Spring ahead!!

DO NOT FORGET TO TURN YOUR CLOCKS ONE HOUR AHEAD TONIGHT BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP.

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS ON SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd AFTER 2 AM.

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Aside from the cool, rainy drizzle that fell for most of the day, this morning went according to plan. We went to CBD in Peabody, Massachusetts for their first warehouse sale of 2006.

For those of you that are new to my blog and aren't familiar with CBD, it is an internet company comparable to Amazon.com specializing in Christian books, CD's, DVD's, clothing, gifts, artwork and novelties. Four times a year (this year only three) they open their doors to the public. This place is truly amazing.

I told V and M yesterday that I'd spend up to $10 on each of them. V chose a t-shirt and M chose a one-volume kids encyclopedia. As for me, I was looking for books based on the DTS website's suggested summer reading list. Lots of stuff to brush up on, especially if I should be accepted. Either way, more goodies to add to my library!

After the sale we came back to the apartment to have lunch.

Then we went to the movie theater to see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. It was a good movie. Not great, not as good as the original, but a pleasant way to waste an hour and a half. It had some funny parts, and was aided by the original voice cast returning. In addition, Queen Latifah voiced the role of Elle. If I were casting the movie, I would have chosen another voice for her part. The important thing, however, was that my kids enjoyed the movie and we had a good time.

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I'm going to see V for Vendetta on Tuesday after work, since the theather in Tyngsboro is now accepting passes.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be released on DVD in the US on Tuesday, April 4th. Definitely a must own movie, and soon to be reviewed on SNMR.
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It's now official. ABC's webpage is advertising the return of ALIAS on Wednesday, April 19th.

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More forgotten English words:

RHETORICATE- To play the actor.
-Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850.

ORPHANOTROPHY- A hospital for orphans.
-Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

BOX HARRY- To live in a poor manner, or on credit.
-Francis Taylor's Folk-Speech of South Lancashire, 1901.

1) To go without food. (Lancashire)
2) To make a poor or coarse meal; to rough it; to take things as they are. (Warwickshire)
3) The blank week between pay-weeks when the workmen lived on credit or starved. (East Lancashire)
4) To hurry. (Worcestershire)
-Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905.

The phrase, "to box Harry" probably means to box, or fight, the devil.
-Albert Barrere's A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 1889.

YORKING- To stare or look at any person in an impertinent manneris termed yorking; to york anything, in a common sense, is to view, look at or examine. A flash-cove [thief] observing another person who appears to notice or scrutinize him, his proceedings, or the company he is with, will say to his pals, "That cove is yorking as strong as a horse," or "There is York-street concerned." In using many cant words, the lovers of flash, by way of variation, adopt this term, concerned.
-James Hardy Vaux's Vocabulary ofthe Flash Language, 1812.

To come Yorkshire over any one, to cheat him.
-Capt. Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796.