Communication Breakdown
I have failed myself with this blog the past few days, so I’m using this entry as a way to catch up on things since the weekend. Sunday evening I went to Rob’s for dinner and to watch (500) Days of Summer with him, Chris, and Amanda. Rob made a delicious pork tenderloin and Caesar salad (with dressing from scratch), Chris and Amanda supplied cheesecake for dessert, and I brought some draft cider. The movie was wonderful and is now a new favorite of mine. I had such a great time with them and wish we’d gotten together more over this break (although I will be seeing them one more time tomorrow). Rob is currently searching for jobs (which could land him in Minnesota, New York, LA, or somewhere else), and Chris and Amanda are contemplating moving somewhere else where Chris can attend a different film program, so if and when all of that happens I’m going to be really sad to see them leave. I’ve gotten used to being away for months at a time and then coming back to see people over a few weeks or months, but now that everyone else is starting to make plans to leave New Mexico it’s starting to hit home that things won’t always be this way. The three of them (and Chris and Amanda’s son, Ethan) are incredibly important to me, so it will be tough to not be able to visit with each other so easily when we’re all scattered in different places. After leaving Rob’s I met up with Kevin, Laura, Shane, Dominick, and Andrew, and we wound up playing Apples to Apples at Laura and Shane’s house. Daniel showed up part of the way through the evening after returning from a weekend in Las Vegas, so he also told us all about that. I’m unsure why Daniel looks nervous in this picture. Also, Laura kept hiding her face whenever I wanted to take a picture.
Monday I wound up staying in since I hadn’t spent many evenings with my parents recently. We watched about half of E.T. until the DVD stopped working, so then we watched National Treasure instead. Unfortunately, I am a terrible blog slacker and didn’t take pictures that day. Tuesday I had dinner and drinks with Erika, whom I hadn’t seen since my birthday last June. It was great to catch up with her, especially since so much has gone on in the past seven months. Afterward we stopped by Best Buy because I wanted to buy (500) Days of Summer. I got the movie but, unfortunately, they didn’t have the soundtrack, so instead I got the most recent Mute Math CD, which I am currently enjoying. I still need to decide what to delete off my iPod to make room for it, since sadly all 30 gigs are in use. Hopefully Apple will be running a free iPod deal when I get a MacBook Pro this summer (assuming I am able to get said Mac…gotta use the educational discount while I still can!), because I need one with a much larger capacity. After Erika went home I yet again wound up at Laura and Shane’s house along with Kevin, his French foreign exchange student Nathan, and Dom. We watched District 9, which actually turned out to be a really great movie. I liked how parts of it were shot in a documentary style; I felt like that made it more believable and added to the emotional quality of the film. Personally, with all the recent hype and Oscar Buzz over Avatar, I think District 9 would deserve a Best Picture nomination far more in terms of the storyline and the acting. I’m sure Avatar will get copious amounts of technical awards, though. Anyway, Dom and Nathan both left partway through the movie since they were tired, and Laura went upstairs to try to get some sleep, but after the movie was over Kevin, Shane, and I watched a few episodes of Entourage, which I’m really starting to enjoy.
Today (Wednesday, though it has now passed into Thursday) I went with my mom to my grandparents’ house to have lunch and coffee with them and my great-Aunt Connie. Then we went to David’s Bridal so I could order my bridesmaid’s dress for my sister’s wedding (the picture is of the right color, but not exactly the right fit…).
Afterward, I dropped Mom off at home and did some grocery shopping to make dinner for her and Dad. I made chicken breasts stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, garlic, and spinach, a garlic and olive oil couscous, and asparagus and grape tomatoes sautéed with garlic in olive oil. It came out amazing, if I do say so myself. I know my mom enjoyed it, but I think my dad was a bit iffy since it’s not his usual kind of meal.
Later on, I went to Laura’s and watched (500) Days of Summer with her, Alicia, Kevin, Shane, and Andrew. Before we actually started the movie we looked through some photo albums that Laura has been working on of pictures from the past several years. After the movie, Kevin, Shane, Alicia, and I played Apples to Apples while watching the Sex and the City movie (which I hadn’t seen, as I never really watched SATC at all, but liked a lot more than I thought I would). So, that’s what I’ve been up to the past few days. Unfortunately, I didn’t get pictures of the things I would have most liked to have gotten pictures of (dinner at Rob’s, dinner with Erika, lunch at my grandparents’ house). I’m going to try to refocus on this thing and be better about both remembering to take more pictures and updating the blog, even if it’s already moved into the next day.
(Title: Led Zeppelin)
