Sunday 8 November 2009

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• 01:31 ♫ Touch - Jonny Lang lala.com/zWeD #
• 01:50 bedtime. i get up early to visit family in Gainsville tomorrow #
• 07:32 i'm awake, getting ready to go to UF, M&D just left for church #
• 08:19 ♫ Touch Me In The Morning - Diana Ross lala.com/zCuq #
• 09:07 heading to Gainsville! #

It's just me and Kris, going up to visit her son and daughter. I had already seen Charley but Nat wouldn't come home while i was here so she decided we would go up there, and spend the night. we started the trip by going through the drive-thru at a Dunkin' Donuts, there are a million of them here, for coffee. they goofed up my order.

• 12:39 we've arrived in Gainsville, pulling into niece's parking lot #
• 14:45 shopping the Oaks Mall in Gainesville w/my niece and nephew #

We also had with us Charley's fiance Ashley and Natalie's boyfriend Chance. Charley and Ashley expect to get married next summer on Catalina Island, where they originally met in the second grade. allegedly the day Ashley met Charley, she went home from school and told her parents she met the boy she was going to marry! I presume they'll invite me to the wedding but that will almost certainly entail flying to California, so i'm not so sure about that. Chance has a similar story since he says he's worshipped Natalie from afar since they met in the 8th grade!

• 15:17 i guess we're eating at the macaroni grill. never been there before #

i thought it was okay, the others weren't all that impressed. again a rather long wait suppressed my appetite. they came out to ask if my spaghetti could be served over a different kind of pasta, i said anglehair pasta would be fine, but i only ate half a serving and took the rest home. we amused ourselves by playing hangman on the paper tablecloth with crayons they provided while awaiting our food.

• 16:44 nice dinner w/the 2 college couples, on the way back to their apartments #
• 21:25 just watched the movie Spy Games w/the family #

Chance had given the movie a highly positive review. It was good, but not "the best spy movie i've ever seen". One peccadillo i had with the movie is that Robert Redford's narration was written not like he would talk but like he would write, there is a difference.

• 00:06 i'm the only one still up. my sis and all the college kids are morning ppl #

Kris had offered me the bed in the spare bedroom--Nat's apartment has 3--then she said i wouldn't be able to stay up all night watching tv, but i said "Forget it then!" So she took it and i slept on the couch in front of the tv. The truth is i was sleepy and kept dozing off, but i didn't want to go to bed so early.