madagascar 2 and more life

sorry it's been a while and as normal i'm behind on posting. i really haven't had much time to see movies lately or do much of anything to tell you the truth what with finals week and lab finals week, things were just piling up left and right.

madagascar 2 - 8/10 snaps - i enjoyed it more than the first one. very humorous. definitely worth a dvd rental if not a trip to the cinema if it's still playing anywhere...

i thought about bolt a bit more and realize that i felt like i watched toy story all over again but with animals. if you've seen it maybe you can let me know if you felt the same, not that it's really a bad thing, just i'm sure they could've made it a bit more original had disney given it a shot. i'm really looking forward to several movies that are coming out such as harry potter, monsters vs. aliens, desperaux, the spirit, marley & me [as long as they don't ruin the book too incredibly much], amusement, the unborn, star trek [even though i'm not an uber fan], x-men origins: wolverine, alice in wonderland [granted it is set to release in 2010] and even bride wars looks like a fun time...we're definitely going to have a hard time finding the actual physical time to go to these films, at least the most recent onces coming out, but i'm sure we'll work it out somehow. where there's a will there's a way right?

in other more exciting news i got my actual diamond engagement ring which is gorgeous...mad props to sean [love you :*]. and somewhere in there i turned 27. sheesh closer and closer to 30. anywho i'm still loving school although the toll school, teaching, and work is taking is a bit stressful. nevertheless hopefully i've got at least a coupla days of vacation squished into christmas break somewhere. i promised dr. presberg i'd babysit her kids sometime during the break and i don't yet have dates plus i'm holding these make-up exams for biol 301: ecology & evolution. i may or may not be teaching next semester. they're just not exactly sure what they want me to do yet. if i teach i think it will either be biol 102: general bio for science majors again or biol 460: physiology which could prove to be interesting but thoroughly time consuming. i'm taking a unix/linus comp sci course, evolutionary biology, and graduate grant writing/intro to being a phd student course.

sean and i took eros and rukia to get their shots yesterday at one of the vet mobile places and that went pretty well considering it was dark and raining at the time. rukia was a bit nervous but eros just wanted to make friends and sniff everyone's butts. fun times were had and they're both completely inoculated for a whole $28.00. i'm trying to convince sean that both i and the cats need a bunny for christmas but i doubt that's really happening as he has some sort of aversion to rabbits. not like i need a rabbit but i think it would be fun to stir up the current mix of 3 dogs versus the 3 cats.

frostfell is in full effect in eq2 which is wonderful. we completed the heroic quest last night with my mom and dad and everyone got their most excellent fighting baby dragon plushie to put in their house. i spent 25 of the frost coins on the sleeping baby dragon plushie as well. it's so freaking cute! OH I ALMOST FORGOT that i FINALLY have my unicorn mount that i worked 25 hours tradeskilling in game to achieve. he is a most fantastic mount and i've only seen one other person riding one around. i was hoping for the discovery but i did get started on the expansion tradeskilling a bit post release as school/work is of more importance. i did get the discovery on the provisioner book however which made me a happy camper. now i can make some awesome berry charms but only god knows where you find the berries to make it with as they're selling on the broker for 20 some odd plat and i'm not paying that price for 3 to make one item only for a possible server-wide disco.

i'll have to post some pics of the dragon plushies and my unicorn mount. i don't have any great ones yet but i'll work on it. anywho i need to get to editing a website that should have been fixed before now but there's been this shortage of time everywhere.

have a fantastic day/week/month and enjoy the silence...

eagle eye igor

hello everyone. long time no see. i'm loving life right now but it's insanely busy with teaching, my own studies/research, and working at vista so i'm a bit preoccupied lately. i've actually been on eq2 3 days in the past 7 which is pretty impressive considering my current time constraints. i've found that even though my backpack weighs 25lbs with my laptop in it [oh we've weighed it just to see how hefty it is] that i really should haul it to school everyday because if i have extra time and if i'm caught up on grading i can actually get some writs done for the guild while i'm waiting betwixt classes plus then i get a tad bit of my game fix releasing those oh so necessary to function endorphins. let's get on to the movies. they're both receiving the same score this week.

