yay!

it’s been a great weekend and the next two days are looking good, too (despite the whole working tomorrow thing)!
last night after spending far too long installing, removing, reinstalling, re-removing and installing drives, flashing the bios, installing windows 98se and all the stupid programs i use daily i managed to talk my friends into playing cards at 9:30. we even got dean up out of bed to play!
today, i spent too long wading through the crap i’ve accumulated on my existing drive while i listened to coronation street. meg phoned at 10 and suggested we go get breakfast after the boys were finished putting together hazel’s headboard, so i just kept drinking coffee and went back to putzing with the computer. the next thing i knew it was one o’clock and she hadn’t yet phoned. i was just about to succumb to my seriously empty stomach when she phoned to inform me the boys were almost done and we should go have lunch before dean & i went to lord of the rings.
we finally got to the cross at about two thirty or so. none of us had eaten all day so we basically inhaled our burgers with a minimum of conversation. i think cardboard would have tasted good to us by that time. after a quick round of cards (at which i kicked ass), we figured out what we’re going to do for supper tomorrow night (tacos — my suggestion) and dean & i headed down to park & tilford.
i knew as soon as i saw the parking lot that we were in for a fun time. *sigh* the place was a nuthouse. it took a good three circuits to find a spot and then it took dean three tries to get into the spot we found. next time i’m driving. i have seriously good parking karma. when we finally got to the ticket booth, the 4:30 showing was sold out, dammit. so, after a brief discussion, we settled on the 4:20 showing of the shipping news and i can’t tell you how glad i am that lotr was sold out.
it’s hard for any movie with kevin spacey in it to disappoint, but this film… so very good. it was dramatic, touching, starkly beautiful to behold and funny! so funny! it’s a great movie. you should see it. although, i will admit there’s a chance that if you’re not from canada or don’t have any knowledge of what life is like in newfoundland you may not get what makes the characters tick; but, even without that, i can’t imagine very many people not enjoying it.
so, after sitting through the entire credits discussing the film, dean & i took off to save-on to fetch taco fixings. while wandering around, i suddenly decided that i was going to bake snickerdoodles when i got home. after spending too much time deciding if i wanted to buy some ham to sate the strange ham-craving i’ve had for the last week, we got out of there and headed home. half-way there i remembered that i’d forgotton some stuff for both the cookies and the tacos, so we had to stop at safeway in lynn valley so i could fetch them. bloody good thing we did. i totally fucked up my list in an urge to get home and bake. poor dean. it’s a good thing he’s a patient fella. sweet too. he even helped me bring my bags in. let’s have a collective “aww”…
now i’m sitting here with a sink full of dishes, a fridge full of taco-stuff, a tin (and stomach) full of freshly baked snickerdoodles and i still have yet to put the chicken in the oven because i can’t let it sit in the fridge for another day without cooking it. my apartment smells heavenly and i’m in a damn fine mood to end the year. oh, and i seem to be a little babbly, to boot. i don’t even mind that i have to go to work tomorrow and it’s going to be seriously yucky!