I finally went to see the movie Coraline today and the worst part was trying to quickly read through the credits to find the names of my friends who work at Laika. I saw two guys in the IT department, but no one else. I know some of their names must be in the credits but I missed them nevertheless. The movie was very well done and fun to watch. The 3-D made my eyes bug out a little. The only really bad part was that the tickets, during matinee pricing, was $11 for a ticket! Come on people, this is Portland, not some metropolis.

I’m still staring at the Kindle 2 in my Amazon shopping cart. I still have several books in my “to be read” pile and so I’m not in a huge hurry. In fact, I’m currently reading Shinjuku Shark, a book my mom read in the original Japanese. The gadgety goodness still beckons. It’s not like I’m going to spend it on dating or anything (and just as an update, 2 months, 0 dates — I wonder how Carolyn is doing.)

At least when I go to the gym, I make it out of the house for a while. Today, however, I took the day off because my back hurt yesterday and I didn’t want to aggravate it. I don’t feel that bad, but who wants to make things worse? Instead I spent ALL DAY (that means from about 10AM to 7PM) doing my taxes. Most of it was just taking all the Goodwill receipts and entering them into a the “It’s Deductible” web site so I could get them into TurboTax. It paid off financially but my mother’s penmanship is atrocious and it took some doing to figure out what it was we gave them.

It’s funny. I don’t mind paying my taxes and I’ll even support paying more, but I sure do like getting a refund.

I have even more Kindle 2 envy now. My sister came by this morning because she was doing her long run in the neighborhood and she brought the Kindle 2 so I could look at it. I’m not sure if it will save me any money in the long run. Now when I buy books, I lend them to my sister and she lends me her books as well, so we spend less than we normally would. But buying a Kindle 2 will cut down on all the trees I’m killing, won’t it? Oh, the choices we have to make.

So now I just have to do my mom’s taxes. At least hers are usually a lot easier to handle.