Work Holiday
Nov. 11th, 2010 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feste_sylvainToday, Veterans' Day, is a company holiday. I'd planned on doing some leaf-raking and writing today, but neither happened. (Well, maybe I'll get some writing done later tonite.)
I started the day slowly, being woken by the cats, who don't care about the end of Daylight Saving Time, holiday status, or anything else which interferes with their breakfast. I fumbled thru feline maintenance, then went back to bed. Around 8:45 or so, I woke up for real, but spent the next hour reading (Lost in a Good Book, the second Thursday Next novel). After a bit, I got up again, made a cup of decaf, and futzed about on the computer for a while.
Took my pills, ate a bowl of shredded wheat, then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamidon noted that it was below 40F outside. So I fired up the woodstove, burned off the surplus cardboard (pizza boxes, Amazon.com boxes, etc.), and sent my younger out to refill the wood-sling. Then, because the dishwasher is currently leaking into the basement due to a hose chewed thru by a mouse (and believe me, we've talked to the cats about that), I washed a sinkload of dishes by hand.
I was going to rake the leaves, what with the sunny day, but around that time, my younger asked what we were going to do today. "Why don't you take her to see 'Megamind'?", askedtamidon, who was on her way to work at the restaurant. I did not answer, "Because by all trailers and commercials, it looks powerfully stupid", or "Will Ferrel's last good movie was 'Elf', and this is no 'Elf'". While I was busy trying to come up with an excuse, my younger piped up, "It's in 3-D!", and gave me the puppy face.
So I took her to see 'Megamind'. Suffice it to say that it's funny, the trailers are misleading (but a creative job of editing), and that the 3-D was no great shakes ('Monsters vs. Aliens' was better in that regard). I won't spoil anything, but I will say that if you're taking a very young child to see this, there are a few shocks in the beginning which do get resolved happily by the end of the movie, but may cause some kids of gentle temperaments some upsettedness. Oh, and possibly because of my low expectations, I enjoyed it a great deal.
We did the ostensibly frugal thing of getting our large popcorn and soda refilled before going home, but my younger was unable to keep the big soda cup from falling over, so we lost the soda, and I had to bring the floormat up to the bathtub once we got home to rinse the sugar-water out of it. It's drying on the hood of my car now.
For dinner, we had some of the lamb and mashed potatoes and broccoli that my wife brought home from her restaurant the night before. And now, my dear daughter is complaining of congestion. She's taken an antihistamine, and she'll be going to bed early.
I started the day slowly, being woken by the cats, who don't care about the end of Daylight Saving Time, holiday status, or anything else which interferes with their breakfast. I fumbled thru feline maintenance, then went back to bed. Around 8:45 or so, I woke up for real, but spent the next hour reading (Lost in a Good Book, the second Thursday Next novel). After a bit, I got up again, made a cup of decaf, and futzed about on the computer for a while.
Took my pills, ate a bowl of shredded wheat, then
tamidon noted that it was below 40F outside. So I fired up the woodstove, burned off the surplus cardboard (pizza boxes, Amazon.com boxes, etc.), and sent my younger out to refill the wood-sling. Then, because the dishwasher is currently leaking into the basement due to a hose chewed thru by a mouse (and believe me, we've talked to the cats about that), I washed a sinkload of dishes by hand.I was going to rake the leaves, what with the sunny day, but around that time, my younger asked what we were going to do today. "Why don't you take her to see 'Megamind'?", asked
tamidon, who was on her way to work at the restaurant. I did not answer, "Because by all trailers and commercials, it looks powerfully stupid", or "Will Ferrel's last good movie was 'Elf', and this is no 'Elf'". While I was busy trying to come up with an excuse, my younger piped up, "It's in 3-D!", and gave me the puppy face.So I took her to see 'Megamind'. Suffice it to say that it's funny, the trailers are misleading (but a creative job of editing), and that the 3-D was no great shakes ('Monsters vs. Aliens' was better in that regard). I won't spoil anything, but I will say that if you're taking a very young child to see this, there are a few shocks in the beginning which do get resolved happily by the end of the movie, but may cause some kids of gentle temperaments some upsettedness. Oh, and possibly because of my low expectations, I enjoyed it a great deal.
We did the ostensibly frugal thing of getting our large popcorn and soda refilled before going home, but my younger was unable to keep the big soda cup from falling over, so we lost the soda, and I had to bring the floormat up to the bathtub once we got home to rinse the sugar-water out of it. It's drying on the hood of my car now.
For dinner, we had some of the lamb and mashed potatoes and broccoli that my wife brought home from her restaurant the night before. And now, my dear daughter is complaining of congestion. She's taken an antihistamine, and she'll be going to bed early.
