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( Not very coherent thoughts on The End of Time part deux - spoilers, duh )

Lots more knocking about in my head, but I have to watch it again.

Oh, and whenever we go anywhere, I have the boys completely trained to say "Allons-y Alonzo!"

Other than the gas/diesel snafu, it was a decent enough weekend.

Friday evening, we had the au pair exit interview, where all we had to do was sign paperwork. There was no trying to mediate – she already had her plane ticket bought. No point.

After all of that, Jeff and I sat down to watch Doctor Who. I know that people have hated Stolen Earth, but I loved it. It *was* a lot all in one episode, but I could get over that.
( potential spoilers )
melaniesuzanne suggested that I shouldn’t watch it until I could watch both halves of the two-parter, because it would mess with my brain. She was right, so we immediately broke our rule and found Journey’s End online. Hopefully one episode doesn’t push us over our net usage.
( More spoilers )

Saturday morning we took the boys to the playground, much to their utter delight, and then ran a few errands before bringing them home for naps. Jeff napped too, and I puttered, picked up, and read a little (I have no desire to panic for Pennsic). At 3pm, Berta took over, and Jeff and I readied ourselves for a date. She’d spent all of Monday on the phone, and unable to watch the boys, so we asked her to work Saturday.

For our date, we did something that we haven’t done since Henry was 6 months old – we saw a movie… in the theater… with each other! Of course, we saw Dark Knight, which was awesome. Wow. It would have been awesomer but for the idiots behind me occasionally dropping popcorn on my head, and pulling my hair as they grabbed my seat back to go pee in the middle of the film, but it was still awesome. I have fast reflexes though, and as he grabbed a few strands of my hair, I flung my hand back and whacked his arm. At least I got an apology.

We had a leisurely sushi dinner at Yamazato, and did a bit of shopping at Whole Foods. I get there so seldom, I want to browse and linger, but I managed to be not TOO slow.

On our way home, we stopped off at National Harbor, a new conference center on the PG county side of the Potomac, right near the Wilson bridge. The place is HUGE. It’s not just a conference center, but they built an entire neighborhood, with shops, piers, restaurants, and waterfront. It was big, fancy, and …. odd. At 10pm, the piped in jazz changed to a show-tune like number, and the lights flickered in different colors for a little “all about National Harbor” show. It felt like indoctrination. Trendy, expensive, and FAKE. Thanks, but I think we’ll stick to hanging out in Old Town Alexandria, which is trendy, expensive, and REAL with its plethora of “George Washington shat here” sites.

Yesterday, more errands, more picking up, a little laundry, and I got to sit out on the porch with Henry and enjoy a thunderstorm. He’s such a FUN little boy. I just enjoy his company, and hearing what he has to say. Eddie was napping, so it was easy-peasy time. Verily, 90% of our difficulties are with fighting, sharing, and general getting along, so put one of them to bed and life’s a breeze.

I watched the Doctor Who episode Blink last night on the laptop while I worked on sleeves. It's such a visual episode that I feared I might lose a little while sewing, but no such problem. I *knew* what was coming, and yet I still jumped every time those angels were on the brink of attack. Silence in the Library gave me chills and made me jump, as well. Eeeee!

Last night, I ( Accomplished stuff. )

( And what would a good gown sewing post be without more discussions and images of seams? )