igor - 5.5/10 snaps - it's funny for us older kids/adults but not as laughable as the emperor's new groove. and if you don't find the emperor's new groove the brightest ray of sunshine on any otherwise cloudy day then i'm very very sorry for you. but cute film even though the ending is obvious from the beginning and the town's king is a direct rip off for the mayor from nightmare before christmas. just in case you missed it before this movie is a tad bit above your average kid's head. we'll quote a woman i saw coming out of the movie with her daughter. woman's blonde offspring, "igor was funny." woman, "i'm pretty sure i got a lot more out of it than you did." eh it made me laugh. if i were you i'd wait till it came out on dvd but would definitely check it out once it did.

eagle eye - 5.5/10 snaps - granted i knew going into this movie what was causing jerry shaw and his accomplice and the however many other people in the film involved to do what they were doing and that kinda jaded me so maybe my score is a bit low but it's one of those leave your brain at the door films and you can enjoy it. the action was exciting. i enjoyed shia labeouf [even though every time i hear his name pronounced it's a completely new experience], michelle monaghan, and billy bob thornton's acting jobs. they were pretty flawless. there's just a lot of moments where you go there's no way in hell this would work out that way but i guess a large sum of movies are like this and i shouldn't be giving this one such a hard time. i do love jurassic park but who sees that happening in reality anytime soon right? if you need an action fix go for it in theaters, otherwise wait for the dvd.

speaking of dvds go pick up iron man this week. i mean it. there's no hesitating here. robert downey jr killed this film. it is FANFREAKINGTASTIC! so again go buy it. i think it's available in around 1.2 hours.

anywho life is good. aurora gets her last heartworm treatments this week and hopefully that's cleared out all of the little bloodsucking fiends. you better bet i've shelled out the money to get everyone else tested and all sorts of treatment.

i hope everyone has a great week.

enjoy the silence.

snake porn

well i originally thought about entertaining you with the story regarding the title of today's blog but i've decided it'll prolly just be better for you to make up a more interesting one all on your own. this was all started by sean finding a baby snake outside our house this am and our capturing it in our attempt to identify it to make sure it was safe to leave outside. we're thinking it's an eastern hognose snake but aren't completely positive. i've decided to call him hamlet since he has the word hog in his name and i'm assuming he's a he, i'll prolly never really know. and as i'm sure you all guessed we went to see burn after reading this weekend with my folks.

burn after reading - 9/10 snaps - 3 words. ha ha ha. i've come to the realization that actors WANT to make movies with the coen brothers because it looks like they have a great time doing such. i suggest going to see it if you have that sarcastic sense of humor required for the coen films. actually i suggest going to see it just to see what george clooney creates in the film. oh i'm hardly able to type i'm laughing so hard. i have to finish downloading no country for old men cause i still have yet to see it /gasp!

eh besides that everything seems to be going well. coming down with another throat sickness but maybe i've squished it already by downing half a gallon of oj yesterday. i'm well enough to work so i'm not too worried about it. i'm going to guess i'm getting it from all these students who keep telling me they are ill. then don't come to class! heehee. i'm loving teaching and getting back into the groove of class. just wish i had some more time for gaming. spore has been great fun. i only have one creature that i came up with and made sean design for me that looks like a cross between a squirrel and mr. snuffleupagus [yes i looked it up for correct spelling]. then we played a little bit at my aunt's house and came up with another creature called the johnavore [ha ha aren't we creative - my brother's name {johnathon} mixed with the word carnivore] that looks like some kinda mosquito with two really tall legs. if you need a spore friend send me your name. mine's nightpyper and sean's is gonei95. sean's on the space stage, i'm about to start the civilian stage [i told you i haven't had time for gaming] plus i want to start back up on knocking out the bleach game on the wii. unfortunately i'm at the stage where i have to play as hanataro yamada and i just think that's going to end badly several times over as he's a healer in the anime, not quite that great a fighter. anywho, back to the daily grind!

enjoy the silence.

remy (both of them)

alrighty so i haven't posted in a while. life is just so very busy what with all this exciting grad school business and preparing for that on top of work and obviously my in game eq2/lotro adventures. so i saw the following two movies this week.

the x-files: i want to believe ~ i'll give x-files 5.5/10 snaps. i think the reason it's getting played down as crap by reviewers are that for this film you HAVE to be a fan of the series. there's not really that much to say about the film itself. it was an extended episode of the tv series in all reality. no really alien references. i liked it. it kept me entertained. i enjoyed seeing the characters farther in their lives.

