Busy Busy Busy

This weekend got off to a pretty amazing start!  Oh poop, it is almost over!

I got done with work at 6:15!  I honestly think it is a first to be done that early on a Thursday in a VERY long time.  I won't lie, I HAD to be out of there by 6:15....even taking a 2 hour lunch limited me to an early close.  WOOT!  I got home and was able to start making some pretty delicious dark chocolate brownies with peanut butter and chocolate chips!  Rachel brought over some tiny 99cent Eddy's ice cream cups and some great news!  Not one, not two, BUT THREE new people may join our "book pair" as her brother likes to call it.  We talked over Emma for about an hour when she made the motion to: "Never watch a movie based on the book before we actually finish the book."  We had watched Clueless the previous movie night and she felt it somehow spoilt the book since she knew what was going to happen.  I then chuckled, agreed, and pointed out I had Bridget Jones's Diary that we still had not watched - it turned into movie night.  We ate ice cream and brownies and swooned over Mr. Darcy.  Umm, who wouldn't?

We then parted for the night.  I was all set to go to my aunt's with my sister for a scrap booking weekend.  I got a call late in the afternoon letting me know that my aunt was in the hospital with an infection in her hand!  Elisabeth and I ended up going for a run/walk.  We then went to see Dark Shadows with Rachel!  It was pretty awesome.  We weren't expecting it to be quite so gruesome, but it was still rather funny.  There's nothing really to say more about the movie, just a classic Tim Burton film mixing the comical and grotesque.  I got home to watch the Brewers in their 13 inning game...finally ending in a win!

Yesterday, I was finally able to pull my sister away from home to go buy our mother's day present for our mom.  I also bought a kayak carrier and a life vest so I can take my kayak out.  We went through the drive through car wash to get rid of all the nasty bird poop on my car (Yay for parking under a tree), got $6 in quarters back from the machine, and still, after it all, had chunks of bird poop stuck to my car (>.<).  We then went to check the Redbox for a good movie.  We didn't find anything.  Rachel then came over and we looked at a different Redbox and found a Colin Farrell movie: London Boulevard. It was a rather interesting movie, very violent, and had a horrible ending.  He was so close...so close.  Rachel's comment:  "That was the ending?!?  I had to look at completely unnecessary boobs for that?!? Well, I guess if you already have the R rating, you may as well go all out for it and through in some topless waitress that just leans into shot."

All these movies in and I've still found time to read 2 books and shop.  I'm such an awesome girl, guess I learned it from my mom.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

To the Max

OMG - my whole body hurts.  It has been a long day.  It started with running and is ending with a Brewer's game.  Work went surprisingly smooth today...I'm hoping the rest of the week will be as easy as today.  I'm a little saddened tonight - Poor Max is gone.  I was quite resigned to the fact that Melissa and Max, as well as Roshon and Chelsie, were going to be going home tonight.  Sad :C 

I'm so tired that I can't even see straight for typing.  Good night - next year, Max, you will WIN!

Sleepy Blood

Ugh, I am so tired.  I have a massive headache and really need sleep.  My co-worker is going to be going on vacation tomorrow.  I am so worried about my hours going way over 80 hours and my boss not wanting me to.  I guess he'll have to decide between work getting done and paying me over time. 

I took a long lunch today and I finished The Van Allen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz.  I've like the novels and I'm kind of anxious to see what will happen next.  It isn't the greatest book or the best written, but I really like the concept of it in a time when the world has gone vampire crazy. The vampires in the Blue Bloods novels are actually cursed/fallen angels.  The vampire and angel lore is very interesting when blended by Melissa de la Cruz.  I'm so torn between the love triangle of Ollie, Jack, and Schulyer.  Not to mention, poor Kingsley.  I don't think we've seen the last of him, nor do I want this to be the last of him. 

I also finished Emma this weekend....you all know how I feel about Emma and Knightly! 

