Sunday Ramblings

Good Morning! I woke up singing to the girls this morning – the song was “Good Morning” – that great show tune performed by Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, and Donald O’Connor in Singing In The Rain! I often sing show tunes to the girls to set the mood for the day! They LOVE it when I sing to them – they dance around, whine and bark, and excitedly egg me on (or maybe they are trying their darnedest to get me to stop – not sure, but either way, it is fun!)

So – today promises to be a great day!!! Not weather-wise, unfortunately, though — it appears that my choice of using a song from Singing In The Rain might have been one of my more appropriate choices of the day! It is supposed to get up to around 50-ish, but rain this afternoon sometime. Oh well – that’s OK – it won’t spoil my mood or my day — in fact, maybe it will prompt a full blown rendition of the title song from that movie later on – me singing lead and the girls singing back up! You can get your tickets here – it is sure to be a Grammy winner for “Best Living Room Performance by a Whacko and her Dogs”!!! ha-ha

Yesterday was really nice, too — I saw the movie that I reviewed in the previous post — again, what a treat that was! Then, I had lunch with some friends at the Brathaus (the authentic German restaurant here in town) — wow — what a good lunch! I had the Goulash – I haven’t tried it yet and it was a good time to do it! Like a lot of truly authentic food, it wasn’t what I am used to for Goulash – to me, Goulash is macaroni, tomato sauce, hamburger, onions, peppers, etc….. this was big chunks of tender, delicious roast beef in a thick, rich gravy that tasted like heaven!!! For $4.99, I got a nice size bowl of Goulash and two slices of garlic bread – it was good, filling, and really hit the spot – can’t beat that with a stick!!! I then did some shopping and went home.

The only problem with yesterday was the issues with the internet!!! I’m not sure what was going on, but I think it was all over the place — my Mom in Western NY was having some of the same problems I was having and another friend in another state wrote me an email late last night saying they started to send me something earlier, but kept getting kicked off!!! I got on line, checked some emails, wrote one to my Mom telling her all about the movie and my day, and started to write my movie review post and I lost my internet connection and the cable modem didn’t have the right lights flashing to show that I would be able to get back on!!! I was about 1/2 way through my brilliant description the movie and I was at risk of losing all that I had written!!! uugghh!!! If I tried the usual shutting down and resetting the modems and starting back up, it would be all gone and I would have to start all over again!!! So, I kept the frozen IE window open with my half written post still showing and I quickly opened up AOL to sign on using DIAL UP, which gave me back my connection to IE and I was able to finish my post! WHEW!!! But – I wanted to include a pic of the movie poster and since I was signed on using DIAL UP, it was taking an eternity – so I just posted it without the pic and went back later and added it (nice touch to the post, huh?)! In the mean time, I could hear my AOL account in a minimized window repeatedly saying “Hello, Gorgeous” and “See You Later, Babe” (the sounds I have set up as the greeting to me when a buddy comes on or leaves. What? You mean to tell me you don’t take advantage of shameless ego boosts whenever possible?). It was going on constantly, one after the other, taking turns as someone was coming and going over and over and over……………..I toggled over to AOL to see what was going on and found it was Mom — she was on and off and on and off — she was getting kicked off and going through the auto reconnect and instantly getting kicked off in a vicious cycle – she finally gave up!!! I was OK with DIAL UP (well, by OK I mean I was connected – not that I was being particularly productive or speedy) for a while – then, I started going through the getting kicked off cycle and finally got to where I couldn’t connect or stay connected with DIAL UP OR CABLE!!!! I guess it wasn’t necessarily AOL, Charter, the phone lines, the cable lines, or anything specific to the area — it must have been something out of whack with the universe or a major pile up on the information super highway (hope there were no casualties) — at any rate, I was a couple hours where I was not able to be connected!!! Luckily, the phone and cable TV was unaffected!!! ha-ha

Anyway — as for today: I have to go in to the office for a little while to finish up my monthly reports, but that won’t take me long – I may even just pop in long enough to grab my laptop and bring it home to do that later tonight instead of doing it in the office – not sure, yet! I’d like to see the movie 27 Dresses, but it’s only playing at the Crossroads 20 in Cary and I hate to drive in there, if I can avoid it (traffic is horrid and I find it hard to get in and out and around in that area) – I wish I knew if Sanford was going to get that movie soon or not — might help me make that decision! We’ll see – you might see another movie review later or maybe not! If I do go in to Cary for the movie, I might take the opportunity to run into Cary Towne Center and PetSmart while I’m there and get some things that I’ve been meaning to get and haven’t wanted to go up there for……hhhmmm, a trip up there is sounding better and better! Or, maybe I’ll just stay home and veg out watching LifeTime movies all day…….afterall, it is Sunday – the day of rest!

So — here’s to the day being as lovely as I think it will be………the girls are enjoying it, so far – they are outside running like the wind and playing and rough housing and burning off a ton of energy – hopefully, that means they will be good and tired when they have to be inside when it rains later!

Happy Sunday!