Adrian

This morning, I joked that Regina and I had a modern Victorian morning. We had breakfast and talked about what we wanted to do for the day. Then she read something on her laptop and played sudoku on her Nook while I knitted.

This afternoon, we took advantage of the nice weather to drive around some. First, we went to a local historical garden/house that Regina volunteers at and walked around the grounds. Then we went to Moravian tile works so she could get a gift for some friends. After that, we walked around Doylestown for a while.

The viewing list for today was a few episodes of Generation Kill, Disney's Pocahontas, and the new version of Footloose.

Kimmo is still being very adorable and is still laying claim to my stuff. Including my laptop. I wonder how upset he's going to be when I leave tomorrow and take it all with me. :-P

So far Kimmo, Regina's bunny, isn't too sure about me - though he seems willing enough to keep me around for pets - but he loves my stuff. He's already sniffed and sat on my duffel bag and cleaned my laptop bag. Apparently, this is bunny for "I like it, I'm keeping it, it's mine".

Regina and I just got back from going to PF Chang's for dinner (my first time there and it was very yummy, if a bit expensive) and then going to the movies. We saw Dark Shadows, which was a lot of fun.

And earlier today, we walked to Jules for yummy pizza for lunch, then to Trader Joe's, and then to her library so she could show it off, but it was closed for the weekend.

And her bunny, Kimmo, is adorable.

I had to get up early this morning to play bells at church. I didn't stay for the whole service, just left after the second song, but it went well.

libralyte and I went out for breakfast and then went to the mall. We walked around the whole mall and poked in different stores. I was hoping to find a new pair of Birkenstocks (or something similar), but the only pair I found was $120, and I'd rather not pay that much if at all possible. I was good and did not go into Yankee Candle or buy anything when we went into Teavana. I also pulled libralyte into Lush, since J's talked about it a bunch and it seems pretty awesome. So I may have to go back and buy something small to try out.

When we got back, we watched a movie she'd brought called TiMER, starring Emma Caufield, about having a way to find out when you'd meet your soulmate, and if you'd want to know. After a late lunch, I showed her my England pictures, since she also knows drdeath.

I hung out for a bit after she left, then went to my Bible study.

I'm still not sold on "Breakout Kings", but tonight's episode was AWESOME. Granted, I thought it was because T-Bag was in it and Robert Knepper's awesome.

I had a lot of fun with libralyte and lixta this weekend. I arrived a bit before lunch and libralyte and I went to an organic pizzaria called Jules that was very yummy. After a stop at the library, we hung out for a while and watched a special on Caribbean pirates.

Then the three of us got dressed up (I hadn't planned on dressing up, but out of libralyte's wardrobe, I became an '80s mad scientist), and went out to dinner. We were going to go out for drinks afterwards, but then decided not too and instead went back to their place and watched part of Game 3 of the World Series.

Rocky Horror was a lot of fun. There were a couple instances were the cast seemed to anticipate the audience responding, but that was the one flaw. It was a good production and I think they did a good job with the casting. We felt bad for the people who had to clean the theatre afterwards. There was *so* much rice and toast littering the floor (and probably a fair bit of water too). (libralyte found rice in her hair later, and I had some in my bra.)

This morning, she and I went out for breakfast and then to the mall so I could look at Lane Bryant for clothing ideas. (I have a gift card from Christmas and my LB closed.)

After that, I decided to come home so I could take care of a few things.

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Here's a MadTV sketch libralyte shared with me, comparing The Calling, Creed, and Pearl Jam.



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And a "Due South" fic rec:

Civil Disobedience by china_shop
Frasier/Vecchio; NC-17
Ray Vecchio and Benton Frasier have to be creative to get what they want.

This morning, I ended up sleeping in to 10am - which is pretty unusual for me, but I guess I needed it.

