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So I spent Thanksgiving in Woodbury, CT, and then went down to Woodbury, NY to spend the next day with my parents and brother.  Since it was "black day" my brother and I decided to stop by the local mall.  We went into Sephora to continue my further adventures in cologne research.  The store clerk kept calling us the "Goatee Clan".  I guess we looked kind of similar, both sporting large black wool overcoats, nice scarves, and having not shaved in a couple of days.  Jon then went out later that night to have a good time with his buddies at a bar, while I stuck around the house like a wet blanket. 

Saturday I went with my parents to a Chinese brunch, swapped music with Jon, and then drove about 5+ hours back to Massachusetts.  My recent interests are the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle.

Sunday I went with Susan and the boys to see Harry Potter.  The film was quite good, and all the characters seem to be growing up nicely.  I didn't really agree with the casting choice for Cho Chang.  She didn't at all look like how I thought she would.  Worst yet she spoke with some kind of weird welsh accent.  It was also interesting to see the Ginny Weasley character in the periphery, knowing that she will be playing a larger role in future movies. 

Work was crazy busy when I got back, so I missed out on CyberMonday. I've been celebrating a CyberTuesday instead.  I'm considering getting Tivo for the boys for Christmas. 

This weekend, Susan the ski nut is going up to Sunday River for Santa Sunday.  Apparently, anyone who goes skiing in a Santa costume gets a free lift ticket.  I'll be staying in the city, going to the gym, catching up with work, and going to Jenny's birthday party on Saturday (Yasuna Murakami's wife). 

The weekend after that is Susan's work Xmas party, which I will be at with bells on.  My, the holiday season goes by quick.

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So yesterday was Saturday, and Matthew was away on a boy scout campout.  In the morning I went to the gym in Andover.  Then for the evening, originally the plan was to go cologne shopping and then go to see Pride and Prejudice at the movie theater around Boxford.  Then Andrew mentioned that he was eager to get the video game (Half-Life 2) that I had bought him for his birthday.  I had ordered it online for him, and it took about a month until it was released and mailed to me.  So the plan was to go into the city to get the game as well.  Then Sheraz gave me a call, and mentioned that some people were going to go and watch Harry Potter that evening at the Boston Common.  So we tried to shift plans to join them, but unfortunately, the show was already sold out.

So Susan, Andrew and I ended up going to Filene's at the Square One mall to sample colognes.  I don't normally wear colognes, but for some reason I had the idea in my head that it might be fun to look for one.  I used to like a cologne called Nautica, which was a very watermelon like scent, but unfortunately it has been discontinued.  On Thursday, I had gone around downtown crossing sniffing samples, and found a somewhat similar scent called Kenneth Cole Reaction.  Like Nautica, it smells exceptionally melon like and light.  On Saturday, I had Susan sample the fragrance, but she didn't care for it at all.  She said it reminded her of an air freshener that I had a while back (kiss of death!).  Out of fairness, it was an air freshener that had really appealed to me at the time, which is probably why that scent appealed to me last night.  Apparently I like fruit / citrus scents.  In any case, melon scents are out.  We then proceeded to drive the store clerks crazy by going round and round the counter sampling everything, spraying cards and each other, and most importantly NOT BUYING ANYTHING.  Unfortunately, after one samples a couple of scents, one's sense of smell starts to go.  Then Susan sprayed herself too close to her eyes. 

Anyway, the scent that I like the best after all this was one called Lacoste Red (http://www.lacostered.com), which basically reminded me of green apples, with florals and cedarwood.  Susan however seemed non-committal about it. 

We then went to pick up Andrew's game and had dinner at Figs.  Susan told me that she's decided that she really likes drinking Guinness beer, an exceptionally dark, peat black beer from Ireland with a creamy, frothy head.  She had not really tried it before I suggested it.  Something about the thought of her drinking Guinness was very appealing to me.  I guess it makes me imagine that we are meeting at a pub somewhere in the far north of England. 

I suppose that I'm an anglophile at heart.  Further proving my point, we then went to Harvard Square to watch Pride and Prejudice, based on the Jane Austin novel.  Decent, and often cleverly put together, but not quite as good as Sense and Sensibility.  Several of the characters bugged me.  There were five girls in the family, and many of them giggled way too much.  And I wasn't really sure what to think of Keira Knightley, who played the lead role of Elizabeth.  I think something about her bugs me too.  I think she looks a little unhealthy to me, like she is a overly made up anorexic giraffe.  There is nothing wrong with her acting, it's just that some of her mannerisms and aspects of her appearance disturb me.