Kicked off another rainy morning with breakfast and a first season episode of Sailor Moon. Usagi is thrilled when she's selected to be a finalist in a modeling contest in "Usagi's a Model: The Flash of the Monster Camera." Things get a lot scarier when it turns out that the camera owned by the kid who is running the contest has been possessed by a Negaverse monster...and Usagi will be on her own to fight it.
Went straight to work after the episode ended. Though I did get stuck in the register for a while (we were short on help), I spent most of the morning shelving three full carts of returns. I totally finished two carts, but got disrupted too much to finish the third one.
By the time I got out, the morning rain had vanished, replaced by slowly emerging sunshine. It was so nice, I took the long way home down Nicholson Road. Thankfully, I didn't run into much traffic, not even around the entrance to the shopping center. Probably thanks to the rain, everything is so green now. The leaves on the trees get bigger and greener every day, and the purple irises look like dark purple velvet.
Charlie was just finishing up when I was getting in. He painted the new walls in the living room and kitchen a simple winter white. He'll be putting new tile on the bathroom walls tomorrow.
Spent the next couple of hours after he left finishing the dusting. I do thorough dusting under everything in the house twice a year, in the spring before Lauren visits in April and May, and in October and November before Christmas. The bedroom always takes the longest. Even after all the clearing out I've done over the past few months, I still have a ton of stuff to dust under in there.
Ran episodes of Smallville while I worked. "Nocturne" is actually rather sweet. Someone keeps leaving Lana love poems at her parents' grave. Turns out it's a young man named Byron who is kept n the basement by his well-meaning mother and gruff father, who claim he's dead. Clark and Pete free him...only to discover that he turns into a huge, angry creature with amazing strength in the sunlight. Freed, he goes after Lionel, whose experiments at LuthorCorp caused his condition. Meanwhile, Clark and Johnathan are not happy when Martha takes a job as Lionel's assistant.
"Redux" was also really interesting. Smallville High is getting ready for their Spirit Week, but the discovery of a swimming star who has aged 50 years in 10 seconds in the pool puts a literal damper on their enthusiasm. Chloe, Clark, and Pete discover that a pretty cheerleader saps life from anyone she touches, keeping her young and immortal. Lana has her own problems. She learns from a pile of photos that the man her mother married may not be her father. Lex helps her find the man..
Worked on writing for a while after that. Rudy sets up the tapes with the Death Ray plans and hooks up an intercom, allowing them to speak to the voice of their unknown leader, the White Queen. She thanks Luke and Harris for rescuing Leia before explaining why it's so important that they destroy the ray gun. No one else should be destroyed like Aldera Hills and the Erso Shipyards.
Broke for dinner at 6:30. Watched more Smallville while I ate. Clark starts to wonder about his "Lineage" when a woman (Blair Brown) shows up claiming to be his biological mother. He finally gets his parents to tell him about the day he was adopted...and how Lionel Luther got involved. Meanwhile, Lana tries to see the man who may be her birth father, but he may not be happy to see her.
Did some Lego Star Wars after dinner. I didn't do very well on any of the bonus rounds I tried tonight. The only one I managed to get through was "Anakin's Flight," the Lego version of Anakin destroying the Trade Federation ship in The Phantom Menace. I just couldn't get the original version of "Gunship Calvary" right, and it took me so long to do the "Lego City" round, I finally gave up and went online.
Finished the night with Lovely to Look At. I go into more details on MGM's 1952 remake of Roberta at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Lovely to Look At
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