What I Did on My Vacation
Jan. 9th, 2010 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowWell... Two Christmas parties (the family get-together and gift exchange, and Christmas Eve dinner at E's place), two birthday parties (getting everybody together at the same time is a problem), two movies (Sherlock Holmes and Avatar), trips to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World, and a visit to Barnes & Noble. (Yes, that last item belongs with the others. Priorities, people!) A few comments:
1) I only took a few pictures at the get-together, and have been forbidden to post a couple, but I'll put up the best of them at some point.
2) I took a ton of pictures at the Zoo and Sea World, but a lot of them will need editing before I can post them. Still, some good stuff: anoas, meerkats, cuttlefish, puffins....
3) Kudos to my sisters C and O. We'd planned a birthday dinner (okay, it was a few days off, but you do what you can) for December 30 at C's, but Dad wasn't feeling well, so they brought the dinner to us instead. C and I exchanged birthday cards (hers and mine are close together; neither one, though, is on the 30th), and she reminded me by example what good meatloaf is supposed to be like.
4) I bought a handful of books at B&N, naturally. (I've finally read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, in the original English translation - which, by the way, is wretched. The translation, that is, not the story. Also, I reread Heinlein's Time for the Stars, a childhood favorite of mine, and found it rather troubling. More on that later, maybe.)
5) I also picked up some CDs there. I was definitely in an odd mood; I bought greatest hits albums by James Brown, the Monkees, and Cher. (From the Monkees, I wanted "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Daydream Believer". As for Cher, I mostly wanted some of her early work, like "Dark Lady", "Bang Bang", and "Half-Breed".)
All in all, a good break.
1) I only took a few pictures at the get-together, and have been forbidden to post a couple, but I'll put up the best of them at some point.
2) I took a ton of pictures at the Zoo and Sea World, but a lot of them will need editing before I can post them. Still, some good stuff: anoas, meerkats, cuttlefish, puffins....
3) Kudos to my sisters C and O. We'd planned a birthday dinner (okay, it was a few days off, but you do what you can) for December 30 at C's, but Dad wasn't feeling well, so they brought the dinner to us instead. C and I exchanged birthday cards (hers and mine are close together; neither one, though, is on the 30th), and she reminded me by example what good meatloaf is supposed to be like.
4) I bought a handful of books at B&N, naturally. (I've finally read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, in the original English translation - which, by the way, is wretched. The translation, that is, not the story. Also, I reread Heinlein's Time for the Stars, a childhood favorite of mine, and found it rather troubling. More on that later, maybe.)
5) I also picked up some CDs there. I was definitely in an odd mood; I bought greatest hits albums by James Brown, the Monkees, and Cher. (From the Monkees, I wanted "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Daydream Believer". As for Cher, I mostly wanted some of her early work, like "Dark Lady", "Bang Bang", and "Half-Breed".)
All in all, a good break.
