2:06PM - Got This Feelin' Down Deep In My Soul That I Just Can't Lose (Collectormania London '09 entry)
And now the inevitable Collectormania review/roundup (just for you, Caz. :P).
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Current music: Stuck On You - Lionel Richie
And now the inevitable Collectormania review/roundup (just for you, Caz. :P).
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Okay, I've been promising a post about my holiday so, here I go:
Monday, Nov 16th: Our flight left at 6:10am. This meant we needed to leave home by 4:00am or so. I knew I would have a hard time getting to sleep so I decided to just stay up. I dozed on the plane and when we arrived in LA, I was still okay to drive. We picked up the rental car and headed to Rian's. Once there, we went out to In & Out Burger for lunch. Yummy! I took a nap when we got back and when I woke up, Cassie was already there. I wouldn't hug her though until I had showered since I hadn't had a shower in over 24 hours at that point. Erin (a friend of Rian's), Natalie (soulsearcher) and Jenn (coiledsoil) came over and Jenn made her most AWESOME chicken fried steak. Patrick liked it so much, he even ate it with the gravy (he's very picky and usually doesn't like gravy with his cfs). We had a nice evening just visiting.
Tueday, Nov 17th: We slept in for a bit and then headed to Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood for lunch with Rian. It's where she and I met for the first time and it's become tradition that we always eat there when I come out to visit. The rest of the day was spent just hanging out. Rian made us her AWESOME chicken noodles and potatoes. Yummy!
Wednesday, Nov 18th: We got up somewhat early (for us) and said our sad good-byes to Rian so we could get on the road and arrive at the Wild Animal Park in San Diego for around noon. We were only about an hour behind so we still had plenty of time to see everything we wanted to see while we were there. Patrick very much wanted to spend time watching the cheetahs so we headed there first. Then we went on the Safari ride which gave us a nice view of many of the animals and great photo ops. I really like the Lorikeets so we headed there after the Safari. We did some other walking around and finally headed out around 4pm as it was starting to get a bit chilly. We met my cousin Debbie at Dave & Busters which is a restaurant with an arcade. We had dinner and played games for a while before heading back to Debbie's as she still had to work while we were there.
Thursday, Nov 19th: This day was spent at Sea World. Patrick and I both love this park and we watched the Shamu show and saw the sharks and polar bears and dolphin show. The evening was spent with Debbie and her brother Bob also came over to visit for a bit as well.
Tomorrow, I'll post about the convention weekend.
I was a little productive today. I got tired of seeing my spare room (which actually MY bedroom*/TV room) quite a wreck. It needed dusting and decluttering and I kind of wanted to be able to see the floor again. Also, I hadn't done laundry since before my trip (which I still need to write about, possibly tomorrow). I'm quite pleased now that those chores are done. I feel more relaxed when I'm actually surrounded by neatness.
(*Yes, I have my own bedroom. Not because the hubby and I don't have a good marriage because it's probably the best it's ever been but I prefer sleeping in my own room for a few reasons. 1) I got used to sleeping alone and being able to spread out back when I worked nights and slept days; 2) my husband snores REALLY, REALLY loud. In fact, he's going for a sleep study tomorrow night; 3) my t.v. is in this room as is all my "stuff": knitting stuff, dvd stuff, music stuff, you know, stuff; 4) my husband has pagers and scanners going off at all hours of the night because of the ambulance and fire department, it gets annoying and I have a hard time falling back to sleep; 5) I like sleeping with the window cracked open near my face but the space heater keeping the room very, very warm, he doesn't. So, for all those reasons, I have my own room. Poor guy, the bedroom he sleeps in is still "our" room. He has no room of his own.
It's been a funny week.
( Two stand-up comedians in four days?! - Rated 15 for language and mild pooing of self )
I had a very pleasant visit with my stepmother and her sister this evening along with my two sisters, Dawn and Darlene. Norma (my stepmom) and Aunt Mary were down to spend the holiday with their mom in Massachusetts yesterday and came down to Connecticut to visit us today at my sister Dawn's. My stepmom is awesome and I hate that she lives a little over 5 hours away as I would love to spend more time with her. My birth dad died over 6 years ago but she is and always will be family. Pat came with me even though we took separate cars so that he could bring Karlie home when it was getting closer to her bedtime since Megan's working tonight. My son Zach was able to make it up for a little bit as well. Finally, everyone had left except me so I could spend a little one on one time with Dawn, which we haven't had a chance to do in AGES. I still didn't stay to late since she had been up since 3am. She's one of those Black Friday shoppers. I was home by 9:45 and can now sit back and catch up on my shows that recorded while I was in California. Once those are caught up on in the next few days, I can start watching Christmas DVDs.
OK, I have reconciled myself to the fact that we're not going to achieve all that I had planned for this week, but we have done some more stuff. For example: we've chosen a replacement floor for our kitchen as ours is so horrible and manky I can't stand it any more. Which also motivates me to get the skirting-boards and doors done in the kitchen done in advance of installation and H to tidy up the pipes. Also, we replaced the living-room lightshades as I've shredded the existing ones with my lightsabres so badly over the years. The new ones aren't all that different, funnily enough, except for being cylindrical instead of spherical. I'm very happy with them.
Tomorrow I am going to Collectormania London. I have to get up at 7:30am (both days, thanks to stupid train schedules, even though Sunday's photoshoot isn't until 11:45am), but as H is giving me a lift to the station, this is an improvement on how much earlier I'd have had to get up if I were to include finding and paying for a parking space. Callie Helen's going to Saturday's event too, and we're hoping to meet Jazz afterwards! Which will be awesome.
Have a great weekend, peeplets.
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