Penguins are cute!

I went to see March of the Penguins last night. What a great movie. Those penguins are pretty darn impressive. Although, having been in close proximity to penguins while I was in South Africa, pretty darn smelly. They have to march over 70 miles to find a mate, have a little penguin, keep it and themselves alive, all in the freezing cold of Antartica. If you haven't seen it, you definitely should.

Martinis, bad!

You know when you go to a function and they have those little tiny, plastic wine glasses? Well, if you drink about 82 little tiny plastic wine glasses full of wine, you get just as drunk as when you drink out of big glasses. Who knew?

I had a family function on Saturday night. So of course I made Christine come with me (I do not like to suffer alone) so we could go out somewhere after. She came to meet me and then we went to 42nd Street and drank a lot of martinis. First I had a couple of raspberry ones and then we started drinking these martinis that tasted just like vanilla cake mix, but with grated chocolate on top. So very good. I am not sure how many martinis we actually drank, but combined with the 82 tiny glasses of wine, I am sure you can guess what kind of a state I was in. The problem with sitting at 42nd Street drinking martinis is that they don't really hit you while you are sitting. It is not until you are up and moving around that you realize you might not be sober any more.

So we left the bar, and we go outside and I say to Christine, "You know, I think I could probably drive the couple of blocks to my place." And Christine, with great self-restraint, does not punch me, but says instead, "Are you out of your mind! Do you realize how much you just had to drink?" And then it hit me. Holy crap, I am very, very drunk and possibly not able to walk, let alone drive home. And then I fell down. So, sorry Christine. Thanks for not drinking 82 tiny glasses of wine before the martinis and being much more sensible than I was.

And then I went home and called people, people who really should not have been called at 3 am, or ever actually. Fortunately, most were not at home. Unfortunately, some were.

My new toy!

I am writing this post from home on my new laptop! I haven't had a working computer at home for a while, so I have been doing all my computing either at work (on my breaks of course) or at my parents. So it is quite a treat to be able to post from home. And next week, I will be in geek heaven as all the toys that I bought to with the laptop arrive, like a docking station, wireless router (so I can post from my bed), and maybe an Ipod. Fun!

My Favorite Place

My favorite place for online shopping, besides Ebay of course, is
Bookcloseouts. This is my favorite because they have BOOKS! Lots and lots of books, cheap! Last week I ordered 15 books and it came to around $42.00, including the shipping. They also have a great wish list feature that lets you put in the books you want and they will email you when they get copies in. Books, yay!