After deciding we wanted blueberry pancakes for brunch, libralyte and I made a run to the grocery store for a few necessary ingredients to complete our mission. After some fun and amusement, as well as frustration, over our initial inability to flip the pancakes, we finally figured out how to deal and started making pancakes in earnest. The recipe libralyte found online was very yummy - and made a lot of pancakes. Granted, they were fairly small, but still - when I had enough to make breakfast for dinner tonight and will probably have enough not only for tomorrow's breakfast, but Tuesday's as well....

Once we had finised that, we watched My Faraway Bride - which was kind of silly and not the best romantic comedy we've seen.

The rest of her time down here passed quickly and the trip up to the Marcus Hook train station was uneventful. (And I didn't get lost this time!)

Why do these things always go so quickly?

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And the random, schmoopy love song that's been stuck in my head lately - "Why You Say You Love Me" by Clay Aiken

libralyte and I had a good day today.

We went into town and had brunch at the diner. (Sorta/kinda brunch, at any rate. We ate at noon, but we ate breakfast foods.) After that, we walked around town some and even down around campus so she could look around (not that a whole lot has changed on campus).

We also watched the Masterpiece Theatre version of Jane Eyre - which I absolutely adore. While we were doing that, I started a knitting project so I can hopefully get a few things knitted that I've been meaning to for a quite a while.

After that, I took her up to the train station so she could go home. :-( But I'll see her in October (maybe even sooner if we're lucky) and I know I'll be talking to her between now and then.

This evening I watched two episodes of Doctor Who and Friday's SGA (notes on that will be posted in a moment).

Also - I know a while back at least one of you was talking about an audiobook (or iPod book or something like that) of John Barrowman's Anything Goes. Any idea where I can get that? I was thinking of listening to it while I knit.

And knowledge of any place that I could get .mp3/.avi/whatever audiobooks would be great.

I hate my allergies. Every year during the fall and spring when the weather definitely starts changing in either direction, my nose both stuffs up and starts runningand I start coughing. Which in and of themselves aren't too bad - except for when it's all happening at the same time. And I'm not talking about normal coughing, but barking-like-a-seal/coughing-up-a-lung coughing. Thankfully, it usually only lasts a few days.

I'm doubly thankful that my allergies weren't in effect this past weekend for the con, or this past Tuesday when I was with libralyte and her little brother.

On Tuesday, they came down so libralyte could show Jacob the campus and they could do the informational presentation and take the tour and I took the day off and tagged along. It ended up being a bit of an adventure coming down, because they got messed up with the trains due to a traffic accident and I had to go get them from a different station. But we ended up being only about 5 minutes late, so it worked out okay.

I've been on the tail end of the tours a lot, because they end in the lobby outside of the bookstore, so it was kind of neat getting to actually go on the tour and see where they go and what they talk about. And our "group" - which was just the three of us, a mother and daughter, and the guide, ended up getting a bit extra, since libralyte and I wouldn't shut up - me adding stuff to what the guide was saying and libralyte both adding things and asking questions because things have changed since we went there. (Like the way they group freshmen housing.) But, all in all, it was pretty cool.

Afterwards, we met my dad for dinner at the Deer Park and had dinner. Then the three of us split from him and walked up and back about half of Main Street to a) kill some time before I had to drop them off at the train station (this time the one in Newark) and b) show Jacob some of the town.

*starts coughing again* I will be *so* glad when my body recalibrates to the colder weather.

One of these days, I'm actually going to post about stuff when I mean to on a regular basis. I kept meaning to do it all this week and time kind of got away from me.

Monday night was the University's Library Assosiation's annual dinner. It's held up at Arsht Hall and it's kinda swanky. Really nice dinner, open bar beforehand, and a well-known author as the speaker. This year was Nathanial Philbrick - whose most recent work is Mayflower, about the Pilgrims. (Though, he's written a number of other nautical books.) The dinner was good, I sold a bunch of books, and he gave a good presentation. The whole thing started around 6 and I got home at about 10:30.

Tuesday was pretty normal. Work was kinda busy with the fact that we're doing caps and gowns (and et. al.) for graduation this week. Did some cleaning in the advent of libralyte coming to visit.