charlie bartlett ~ 8.5/10 for mr. bartlett. first, i in no way see this film as a ferris bueller's day off for this generation. ferris was a free spirit and matthew broderick was all about enjoying life in that film. charlie, played by anton yelchin, is still about enjoying life but unlike ferris doesn't have the at least semi-normal family life at home. his father's in prison though he tends to lie about him a lot and refer to him as being dead in about 65% of the film and his mother is on klonopin and somewhat of an alcoholic who is present in body but absent everywhere else [i really got a royal tenenbaums feel off her from this film]. charlie's story deals more with how screwed up the american family has become and how that effects the kids produced from these families. a lot dealing with mental disease and treatment in a serious manner while still poking a bit of fun. tyler hilton who played murphey bivens put in a fantastic performance as did robert downey jr and hope davis. everyone else in the film was above par as well but how hard is it to play a screwed up teenager in high school when in reality you are or just were a screwed up teenager in high school...food for thought. i really love the tagline for this film too: popularity is a state of mind. so if you don't enjoy teen movies such as 10 things i hate about you, the breakfast club, the new guy, not another teen movie etc, i suggest you stay away because in all probability you won't like this coming of age tale either, but if those are your cup of tea then rent this sucker post haste.

in other news rukia and eros are both negative for heartworms and are now on prevention which is most excellent. aurora had her teeth removed friday and as you saw in the previous post the quote was listed as $200 but we came out at $374 so it's amazing how these prices keep rising from week to week in exponential bounds. i guess at some point i should call the vet out on this bullshit but right now it's just a growing credit card balance that i will resent for years to come but at least my pets will be healthy. aurora now needs to get started on her heartworm treatment which is going to be 12 weeks long and is quoted at about $300 so i'm going to assume $500 to $600 is going to be my upcoming bill.

sean last week was on bower parkway and happened to see a kitten get hit by a car. seeing as how we're alike in a lot of ways, you know...loud, obnoxious, gamer geeks that love animals...he stopped to check on the kitten who is most feral and continues to bite sean on the hand most viciously. so now we have another 10 week kitten [i know, i know...like we need another kitten...] who will at least let you pet her now and pick her up without hissing who lives in a crate in our room until we can get her checked for fiv/felv tomorrow at sunset animal clinic [hmm appears i may be on the verge of not going to grace for much longer, time will tell]. oh and i forgot to mention she's a grey tabby and i have named her remy after some news below that will excite most x-men fans. no pics today, i'd rather wait until she's a bit more calm before shoving a flash in her face. back to remy's rescue story. sean ends up at the emergency room two days later because i get a bit worried this adorable cat may be carrying rabies as she's acting odd and i'm not sure whether it's a) neurological damage from the wreck, b) really scared feral kitten just being a really scared feral kitten, or c) rabid feral kitten. so just to be safe we call doctor's care because well i'd like for sean to keep living at least until i'm the primary beneficiary in the will [just kidding] and doctor's care states to go to the emergency room. so sean heads there and they put him in a room and get all his info and inform dhec that he's been bitten by a wild kitten and then prescribe him some antibiotics for the infection the bite has caused. this is so they can charge him the $500 emergency room fee for a prescription of 10 augmentin. what a rip off. then they inform sean that only dhec has the rabies shots and dhec tells them not to worry if we have the cat because the cat will show signs of rabies before sean dies or we can let them kill the kitten now and dissect her brain to see if she's got rabies. we decide to stay away from the latter option and watch the cat. dhec wants to make sure we have the cat so they make us take her carrier and put it up to a window so they can look in while we're not home. i'm a little confused as to how much you can tell about an animal by looking into a crate from a window but eh whatever. remy appears to be doing better with maybe a broken tail and i'll know more after tomorrow's vet visit.

in other remy news...god bless the brave person who taped the x-men origins: wolverine preview at comic con. if you search for it on google you'll eventually find one that works and you'll know its the one from comic con cause it's all slanted as the brave soul tried to hide whatever recording device they were using. so as the screams from the fans at the con watch wolverine and sabretooth's stories evolve there in all his card throwing, bo staff swinging explosive fury was the man himself...remy lebeau aka gambit. far and away my favorite x-man since i was oh 4 years old and i've been so freaking pissed that he hasn't been included in any of the movies thus far but i'm okay with him not having to share a film with halle berry as storm. while i like halle berry in most roles, i think jada pinkett smith [or is she just jada pinkett now?] would've kicked halle's ass at being storm. but back to gambit the most awesome x-man ever...not only is he hot, he's cajun, he's cool, and he makes being a superhero look fun. okay so my first thoughts were holy hell it's about time, then the logical part of me got to thinking that my favorite pick for the role gambit would've been heath ledger [way before he was ever thought of as the joker, because really...who saw that coming?] who unfortunately is no longer with us. so then i couldn't for the life of me think of another actor who would be HOT enough to pull this off. then i see the man [26 years old] they've picked and i'm a little more at ease. ladies and gentlemen, taylor kitsch. i know nothing about his acting whatsoever so i'm hoping he can also land the hot cajun accent gambit is supposed to bring along with the bad boy attitude. speaking of teen movies from earlier i've been dying to see john tucker must die and he's in the film so away i go to obtain it sometime in the next few weeks. i'll be bubbling over with happiness about this until it finally hits the big screen sometime around may 1st, 2009. and yes i will be at the midnight showing and possibly more showings the following day if he pulls the role off.

