Yesterday

On my day off yesterday I was able to finally beat the Giant Kamek wizard and get Princess Peach up to the next and what I sincerely hope is the final level of the game.  I don’t understand how kids can stand the STRESS involved in this process!  There are so many parts that I’ve had to play over and over and over again to the point of wanting to fire the DS at the nearest wall.  But nothing yet has deterred me from always going back for more.  The fun things outnumber the big battles.  Although the big battles must appeal to kids, because they put in a whole whack of them.  Admittedly, there’s a grim satisfaction involved in finally winning the damn things.

To regain my sense of inner calm I watched “P.S. I Love You” (again).   The story line is a lot of sentimental mush, but the movie is just SO well done and brilliantly acted that it doesn’t matter.  I played my moves in Wordscraper and Lexulous and checked Facebook for any other interesting developments.  I am forever hopeful in that regard.

Then I decided I absolutely can’t stand the color of our coffee table in the living room and moved it into the bedroom next to the lap top table, took apart one of the two piece bedside units and set them side by side on top of it, and filled them up with books and papers and other important miscelaneous stuff.  (All this in lieu of a regular normal computer desk).  The result is eclectic functional.  Which sort of sums up my general interior decorating style in one all inclusive term.  Now I can search with a clear conscience for something big and wooden and chest-like or table-ish to put in front of the couch.  Or something big and round and low to the ground.  I’ll recognize it when I see it as the perfect thing. 

I also did a lot of laundry.  I read several chapters of my current book.  And I hauled the compostables garbage bin and paper recylclables bag back from the curb, an activity which should count as ‘going outside’.   So, all in all, it was a very rounded day.