My Day Off

I did it! I took the day off. I did a little bit of chores in the morning – I still haven’t done anything with the auction package from ABW, that’s next on the list – but most of the day I just relaxed. In the afternoon we went out to see the movie “Stick It” – the first time we’ve gone to the theater in a while, at least in several months. I was rather disappointed in the movie, unfortunately…knowing that it was from the people who did Bring It On gave me high hopes, but it wasn’t nearly as cute as that movie. It had about as much gymnastics as Bring It On had cheerleading, though, so I was pleased with that aspect. It was amusing to see Tim Daggett, Elfi Schlegel, and Bart Conner on the screen, but with all the hype surrounding Carly Patterson’s appearance I thought it would have been longer than two and a half seconds. Also, Mohini Bhardwaj’s name was on the meet scoreboard and in the credits, but I didn’t see her anywhere. Anyway, I will probably rent it from Netflix once so I can freeze-frame the gymnastics, but I won’t be watching it nearly a dozen times as I did with Bring It On.

After the movie, we went to Baskin-Robbins, which was having “buy one sundae, get another free” day to celebrate their new “signature” sundaes. I chose a peanut butter sundae, because I haven’t had peanut butter sauce since the local Friendly’s restaurant closed! Unfortunately the girl didn’t quite know how to make it, so it wasn’t as delicious as I was hoping – but it was still damn good. I replaced the officially-designated chocolate ice cream with nonfat vanilla, and having that in the same cup as the full-fat Peanut Butter and Chocolate ice cream was a bit odd. Anyway, it was a huge break in my diet, and two scoops of ice cream was way too much, but it was fun. I won’t be doing it again soon, though.