March 2, 2014

In school I learned that if I gave myself a week to do something, I would take a week. Or given a month, I'd take a month. Today that knowledge came back to me when I spent all day writing my court report and month report for my volunteer thing. Put together, there probably wasn't more than thirty minutes of work to do, but I took all freaking day. Ridiculous. I got both of them done though so that's a plus.

When I wasn't slowly typing reports, I took breaks to go to the library book sale and have dinner with my family. At the last book sale I only got three books but this time I went all out and got eight. Unfortunately I still don't have any room for books. Haven't gotten around to making or buying any bookshelves. Instead, I started a new stack of books, this one by my door. Someday I will have proper shelves. Someday.

While pretending to type reports, I watched The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty and then half of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. I had no idea it was a remake but a few weeks ago I found the original, a Danny Kaye movie from 1947. I'm a fan of Danny Kaye and the original Walter Mitty was really good. I liked how each time he went into a daydream he played a different character. After finishing that, I started watching, what I now know to be, the remake. I saw in theaters, not actually in a theater, but I still enjoyed it. And still enjoy it. I like Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig, and the music. I wasn't able to finish it today but I'll finish off the last half hour or so tomorrow. Or eventually.

For dinner we had Freddy's and barbecue. That was the original plan and after potential problems with logistics we almost ordered pizzas, but then we didn't. We solved the logistic issue (the fact that my mom didn't want to change clothes to go buy the food and my sister and her husband weren't going to come get my mom's credit card to go buy food). The solution, me driving my mom's car (because mine was covered in snow) to go pick up my sister to go get food. Whenever I drive my mom's car I don't adjust the seat because she has electronic buttons for that and there is no way I'd ever get the seat back to the right spot. This is a bit of a problem considering I am way taller than my mom and my knees end up crammed against the dashboard. But I manage it, and I avoid getting into accidents because there is no doubt my legs would be crushed if I got into one. Anyway, dinner was good. And I ate way too much food.

Now I am waiting for The Oscars to get over so I can go to bed.