We're really enjoying the new house now that we're fully moved in. Last weekend we attended our second 24 hour race of the year but neither of us were really on form. Jen was exhausted after a 75 hour week and I was, well, just exhausted. We had a great fun weekend but I really shouldn't have set a lap 10 minutes quicker than Nich and Blair because I've been tired all week. A bit of a setback really. Did spend a great evening there taking photos with the most stunning sunset backdrop though.
This weekend has been the first since we moved in where we've had absolutely nothing planned. It's been a joy of not doing anything in particular. That's not to say we didn't do anything...
We've done some DIY. That is to say that we put the number on the front of the house and put the bathroom cabinet up. However, we're still having difficulty finding out where you'd get light shades to fit our Osram Duluxtronic (sounds like a paint doesn't it?) energy saving light fittings. They're very bright and cool and all that but that's not really helping the decorating!
We watched movies with plentiful supplies of microwave popcorn. First up was Harry Potter's Gob of Fire. I've not read the books but have been enjoying the films instead (am I the only one that hasn't found time to sit and read the books?). Then we had a pizza, then we fired up Meet the Fockers ("What's that Jack? Petulium petulium") with... some more popcorn! In fact we had loads of the little popcorn seeds left unpopped. What do you do with those? Do you chuck them in a bowl and fire them up for another 30 seconds or something?
Finally we've been playing a lot of Pac Man on the Xbox 360. What a joy that has been. Jen has been reliving her childhood (it appears that much of it was spent controlling the little yellow fellow). I've become addicted too. This isn't a good sign. The Xbox though has been a revelation now that we've got it hooked up to Media Center on the PC in the study. We've been rewinding and recording live TV to our hearts' content here and the media center remote is the cherry on top - it even works the telly. At some point I might spend some time playing the 'proper' games like Gears of War but only if I can wrestle Jen off the controller... something I'm going to attempt right now!
