wa-hoo!

ok, so, my family has finally acquired a DVD player, thus joining the rest of the world in the 21-st century. aah, I foresee many hours of Lord of the Rings extended version DVDs and bonus material. heh heh heh. my parents were planning on saving it for Christmas, but, my brother and I were watching a movie this afternoon on our pathetic $10 VCR and you could barely see the TV screen cos there were all these white, squiggly lines going up and down the screen. So, we got the Christmas gift early. :) very exciting.
what else? I spent yesterday hanging out with Ben (Hardy) who is very cute and I think does not hate me too much anymore. we had fun!! we had Christopher, Micah and his nanny, Michelle, over for lunch. before that, i took on the slightly daunting and absolutely maddening task of looking after ben and micah for the morning so Michelle could finish up helping her brother with his term paper. it was madness! the two of them got into one of shelley's (ben's mom) plants and made total mayhem on the carpet with the dirt. so, guess what i spent half the morning doing? yes, scrubbing dirt out of a white--white!--carpet. good fun. ha!
anyway, gotta jet....