we're getting very close to the return of collegiate activity and i am getting more anxious because i just can't wait! i've got 3 quizzes to take and i've taken the first 2 already. you only have to make 80% but i'm getting that ocd vibe that i sometimes get and took them until i made 100. i never made below an 80 but i did get a coupla 86s and 93s. i just feel better seeing the 100. oh well, i learned some interesting things about breeze for powerpoint and am going to try playing with it soon.

well i've gone on for quite awhile but i guess that's what happens when i don't post often. hopefully i'll get some more time to post soon but time apparently is slipping away quicker than it used to so for now...enjoy the silence.

-pyper

ain't that a bitch

well as is life as sean would say...things were looking up, bills were being paid off, and then everything comes crashing down as it inevitably always does. so wednesday i get a phone call and petie [one of my horses] is showing signs of colic again. he had surgery back in 2000 and since then likes to scare the hell out of us with symptoms every year or so of a relapse to make everyone think that he's going to need more surgery which i cannot at this point in time afford. so i head on out in the dark to the crouts [jake, justin, jess, and their parents, donnie and cindy] to see what's going on. petie isn't too bad so i make up a mixture of poo soup [bran, oil, jello mix, brown sugar, purina senior horse feed, water, metamucil, and corn oil] and he eats some of it which is a good sign. i come back thursday and do the same for him for breakfast [6:30am ouch] and dinner and he cleans up all of it. friday i head back out there and he's acting like his normal perky self trying to stick his head in the bucket i mixed everything up in before i could get to his feed bucket. cooper seems to be doing well but a bit thin. i'm going to start taking some beet pulp/molasses mix out to him three times a week to see if that'll bulk him up some.

so friday sean and i take aurora and constantine to the vet. constantine needs a booster vaccine and aurora needs her yearly examination with all the bells and whistles. as we're leaving with our $210.00 bill the vet tech comes out and says we need to go back in the exam room because the vet needs to talk with us. we head back in and they tell us aurora has heart worms. this could have theoretically been prevented had i given her monthly heart worm treatment but my brain decided that she was an indoor dog so what were the chances of her being bitten by a mosquito infected with these little buggers. apparently those chances were higher than i thought. i forgot to mention that aurora decided to eat my lg chocolate one day when she was out at home and we were at work leading to her breaking off a tooth that also needs to be removed which is going to cost $200.00 minimum. i think my vet may be a bit on the pricey side. anywho so now he talks of using this immeticide treatment and hands us a sheet outlining what happens. so basically it's a shot given twice to kill the worms in her heart which will painfully disperse into my dog's lungs once they evacuate the heart and we have to keep her on exercise lockdown for about six to eight weeks. this is no big deal and of course we're going to treat her for them and get the other two dogs checked out but then he goes to tell me the cost is $350.00 for the treatment. two shots and an oral wormer [ivermectin which i give my dogs anyways which is $10 for a 1,000 lb animal] for $350.00 seems a bit much. he tells me the immeticide costs a good bit and that's why the price is so high. well lucky me, i worked for the surgical referral for a few years so i call to see how much the bottle of immeticide runs and turns out it is less than $40.00. yes you heard right, $40.00. so then i think okay well they're assuming i'm the average idiot owner who won't be able to deal with watching my dog in case she ends up passing a clot and they've worked in keeping her at the facility each time she gets a shot just in case something happens. then i'm reminded of how er knowledgeable the staff at the clinic was when i went to get my cat spayed there. they called me three times. the first time they asked if i realized that my cat was declawed. gee really? i had no idea. [heavy sarcasm] are people really this stupid that they don't know if their cat has claws or not? they called me again to ask if i was sure my cat hadn't already been spayed and the second time to ask if she had gone into heat recently to make sure the cat wasn't spayed yet again. so this leaves me a little worried with letting their employees watch my dog when she could possibly need emergency services plus the fact that they are thirty to forty five minutes from the emergency clinic in case such does occur. so i figure you can see my quandary here and once i get rukia and eros tested to see if they are positive this friday i'm going to call jonathan suber at the referral and see if he'll do the shots for me as opposed to having this done at my vet clinic.

