Having said that, I tend to think if I've planned a flight with proper navigation, tracking VORs etc. then I count it as cross country, if I'm just popping up for a local bimble which needs no specific navigation planning as I know the area then it doesn't really feel the same.
Yeah, that's about what I do. If I've drawn a line on the map I log the time as XC, if I just navigate locally by looking out of the window at familiar landmarks then I don't. If, say, I took off from Cambridge, landed at Bourn, took off again, landed at Duxford, flew back to Cambridge, then I wouldn't feel that I'd been flying "cross country".