Movie Night, Dinos, Pie

This has been an interesting past two weeks. Interesting in that I barely leave my house, except to acquire things, like my daughter from preschool, groceries from HyVee or WallyWorld, boxes for our move, coffee for my gut, etc. Other than that I've rarely left this house. This weather makes me despondent, I mean seriously, another South Dakota winter? Every winter I sigh and mourn the fact that I'm not in Arizona, wearing early fall clothing, enjoying the warm sun across my smiling face. I don't know if I can take another winter without becoming suicidal to be quite frank. I mean, Vermillion is the stinky arm pt of South Dakota- it's ugly and it's windy and its snowy and it's just effing cold here during the winter. It's NEVER pretty. I've yet to witness a pretty winter here in V-town, at least when I lived in Spearfish, it was pretty. Oh and our town thinks plowing is totally optional, plowing well is laughable, and that plowing mounds of snow into your driveway and onto your vehicles is totally mandatory.

God, I fucking hate snow.

Our yard at the current house we live in is kinda pretty during the winter- we have a really cool back yard, but alas- we are moving this week. Sad but exciting and a relief. Sad because our house is so cute and enviable. Exciting because our new apartment is really nice, really affordable, and overall a good decision. A relief because frankly this house was far too expensive to lie in and its nice to be somewhere that will provide a bit of relief to our already thin and sparse pocket book. So, we've been on this binge with this move, I made the rule that we aren't bringing any junk with us or anything we don't need or don't use. Quality over quantity I say. We have many reasons to downsize but an apartment is yet another one because there are less places to cram junk than there are in a great big house. We've thrown out tons and tons of stuff and donated tons more- I'm talking several vehicles and truckloads- isn't that pathetic?

Sooooo, Jim-bo came to V-town this weekend. I have no idea what happened over the rest of his weekend but he came over here Friday night to watch Star Wars Clone Wars with us. The movie was absolutely bizarre. It did give my husband chance to show off his geeky wierd overly huge amount of knowledge about all things Star Wars until I grew impatient and confused and silenced him using my Death Star techniques of discipline. The movie kinda blew but that made it kinda good because it was humorous badness, not something that was pure awful. I doubt we ever need to watch it again, even my husband agrees with that statement.

I also gave Jim-bo his present for his birthday- a kung fu fighting singing birthday card and disco light dinosaurs. He was tickled- I havent seen anyone so thrilled with that lame of a gift in quite some time. It's the little things I guess. Jim was supposed to come back over for breakfast with our friend Tim the next morning. Tim came over for brunch and with his big ass truck and big ass horse trailer so we could take away more junk and begin packing the junk we are keeping. I swear every time we move I pack more boxes of books. It's a little known fact that I am everyone's personal librarian. I believe that we do have around 1000 books in total. After awhile anyone helping us move do nothing but glare and hem silently and cuss under their breath at all the boxes of books. See, I always pack up all the books and because I have fairly decent upper arm strength I regularly pack the boxes too heavy. At least I pay the people who help me move in pizza and beer!

Anyways Jim DID NOT COME OVER TO SEE TIME BECAUSE HE WAS BEING A STICK IN THE MUD. Or he was busy, but whatever. We've also watched several other fun movies lately- Get Smart, Kung Fu Panda, Tinkerbell. However the highlight of this weekend comes from the History Channel yet again. There was a THREE HOUR SPECIAL on God versus Satan and a TWO HOUR SPECIAL on the search for the Lost Ark!!!! How friggin cool does it get? EEEE!!!!!!!!!!! God I love the History Channel- I really think if I ever pursued acting, I'd have a solid career as a History Channel actor- They are THAT good.

By the way, Tim was really bummed to not see Jim.

Does anyone else think the two guys who act on Blues Clues are absolute creeps?

Ok good.

I made a lot of food this weekend. Saturday I made quiche, homemade macaroni and cheese, and banana cream pie. Today it was pancakes, nachos, salads, brisket, butternut squash puree, good Lord. I've been cooking real food a lot lately- partly to get rid of food we would have to move of course but also partly because of the change of weather- forces one to be inside more. Instead of whipping up gourmet delicacies I could study more but theres only so long one can type article reviews about anything to do with sex orr stare at pictures of femurs, you know? I took a test today and got a shitty grade on it but apparently everyone in the class got a bad grade- wonder if the prof will do anything.

Ok, so this blog is getting uber long and I still have four other topics to cover but I think I better save them for another blog. So, soon to come, moving fun, TrueBlood- the show and the books, Eva's new Catholic preschool, and more on banana cream pie.

Peace out yo-

Chatterbox Sara