Wow, what a great day today was! My morning was all right, I didn't get enough study time in, but isn't that the way it always goes? Then I went down to campus to run a few errands, and I called my Mom on the way down there because it was her birthday today!!! She informed me that in honor of her birthday she was taking all of the kids (my siblings) and their friends bowling, so if I wanted to take some friends bowling in honor of it as well, she would fund it. I said "Ok! If i have time." and it turned out I did have time, but I'll get to that later.
Post-errands I came home and cleaned my apartment, which was a great feeling. I made myself an excellent lunch and then post cleaning took a nap; supposed to be only 20 minutes, but ended up being more like...an hour. Go figure. It's vacation. Then I posted about Thanksgiving, Diana came home and I talked with her, and I will admit (much to my everlasting shame) I started to watch "America's Next Top Model" with her. I loathe every principle of that show, but somehow I can't stop watching it. We all have our crosses to bear I guess...
Then I called Dad to tell him I saw William Shatner on TV hawking World of Warcraft III, which is just incredibly weird to me, and Dad laughed, and of course we ended up talking on the phone for an hour or so, getting updated on all of the family news/Green Bay happenings. I get to hear more about my siblings that way. I also worked on my author presentation for ENGL 420 a bit.
Then Taylor Kelly came to pick me up, and he, Nicole, and Dylan went bowling as per Mom's request. It was a really good time, I wish one of us had thought to bring a camera to document the event, but alas, we did not. I know for a fact however, we mentioned it was Mom's birthday and how glad we were that she was born, and cool enough to sponsor fun on her birthday at least 4 times throughout the evening.
Post-bowling (the bowling place closed early, like it's a holiday weekend or something) we all came over and had a rousing game of Chutes and Ladders, narrowly won by Taylor. Much to Nicole's chagrin. He was kind of beating her all night, because she went right after him in bowling too. However he did it with such class, I don't think I would have minded. It was a fun talking point. While we played, everyone looked over the books I brought home from the library; I have this really amazing one called "Go! A guide to the world of transportation," an informational text about EVERYTHING transportation, "Robot Dreams" which is a wordless graphic novel, much enjoyed by all, and "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick, who is a Caldecott award-winning illustrator who decided to write a book, but he was so used to illustrating that he would want to illustrate instead of narrate sometimes--the end product being a hybrid picture-chapter book, which is amazing. I recommend all three. Dylan had me write down all of my favorite books for him, no mean feat; and I even ranked them for him.
Then Dylan discovered that I owned the movie "Little Manhattan" which apparently he dearly wanted to see, but of course him wanting to see it prompted me and Nicole wanting to watch it, so we agreed to watch it, and Nicole would bring it to him tomorrow (by the way, I forgot to give it to her).
So Nicole and I watched it, and for those of you who don't know, it's pretty much the best movie ever, with the most likable narrator/protagonist I've ever met. I think it's excessively well-written, but I am kind of biased because I like it a lot. Nicole liked it too I think. Diana made us peanut butter cookies and I erroneously let Nicole have some ice cream, which is really not good, but I quickly realized that was a problem and took it away (with much grumbling on Nicole's part).
Nicole stayed over for a little while talking, and then hugged and parted ways.
It was a really, really, good day.
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