I haven't been making the most out of my holidays. There's a voice in the back of my mind that tells me I should be getting a move on with life but in all honesty, I've just been doing a whole lot of procrastinating. My excuse is that it's the holiday season and therefore my laziness is justified but we all know that when January comes round, I'll still be doing nothing.
I've been watching a lot of movies recently, trying to edumacate myself and stuff. I finally watched The Shawshank Redemption. It was pretty good and I can see why Morgan Freeman is so renowned for this role. I'm not quite sure why it's the number 1 movie on IMDB though - but then again, it is IMDB.
Schindler's List was also crossed off the...list...of movies to watch. Ralph Fiennes is utterly disgusting in that role (a credit to his acting of course). In terms of Holocaust movies, that one felt pretty tame. I remember seeing The Pianist a few years back and that was just really really painful to watch. And The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas, whilst not being on the same level of critical acclaim as the others, hit me on a visceral level that Schindler's list didn't. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
The final one I can check off is The Breakfast Club. It was a great movie and it left me with the warm fuzzies but if you ask me why exactly I liked it, I wouldn't be able to tell you. Also, Tian wasn't kidding when she said it was basically about 5 kids in detention. I thought it would be spread out over the duration of a few days but apparently it is just about 5 kids in a detention session. Imagine what a bitch of a time the continuity editors would've had.
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So my parents have run off to New Zealand. My sister and I are on day 2 of being left alone in the house. I think we've done pretty good so far. We haven't starved and the house is still relatively clean. Today we turned the music up and just danced around the living room. But that got a bit boring after a while so I went back to couch-hugging.
Can someone give me something to do? I'm so bored that it's not even funny anymore. I would like to go bike riding but there's no-one to do it with. It feels kind of lame to go by myself and even then I just end up doing laps round the block.
I've gotten into the habit of taking the kids in my townhouse out to places just for the sake of keeping me occupied. We've gone to the park, to the basketball courts, to the shops for ice-cream and today we went to watch Frozen. Even though it makes me feel like I've run a 40k marathon afterwards, I'm at the point where I would be willing to jump off a bridge just for something to do. Plus the kids are fun so I suppose it's worth it. And they run errands for me afterwards because they're so grateful. I would be lying if I said that wasn't nice.
I've got a friend coming over tomorrow and I'm supposed to teach him jazz piano. But I lied. I can't actually play jazz piano so.... that will be fun. Apart from that I've literally got no plans until beach house in February. FEBRUARY GUYS. That's like, a million years away. What am I supposed to do till then? Huh? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO TILL THEN??
