I'm back from TJ's where I ran through most of $125 worth of gift cards.

But now I have Jameson's in the house.

Plus a bunch of the yummy easy treats (brie en croute, crabcakes) as well as staples.

I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching The Age of Believing a TCM documentary about the live-action films at Disney. I hadn't really thought about how much those movies were still around in my 70s childhood, as the Air Force Base theater showed them all in re-release, so I saw In Search of Castaways, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues and Darby O'Gill and Bedknobs and Broomsticks and all that on a screen.

They had interviews with all the child actors - Kurt Russell, of course, but also intereting to see Hayley Mills (still very cute) and Karen Dotrice (the young girl in Mary Poppins. As an adult she's a dead ringer for J.K. Rowling.)

Snow day tomorrow!! Do you think stores will be open? I kind of hope not, for the employees' sake, but will be looking to get out of the house at some point...

OK, what? Washing machine cleaner??

The world has gone mad.

I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching The Age of Believing a TCM documentary about the live-action films at Disney. I hadn't really thought about how much those movies were still around in my 70s childhood, as the Air Force Base theater showed them all in re-release, so I saw In Search of Castaways, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues and Darby O'Gill and Bedknobs and Broomsticks and all that on a screen.

I'd wanted to watch that, but only noticed it after it was half over. I guess they'll show it again. The neighborhood where my family vacations in Maine has a community center with various sorts of activities, and when I was a kid, they'd have kids' activities in the evenings once or twice a week so that our parents could have a night out. There was a movie night every other week, and I guess they figured that most people were only there for two weeks and thus would only send kids to movie night once, so they'd show Pete's Dragon every time. We were there for a month, several summers in a row, and I ended up nearly memorizing that movie.

I'm gonna see if I can wrangle myself a pedicure, but seeing how as my SIL thinks she'll have to be at work tomorrow, and my brother has to go feed his cells, and I'll have the boys, since might as well save them a day of daycare...yeah. Pedicure and boys and my brother's cars, nsm.

Still freaky cold for Alabama.

and I ended up nearly memorizing that movie.

Well, it does have one really good song in it.

We're marathoning The Unit. I didn't know Mrs. Ryan was played by David Mamet's wife.

My 3.5 year old nephew has eaten most of a pot of shells and cheese. I don't know how he fits that in his stomach.

Hubby is under the impression that minutes get used even if you have it on, not just when you're getting or receiving a call.

Connie -- What Cashmere said, but: you only use minutes if you're making a call, not if someone else calls you. Or if you send or read a text (I think it's a 1/2 minute per text). The minutes do expire, but when you add more the old ones are extended as well -- basically, when you add time you are adding minutes and extending the expiration date for all your minutes.

I have a Tracfone, and it deducts minutes both when I make a call and when someone else calls me. Texts use up .3 minutes each, again both sending and receiving.

Also, merry Christmas/holiday weekend/snowpocalypse, everyone! We're in Oklahoma City, and will be trying to fly up to Massachusetts tomorrow to see my family. (We were supposed to fly up today, but that didn't go so well...) It's been a pretty good Christmas -- difficult, of course, since it's the first Christmas without DH's brother, so there was little in the way of real merriment, but it was good to be together and to remember Joey. M. and I got some alone time in the evening to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special together, which was silly and fun, just what we needed.

And now that I'm caught up on the board, it's time to catch up on the other thing that Christmas is all about: reading!

am pulling wireless from my aunt and uncle's house next door. woo hoo! internet at GG's!

that's all. now i must sleep. no snow in texas.

I have a Tracfone, and it deducts minutes both when I make a call and when someone else calls me

Oh, d'oh. I thought it didn't, but sure enough: I are dumb. I hardly ever take calls on it so I probably misread the last time that came up.