I watched War Horse the other day...hello puffy eyed mess.  I love how my mother cries out from the other room: "Is that the horse you are crying for? Go figure, you wouldn't cry that hard for a man!"  Oh my mother and the things she sometimes says.   I have not watched Black Beauty since I was a child because horse movies just seem to tear me apart.  This was no exception.  The story follows Joey (known my multiple names) from the day of his birth, through training, plowing fields, being sold to the army, working for both the Allies and the Axis, raising the spirits of a little French girl, and finally making it through the war.  It was a fantastic story and it made me bawl. 

Passo Over Napoleon

I'm so excited for DWTS.  This is like the first season I have really watched.  I watched more of the UK version of the show than I've watched of the American version.  I honestly have only seen like 2 shows before this, but I am hooked now.  If I work out, I make sure to get it done before 7pm.  I didn't get done with work until 7:15 tonight, so it didn't happen.  My bum ankle and toe on my right foot have kept me from really working out lately.  I have been icing it and using the laser on it, but it still hurts like crazy.

I am completely shocked at this moment - how did Team Tango beat Team Passo.  That Passo Doble rocked my socks.  Not since Strictly Ballroom has a Passo Doble blown my mind.  It was pretty awesome and all the guys cape twirling was beyond amazing.

I finally finished Napoleon's Hemorrhoids last night while enjoying a dark chocolate hot cocoa.  I just heated up some milk and added some dark cocoa powder to it - fantastic.  The best part, no crap sugar and artificial flavors.

Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a fantastic book.  I'm the kind of person that enjoys random information.  Some of the stuff just blows my mind.  I read another book earlier this year and it was amazing to hear that the American Revolution might have been put to a stop if a guy sent to assassinate one of the fore fathers hadn't tripped and broken his arm. As my mother would call it: "one of those books that will help you win a trivia contest someday." 

Wheelie

So I woke up at quarter to 6 this morning.  That like never happens.  :D  I decided, instead of lying around, I'd get up and get my workout in before work.  This then freed up my evening to go to the early yoga class and get home for BREWERS!  The game is getting a little sad.  That homer just sucked.  Hopefully we can get it back. 

I did the wheel today in yoga.  I don't think I've been in that position since I was 5.   I also got really close with my fellow yoga student tonight.  We did a pose where person one is in lotus with arms wrapped behind, person two has their legs on top of person one and holds their hands.  Person one then tips their head back and arches back.  Person one then comes back up using their abs with neck still tipped up and back. It looks really hard, but it turns out to be easier than it looks - not that easy, but not impossibly difficult.

I think I just found a new addiction since iRead no longer seems to be on facebook...now, I have goodreads.  I've already spent too much time on it, but I can't seem to stop finding new books to add. Oi.

Revisiting Emma

I drank way too much wine last night. WAY too much....for me; which was about 4 glasses of wine. I got Brideshead Revisited and I am quite enjoying reading it. Today was such a long, dull day. The cloudy weather was making everyone so tired and wanting nap time. Over lunch, I really just wanted to stay curled up under my covers and continue on with my book.

I'm working on Emma still and a few other books. Now I need to head out for the gym and then I can finally curl back up under my covers like I really want. And as I discovered last week, working out right before bed only leads to some of the freakiest dreams. Exercise + chocolate = unconscious mind gone wild.

Tinkering

Wow, I feel rushed to write something. I recovered my chair the other day and it looks fantastic! I am so excited that it is dry and I can take it home! I also worked the book sale and got myself a whole bag of books for just 2 bucks. I got the whole Black Adder series for just $0.50. Book sales are fantastic.

I was flipping back and forth between the game and my movie, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Unfortunately, we were sucking so badly that I just watched the movie. It was a very interesting movie. I had a bit of a hunch as to who the mole was of the bunch. Did I mention, I love Tom Hardy. Add him and Colin Firth to a movie - whoa. Colin Firth is just fantastic. So is Gary Oldman. His characters are always so well done and this was no exception. He got me interested in the life of a very dull man: himself, George Smiley. It was really quite an intense film and I really liked the way the story was told. I was a little confused for a while about the spy who got shot - is he alive still, is this a flash back story, are him and that guy really lovers or just best friends? I want to know these things! For some reason, the name Smiley makes me think of something else...mainly, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.