Lucy’s Neighborhood

Just managed to catch up with some peeps in terms of their blogs - and it seems I have missed out on quite a bit! I must admit, now that uni has finished i'm finding it very hard to procrastinate because i'm not being left alone. I'm working 5 days a week (40 hours a week) and weekends I spent babysitting leaving very little time to sit down. This actually makes me rather depressed. I miss procrastinating!

As I was reading around, some people mentioned about their Summer (our Winter) projects that they're undertaking over the break. I want to be able to work on such a project! Making something, learning something, redecorating etc...

BUT:

• Time is limited WORSE than before
• My room is office-like and thus, adding colour and decoration will only make my room funnier

The only thing I've been doing that's "me" time is fixing/renewing my iphone.

I kinda wish I had time and an idea for a "project" to work on - keep myself busy on a different level you know?

All this thinking has made me come to a final thought:

Procrastination and lack of creativity

Ah, THAT's why I don't start projects.

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you can watch it on hulu!

Some Like it Hot

Some Like it Hot

Feature Film |2:01:31 |

This hysterical comedy (rated #1 comedy in history by AFI) from director Billy Wilder finds Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon masquerading as women in order to elude irate Chicago mob

original in every way

The golf course behind us puts on a huge firework display each year which means our normally quiet neighborhood gets swarmed with rude people who think they are entitled to park in everyone's yard, driving all over anything in their way.  If you put up line, they'll cut it.  People have to chain off their land to protect it from these rude people - yes real honest to goodness chain!  People bring their own fireworks and the fireworks from the city bring the noise level to an incredible level.  The golf course is covered with humanity, and I can't believe that they allow this on the green!  The noise shakes our windows and makes the groud beneath us move.  It drives our two border collies to a dangerous place.  And me right along with them.  I hate this!  I hate it with a flaming purple passion!  Would all these patriots just please go away and leave me alone?!  Why in God's name do we celebrate this holiday with such extreme NOISE?!!! 

Another reason to hate the 4^th of July.  Our neighbors are out in their yard setting up a pair of stereo speakers that come up to the shoulders on the teenager.  Of all of the portions of their yard, they party in the part that is right outside our bedroom window.  We struggle with them playing their music too loud most of the time.  And now they’ve brought out those things.  I hope it rains. 

Oh merciful heavens, they’ve just plugged them into the getto buster and turned them on.  They are both pointed directly at our house.  Their music drives me up the wall.  In my own house, with all the windows closed and the loud air conditioner on…  Please rain!  Please please rain!  Wasn’t it calling for a thunderstorm this afternoon?  Please ?  

I guess I'm going to be THAT neighbor.  I hate HATE the 4th of July.  We have to go to a viewing this afternoon of a friend's son who died.  That is horrible enough.  But we don't know what we'll find when we get back to our property.  I hate this holiday!  Rain?  Please?  We need rain!!!

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Useless web fact #432
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Nerd rating 9/10

The web universe increased by 3.9 million sites this month. When you

have a drink with friends this week, you can casually drop into the

conversation that there are now 172,338,726 websites in the world.
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A good many of which are utterly pointless. But make you smile.
http://www.exactcenteroftheinternet.com

and
http://utterlypointless.com/>http://utterlypointless.com/

My family is taking a rare vacation together this year. We rarely go on trips together-- in fact, we never really take "real" vacations. They're all just mini day trips into the city or somewhere relatively local. The furthest we've traveled was to Toronto, and even that was when I was in high school-- oh so many years ago. But after many years of talk, my pending departure for the West Coast has prompted a more active approach to our remaining time together (read: I finally decided to push my dad to help plan a family vacation together). So, early Tuesday morning, my family loaded our Toyota Sienna and began the long trip down to... *dumdumdummmm* ORLANDO, FLORIDA!

Yup, we're going to DISNEYWORLD! But because of the long car ride there (13 total hours), we decided to split the travel to Florida into two days and stop by Savannah, GA, on our way down.

There isn't much to say about our road trip down-- it was relatively uneventful. But I must say that Savannah is a very beautiful town. We got in kind of late, so we ended up finding a little restaurant called the Savannah River House to eat dinner in.

Savannah River House - House Salad

The house salad came with our (pretty expensive, although it was seafood, so I guess kind of understandable) dinners. It was pretty good, but a bit heavy on the dressing side. But my littlest brother ate his, which must say something, since he isn't a salad person.

Savannah River House - Peppered Shrimp Saute

My brother and I shared an entree. This was the Peppered Shrimp Saute, which was an excellent choice on his part. I am also extremely glad we shared the dish, because it was huge. It was flavorful, and the shrimp was tender.

Savannah River House - Banana Bread Pudding

• 10:38 Fluffy is sitting next to me intently licking her ass. Good times. #
• 19:01 Here come the thunderstorms #
• 21:02 @reesie: go go go #

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