Oh, my friends, what a week I’ve had. It had them making of a major Hollywood motion picture with a 150 million dollar budget. It had sweat, it had heat, and yes, the action flew through the air like dog hair.
Or it didn’t. Or did it?
In truth, I didn’t have quite that sort of week that would constitute adapting a major motion picture. But, I will say there WAS sweat, there WAS heat, and yes, there was dog hair. Let me explain, more in depth if I may.
On Saturday, I was to stay at my sister’s place through Tuesday, watching their yellow labs, Lily and Sami. I was on my own the entire time, with nobody there. I was alone, except for the two sweet girls I just mentioned. One of the things that made the week unbearable was the freaking heat. We’re talking at least 100 degrees practically the entire four days. And NO air conditioning!! I walked around doing stuff, I sweated. I sat there, I sweated. I layed down to go to sleep, and yes, I sweated.
But luckily I had stuff that, in a way, helped keep that heat off my mind, at least for a little while. I was able to get, on Saturday morning, before the sister, the husband and their four kids all packed up to leave, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete on Blu-Ray. Watching this thing on their (I think) 72” HDTV was pretty sweet.
Also, on Saturday, dispite the horrible heat that threatened to devour my soul and leave my body a sweat covered dead corpse from sun death (ok, I”m being overly dramatic, or just stupid) I thought I would go out and do some quick garage sale-ing. I went to two of them to be exact. The first one was just plain lame. Nothing but that kind of crap people think they can actually pawn off on to others. Cups, glasses, tupperware, some carrying bags and a random assortment of clothing.
So after a brief look around the lame excuse for a garage sale (but alas, I have seen worse garage sales. One I honestly can’t see how they could have legally called it a garage sale, it was just a few boxs worth of cups and a few randon household stuff….it was that sad), I rode off on my bike to one of the nicer neighborhoods that I am not that familiar with, one of the neighborhoods that has alot of hills and turns, so I hope I didn’t get lost coming back, effectively getting myself trapped outside in the heat of the afternoon sun.
But I digress. I finally locate this second garage sale, and it was by fire better than the first one. It actually had a nice variety of things for sale. And the good thing was they were selling the stuff for rather cheap, and I mean cheap even for a garage sale. I automatically headed for the books. Books are thing when I garage sale. I rarely look at anything else. On a few execptions, I have boughten a Backgammon, Checkers and Chess in One game, a copy of Monopoly Millinium Edition (which only came with three peices) and some computer games).
As I looked through the books I was told by one of the ladies there that all the books, hardcover and paperback, where all 25 cents each. That’s an aweome deal, even by garage sale standards, I was drawn to a bunch of the Left Behind books. I automatically, but silently in my own mind, squealed with joy. What would the other people around me think if I actually did that outloud? I quickly picked up books two through six (I already have the first book at home I got at a previous garage sale from the last year’s garage sales). All for $1.25. Sweet! Quickly, I rode with my paper back treasures so I could get out of the sun, and start sweating inside the house instead of outside in the sun.
Later that day, I finally sat down to watch Advent Children.
SPOILER: ANYONE WHO IS STILL PLAYING THE GAME DEAD SPACE PLEASE SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH IF THEY DON’T WANT THE ENDING SPOILED. Also, during my stay, I managed to finally beat Dead Space for the PS3. Man, that Kendra chick…I thought should would have been a good guy, because there is a trophy you can get called Betrayed. For a while, I thought this one character who was a scientist onboard the Ishimura (the ship your trapped on) would take the only escape ships and leave us hanging to find a way off that metal coffin called a ship. But NOOOOO……Kendra turned traitor and was deservingly KILLED by the Hive Mind. How’s THAT for karma BITCH!!???
I did some moderate reading as well. I read some of my book of Angels and Demons. I already read The Da Vinci Code, so I think I should obviously read through this prequel. At this point I’m almost done with it, and soon I can actually carry on to my Left Behind books.
What was so funny though, was throughout this entire four day stay at my sister’s place, I had this idea that I would try having a Friends marathon (they own the entire SERIES, all ten seasons!), but I only managed to squeeze in one season. Oye.
And aside from some other extra things I did through out the four days I was there, like swimming and generally trying to stay cool, that’s about it. Everybody got home last night at about midnight, and I’m sure that every single person in that car had to be exhausted beyond belief. I think it was a four hour drive to where they were coming back from. It’s crazy. My butt would be so numb, if not sore from all that driving.
Ok, even though I am already home at this point in the week, I’d still might as well make mention of this since I’m in the blogging frame of mind right now. I was at the store today, and got a copy of Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaro’s Treasure. I traded in Oblivion GOTY, which netted me 8 bucks, and was able to get Zack and Wiki. I hope that trade isn’t going to turn around and bite me in the ass! lol.
Wow, I can’t believe that I’ve typed this much. I really had alot of stuff to talk about tonight. I guess I had alot of material to sort through and talk about. Thanks for sticking through this endless rambling!
Take care you guys! Until next time!
Daquine
