- There are new pictures of that little dude in my flickr account. The breeder is really encouraging us to visit him as often as possible, so I went over yesterday (Rob has a cold so he stayed home) and brought my actual camera, as opposed to just the cameraphone. I’m not sure what day(s) next week I’ll be able to go but there will be more photos then. I will try not to be super obnoxious all the time with the pet photos but yeah, there will probably be a glut of them. Forewarned is forearmed.
- I am getting more and more excited about the end of the school year approaching. Just… completely excited. I know the kids are too, but wow. Rob and I were talking about it and this is going to be a first in our entire relationship: We get to have a summer together, without anyone visiting us for weeks at a time (not saying we won’t welcome houseguests! not at all!), without having to go on long two-week (or, in the case of last summer, month-long) trips anywhere, without any huge event happening that will stress us out. We will be visiting Nova Scotia for a few days, but that’s a happy thing and not a super-long trip. I just want to laze around and not do anything but hang around with my husband, my puppy, and my garden.
- My parents are moving to town in a month. They’ve found a house, so that’s good. They haven’t sold THEIR house yet, but hopefully that happens soon. They could rent their place out if it doesn’t sell right away. This means that I will get to babysit my nephews less often because the house my parents are buying is just what they were hoping to get: a house with an apartment attached. Mom and Dad will live in the apartment, and my brother’s family will live in the main part of the house. But that’s not what I wanted to tell you about. This is:
On MSN the other day Mom was explaining to me the features of the new place. She was saying how they were going to try and get rid of a great deal of ‘stuff’ before they moved.
“So you should come and take whatever you want, we have a ton of tools and furniture and things here that we need to get rid of”
“Like what?”
“We have a stapler here…”
I laughed and laughed. The plethora of *things* that she has, and for me, a stapler? WHOA THE LUXURY.
It turns out that she meant a staple gun. She knew that I have been meaning to get one and that I never do. So that was funny. To me, at least.
- Charlaine Harris is a pretty good writer. I have read all the books so far in the Southern Vampire series (the ones the TV show True Blood are based on), all of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, all of the Shakespeare series, and am now on the second (of three so far) of the Harper Connolly series (ghosts!). They’re good. I’d highly recommend them.
- There’s a new TV show I’m kind of interested in but kind of afraid of. It’s called The Vampire Diaries (vampires again! hey, I didn’t like Twilight, but vampires in general are okay). See, I’m kind of interested because when I was 14, I read the series of books it’s based on, and they are what influenced me to start keeping a diary (and thus, indirectly, leading me to blogging). I loved those books, and every now and then I crack open the box that they’re in and read a chapter or two, just for nostalgia’s sake. I’m also kind of afraid because I’ve seen the previews, and it looks all goth-y and dark. I mean, yes I know that I shouldn’t expect it to be exactly like the books, but at least make the characters have similar physical attributes. They’ve changed details that are important, like peoples’ names (Stefan WHITMORE? Really?), their relationships to each other (making certain characters into siblings, who in the book, were DATING…), getting rid of key characters entirely… it all just looks hastily thrown together, so that the CW can cash in on the Twilight fanaticism that’s going on. I suppose I’ll give it a try, for nostalgia’s sake, but I’m not expecting to enjoy it.