I've been staying up later, and sleeping later. I do my household chores in the morning, swim at 11:30, then do a few more chores in the afternoon. I've also been trying to get in at least 30 minutes of piano practice every day, if I can.
With just a few boxes left to unpack, I haven't been able to work much on our new businesses and websites yet, but I have started getting all my ebay/auction/web gallery stuff in one place. I just have to take pics, describe each one, and list them.
We bought some new furniture, so some of my time goes to putting those things together.
Joe's coming home on the 17th, and Callie's coming home on the 21st, after her summer course at Brown. I made Callie's room really pleasant, but Joe is sorta picky, so I'm holding off on his a little until I know exactly how he wants it set up. We bought him a new desk and bookcase with plenty of room for his books and Lego Star Wars creations. I'm even going to buy some fishing line and suspend one of the star fighters from the ceiling to give it the illusion of flight, turning it at an angle so that it looks like it's banking hard to return fire. Yeah, my imagination goes crazy with Star Wars. Lol.
James also bought me a bookcase. The bookcase at my old house was pretty cheap, and James didn't want that monstrosity in his house. It also was woefully too small, with books on top of books, and the larger books piled on either side and even under the bottom shelf. I have some of my larger books in this cool old antique James already had.
We had a great weekend. James is painting his house by hand, which is an amazing feat, and paints a little every day after work, and a little on the weekends. It's almost done, and looks great. James has a really good eye for decorating.
Anyway, Friday night we watched The Accountant. Ben Affleck plays an autistic (probably Aspergers) guy who kills bad guys after his amazing math skills expose some corruption in a company. I thought it was pretty good, but the representation of Asperger's was from a boy's perspective. Girls with Asperger's present much differently.
However, at the end of the movie, they showed another boy who had lined up plastic toy animals in a long line. That struck a chord with me, because I did the EXACT same thing when I was a kid. I remember sitting outside on the driveway, lining those suckers up like they were in a Russian food line.
I remember asking for those plastic animals EVERY Christmas. They were always in the JC Penney Christmas catalog, and I would neatly but urgently circle that item with bright red pen. Lol.
On Saturday, we did some shopping, ate out, and finally saw Wonder Woman. I liked it, except the ending was maybe slightly too much. The movie, despite being 2 1/2 hours long, felt a little rushed, like they spent too much time at the beginning explaining Diana's origins and childhood.
When Diana, after marching straight through hundreds of flying bullets, deflecting each one with her gauntlets, literally single-handedly laid waste to a battalion of German soldiers occupying a small town, including busting through the top of a brick and stone tower to stop a sniper, the hero, Steve Trevor, tells her she can't go to a gala because it's "too dangerous."
Wait, what?!! Are you kidding me? She just BUSTED THROUGH a very solidly built tower like Godzilla sitting Miley-Cyrus-like on a wrecking ball. There were dead or unconscious German soldiers littering the street. And he had the gumption to tell her a party is too dangerous? LOLOL!
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie, but less time could've been spent on her childhood and more time developing other characters and showing how incredulous everyone should have been after witnessing her powers. As it was, Steve and his friends were like, "Oh. Wow. Diana is sorta cool, demolishing those Germans with her super human leaps and scandalous outfit. I don't need answers. She could be an alien or from the future--it doesn't matter, cause she's pretty." They all accepted Diana's miraculous super powers with the casual indifference of the freaking Accountant!
They should've been more like, "WHAT THE HOLY HELL IS THIS WOMAN?!! AM I ON DRUGS, OR HALLUCINATING, OR DID THAT WOMAN JUST MARCH THROUGH NO MAN'S LAND AND DEFLECT EVERY BULLET WITH HER ARMS?!"
And later in the movie, "DID THAT WOMAN JUST LIFT A TANK AND THROW IT? AND WAIT...IS THAT LIGHTNING SHE'S FLINGING AROUND LIKE A YO YO?!"
But nope.
When we got home from the movie, we played ping pong and pool...three games of each, and the person that won the most games was the champion.
It was me. I was the champion. Lol. I won three ping pong games and one game of pool, but I really think James let me win that last pool game, so I conceded the championship to him. Just because he's so great.
I celebrated by doing a running flip into the pool with my clothes on. James followed. :)
Oh yeah, I found a little ringneck snake in the pool the other day, and got him out by myself, using my hands, and I only half screamed like a girl once. I didn't think ringnecks were venomous, but after reading about them online, I discovered they are slightly venomous, but their venom apparently doesn't affect humans. I don't want to test that. But if I knew how reluctant they are to bite when I was trying to get him out of the pool, I would've been more relaxed and less timid. The next ringneck I find, I'm going to cuddle. Lol.
And yes, I know in the video, I said, "Non-poisonous, and I know that's wrong. Venom and poison are different. I'm not sure why I said "poisonous," because I'm usually sorta meticulous about that. Oh well.
James went to work early today, so he'll be home early. Maybe he'll bring home some fireworks that we can use to explode some things. Lol.
Oh yeah, I've recently discovered Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and I have to say, that guy is hilarious. And right.
Okay, I promise I will write about White Mountain tomorrow, or maybe tonight! Sorry for the delay!
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