in other news there was a huge storm monday and we lost power for 4 hours. when the power came back on we had no cable service. so i call time warner to report my outage and they state they'll set up a work order. i get home tuesday and still no cable. i call time warner and they tell me my work order is scheduled for thursday. i bitch and whine but they won't move the appt any nearer even though they don't show any other outages in my area. what really takes the cake is that my grandfather lost cable, called tuesday morning and it was fixed within 3 hours. so for now i'm being made to watch dvds and read! how dare they not fix my cable. grr.

oh well.

enjoy the silence.

-pyper

constantine and the weekend

interesting things happened this weekend. i was very busy. so let's get started.

friday. went and saw hellboy 2 which i'll give 7.5/10. stop reading now and skip to the next paragraph if you haven't seen it unless you don't plan on going to see it. i was kinda peeved at how easily they rid themselves of this damned ancient crown because if it was that easy, really that easy, then the pieces wouldn't have survived all those years and they could've prevented the two elves from perishing in the end. plus it was oh-so-obvious that the princess was going to kill herself from the beginning of the film in order to end the evil prince's reign of terror. other than that i thoroughly enjoyed the film. although apparently sean resembles ron perlman so maybe i'm a bit biased. i thought it was better than the original hellboy. i do think the idea of him [hellboy] having children, especially twins, is a bit frightening.

so friday after hellboy 2 sean has promised i can have a new kitty! so we go to pets inc to see if they have anything we like. sean finds a cute calico kitten that he likes. i'm happy with anything sean likes so we go to the desk to get the paperwork for the kitten. we fill it out. it asks about the other animals we have and then we get to the difficult questions dealing with is your current cat declawed. me being the truthful person i am put yes on the front paws only. more questions. i finally finish [it was really only two pages] and take the papers up to the front desk. the workers take my application and get this look on their faces. one of them comes around the side of the counter and tells me that we can't adopt this kitten because their number one rule at the adoption center is not to allow these cats to ever get declawed. so i say, "i understand" and so does sean and we nod as she says their managers will call us to let us know whether or not we can adopt the next morning while the whole time we both know we'll never get any call whatsoever [and we didn't] on top of me thinking shouldn't spaying and neutering be your first priority but surprise surprise they send animals home completely intact expecting you to go get it done or you forfeit your $125 deposit. we leave and i get all sad and depressed and break out into tears that i'm not good enough to adopt a kitten from pets inc which i volunteered at for years of my life when i was younger back when it was called adopt a pet and lived behind kimbrell's furniture in west columbia. so i finally come to the conclusion that we'll go get a kitten at the shop road animal shelter since it's probably an animal that needs a home more than any of the animals at pets inc and the animals at the shelter are actually healthier than those at pets inc that are being neglected as the staff is too busy being teenagers and just chatting it up and ignoring the smell of urine that pervades their facility. so i chalk it up to fate that that pets inc kitten [they called it gumdrop...ick...] would find a fantastic home and that i am destined to have another at the shelter where i've adopted before and got kairi who now resides with nick in west columbia.

so we decide to go to the animal shelter saturday morning at 9am when the shelter opens because saturday is my dad's birthday and we're going to the village at sandhills to see journey to the center of the earth in 3d and to eat lunch at 10:45am. well we get to the shelter at 8:45am and sit in the car with the windows down listening to all the dogs bark and npr as we wait for them to open. the shelter opens and they have a huge cat room to the right filled with cats running every which way. adorable kittens everywhere! there's a sign on the room that says no entry. so we ask the shelter worker [very interesting accent...we've decided she's either french canadian or german] if we are allowed to see any of them. turns out the room is full of cats passing around some nasty upper respiratory infection so none of them are available for adoption. well i know they have another room with kittens and what they also call the fat cat lounge. so we head into the kitten room and sean goes, "oooh look at the white one!" seeing as how we currently have a black cat, it would be rather cute to get the white one. well so we look at all the kittens and sean can't tear himself away from the tiny white one. he's obviously fallen in love with it. so we go to the front desk and tell them we want to adopt him. turns out he was found earlier in the week at the shell station on north main in columbia. lucky kitty. he's not completely white. the shelter has him marked as a flame point siamese which i suppose could describe his cream color with the tan points on his ears, paws and tail. he's not quite so striking as other flame point siamese colored cats that i have seen but he is gorgeous. so we fill out the paperwork and take him home. he was a whole $68, 8 weeks old, neutered, one round of shots, two ear mite treatments [i'm still working on fixing that], microchipped, negative fiv/felv test, and dewormed. so not only has he thus far turned out to be perfect for our household and fit in great with the corgis and aremis [took her a whole two days to get over the fact that we'd brought another cat home] but he was an even better buy [not that it matters because i would've paid $125 for him anyways]. so sean calls him ghost at first then learns that he's a flame point siamese [at least in color] so we decide to call him blaze. which leads sean to think of hellblazer which obviously leads to us calling him constantine. and that's his name and it shall stay that way because he already has a vet appointment for friday when aurora goes in for her shots so it's already that way in the vet's computer [plus i like the name]. here he is trying to be a keyboard [or a mouse i suppose] on sean's desk.

