And I sit at home looking out the window

Events of the week:

*playing with kids, of course

*the following exchange with nine-year-old Joni
    me, in an attempt to be silly/come up with a nick name: Hey Johnny!
    Joni: Hey Baby! (grins)
    (I nearly die of laughter)

*attempting to draw wizards with three-year-old Jilli with the aid of a kids drawing book. Mine, in black/gray ended up looking like Gandalf the Gray. Hers, in brown, looked like a bit more like Radagast the Brown, all messy and stuff. It. Was. Awesome.

*the misty/rainy/nasty weather finally turned back into snow. Hence a lot of looking out the window. It doesn't help that the neighbors across the street are getting a new roof or something.

*Dana has decided to like me again. She's even drawn me some lovely pictures!

*I did something very hard for me. I returned some Blu-rays to the store. Not that I was particularly attached to them or anything, it's just really hard to explain why Region B Blu-rays won't work on your Region A player in a language you barely know, especially when you don't like talking to new people. I didn't check the region restrictions because most Blu-rays don't have them. My explanation involved a fair amount of awkward pauses as I was trying to gather my brain and me forgetting how to say the letter "e" auf Deutsch when asked my name to fill out a form. But Mission Accomplished! It was pretty much the scariest thing I've done in a very long time. Go me!

*going shopping for entertainment purposes only after returning said Blu-ray set. I didn't buy anything. I need to get out more... or make some friends or something...

*an extremely long Google Hangout session thing with my family. As in, Google asked me if I was still there. I sure do love my family.

*and a lot of wasted time, particularly late at night. Typical.