Aimless Wasteful Vegetation With No Purpose...A Perfect Week!

so lots and lots of people always remark on how lucky i am to be an educator and actually have a free Christmas vacation...and i 1000% agree every time... Then they always want to know what fun, excitement or great adventure I have during this week off in the middle of the school year...and almost every year of my teaching life...all 28 of them...i have the same answer...i am doing what i do best during christmas vacation...watching movies (sometimes I actually GO to the movies, but that happens less and less these days), watching network television, cable television like BRAVO and Lifetime, reading books...an artful, passionate, aimless, wasteful vegetation with no purpose from my couch...either couch, actually...sometimes my bed...which requires channel surfing and now, of course, since it is the new milennium, while i watch TV and movies... i surf the web!
i watched a movie a night...The Town...pretty good actually...Ben Affleck returns to his former cute sympathetic leading man stage...Toy Story 3 ...OMG sobbed at the end...The A Team ...still stupid but that Bradley Cooper is a mortal sin...Wall Street 2 ...not as bad as I thought it would be...hard to watch Michael Douglas without thinking sad but not hard to watch that cute little Shia Something...still haven't seen The Kids are All Right...actually waiting for KT to see that one...and i rewatched Hope Floats and The Blind Side... and admired Sandra Bullock again...
so...then i decided since there is nothing left for me to watch...i would do what i have put off doing for about 6 months...i would "redo" my Verizon account...(considered DOING something, by the way) since i have telephone, television and Fios internet and i am embarrassed to tell you how much i spent...too much...way too much...and after about 87 minutes on the phone i have reduced my bill by about $80.00 and ADDED Showtime, The Movie Channel, Epix and the best of all...NFL Red Zone!

Today i discovered Showtime and Laura Linney and The Big C...season 1... and it is by far one of the best things on TV that i have seen in forever...she is most delightful...funny, interesting, clever, endearing, intelligent...all those things that i so admire in women...what a character...i am 7 episodes in and only stopped so my family could watch basketball and i actually realized i needed a little company and conversation!!
Interspersed through all this is a book by one of my favorite authors Pat Conroy...this one called Beach Music...typical Conroy...800 pages of passion and prose to keep me up until way too late at night!
i also went to the mall and Target and DSW...and had lunch with my KT and friends...and got to go to a most exciting wedding on New Year's Eve...however I taped Dick Clark or Weekend at Bernie's...whatever you want to call him..because I love, love, love to see the ball drop in Times Square...and still have 2 days left...for football!
well OMG, no wonder i love Christmas vacation so much...well rested and ready to attack the new year...2011...how about you? anyone have any fun? get off the couch? have an adventure to share?please comment and make me look bad...has anyone done sloth better than me? the gauntlet is thrown...