What were you expecting?
…so you get this very short post. Jess and Chuck are here, after a day at an arts and crafts fair followed by wine and cheese at a vineyard, and now we’re going to settle in with wine, snacks, and a movie. (Hi, everyone! – Jess) So this is all you get. ‘Cause I’m busy.
It’s Oscar Night, so I might as well talk about it, right? But first, I have to see who’s nominated and find out if I even saw any of these movies. Last year, I hadn’t seen a single Oscar-nominated movie by the time the awards rolled around.
Okay, I’ve checked. Of movies that were either nominated for themselves or had an actor nominated, I’ve seen Avatar (liked it, but for a technical category, not Best Picture. I mean, come on, it was a 3D remake of Ferngully: The Last Rainforest!), Julie & Julia, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Soooo, none of the really good ones.
We’ll watch the beginning for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, but that’s about it. I’ll check out the highlights online tomorrow. We’re going to spend our evening finishing Batman Begins (we got too sleepy to finish it last night) with pizza (and maybe wine – classy, I know).
Oh, we caught up on Lost this morning over breakfast, so Mom, Dad, Mindy, call me tomorrow and we’ll chat.
Oh my head. Not a bad headache, just a mildly annoying one. Have I taken anything to get rid of it (besides a glass of wine)? No. I’d have to put the laptop down and get off the couch for that. Today felt really long. It started with a visit to our financial guy (early at our request so we could get to work close to on time), then work. Work started out okay, but then we got news that means our next two weeks are going to be more tedious than expected. Faces fell, moods darkened. And on my way out the door, I remembered that I had planned on stopping at Wegman’s on my way home to pick up salmon for dinner. Last thing I wanted to do, but the only other food in the house was the ravioli we’re having tomorrow night (before the race (I’m SO not ready for a 5-mile race)). So I stopped at Wegman’s and got out of there pretty quickly (and cheaply) since for once I only bought what I went in there for. No browsing, no impulse buying. I’m home, I’m comfortable (aside from the headache), and I think I’m going to read my book for the 15 minutes I have left before I need to start dinner.
Update: I love these pictures. I want this house.
I love wineries. Not just because you can get wine there. I love the atmosphere, I love the tastings, I love the big rooms and the (almost always) friendly people. I went to Hidden Brook Winery today to get more of the sweet rosé John loves, and even though I was only there for five minutes, it was such a nice five minutes. And in an odd coincidence (considering the comments from the other day’s post), NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me” played the Sesame Street theme song right after making George Stephanopoulos answer questions about Snuffleupagus. But it sounded like Elmo was singing it. Didn’t it used to be a bunch of kids singing? Did they really change it to just Elmo? ‘Cause I’m not okay with Elmo being the star of Sesame Street.