Wednesday was my opener, so I had to be at work early. Then I had a book signing at 8pm. I left work at my normal Wednesday time of 4:15 and hung out on the mall reading for a while before meeting my dad for dinner at California Tortilla. The booksigning was fun, it was a group of 9 women who've written a few different things (not necessarily together) and who are doing a tour. The people there were pretty evenly divided between the speakers and the audience. Got home from that around 10:30 too.

Yesterday was a normal day along with me skipping out of choir practice and doing some more cleaning. (I think things look fairly presentable now.) Though, there was also the blow up. At one point, my dad said, "I bet you're glad I'm going away for the week, aren't you?" And I thought, "Damn right!" (He and my grandparents are taking 12 days and their camper and driving down to Savannah, GA, then to Cape Hatteras (I think) and back.)

Today was good. Had a conference call this afternoon about the updates we're getting to our new computer system at work. (eatstake - as of, I think, Wednesday, I'll be using Bookmaster 8.5.) After work, ran home to chance and take care of Patch quickly before running back out and up to Wilmington to meet Beth for dinner. We took advantage of Wilmington's Restaurant Week and ate at 821. (A bunch of restaurants get together and offer various fixed menus for 2 course lunches and 3 course dinners.) It was quite yummy and we had a great time, since we haven't seen each other in ages.

And tomorrow, I'm going up to libralyte's and hang up there for a while before bringing her back here for the week. (And I have off! How great is that?)

Had much fun with libralyte and lixta over the weekend. (Even if I really only saw lixta on Thursday.)

We went to the Grange (county fair) Thursday evening and had lots of fun looking at exhibits and chatting.

Friday we ended up just hanging around their place and Regina, Nahnee, and I watched most of a Sharpe movie and the first two episodes of Band of Brothers (and now I understand their attraction to Damien Lewis.) And we ended up hanging out there that night because of a situation with one of the horses they were boarding.

Saturday, Regina and I went to Fonthill and Moravian Tile Works (in Doylestown, for those of you who know the area). Both were started by Henry C. Mercer at the beginning of last century (the house was built from 1908 to 1912 and considering the amount of work, I'm surprised it was done in only four years). But they were both really cool. Then we went to see De-Lovely - which was really good. I'm glad I got to see it.

Sunday we tried to go to New Hope to look at some of the shops, but it seemed like everybody and their brother, plus practically every biker group in the Northeast was there. So we ended up just going to the mall and wandering around there for a while.

The only downsides were a) coming home and b) coming home to find that none of the laundry had been done over the weekend, so I spend last evening doing most of it. I know that my dad should be excused because he wasn't home over the weekend either, but my brother could've taken a couple of hours of his "busy" schedule to do it. (Though, if he did, I'm sure most of the laundry would end up like the load of his laundry that he *did* do - i.e., on the floor outside the door to the laundry room. The only way I knew it was done was the dryer sheet that was mixed in with the clothing.)

Went to WW today and lost 1.8 pounds this past week (for a total of 14.2 overall for the past 4 weeks). I'm very happy about this, since I used all but five of my points over the course of this past week. (Even though last week I used all but one of my points and lost three pounds and the week before I had only used five extra points and lost 1.8 pounds. I think my metabolism is having fun with me. But I'm not gonna complain since no matter how I look at it a) I haven't gained anything back and b) I'm still losing weight.) Though, when I told my mom tonight, she started harping on the whole "you should(/have to) *only* eat your daily points" again. I swear, the next time she brings it up, I'm going to tactfully bitch her out. Seriously, if I could only eat my daily points every week and lose 7.6 pounds (which was my first week's weight loss) each week, I *so* would. But that's not gonna happen. Besides, this way I know I'm gonna be healthy and keep the weight off and I might learn some patience with myself and others in the process (as well as how to tactfully tell people off). Note to self - just keep thinking about Universal Theme Park and Los Angeles.

I have a new lj layout, so go check it out. And thanks to lunanne for helping me out with it. Now I want to go find a few new icons and possibly a new mood theme.

Final note: I want to have the male gymnasts' babies. Especially Paul Hamm's and Aleksei Nemov's.