too much were just reinforced when I realised it was a Christmas movie, but, apart from a bit of soppiness towards the end, it was a good, solid, well acted family drama. And Sarah Jessica Parker did her role of a stuck up, bigoted, self absorbed bitch really well - and Luke Wilson is always very watchable. Better not drool too visibly over Claire Danes or Rachel McAdams LOL. Am well glad I went to see it, even if it was the last day showing in Brisbane :)
Syriana this weekend, probably Lord of War the weekend after coming up on the movie agenda.
Then it was picking up wrapping paper and a card for my niece's first birthday today. As well as a quick five minute side trip to Dusk, just to recharge my mental batteries - I love that store for some reason - and then browsing the shelves at Angus and Robertson, before heading back home.
And when I got back home I realised that I had gotten the wrong battery for my camera - the one in there has been flat for about a week, again with the saving money on non essential stuff until pay day. I thought I had checked it out as well, lithium battery, 3 volts, but no, I had gotten a CR2 when apparently I needed a 123. I was NOT happy, with the special trip to get a camera battery for the niece's first birthday, and it was too late in the day to head back to the shopping centre and buy another battery.
Of course, if I drove myself around, I could have simply hopped in the car. But that would be destroying the environment, and for some reason I just have never felt the urge to learn to drive anyways, so I couldn't do that. Not happy.
Niece came over, with brother and sister not quite in law, presents were opened, I'm not sure the one year old was sure what was going on, apart from smiling at one toy, dancing to another, and flopping all over a third - which she was supposed to, it was a Barbie mini sofa bed. And on the home front, the kid got a teddy bear. A teddy bear that is about three or four feet high and two or three feet wide (arms extended). Big indeed.
The other trick the kid was putting together was the beg for KFC chips from the relatives game. And the getting over tired game. So, happily but tiredly with new toys in tow, they left for home. Watching Spicks and Specks, flicking between Glasshouse and ER, and then onto the Winter Olympics.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Olympics. Every two years, get me in front of a television somewhere in the world, and I will watch freestyle moguls, short track speed skating, graeco-roman wrestling, judo, yachting - I still draw the line at synchronised swimming. But of course, with the Winters, my focus is of course the ice hockey.
Fingers crossed for Canada v Russia in the quarters tonight though - the reports I am reading say that nothing less than a gold will do for the Canadian population. Kind of reminds me - well exactly reminds me - of the way New Zealand is about Rugby World Cups. Nothing less than the championship will do. Whereas for the Russians, a win today would be nice, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Some of the speeds the alpine skiiers and luge and bobsleigh get to is fecking amazing though, but yeah, hockey is the big one for me.
More soon
Pauly
Was pay day for me yesterday, and for the first time in two weeks it seemed that I actually had some spending money available - I cut my finances so tightly last pay day, and then the whole seizure/prescription/cold thing, while the parents were away back home as well, I felt very very stretched money wise until yesterday. And today I could spend it LOL.
Not that I went nuts of course, but I did recharge the credit on my mobile, I did have a haircut, I did get the prescription filled, I did get popcorn with the movie that I went to see (the first eats that I had with a movie in three weeks, feeling so stupid LOL) - as well as getting some photo reprints done, a DVD, Monty Python and the Holy Grail - it's just a flesh wound indeed.
The movie I went to see was The Family Stone, I have a feeling it won't be showing tomorrow, what with New Movie Thursday reschedulings and such. I was in half a mind whether to actually see it or not, thinking that perhaps because I was just catching it at the last minute, I was building it up too much, especially with some people saying it may be too much of a chick flick.
Those fears of me hyping the movie up too much were just reinforced when I realised it was a Christmas movie, but, apart from a bit of soppiness towards the end, it was a good, solid, well acted family drama. And Sarah Jessica Parker did her role of a stuck up, bigoted, self absorbed bitch really well - and Luke Wilson is always very watchable. Better not drool too visibly over Claire Danes or Rachel McAdams LOL. Am well glad I went to see it, even if it was the last day showing in Brisbane :)
Syriana this weekend, probably Lord of War the weekend after coming up on the movie agenda.
Then it was picking up wrapping paper and a card for my niece's first birthday today. As well as a quick five minute side trip to Dusk, just to recharge my mental batteries - I love that store for some reason - and then browsing the shelves at Angus and Robertson, before heading back home.
And when I got back home I realised that I had gotten the wrong battery for my camera - the one in there has been flat for about a week, again with the saving money on non essential stuff until pay day. I thought I had checked it out as well, lithium battery, 3 volts, but no, I had gotten a CR2 when apparently I needed a 123. I was NOT happy, with the special trip to get a camera battery for the niece's first birthday, and it was too late in the day to head back to the shopping centre and buy another battery.
Of course, if I drove myself around, I could have simply hopped in the car. But that would be destroying the environment, and for some reason I just have never felt the urge to learn to drive anyways, so I couldn't do that. Not happy.
Niece came over, with brother and sister not quite in law, presents were opened, I'm not sure the one year old was sure what was going on, apart from smiling at one toy, dancing to another, and flopping all over a third - which she was supposed to, it was a Barbie mini sofa bed. And on the home front, the kid got a teddy bear. A teddy bear that is about three or four feet high and two or three feet wide (arms extended). Big indeed.
The other trick the kid was putting together was the beg for KFC chips from the relatives game. And the getting over tired game. So, happily but tiredly with new toys in tow, they left for home. Watching Spicks and Specks, flicking between Glasshouse and ER, and then onto the Winter Olympics.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Olympics. Every two years, get me in front of a television somewhere in the world, and I will watch freestyle moguls, short track speed skating, graeco-roman wrestling, judo, yachting - I still draw the line at synchronised swimming. But of course, with the Winters, my focus is of course the ice hockey.
Fingers crossed for Canada v Russia in the quarters tonight though - the reports I am reading say that nothing less than a gold will do for the Canadian population. Kind of reminds me - well exactly reminds me - of the way New Zealand is about Rugby World Cups. Nothing less than the championship will do. Whereas for the Russians, a win today would be nice, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Some of the speeds the alpine skiiers and luge and bobsleigh get to is fecking amazing though, but yeah, hockey is the big one for me.
More soon
Pauly
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