first things first, the above quote was inspired by jen, my own personal shazzer. although i did quite enjoy one of the definitions of "spinster" that the american heritage dictionary gave.
"A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction." yup, that is so me.
anyway, i feel like i haven't blogged in a while. but it really hasn't been THAT long. so... where to begin...
well, i'm home instead of out snowboarding because i came down with a minor cold. nothing huge, but just big enough to annoy the crap out of me and make me not want to make it any worse by continually falling in snow and crashing into things.
so i've been home, just knitting. knitting till i go crazy (actually, we crossed that line quite a few days ago). jo put it perfectly when she told me that she thought i was "all scarfed out." really, though, what was i thinking? i wish i could go back in time and berate my past self for thinking it was such a clever idea to make all these scarves. i'm at a point where i feel guilty when i'm not knitting (like right now) which, really, is just insane.
anyway. i've seen three movies in less than one week. i think i may just be all movied out too (yeah, i know, that was lame). okay, i just wrote like mini-reviews for all three movies, but i read them all and they're dumb. so let me just get on with the update in a more chronological order.
wednesday - went up to berkeley to visit jen. rode up with howard and ha. mar met up with us at jen's place. yaaay!! hung out for a while then went out to dinner at jupiter's. it was nice just to catch up with everyone and have a good conversation. i miss these people. anyway, afterwards, we tried to watch lord of the rings, but - long story short - it was impossible. so i met up with jo, chi, tim, and mike to watch last samurai. not bad. better than i expected. but i'm a sucker for those epic-y type of movies. the only dumb part was (and i can't believe i'm saying this) the romance. i mean, c'mon. i don't think i'd fall in love with the guy who killed my husband, do you?
thursday - hmm. can't really remember what i did during the day. probably nothing but knitting. in the evening, i went out to watch lord of the rings: return of the king with the same group of people i saw on wednesday - jen, mar, ha, and howard. plus dave. damn, that's a long movie. but oh so good. okay, so i may have teared up a little, but - as we've already gone over - i am a sap. i cannot help this.
friday - woke up with a sore throat. i already wasn't able to breathe through my nose properly for the past few days, so this was no good news. called deb to cancel on the snowboarding trip. i'm sorry, dear. but i know you're having fun right at this very moment. ;D so i just stayed home all day. took a nap in the afternoon (even though i woke up at, like, noon). and it goes without saying that i knitted quite a bit. and my parents got me a new cell phone. same number though. i really wish my parents would stop and let me just stay with one cell phone. geez. i mean, yes, this new phone is quite nice, but i was perfectly content with my old one.
saturday - again, nothing. god. i'm quite sad, aren't i? oh well.
sunday - nothing during the day (except knitting, of course). went out in the evening with jo and mar to watch mona lisa smile. i love the soundtrack. it was a pretty good movie. a
tad on the boring side, but good overall. i loved the very last scene.
so that brings us to today. had a dentist appointment in the afternoon. the nurse told me i should really think about getting my wisdom teeth out. blah to you, nurse lady. actually, she was really nice. i just didn't like the thought of it. oh well. came home. got into a debate with jo about whether she should perm her hair again or not. poor girl is going crazy. can't say i blame her. that is quite a conundrum she is in.
ooh, i watched oprah's show this afternoon about her christmas trip to south africa last year. oh man. i knew i shouldn't have watched it. i should've listened to my past self when she saw the commercials for it and said, "don't watch it. it'll only make you cry." because it did. (and yes, i always refer to my past self in the third person.) and right after i watched it, i kid you not, i started thinking about joining the peace corps. i even went to the peace corps website to look up some info. but then i got into that whole permed hair debate with jo and started knitting again. anyway, i don't think i'd make a good peace corp volunteer, do you? i mean, really. could you imagine ME in the peace corps? yeah, it makes me laugh hysterically too.
tomorrow, i want to go shopping. actually, i'm sort of dreading it. those holiday crowds... *shudder* but hey, i've gotta get this stuff done. i've got a vague fuzzy foggy notion of what i want to get people. okay, actually, no. i have no idea whatsoever and am sort of freaked out a little. although, like i told jen, i think the reason why my christmas gifts always look so dinky in comparison to other people's is because their gifts usually include my birthday so, naturally, it's better which makes mine look...well... dinky. anyway. hopefully, i'll have it all figured it out tomorrow. *knocks on wood*
la la la... time to pop another dvd into the comp and knit.
