As I mentioned previously, I came home from my parents’ house yesterday. I am off work until January 2nd, so I have the freedom to do whatever I please. So far, that’s involved sitting on my ass.
I thought I would do all these important things, like find my passport, fix my elliptical machine and put plastic on my windows. I guess there is still time. I did do all the laundry and it is folded and put away. And I did try to fix my elliptical machine this morning. I put a half a can of WD-40 on the broken screw and I could not get it to budge. The good news is that I found the replacement screw in my storage bin, so I just need a big strong man to come over and take the broken one out. Now where can I find a big strong man . . .
Another goal was to finally watch all my DVR had to offer, which is super-conducive to ass-sitting. When I first got it, I recorded any movie I was remotely interested in watching off HBO. For the last six months I’ve had my own private video store at a push of a button. Thanks to the writer’s strike, over the last month I’ve watched several movies, leaving only six or seven titles left. Yesterday alone I watched “16 Blocks” with Bruce Willis, “Inside Man” with Denzel and “Hollywoodland” with Adrian Brody and a bunch of other people. I’m indifferent mostly to action movies, so to say it was good really just means it was reasonably entertaining. Hollywoodland was just okay. The good news is, thanks to my diligent movie watching yesterday, I only have three movies left, two of which I have already seen but wanted to watch again. Oh, and I tried to watch “Munich” this morning and after an hour I really did know or care what was going on so I deleted it.
Last I heard, I am taking my friend Annie out for her birthday dinner tonight. This means that I will shower and probably start feeling a pressure to get something done within an hour or so. Oh, and I have to do the minutes from the last parish council meeting, send my sister-in-law a grocery list for this weekend and balance the old checkbook-er-roo. Those things, though done while ass-sitting, are not conducive to the ass-sitting way of life. They also will only take about a cumulative hour to complete.
You know I am only writing this blog so I can add it to the list of things I’ve accomplished today, don’t you? I thought so.