Friday, October 6, 2006

Well, I, of course, was not able to wake up real early, because for some reason I got stuck with a freak body that’ll never wake up earlier than at least 9, voluntarily if I can get by at all with sleeping later. So, I got up around 7:30 and started getting ready for volunteering at Penilla (daycare for disabled kids). Since we were going to Penilla we weren’t going to leave until 9:15, so we had more time than usual. Well, I got mostly ready and then checked my mail and had gotten a good email and all I wanted to do was lounge around. Then, Shannon and I started complaining about having to get ready, because she just wanted to lounge in bed all day and I wanted to finish reading my email and write back. Honestly, it was sooo hard to get out of the house and we wanted sooo bad to just stay at the apartment. Well, we forced ourselves to get ready anyway and went out and caught a taxi to Penilla. When we got there we went over and knocked on the door and, for some unknown reason, it was closed! Like, the door was locked, the lights were out and no one was around. You’d think we’d have been upset, but no, we just looked at each other and a smile slowly broke across both our faces. We decided to take it as a sign that we just weren’t meant to do anything that day and that the Lord had recognized that we’d been having a hard week and wanted to give us a break. That set the tone for the whole rest of the day! We just walked leisurely home, taking time to smell the roses. On the way home we decided to go get a gogos and even to try and wait around until the hot ones were ready, because….we had time! Then, we wanted to get some stuff from Hala, so we decided, eh, why not. Once we got home, I wrote my email while she took a nap, thus fulfilling our original desires. Then, we went over to Podul and picked out a movie and ended up watching “An Affair to Remember.” It was the perfect movie for our mood and Shannon, who’d never seen it, loved it. We’d also made arrangements to go see “The Devil Wears Prada” with Jenna at Moldova Mall at 6:30, so right after the movie ended we got ready to go see the next one. When we got there, though, it turned out that it wasn’t actually playing there even though it said it was online. Jenna still wanted to see “You, Me, and Dupree,” but Shannon and I weren’t feeling it. Instead we got some food at KFC (sad, sad, version of KFC) and then went window shopping around the mall. They actually had some pretty cool stuff and some of it I think I might come back later and buy, as gifts, for some of my friends. I also ended up buying “The Terminal,” “Shall We Dance?” and “Gallipoli.” When we went home we decided to watch “Shall We Dance?” and I highly enjoyed it. The only thing that I didn’t like about the day was that though it’s fun to just do nothing, I always end up feeling guilty for it. So now I wish I’d at least gotten some stuff done.