August 13, 2009 - Thursday

Dark and rainy. Did I mention it was dark? Or rainy? It was.

I got up this morning but didn't really believe my alarm because it was that dark in my bedroom. Unbelievable! It was pouring with rain. Sigh. I got up for a bit, did some internet stuff, and then tried to go back to bed for a nap. Shame to waste all that darkness. Didn't happen. It was too humid.

I had a quiet afternoon at home. I watched a cooking show about Italian food. It was okay, but bring back the Tim Gunn fashion show I say, bring back Tim Gunn.

I watched the shows I taped yesterday and then Romancing the Stone when it came on the telly. Man I love that film. It has good memories for me. I bought the novel when I lived in Edson, read it, loved it, and loaned it to my mum. She read it, loved it, and we both said that we'd HAVE to see the movie. The story was fun, and also it had an afterword? foreword? from Michael Douglas talking about how much fun he thought the story was. Sadly, the author died in a car crash before the film came out. (Which might also explain why the sequel wasn't as good.) Anyhoo, I think Romancing the Stone might have been one of the last films that my sister and I saw with our Mum. I think we drove to Edson to see it.

During the film, I cooked and ate my lunch. I had a taco omelette. Yummy! So good. The next film was The Forbidden Kingdom. I had wanted to see it for the Jet Li-Jackie Chan match up, but overall wasn't a great movie. Just okay. Glad I didn't pay to see it.

F came home quite late and after a while we decided to go out for dinner. We went to the Grand El Son and it was nice tonight. I had fish and F had meat. Everything was very delicious. We came home via the grocery store for milk and bagels.

At home we watched Untraceable, the movie I taped for F last night. When I first started dating him he had a Diane Lane poster up in his room. I didn't make him take it down, he just did. I think it might have been when I asked if I could put one of Russell Crowe up! (Actually, I don't think I ever did that.) The movie was only so so.

I should probably say that I'm really happy that WOWOW is running so many movies during the day. Usually during the Japanese holidays there is nothing on. Tsuruoka actually had its Obon in July, but the whole thing is sort of a non-holiday for me.

Anyway, that's about it for me. It was a good day. Tomorrow night I have one class and then I'll take myself out for dinner. Hubby has a party tomorrow night and won't be coming home for dinner. I really hope it doesn't rain tomorrow night. Wish me luck with that!

Night.