Week 0 - Shopping & DVDing

When DTM packed up and left on Thursday, I was suddenly left without my weekly date.  Gone were the days of free movies, ice cream binging and mixing and matching fast food to get the best of both worlds with Oporto wraps and McDonalds shaker fries. On a brighter note, perhaps my days of impending hypercholesterolaemia were also gone.  Armed with all this free time (surely uni assignments and exams could wait) I needed to find a new way to fill my Thursdays; not to mention the rest of my week! There was the suggestion I recruit someone new to take me to movies, but no-one sprang to mind and the audition process seemed tedious. Plus there was the fact that in the past I had only been willing to pay a max of $1 for the two of us to see a movie, and even then it wasn’t very willingly; so what were the chances I could find someone else who would accept this somewhat expensive deal?  There was talk of spending more time with M-dizzle but 5 days a week is probably sufficient already, if not verging on excessive. Beauty and the Geek was looking like a promising way to spend my evenings, especially since Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year had sadly come and gone all while I was at free movies.  I was at a loss for what to do and since nothing exciting was coming to mind, I figured I might as well record my boring efforts to find something to do on Thursdays.

Thursday #1 – there is some debate over whether this Thursday counts; yes it was free-movie-less but it was not DTM-less.  Nevertheless my night had to be filled as DTM was busying himself at an airport rather than entertaining me.  In a panic with no Thursday night plans for the first time in months, I did what any girl in my situation would do; I headed to the mall and bought a pair of shoes and some costume requirements for the following night’s fancy dress shindig.  A fairly tame Thursday night but care of some good bargain hunting and a surprise sale, I only ended up $52 out of pocket after my shopping expedition.  Hardly free but one cannot be expected to walk around barefoot.  Upon returning home I settled into bed with a quality DVD from a community television show circa 2005, yes, perhaps an oxymoron.  Too much excitement for one night, I left some of season 1 for another day.  A good start to my Thursdays without free movies but there is definitely room for improvement.