cmas goodness
Dec. 28th, 2002 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09I could've sworn that I had updated since Christmas, but apparently I haven't. I'm feeling much better now, although I still get really tired from walking around and doing much of anything, and I've taken 2 hour naps every day since I arrived in Chicago (which was about a week ago). This is usually the time I spend in shopping madness, returning and exchanging, burning gift certificates at after-holiday sales, but instead I've been mostly quiet, around the house, enjoying my pajamas and the new shearling slippers that Tim bought me.
It was a good holiday for getting stuff :) clothes, books on watercolor and colored pencils, to experiment with new art forms (I'm still not brave enough for acrylics... someday...), a big rolling suitcase (now I'll be able to pack for ACPA - whee!), a new powder brush since Jasper ate the last one, the new Trivial Pursuit (now I have another excuse to throw a games night!), Buffy Season Two and Sex and the City Season Three DVDs, About a Boy and Aida CDs. Yum.
Saw Two Towers, feel like the only person in the theater who hasn't read the books. I feel silly jumping in at the third book and reading, but I don't know how I'm going to wait until next December to see the third. I suppose most people who actually read the books have been waiting a lot longer to see what would happen on film, so maybe I should just be patient.
My parents live two blocks from a yarn store. I don't know if I mentioned this in the last journal entry, so I'm saying it again :) it's SO GREAT! It's a huge place, much bigger than most yarn stores I've visited that feel so crowded and claustrophobic. I'm thinking of finally making the leap and buying enough yarn to knit a sweater. I did find the yarn I needed for my hat - black with colored flecks - and am also doing a knit a hat for the needy project that the store is sponsoring, which I'll hopefully get finished tonight.
My parents' house is about the same as it always is - hectic and disorganized, and loving and fun. My mom, sister and I are hoping to see Chicago in its film version tomorrow, then a couple more days of lounging about, and the twelve hour drive back to Maryland.
It was a good holiday for getting stuff :) clothes, books on watercolor and colored pencils, to experiment with new art forms (I'm still not brave enough for acrylics... someday...), a big rolling suitcase (now I'll be able to pack for ACPA - whee!), a new powder brush since Jasper ate the last one, the new Trivial Pursuit (now I have another excuse to throw a games night!), Buffy Season Two and Sex and the City Season Three DVDs, About a Boy and Aida CDs. Yum.
Saw Two Towers, feel like the only person in the theater who hasn't read the books. I feel silly jumping in at the third book and reading, but I don't know how I'm going to wait until next December to see the third. I suppose most people who actually read the books have been waiting a lot longer to see what would happen on film, so maybe I should just be patient.
My parents live two blocks from a yarn store. I don't know if I mentioned this in the last journal entry, so I'm saying it again :) it's SO GREAT! It's a huge place, much bigger than most yarn stores I've visited that feel so crowded and claustrophobic. I'm thinking of finally making the leap and buying enough yarn to knit a sweater. I did find the yarn I needed for my hat - black with colored flecks - and am also doing a knit a hat for the needy project that the store is sponsoring, which I'll hopefully get finished tonight.
My parents' house is about the same as it always is - hectic and disorganized, and loving and fun. My mom, sister and I are hoping to see Chicago in its film version tomorrow, then a couple more days of lounging about, and the twelve hour drive back to Maryland.
