I know every step, I know every song

It's Sunday morning. It's cold and windy. (For us.) I'm watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on ABC Family.

I finished classes. Last week, I had two finals and a pretty busy week at work, so it's kind of a blur. I still don't know how I did in the classes, but deep in my heart I am hoping for As. It was a given in one class, but not so much in another. We'll see. I'm not really ready to reflect upon the experience yet, but overall, I think I'm glad I did it. I really liked most of the people I met, and I was really looking forward to a party with them last night, but my sister was in town, and I decided it was more important to sit on the couch in my pajamas and eat Thai food and watch Friday Night Lights reruns with her.

I baked about a bazillion cookies yesterday for coworkers and for a gift wrapping party we're having at work for the adopt-a-family project we do every year. I just ate a sugar cookie with a toffee Hershey's kiss on it for breakfast. I am a little surly that I am out of coffee. I'd go to the coffee shop but it might as well be a Nor'easter for how well I cope with a little nip in the air.

I've watched the first six episodes of Big Love season two. I think I like it better than season one because the audience is subjected to way fewer Paxton butt shots, Paxton's overall likeablility notwithstanding. I reread Mine for Keeps and continued my lifelong bow at the feet of Jean Little. I ordered two used old Ellen Emerson White books I've never read (the first two in her Vietnam series, as Zack Emerson). I have a date with my little brother to watch Once, which actually comes out on Tuesday, for real.

I've been playing with my new Flip video camera, which Rosie O'Donnell raved so much about that I could no longer resist it. There was a time in my life, years really, when I went nowhere without a video camera. It was something I used to love, and I am glad to have one again, even though it's kind of silly. My main problem is that the quality is actually pretty good for such a wee little contraption when I'm watching the video on my computer, but once I compress it with iMovie into a format (a Quicktime video uploaded online) where I can actually share it with people, it both looks and sounds like ass. I would like to figure out a way around this, but I'm not sure how. When I figured out how to split the audio and video clips and really manipulate them, oh, that was a happy day. I've only made a couple of videos, but they amuse me. Now I just have to figure out how to not make my pithy captions go by so fast that people have to pause the video to read them. Once I get a better hang of the whole thing, I'll try to post one here. I can't believe how easy it is to edit a little digital video now when back in the day I was using giant VTR tapes and some crazy editing equipment with giant toggle knobs. Weird.

Here are a few songs new to me that I really like: "Have You Ever" by Brandi Carlile, "Always Something New" by Matty Charles and the Valentines, "Eyes" by Rogue Wave, "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab for Cutie, and "Broken Heart" by Motion City Soundtrack. If my boyfriend knows anything, it's songs I will like. The last one is one I wish I could go running to, that is if I remembered how to run.

Soon I need to get ready to go hear my dad give a teaching about Advent and a family brunch. But I have a few hours to kill, and I wish I had the Hairspray DVD with me because I'd watch it right now.