September 25, 2010

It's been a lovely two days of more relaxing.  Dad spent yesterday at the Family History Centre (a quiet day) and I spent the day at the genealogy room at the library.  I was able to get a lot of information about Poppy's side of the family (on both his sides) which was exciting.  There were a few older women there who obviously come often to the room to do their genealogy and they were kidding with each other during their time there - it was so funny - I had some good chuckles. :-)  I now have to go through all my notes and find out where/what I am missing so that I can take my questions to the woman there on Monday and see if she can help me clear some things up.

Dad and I went to Blockbuster's afterwards - we took back last week's movies and rented 7 more for this week.  We took our list with us this time - the one we started based on good reviews.  We have watched three of them so far: "Gone Baby Gone" (not worth the watch), "School of Rock" and "Shattered Glass" (each about a 7).  We'll see how the rest of them go this week: the others we've rented are "Notes on a Scandal", "Finding Neverland", "Akeelah and the Bee", and "Whale Rider".  :-)  I spent time on the computer today checking out the list of movies which Blockbuster's Australia has online and wrote down all the ones I thought sounded good.  Then Dad and I checked out the reviews and we kept all the ones with a 6.0 or more on the list.  The next thing to do is to check what each movie is about to see if we think we would like to watch it. 

So, today, we literally relaxed at home all day.  The weather was cloudy and rainy and so going out was not on the cards - it looks like it's going to be more of the same next week (sigh).  But, spending time reading (I'm on a new book now - "Trust No One" - recommended by Char - and Dad gave up on the book he was reading and is now reading "All I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten"), cooking (I made Pasta E Fagioli soup) and watching movies.  It was just what we needed - that's what we're trying to do during these two weeks off - relax.  Dad checked out the mountains which we were thinking of going to for a couple of days next week - turns out the resort there is expensive over the holidays and it's quite booked up.  So we have decided not to go at this time.

So, not really too much to tell for the past two days and hopefully it will be more of the same for the next week as well. :-)  I want to be well rested when school starts again. :-)