This morning I meant to leave at 6:45am, since I had to drive. I rarely drive to work, but I have a doctors appt. in SL after work, right? So I can sleep in right? Wrong! I woke up before 5:30am of course, and so I picked up WWZ. Big mistake. The stray thought that I might get to work early and get a lot done, since I will be gone next week strayed right out of my head. It’s a normal problem when I have a book in hand. Darn it. I found myself, despite the fact that I was up almost 45 minutes before I had planned, running out the door 10 minutes late. Oh well. Zombies are worth it, you know?
Anyway–in other news my family has decided to run a 5k together this spring. I got a training program off the Internet, and K and I started yesterday. It wasn’t even too painful. It’s sort of a walk/jog program that amps it up a bit each week. Shouldn’t be too hard. I even looked at 5ks in our area. There are a lot. It’s nice because we’ll do something together and usually the runs are for charity, which means we’re doing something good as well. Should be fun. You all hold me to it, right? Can’t quit now that I’ve announced it to my huge viewing public.
After Alice in Wonderland on Saturday, my nephew Bronson is coming to spend the night. i see some cookie making and some game playing in my future. Finally! It’s been weeks and weeks! Last night Jude was teaching me to play Final Fantasy 10-2. It was actually pretty fun and I may be getting it. I doubt I could do well without him sitting next to me, but what can I say?
Well, I’d better get ready. Should be leaving on an audit any minute. Fun, fun, fun!






Timberwood’, about a girl’s trip to summer camp. Oh, the trials and tribulations of roommates, boys, and failing at macrame! I myself went to camp one year with the YWCA, which was awesome. The red-headed lifeguard I’d had a crush on since I was 6 was there, telling ghost stories, and we got to ride in a canoe. It was only a couple of days. I went on a longer trip with my class, probably a week. We had cabins and swimming and all that. Sherilyn Johnson got the best boy of course and I remember crying because I’d had a crush on him first and she always got the guys! Everyone sympathized with me of course, because she’d taken all their guys too. What was worse was she was nice and one of my best friends! How
could she! Anyway, reading that book was really fun. And all those like them. I have a box of books from my childhood and they are all there. Somehow when the time came for Chantel to read them, she wasn’t interested. She’s always been more of a ‘classics’ girl. Oh well, maybe the grandkids will like them. I’ve been thinking of pulling them out for Kiki. She seems like she might like them a lot.
Usually, as I remember it anyway, January and February are just frigid cold and miserable. I even wear a coat! I’ve been dreading them since I started this job, worried I would freeze on my walk to work. Well, it’s usually chilly and I bundle a scarf around my chinny chin chin, but nothing really cold at all. In December my legs would be cold under my pants, but now its’ fine and has been for weeks. Wonderful. I know everyone will worry about not having enough water, but guess what? I don’t have a lawn to worry about anymore, so I’m going to say I don’t care!
her quilt, and Walker and I will play Gauntlet Legacy. We’ll have to go to the movie theater in our clubhouse to watch a movie because that is their favorite place. Walker runs around, hiding under the lounges and jumping up and down the stairs; it’s ridiculous!
I started the diagnostic test yesterday. On the first 20 questions I had a 60%, which is much better than expected–by me at least. I’m sure it will go downhill from there. I think you need 75% to pass though, so that is a good place to start. I am going to make myself work on it every day. I mean it. Mrs. Strictness here. Right? Uh huh. I mean, a C.P.A would be nice. What’s another year of studying?
Whew! CPA study guide didn’t come. Guess I should track it, right? Hmmmm.
On that note, Miramax is quietly being sucked into it’s parent studio. Frightening. This is the company that made it possible for indie movies to be successful, and they are gone. We’re talking The Station Agent, The English Patient, Kill Bill I & II, Good Will Hunting, Blue, Clerks, Cold Mountain, and really the one that started it all, sex, lies & videotape. I guess from now on we are just going to be watching white bread again. I’m a bit depressed. I’ve thought for several years the quality of movies has been in decline, and I have the feeling this will not help. By the way, I sat next to Harvey Weinstein of Miramax at a movie screening at Sundance one night. Well, he was on the end seat of his row and I was across the aisle. Folding chairs and stuff we were about 3 feet apart. Russell Crowe was on the other side of Harvey, and his girlfriend (now wife) was sitting behind him, as they were trying to play up the Nicole Kidman/Russell Crowe possibility in the press that year. How’s that for name dropping?
great job Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh did with the screenplay. The important points are there, but the story was edited to make it much more dramatic and give better shots for the cinematographer. I love the book and in a perfect world a movie could be everything, but in our world, he did a great job.
o lunch. May not, but may. He is with his boss/partner. I guess I’ll say partner since we did invest and have a percentage now, right?