Pride & Prejudice; Turkey & 25

I have a lot of nothing planned next week. It will be my first week in a while that I can actually take some time out to relax! I'll have part of Wednesday, all of Thursday, Thanksgiving affectionately known as Turkey Day, and all of Friday, my 25th Birthday, off! No work! Yippee! And since I have school only on Monday and Tuesday I'll have 4 straight days of freedom! I can catch up on some leisure reading, catching up on my favorite bloggers and some ZZZs. More importantly, I can take the time to watch a real movie at a real cinema. Something I haven't done almost all year! Particularly, I am anxious to to see the new Pride & Prejudice movie. I sobbed when I first saw the trailer (watch it here). I thought that I wouldn't want to see it, because that really annoying Keira Knightley is playing the best female character in all of fiction, Elizabeth Bennett. But when I saw some clips, I was in awe. It looked absolutely breath-taking. And it will be a nice change from the 5-hour BBC/A&E mini-series that I'm used to watching incessantly!

In other news, my parents have finally broken down and decided to join forces and buy me an iPod as a present. I gave them the huge sob story of how, year after year, I get unthoughtful presents like cash and TJMaxx clothing (my mom works for the store) while other daughters get REAL gifts, stuff they actually DESIRE! I told them how everyone at work and school has an iPod and how it would save them money if they made it a joint gift. I even offered to buy it online for them (with their credit card of course)! They fell for it, so I'm getting a white 4GB iPod Nano very soon! I'm so excited. I feel more technologically-advanced just knowing it's on its way!