I got a surprise Christmas present from Gavin and Jen this morning — a “How to Draw Peanuts” book. Now I can draw Snoopy and Woodstock (see the evidence on the Flickr pictures at right) and the rest of the gang. Fun! On Saturday night, we were talking about Peanuts because the music was playing at Carrabba’s. I realized that I hadn’t watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” yet this year, so I went right home and put it in the DVD player. Now it really feels like Christmas.
On Saturday afternoon, Nick and Cari and I made the mistake of going to the mall. (Well, actually, Nick probably enjoyed it because he loves the mall more than anyone I have ever known.) It was insane — traffic everywhere, backups galore, crowds, etc. I was reminded why I now do 90% of my Christmas shopping online. The Internet is a beautiful thing.
My Christmas project for this year while I’m home is to make my scrapbook of the Peru trip. We finally got Karen’s pictures from Peru, and yesterday I went through the combined 1000+ pictures that we have (from me, Jen/Gavin, Becca, Karen, Cari, and Nancy) to pick out the ones I wanted to use in my scrapbook. Becca posted these two of Karen’s shots, but I feel like they need to be here as well. Let’s call them, “the making of a group picture.”
First, the before shot. Everyone is standing around getting prepared. Karen is setting up the camera, so you can’t see her. Gavin’s on the very edge of the frame at the right. Jen, who had been sick all week, is thinking “ugh, I still don’t feel great, but at least I’m at Machu Picchu.” Becca, Cari, Emily and I are all paying extremely close attention to whatever Pauld is saying because he is incredibly cute and funny and has an accent and we all totally want him. And Nancy is thinking “Pauld isn’t really too young for me, is he?”
And here’s the after shot. We are all publicly thinking “hooray, we’re at the sun gate above Machu Picchu” and I am privately thinking “Pauld is so cute!” Meanwhile Pauld is thinking “I could so totally have any of these girls. Except the married one. Her husband’s looking a little protective. Nah, I am very cute and Peruvian, I can probably woo her too.” Except he’s thinking that in Spanish.
We need to go back to Peru.
Saw Ocean’s Twelve yesterday afternoon. I’d been prepared for it be very bad after hearing some of the reviews, but it was ok except for the dumb gimmick towards the end. Not as good as Ocean’s Eleven, but entertaining enough. I also watched a French movie I rented from Blockbuster that I heard about a while ago — L’Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). It’s not a movie I’d recommend to most of my friends, but I personally enjoyed it.
I still have so many errands to run and things to pack before I go home tomorrow, and I have zero time. Our branch Christmas party is tonight, which leaves me with even less than zero time. I’ll be up late tonight, I can tell already.
