Saturdays were made for errands

Normally I buy into that statement 100%. Not today.

The only place we HAD to go was the grocery store. So my kids and I went out to do that this afternoon. We didn't go to the post office. We didn't go to the recycle center. We didn't go visit my family. All things we routinely do on Saturdays. We did the one errand that we had to do out and about, then came back to the apartment and that was it.

My kids did help me wrap some Christmas presents for some of my family. Otherwise we just hung out.

I made them watch one of my favorite Disney movies, the original 'Herbie' movie, "The Love Bug". I've always had a thing for the old style VW Beetle. I think that's the main reason why I like this movie. It's by no means a classic, but it is good family entertainment. My daughter seemed to like it once she got into it, but my son did not. That disappointed me a bit. Aren't biys supposed to like movies about cars? Apparently not at six years old.

My daughter V chose the movie tonight, and she picked "Anastasia". That was good as it isn't one they regularly pick. Tomorrow night is my choice. I know already what I'm going to pick. I've already told them it is a black and white movie, made before there were movies in color. My daughter thinks it'll be bad because it's not in color. I'm actually looking forward to watching it too, because I've never seen it. I saw the 1976 remake with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange and I'll probably see the new version coming out soon because it's directed by the estimable Mr. Peter Jackson.

Of course I'm referring to the original King Kong, which came out on DVD a few weeks ago. I'll tell you how we liked it in tomorrow's post.

My son M should like it because he likes apes & monkeys. I'm not too sure what my daughter V will think once she sees it OR even if she'll watch it. It came out in like 1933 so there won't be any nudity or graphic sex, 'least I don't think so, anyway. Maybe a bit of violence but surely it couldn't be any worse than the violence in the programs/cartoons they watch these days.

What else did we/I do today? I sent an email to a friend, received a reply and sent a reply back. I'm doing a load of laundry and remaking my bed with nice clean sheets. We made chocolate/peanut butter chip brownies this evening, which we had for dessert. Yum. I'm also going through some of the stacks of papers lying around, selectively shredding some and saving others. While V & M were watching the movie tonight, I was reading the back posts of two new bloggers to my list of links, avery and wickedly blonde. These are two interesting reads who probably aren't aware I've linked them, yet. So check them out, ok?

You know, I've noticed that most of the blogs I've linked to are written by women. Why is that, I wonder? Could it be because I'm a single guy? Maybe, maybe not. Primarily it's becasue they are well written and interesting. And if I didn't link them, I'd forget their URL's, which would be a bad move on my part.

Right now I've got the tv on to "The Fugitive", because that's the best thing that's on, though I'm not really watching it. It's just on for background noise, which is what I do most of the time instead of listening to a music CD.

Oh well, back to work. The night is young...