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Weekend stuff
Oct. 9th, 2006 09:46 amHad a good time doing stuff and generally chilling with C around the house. I found out that my sister is coming over next saturday & staying until next Monday morning, which will be cool! She had planned (last year) to come over & watch us run the local marathon because C & I had intended to be fat-free ultrafit people who could run marathons in their sleep by this time. As you might imagine, there is something wrong with this vision of the future, as I'm 85 kilos (still). On one hand, this is good - I've not put any significant weight on despite not going to the gym for the last 3 weeks & living primarily off sugar & alcohol as its quarter end, on the other hand, this is not good in that it doesn't matter how much effort I put into it, I cant get below 84 kilos. I'm sort of static on the weight front.
Not a lot to say about Saturday except that we bought several ex-rental DVD's & watched 'Whats Eating Gilbert Grape' & then spent most of the day either doing housework, shopping or Dutch homework. A full day, and not the most interesting one in the world, but one that was very worthy, especially as the weather couldn't decide what it was going to do - rain or storm or be sunny or snow. Interesting, certainly, but better observed from a snug & wind-proof room, with a cat, decent book & good company.
Sunday, on the other hand, was full - we met up with Stu who was over for a friends stag night & went to a museum that had an exhibition of 'aircraft futures' at different points in history. It was excellent. It started with 1920's concept drawings about vast floating man-made islands in the mid-atlantic to service the 9 deck 12 engine behemoths that would ply the ways between Europe & the USA, went through the designs for the next generation of travel in the 1950's (concorde designs, essentially). The 1960's saw sha/g-pile carpets on board Boeing 747's, whilst the future was also addressed; first showing the Airbus superjumbo & the boeing lifting body blended wing. I look forward to seeing the 9 deck, 12 engined lifting body vessels that will ply the European & American trade routes in future years. (I kid ye not. The irony that the old vision of the future is now the new vision of the future is not lost upon me)
We then had pancakes & watched My Super ex-Girlfriend at the cinema, which was probably one of the worst films I have ever seen. Fun, certainly & worth the 2 hours of cheesecake entertainment, but just "not a good film, really" (ie not worth buying on DVD & the best recommendation I can come up with it "If you've nothing better to do, then you could do worse than watch this. But dont really go out of your way on my account"). We then bought season-1 of Battlestar Galactica on DVD & went home. Carole then panicked in that she had a load of packing to do, so she did that, whilst I made a Thai Green curry (under her supervision, of course). Eating followed, as did sleep.
And now I'm back at work. The low points of the weekend were the low grade-headache I've had all weekend has become a fully-blown tooth & ear-ache. Ow. Also, we had a church door slammed in our face (twice) as we tried to go in; does this mean that we're going to go to hell?
S
Not a lot to say about Saturday except that we bought several ex-rental DVD's & watched 'Whats Eating Gilbert Grape' & then spent most of the day either doing housework, shopping or Dutch homework. A full day, and not the most interesting one in the world, but one that was very worthy, especially as the weather couldn't decide what it was going to do - rain or storm or be sunny or snow. Interesting, certainly, but better observed from a snug & wind-proof room, with a cat, decent book & good company.
Sunday, on the other hand, was full - we met up with Stu who was over for a friends stag night & went to a museum that had an exhibition of 'aircraft futures' at different points in history. It was excellent. It started with 1920's concept drawings about vast floating man-made islands in the mid-atlantic to service the 9 deck 12 engine behemoths that would ply the ways between Europe & the USA, went through the designs for the next generation of travel in the 1950's (concorde designs, essentially). The 1960's saw sha/g-pile carpets on board Boeing 747's, whilst the future was also addressed; first showing the Airbus superjumbo & the boeing lifting body blended wing. I look forward to seeing the 9 deck, 12 engined lifting body vessels that will ply the European & American trade routes in future years. (I kid ye not. The irony that the old vision of the future is now the new vision of the future is not lost upon me)
We then had pancakes & watched My Super ex-Girlfriend at the cinema, which was probably one of the worst films I have ever seen. Fun, certainly & worth the 2 hours of cheesecake entertainment, but just "not a good film, really" (ie not worth buying on DVD & the best recommendation I can come up with it "If you've nothing better to do, then you could do worse than watch this. But dont really go out of your way on my account"). We then bought season-1 of Battlestar Galactica on DVD & went home. Carole then panicked in that she had a load of packing to do, so she did that, whilst I made a Thai Green curry (under her supervision, of course). Eating followed, as did sleep.
And now I'm back at work. The low points of the weekend were the low grade-headache I've had all weekend has become a fully-blown tooth & ear-ache. Ow. Also, we had a church door slammed in our face (twice) as we tried to go in; does this mean that we're going to go to hell?
S
