: Weekend update :
I had a very nice weekend, the kind of weekend I've been needing for a long time now. For the first time in what seems like a month, I had absolutely nothing planned for this weekend. It was only two weekends ago that we had the birthday madness, and last weekend I had my outing to the chile pepper festival in Brooklyn (which I have yet to post pictures - need to do that).
Saturday I got up really late and made a big pot of homemade soup, using my leftover mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, green onions, minced garlic, lime juice and spices. I thought it tasted pretty good, but it ended up making me sick on Sunday, so I had to throw the whole thing away. What a waste - but that will teach me to use vegetables that aren't fresh. In the afternoon, we watched the Yankees bow out of the playoffs in the first round, a disaster of such profound proportions that it pretty much killed the rest of the evening.
I went out afterwards to the mall to look at fall coats, and ended up buying a pair of black suede boots at Payless, plus I found some of my favorite hair clips at the Burlington Coat Factory. These were the first clips I ever bought when my hair was getting long - I found them at Ross in Houston and unfortunately one broke and I lost the other one. They don't have Ross stores here, so I felt lucky to find them again. For some reason, these particular clamps hold my hair better than any others I've tried, even though they may look nearly identical to the old ones.
Sunday I woke up early and decided to go to Costco early to get some bagels. However, I ended up wasting that trip because unlike the Houston stores I'm used to, Costcos here open two hours later than in Houston. I came home and ate breakfast and watched The Punisher, which was actually pretty good for a minor Marvel Comics movie. I enjoyed it more than Daredevil or Elektra , let's put it that way, and I'm much more a Daredevil fan than a Punisher fan. Just a straightforward human story, without any superpowers (other than Frank Castle's remarkable durability). I also began feeling the ill effects of my soup from the previous day, but I still made it out to Costco for supplies, finding that I was too late to get the bagels I wanted. However, I did get two DVDs: X-Men 3 Collector's Edition and the extended cut of 1776 (both of which are actually cheaper at Costco than on Amazon).
The rest of the afternoon I stayed home because of my frequent trips to the bathroom, but I still managed to clean and vacuum the apartment and watch Master and Commander and the extended director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven - which I loved so much more than the original cut.
In the evening my family came over since I wasn't feeling well, and we watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. It's the middle part of what we consider a trilogy around the death and rebirth of Spock. Hopefully we'll get to watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home this week. That's a really funny movie, and I'm sure watching it with my family, with our collective wacky sense of humor, will be a blast.
Today I have my first dental appointment for getting crowns put on my teeth. Very boring, stupid stuff, not worth taking up space here to talk about. I expect my teeth will be aching from now until Christmas, with the schedule I've put myself on. But I suppose my new life should come with new teeth, since I've abused the old ones so much over the years.
Saturday I got up really late and made a big pot of homemade soup, using my leftover mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, green onions, minced garlic, lime juice and spices. I thought it tasted pretty good, but it ended up making me sick on Sunday, so I had to throw the whole thing away. What a waste - but that will teach me to use vegetables that aren't fresh. In the afternoon, we watched the Yankees bow out of the playoffs in the first round, a disaster of such profound proportions that it pretty much killed the rest of the evening.
I went out afterwards to the mall to look at fall coats, and ended up buying a pair of black suede boots at Payless, plus I found some of my favorite hair clips at the Burlington Coat Factory. These were the first clips I ever bought when my hair was getting long - I found them at Ross in Houston and unfortunately one broke and I lost the other one. They don't have Ross stores here, so I felt lucky to find them again. For some reason, these particular clamps hold my hair better than any others I've tried, even though they may look nearly identical to the old ones.
Sunday I woke up early and decided to go to Costco early to get some bagels. However, I ended up wasting that trip because unlike the Houston stores I'm used to, Costcos here open two hours later than in Houston. I came home and ate breakfast and watched The Punisher, which was actually pretty good for a minor Marvel Comics movie. I enjoyed it more than Daredevil or Elektra , let's put it that way, and I'm much more a Daredevil fan than a Punisher fan. Just a straightforward human story, without any superpowers (other than Frank Castle's remarkable durability). I also began feeling the ill effects of my soup from the previous day, but I still made it out to Costco for supplies, finding that I was too late to get the bagels I wanted. However, I did get two DVDs: X-Men 3 Collector's Edition and the extended cut of 1776 (both of which are actually cheaper at Costco than on Amazon).
The rest of the afternoon I stayed home because of my frequent trips to the bathroom, but I still managed to clean and vacuum the apartment and watch Master and Commander and the extended director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven - which I loved so much more than the original cut.
In the evening my family came over since I wasn't feeling well, and we watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. It's the middle part of what we consider a trilogy around the death and rebirth of Spock. Hopefully we'll get to watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home this week. That's a really funny movie, and I'm sure watching it with my family, with our collective wacky sense of humor, will be a blast.
Today I have my first dental appointment for getting crowns put on my teeth. Very boring, stupid stuff, not worth taking up space here to talk about. I expect my teeth will be aching from now until Christmas, with the schedule I've put myself on. But I suppose my new life should come with new teeth, since I've abused the old ones so much over the years.
