Serenity Now!

Anyone fans of Firefly?
 
I just got out of an early screening of "Serenity" the movie based on that series and it ROCKED!
 
I can’t speak to those who dont know anything about Firefly, but for those of you who, like me, have seen all firefly episodes at least once, it really delivers.
 
So what do I say to not spoil it?
 
The characters you know from Firefly are all there, the humor that we know and love from Joss is there... Everything I hoped!
 
There is a lot of action and as usual just as much violence as the situation warrents.
 
On a personal note, I won a set of 3 Serenity comic books by singing a line from the Buffy episode "Once more with feeling". A woman tried to sing the opening song by Buffy but sang quite a few wrong words. SO I stood up and said "Those words are not right!" and proceeded to sing out loud and proud!
 
Yea ME!

Been a long time, shouldn't have left you...

Without a blogpost!

Hey guys, I have been having a fun/busy time the last couple of weeks. This last weekend I spent camping nearby here. Even though it rained SO much we had a great time. It was all made possible by a huge picnic shelter at our group site that we "camped out" under when it rained. Gave us a place to dry off during the Saturday morning rainstorm, and a place to play cards in during the Saturday afternoon rainstorm. After stopping just long enough for our Saturday night guests to set up their tents and us to cook out over the fire, we went back into the pavillion for more cards.

That night it was Crazy lound and wet. It rained ALL night as far as I knew, and when the thunderstoms passed by I managed to catch a few good hours of sleep. We had water in our tent of course but nothing I could feel from inside our sleeping bag.

Thanks to Chris and Karen for inviting us to camp.

Then send everyone home and relax in front of the TV. Ahhh. (that is a computer on the left). 

Play in the backyard. 

Give a tour. 

And build it BIGGER! 

Invite some Friends over... 

Fun Times I tell ya! 

Step One, Build a small Lego house. 

Reward Time

Ohh, I’m excited. Just one more pound to lose and I am at my lowest weight in YEARS! Now what was my reward again?

1. Dresser


2. Krispy Kreme Doughnut (just one)


3. Bit of Jewelry     

My next goal is to stay under 150 lbs till next summer, and the reward for that will be a Power MAC for my video editing pleasure.

Labor Day Holiday

Evening folks!

I am “supposed” to be getting ready to leave town so of course I am killing time doing anything but.

I am heading to ND tomorrow morning and will be there for nearly 3 full days. I have a sibling’s birthday party to go to, friends to visit in Fargo and hopefully some quality time with my family in Grand Forks.

This last weekend was really great. We had a 30th Birthday party for a friend which brought us up to a water park/hotel in Minneapolis and then some gardening that took up much of the rest of the weekend. We did a bit of lying around and lots of harvesting, canning and pickling. There is not a lot of the growing season left so we have to make time to harvest when it needs it.

Hope you all had a good holiday weekend!

Some Traditional Dancers

Some dancers.

The DoDrop jugglers... this is actually them and a volunteer just doing the Happy Dance after a successful trick. Very entertaining! 

Being entertained with the court. This young lady on the left was playing quite the youngster of the court with her beads and stuffed bunny. 

The stoic Royal Guard. 

Jugglers in the parade. 

Ren Fest!

Ren Fest was very fun! We saw jugglers, jousting, costumes and were even entertained with the King and Queen.

I took a slew of pictures so I will find a couple of the best to post here. My favorite parts were the big turkey drumstick, the Juggling and the costumes. Might even find something to wear myself for next year, anyone take bets on if I can get Brandon into tights? Can't get something made by Halloween at this pint, but I can shoot for Ren Fest next year!

Huzzah!

Friday Night

Happy Hour before the movie was definitely a good idea! Not only did I have fun chatting with folks, the ones we invited and the ones that were there for the New Hire event, but the Dukes of Hazzard was more enjoyable after a couple of drinks!

It was an OK movie, lots of car chases of course. Jessica Simpson was NOT the Diasy Duke that I envisioned. She seemed to get the intelligence of the character but not the sublety. Her manipulations were too overtly sexual. I liked the Duke boys ok, and was suprised that Burt Renoyds as Boss Hog kind of worked. I loved the parts with Willy Nelson and Linda Carter, I dont remember that character from the origional dukes of hazard but thought she did a great job.

The weekend ahead.

Exciting weekend planned!

Friday: Happy Hour at a fairly new bar in town, then a movie ( I want to see Dukes of Hazard but am up for suggestions)!
Saturday: Renaissance Festival followed by dinner in the cities somewhere!

Sunday: Day of rest…. More realistically a day of catching up on housework, yard work and some TV shows I hope.

Post weekend update should be forthcoming.

Another one bites the dust...

WoHoo! Another pound lost. It’s not really that exciting to lose just 1 pound, but for me I was at a plateau of about 150 for so long its great to break out of that.

The excitement of being solid in the Healthy range on the weight charts AND of having a thinner body now is far from wearing off. I was actually accused of being vain for being so excited the other day, but I really don’t think I am going to become some diva girly girl or snobby jock type person. Also there is $ savings with all my bringing lunch and eating from our garden which has been essential to this weeks success. As an added bonus I have had a refreshing cleansing of my closet, getting rid of things that are too big, worn out, or just plain not looking good on me anymore.

This weekend I had a serious exercise Saturday… about 6 hours of volleyball, one game after another, with one 30 min break, and about 3 min in between games (unless we won/lost right away).

We were visiting friends in Iowa and they were wonderful hosts! We had company for Saturday night with a great effort by Tom to get together enough food for part of the volleyball crew. Sunday a Thai food fest was planned for mid-afternoon so Brandon and I could take part. He and Tom made regular egg rolls and spring rolls, and about 3 others brought dishes to share. One was a tad too spicy for me, but I tried everything else and the flavors were wonderful!

Thanks for the wonderful weekend guys!