Weigh In 7/6/10 – “Holy Moly”

As the perfect bookend to the cheese fest that was my post of yesterday, I had my weigh in today.  And, um, I somehow, unbelievably, incredibly, lost 5.8 pounds!  I think I just heard a collective “huh”?!?!  I certainly know there was one from my neck of the woods earlier today.

I know I mentioned yesterday that my weekend involved Domino’s pizza and Krispy Kreme donuts (yes plural).  It also involved my mom’s yummy sausage/egg breakfast casserole, among other delicious items.  So it’s all even more baffling to me.  But I’ll take it. 

Work has been a fair nightmare lately.  Mostly just because we have been insanely busy.  To top it off, we’re pretty short-handed this week due to vacations.  So the next few days are going to be pretty crazy.

I finally got all caught up on the show, “Supernatural” (well, through season 4), and a couple of new friends (one of whom is the one who got me hooked on Supernatural) have got me hooked on the show “Firefly.”  So I’m now working my way through it.  I’m only three or four episodes into it, but I’m really liking it so far.  It’s got some great lines in it that are pretty funny.

I’ve also gotten my dad sucked into one of my favorite shows, “Angel.”  I’m so excited about that.  Don’t think “Buffy” is going to happen, though.   So I’ve been watching that with him a lot lately, which has delayed my Firefly-watching.

On the book front, my unread books just keep piling up.  Mostly because I keep getting new ones.

I read “Bridge to Terabithia” and really enjoyed it overall.  However, there were several comments and scenes making fun of overweight people that really annoyed the hell out of me. The book I’ve most recently started is Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles.” Talk about a messed up book. Interesting so far, though.

On Monday, I went to Borders to pick up a couple of books in the Supernatural series (based on the TV show), and of course a couple of others happened to catch my eye.  A friend got me sucked into a young adult series about a girl spy academy a while back and the latest one came out recently.  It is “Only the Good Spy Young” by Ally Carter. I, of course, had to snatch it up.

Oh, earlier that morning, I had gone to see “Eclipse.”  I know, I know.  I personally thought it had a lot of slow parts, but it did have some redeeming qualities.  While I think Edward and Bella were horribly miscast (my personal opinion), I love the casting of most of the other characters.  In fact I think Bella was my least favorite character in the series.  But I am looking forward to the last movie, as the last book was my favorite.  Probably because it was just so twisted.

Anyway, there were some pretty interesting previews before the movie (not the least of which was the one for the new Harry Potter movie -- can November hurry up and get here, please?!).  There was one that I had seen before, and it makes me cry every time (probably for obvious reasons):

While I was at the bookstore, I stumbled across the book that it was based on.  I, of course, had to snatch it up.

Also, along with the complete series of “Fraggle Rock” on DVD (it was on sale for not much more than the first season alone would have cost) that I got in the mail from Amazon today, I also got the book: “Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession” which sounds interesting.

So right now I’m struggling on deciding which to start first -- I think I’m going to put the Martian Chronicles on hold for a while.  I’m leaning towards either “Charlie St. Cloud” or “Fat.”  Will let you know what I think either way!

Have you been watching/reading anything good lately?