Missy's Corner

Ever since the economy took a huge nosedive, people have been looking for ways to save and pinch pennies anywhere possible; from driving instead of flying and eating at the dinner table instead of at restaurants.  New trends are popping up everywhere!  When I first heard the term "stay-cation," I thought it was a joke!  Some kind of nonchalant way of calling a person boring or unimaginative for staying home instead of flying to the ends of the earth on their vacation.   Boy, was I wrong!  Last week, Mister treated me to five straight days of vacation that stayed pretty close to home.  Leading up to his time off, we pondered about places to road-trip, possible family to visit, or just plain doing nothing.  Needless to say, I was worried my five days at home would become very monotonous and boring.

Anyways, the first day of vacation started like it would any day, we hit the YMCA for a little workout and I did my Pilates.  Then the "stay-cation" began!  There was a new movie out that Mister really wanted to see, but I was a little skeptical.  Many of my friends who had seen it were giving it rave reviews on Facebook, so I decided to give it a shot.  That movie people, was "Zombieland," and would you believe that it was AWESOME! Woody Harrelson was absolutely hilarious as the twinkie-loving Zombie fighter, and the main characters "rules of survival" were so basic and laughable!  While I could have had less oozing from the zombies, I don't think I've enjoyed a movie like this since "Shaun of the Dead" (another Zombie comedy classic!)  But the best part of the movie, was that I was enjoying it with Mister on a Wednesday afternoon!

Thursday was a little more subdued; unless you don't consider a trip to the gun range and firing off some rounds into a piece of paper relaxing! There was one guy there using paper plates with little red dots on them as targets.  He was telling me that he hadn't shot his gun in over a year and his accuracy was way off.  I watched him fire a handful of rounds into the paper plate and thought to myself "if that guy's accuracy is way off, then I don't know what I'm aiming at!"  I'd be lucky if I could group my shots to the size of a paper plate!  Afterward, Mister and I decided to hit the bowling alley, since we haven't done real bowling in a long time.  When we got there, I  learned what the senior citizens of Peachtree City do to keep themselves occupied during the week - there wasn't a single lane open!  Each and every lane had teams of people over 40 bowling their little hearts out!