More Carrie please!

So much of today was spent lounging around.

I watched The Carrie Diaries for the first time and definitely not the last time. First of all, the girl who plays a young Carrie Bradshaw is adorable and looks like a Disney animated character come to life. Second of all, the characters have emotional depth and the storylines of the episodes I watched yield character development. The pilot episode involves the father crying about her late mother. It's rather gripping, but still lighthearted enough as to entertain you. I mean, in the end it's still a show with fairly cliche plots about a teenage girl.

And I read more! I'm working my way through the first book of the "Uglies" series by Scott Westerfeld. It's not exactly the freshest plot. A dystopian novel about a young girl bucking the new society's norms. Never read anything like that before. Ha! Sarcasm! Anyway, it's still the kind of book that keeps you reading, if only to see what happens.

It's also Mackenzie's last day with us before she heads back to The D. So we went to Polish restaurant her father saw on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. So expensive for some fairly bland pierogis. But it was nice to go out for some food with the housechums plus guest.

I hope she liked her farewell dinner. But she'll hopefully be back soon!