Miscellaneous Monday #17

It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted a miscellaneous Monday entry and I nearly missed this one…

I hate getting other people’s mail. Lately we’ve been receiving mail addressed to a woman’s name at our street address. This is on top of the mail that comes to my cousin, dad, brother, mom, and friends. I don’t get it. It’s like the snail mail spammers get a hold of a real person’s name and match it to some available known address and voila… a reason to mail. I’ve asked the post office to only deliver items to us that are addressed to Troy, Melanie, or resident and the response I get is that they don’t care what name is on the package… only the address matters. Grrrr.
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I want to learn Italian… badly. I took many years of French back in junior high and high school, but haven’t used it. Not that Italian is that much more useful, but it’s closer to my family. I would love to be able to visit my great aunt’s in PA and have a conversation with them in Italian (they are second generation Italians… with names like Pelligrini, Stadulis, and Giudabaldi). I’m contemplating buying a copy of Rosetta Stone, but it’s expensive. I found someone on Craigslist.com who will sell me an original set of the disks for $75 (the complete set retails for over $400). I’m thinking it’s too good to be true. What do you think?
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Melanie and her friend Holly drug me to see the Sex and the City movie last night. I want those 2 hours of my life back. I will admit that I liked the series on HBO, but the movie just didn’t do it for me.
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Speaking of movies have you seen the list of summer blockbusters that are going to be released soon?

• Wanted
• Hellboy 2
• Don’t Mess with the Zohan
• Kung Fu Panda (okay, not a blockbuster but it looks funny)
• The Incredible Hulk
• Wall-E
• The Happening
• The Love Guru
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• X-Files

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Last night I downloaded a couple of new songs that I’m totally enjoying now: Handlebars by Flobots and Let the Drummer Kick by Citizen Cope. I will have to warn you that their melodies are very hard to get out of your head.