This Whole Adult Thing

Right now, I'm sitting on the couch, watching Pride and Prejudice with Sara and munching on a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios (I bought one, got one free). I'm quite full and grateful that the pilates commercial isn't on like earlier when I treated myself to a cookie while the perfectly-sculpted and air-brushed pilate women did a 360 rotation on the screen in spandex. Why don't commercials for exercise equipment come on when I'm eating an apple?

I've been meaning to start this blog for awhile now, so I can finally cross it off my list of things to do. There's a point when I get so many things on my to-do list that I end up throwing it away because I get overwhelmed, which may defeat the purpose of having a list in the first place...this isn't one of those times, but I was reminded of that.

...Ooooh, pretty scene in the movie. I want to stand on the top of a cliff in the sunshine. This is the newer Pride and Prejudice and I've never seen this version before. I watched Bridgette Jones last night. The second one. I wanted to watch the first one, but of course Sara doesn't own that one. Gosh. Although Sara is so much like Bridgette Jones they could be twins. There's a funny skiing scene, too, and having just recently attempted skiing myself, I had to laugh out loud. (Sometimes I feel stupid for laughing out loud when I'm home alone, but not this time).

So yesterday I was on my way to Target and heard this commercial on the radio about starting the New Year. I don't know what product it was advertising, but it started out with, "Is this going to be another year of feeling depressed, bloated, sleep-deprived and spiritually numb?" Wow, how depressing. I hope not. It was probably for another weight-loss program since that's what 96% of commercials are about now anyway. Why can't we all just take multi-vitamins and be good to go? Of course, I forget to take mine a lot, so maybe that's why.

Since I'm on a commercial kick, I might as well mention another one I've seen recently: flavored Brita water. What? How does that work? You just attach a Brita thing on your faucet and push a button to get strawberry-flavored water? That's too sketchy for me...and not at all natural.

Hm, perhaps I shouldn't have started watching this movie. I'm really tired, but of course there's no way I can go to bed until the end. It's like one of those darn Lifetime movies...It's been a long day. I got back from New Year's in Minnesota yesterday, but my luggage didn't, so the airport people had to deliver my bag this morning, which means I spent the whole morning/afternoon doing laundry from this past week. Then Deborah and I went to see a play that had a good story but was incredibly boring. And I have now decided that even musicals can have too many songs. After that, Deborah went with me to Home Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond (to buy pretty bath towels). Then off to the grocery store I went to find a short supply of 1% milk and spend way too much time in the card aisle.

Finally, back home, but not before being stopped at one of those annoying "no turn on red"s. Sometimes I sit at those, wondering why in the world I abide by the rule when absolutely no one is around. I suppose there are a lot of things I do for the sake of following the rules that are at times extremely inconvenient. The only thing that keeps me from turning on red is the fear that there's a cop lurking around just waiting for me to try to be sneaky.

Well I hope this first entry has been at least 2% entertaining. I figured since I never wrote a wrap-up entry on my Australia blog, I might as well just start a whole new one. Why not, right?