i know...adorable isn't he? so then we're taking him to my work so that we can leave him there in a crate in the air conditioning while we go to the village at sandhill with the family. i hear a ticking noise as i'm driving to work and ask sean if he hears it too. at first we think it's the motorcycle behind us but then the ticking gets louder and the motorcycle hasn't gotten any closer so i pull over and it turns out my tire had blown out. not just any tire but the brand new one we had to get when there was a carpenter nail that somehow managed to make a hole in my original tire that couldn't be patched because of its location. so we then can't find the jack for yoshi [my silver yaris...yes i know yoshi wasn't silver...the name just fits]. turns out it is under the driver's seat when there is a space for it in the back next to the spare with the arm for the jack as well [go figure]. sean changes the tire once we find the jack [with a helpful 15 minute call to the toyota service department to find out where it was since my user manual had been removed when i refinanced my car at half the interest i had initially several weeks before]. we make it to work just in time to drop off the kitten and head out to the sandhills. here's another picture of constantine cause he's just so cute!

oh and those eyes are currently blue but i'm guessing they're going to change as he ages. anywho journey to the center of the earth in 3d gets a 6/10. not really too much to give away here. i figure most of you have seen one of the other versions of the film or have read the novel. i was somewhat disturbed by how much i could see brendan fraser's nipples poking out in the outline of his sweater/shirt through a lot of the movie. my mother thinks he's the hottest thing ever so she loved the film. i don't know how good it would be if not in 3d because a lot of good parts were made to be much more thrilling in three dimensions. i was preoccupied enough for one and a half hours to give it more than an average of 5. on a sidenote i cannot wait to see bolt in 3d as well! "i eat danger for breakfast!"

we then headed to red robin to eat lunch. i've never eaten there before and it was a nice experience. plus my mom yelled at our waiter, joel, that it was my dad's birthday and they came over and shouted some rhyme really loudly embarrassing him as they should on your birthday. plus he got a free sundae out of the deal. the food was pretty good and i think we all enjoyed the adventure to the outskirts of camden err i think we're now calling it a portion of columbia.

saturday night brought a shard of hate raid. sean got a nice wrist item. we then helped beline, phinneas [dad], singinliz, and fuzzypawz with their epic updates in chardok. dad also won this sweet warg off the queen in chardok with some awesome mage stats on top of his epic update. we had a pretty fun time with several friends.

sunday we headed to work for a bit. sean hadn't worked on saturday so he went in on sunday to make up for it and i worked on reading my biology text, trying to awaken some of this knowledge i supposedly absorbed in high school and college. we had lunch at aunt nita and uncle ed's house in honor of dad's and amanda's [cousin] birthdays. we got dad all 3 resident evil films in blu ray, for amanda i picked out some really pretty jewelry at hand-picked [which now has a location at lexington in that strip with the new target.../cheer...], and i brought jessica [thomas' (amanda's brother, obviously another cousin) girlfriend] one of those ikea fangst closet storage dealies in blue. i have one in teal and i love it. she's moving into a dorm room and she seemed to really like the fangst once she opened it...she even knew what it was, i was somewhat impressed. her birthday was several weeks earlier, but the fangst hadn't shipped in time to make it for her party.

we finally made it home and i promptly passed out while watching tv because i'm having wonderful allergic reactions lately and the benadryl allergy formula makes me sleepy. eh it's been an awfully long post and an awfully quick weekend.

so for now, enjoy the silence.

-pyper