last day

what i'm blue about today is that it's the last day of our holiday. it's gone by so fast! ah well. we still have today. and it's silly to dread going back to work, because i rather like my job when all is said and done. at the same time, at times like this i curse the concept of the 40-(plus)-hour workweek and the industrial revolution and the loss of the largely agrarian civilization that once was. money, money, money. damn it all. even if pennies will soon be worth five cents.

speaking of money, we probably blew more this weekend than we would have if we'd gone away. there were two big-ticket items and some meals out. on wednesday last, my last day of work before this break, kara succeeded in running her treadmill into the ground. the motor died and when she tried to fold it up (as it's meant to fold) the frame cracked. she'd had the thing for seven or ten years and she used it pretty hard. on thursday we bought a new one, a nordictrack. it'll be here saturday. it's nice; i'll use it too.

also, yesterday, we bought a sink for our bathroom, to go with the faucet we finally received a month or so ago. someone will come by in the next week or so to give us a quote on installation, but the sink itself is paid for. we're excited about the sink too.

and movies! thursday we went to see pan's labyrinth and friday we saw children of men. both were quite excellent. guillermo del toro, the director of the former, also directed the devil's backbone, also an exceptional genre-bender. he's fantastic with visuals. there were some scenes in his film that made me wince in horror, and there were some elements of the plot that kara and i questioned afterward, but overall it was impressive. children of men, directed by alfonso cuaron (who also directed y tu mama tambien) and starring clive owen (a definitive favorite of ours), also had some scenes of horror that were difficult to watch. clive is so very good, though, and it was an excellent movie. i liked it a lot. we made some good cinematic choices.

and, as i say, we still have today. we need to go to the grocery store in a big way and i think we'll wait until the stupid bowl starts. i might do some housecleaning, if you can believe that, and some more laundry. otherwise, some last-minute relaxing and perhaps crossword puzzling, until our all-too-brief holiday comes to a senseless end.