Restful.

Thought for the day: Sleep is wonderful, and it's a shame I'm never awake to enjoy it.

One of the things I always try to do the day after I get home for the winter is to get a lot of sleep. If I get up before noon, someone made me.

Unfortunately, it's been raining for two or three days here. Since that's unlikely to be helpful in and of itself: my grandmother's home, the place I grew up and come home to every break from school, is at the bottom of a hill 1/8th of a mile from the highway. The two are connected by a dirt road. And I do mean dirt, not gravel. There have been sporadic attempts at introducing gravel, but the hill is so steep that these attempts inevitably fail. So, when it rains, the whole road becomes one long river of mud. That is, in the places where it doesn't simply wash out into gullies you could hide a five-year-old in.

Such a road is not only difficult to navigate, it could seriously damage any vehicle attempting it. We're talking axle-breakage here. So, my grandmother's solution has always been to park on top of the hill in these circumstances.

Today she intended to set off to get her hair done, get a new pair of glasses, and spend the weekend with her beau; perfectly normal, she does it all the time and it gives me the place to myself for a while. All that's required of me is to help carry her sparse luggage up the road and into the car. On the other hand, since she had an actual appointment time with the optometrist, that meant that I couldn't sleep in today.

Actually, I'm not complaining all that hard. Once I'm up, I'm up, as it were, so I went about my business for the day, which mostly meant catching up on DVR recordings and watching the Netflix movie that arrived before I did.

Said movie was Summer Wars, btw. This was the third or fourth time watching it; it's probably one of my favorites. I know it's on my Wish List, wink wink nudge nudge amirite. Incidentally, since it arrived well before I did, my mother and her husband took the opportunity to watch it. The idea of those two, aforementioned husband especially, watching an anime, of all things, is hilarious and just a little disturbing. They liked it though, which I attribute to the fact that quality will always shine through, regardless of genre.

So I watched that again, and some new episodes of Top Gear that I missed. And I mean the PROPER Top Gear, from Britain, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May and Richard Hammond. The American one is such a cheap knock-off it's ridiculous.

Anywho. That's about it for the night. See you lot tomorrow.