A mini-vacation
To keep my driving hand in (and for some gentle tutelage in winter driving), I rented a car this weekend. Got an upgrade from the nice neighborhood car-rental place (have I mentioned recently that I love the area I live in? I love the area I live in), but in all honesty, I’d rather have had the littler car—this one has a really sucky steering wheel that doesn’t like to go back to neutral after a turn.
Still, we got to go do some stuff that we can’t normally do. Went to the pet warehouse and got the Monochromes a piece of cat furniture that they can sharpen their claws on (in preference to our furniture, we hope). They were fighting over it when we left again; we didn’t even have to get out the catnip! We also picked out a new armchair, as the old trashpicked one we gave an extra decade of life to is… well past its prime, shall we say.
Then we went to lunch at Hilldale, which has changed out of all recognition, and while we were looking around at the “sidewalk” sales, I suddenly remembered that there’s a watch shop in Hilldale, and my trusty clip-watch went dead a week or so ago. Fixed in two minutes.
We wanted to see The Golden Compass, but just our luck—closed yesterday. So we took in The Water Horse instead, which was wholly predictable but nonetheless charming.
And now we are home, far too full to consider dinner. Mouser is playing on the cat furniture, and all’s well with the world. And we can go driving again tomorrow! If the car doesn’t freeze solid tonight.