I don’t know why, but the weekend turned out to be surprisingly long-feeling. Maybe it was the miserable weather. It snowed all day Saturday, wet heavy snow that broke one of my lilacs and the tree at the side of the house :(, and then it rained all day yesterday. Chanti and I went for a walk when it was only sprinkling. Unfortunately, for about every 5 minutes we were outside, it started raining noticeably harder, and by the time we’d walked our 2 miles we were completely and totally soaked through. By 1.5 miles, even Chanti didn’t think this was a very good idea, and on the home stretch she was trying to run home because she was so cold and wet and miserable. Poor puppy. :)
Emily arrived on Thursday; Emily’s kitten arrived on Saturday evening. He’s a cute kitten, with far more tail than seems necessary for a bobtail. He was also very brave, although Emily shot down our suggestions to name him Livingstone. She also refused to name him James Brown, which I proposed after he let go a little “WOW!” of a meow. She’s no fun at *all*. :)
Between the arrival of the Emily and the arrival of Livingstone James Brown the kitten, we went to see “The Forgotten”, which had one scary moment that had me more or less fall out of my chair, which my back didn’t appreciate, and we had ice cream and um did some other good stuff too. :)
Ted made REALLY GOOD dinner on Saturday, halibut with skordalia sauce, which is a Greek garlic sauce and is v. yummy, on top of a bed of tomato salad and crunchy bread. It was insanely good. And I made lemon cake, which was also good, for dessert. :) So that was a lovely evening. Mom and Dad came over and we ate and talked and had fun. :) And the lights had gone out in half of Anchorage, so Shaun’d gotten to come home early from work, so the gang was all there! Yay!
Ted and I went to see “Wimbledon” yesterday, which we both enjoyed a lot. I might even go see it again in the theatre, although boy, I tell you what, 8 commercials. There were 8 commercials before the previews even started. I’m seriously considering not going to Regal Cinemas again, because man, I really don’t like paying to watch commercials. :P
Umm. I think that’s about it! :) Oh, except Ted and I went to the gym this morning! Yay! :)
miles to Lothlorien: 275
Only eight commercials, we should be so lucky over here :) Odd how different movie theatres are run around the world: I didn’t believe my eyes the one time I was in a dutch theatre and they abruptly stopped the movie halfway (not even waiting for a natural break), for a fifteen minute pause which people used to go have a beer in the foyer…