I had a very nice, relaxing weekend. We saw Mad Hot Ballroom on Saturday; it wasn’t as good as I was expecting but it was still a fun movie. I got very drunk on Saturday night simply because I was at home with those who love me and I just felt like it. Now I know that (vodka + cranberry juice + orange juice) x 3 = drunken Meredith and I didn’t even have a hangover. I think I have only been that drunk once before, and I didn’t get sick then either. This doesn’t mean I’m going to make a habit of this - usually a regular wine cooler or two will give me a pleasant albeit short buzz. But I was in a safe space, and it was fun, so I went for it.

We did not go see fireworks yesterday, because neither A nor myself are fond of big crowds and/or loud explosions. We saw War of the Worlds yesterday with A’s dad, and it wasn’t too bad. I hadn’t been to a weekday matinee in a long time - tickets were only $6.50! At night we just stayed home and relaxed, and tried to comfort the poor cats who were all freaked out because of the fireworks that were being set off in our neighborhood. (I think some of what we heard might have been the town’s fireworks display; we are a mile or two from where that takes place and the sound probably does travel that far.)

I have been extremely blog-nerdy in the past few days. My friend Suzanne was having trouble with her Movable Type - it turned out she was still using the Berkeley database, and it likely got corrupted. I think we’ll be able to save her entries, but I’m not sure yet how it will go. Then today I helped my friend Cricket convert her smaller blog from Blogger to WordPress - and I managed to do this using only Lynx, because for some reason I can’t get to her site from my work! It was great to see her so excited at getting the little blog converted…tonight I am going to convert her main blog and then see about tackling a Haloscan comments conversion too. We’ll see how it goes!