Weekend update 5/27-30/11

So I just realized I didn't do my weekend update for Memorial Day weekend.  It was pretty good over all.

It was HDT's weekend to work so Friday night we didn't do much as usual.  Just hung out around the house.  Saturday while he was at work I did some grocery shopping and cleaned the house, did some dishes and a couple loads of laundry.

The brothers and Scott's kids came over to watch the UFC fights.  HDT's sister Renee was planning on coming over but ended up not.  She's newly sober so I told all the guys that in honor of that and to help her out we wanted a dry house.  Scott brought a couple beers and Roy did too but they left them in their coolers/car and drank pop and water instead.  When we found out she wasn't coming we let them know they could crack 'em open if they wanted to.  I also let Wayne know his rum was up in the kitchen.  But no one did.  I think mainly because it was already late in the evening and there was only about an hour left anyway of the fights.  And all was well.  So now we know if she decides she wants to come again we know it won't be a big deal.

Sunday I literally sat on my ass the whole day watching a marathon of Lost.  Other than getting up to go to the bathroom, let Poydras out to do so and feed us all I didn't do anything and it felt wonderful.  And even after he got home I continued to do the same thing.

Monday I got up and met mom at the cemetery for a Memorial Day service that lasted about 20 minutes.  Then we visited Les' grave and her parent's grave.  Did a little bit of walking around while she'd point out different markers of people that had been in Les' life. 

Then I headed home to start preparing for her and Jim and his kids to come over for a cookout.  Jim's oldest brought a friend along and mom ended up bringing her brother along as well.

Had a good time with lots of food: burgers, brats, hot dogs, watermelon, pineapple, red grapes, cherries, pasta salad and chips.  Our neighbors came over for a visit as well.  When they saw that we'd be in only half shade they loaned us their canopy.  And it being close to 90 degrees boy did that help a whole helluva lot.  After finding out it only cost about a hundred bucks we decided we'd have to get one for ourselves.

Around 4:30 we started cleaning up.  The neighbors had already gone home and mom and Dale decided to head out as well.  Jim and the girls hung out for about another 15 minutes or so but then left because the friend had to be home by 6:00. 

After they left HDT and I relaxed watching a show or two and then The Switch with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.  We both really liked it.  Very cute movie and the kid was absolutely awesome.

Since then we've done our normal weeknight nothingness.  After work we sit around watching tv while he's playing on his computer as usual.  Although last night he worked a couple hours extra and I mowed the lawn. 

Media quotes of the day:

These two are from The Switch - from two very different scenes

 I - - um, hijacked your pregnancy. - Wally Mar

Would you please stop having sex with your food? - Kassie Larson

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From Lost - many, many episodes throughtout all the seasons

 

Son of a Bitch! - Sawyer

Sorta sad

Happy Memorial Day everyone.

My day will be spent writing this, reading the sites I haven't been to in awhile (or at least just 1 or 2 entries), mowing the lawn and doing a little shopping. There will be no gathering at anyone's home for me. H Ditty has to work until 6pm, sucks to be him.

We saw the 3rd Pirates movie yesterday afternoon. It was good, enjoyed it quite a bit. It wasn't as good as the 1st but it was better than the 2nd. Which was the same for Shrek 3.

Ya know, it's kind of sad after you're done watching an anticipated movie or tv show. Sometimes even a book, such as the Harry Potter ones. It's not the big build up/bad let down thing I'm talking about. It's the Christmas Day thing. You spend all this time looking forward to something, anticipating how good it's going to be and it is. Sometimes even better than what you thought. But after it's all done you're sad, because it's over and there's nothing more to look forward to. You can watch/read it again but it doesn't hold the same wonder as it did before. You can enjoy it for something else because now that you know how it ends you can look for other things that you might have missed the 1st time but still it's sort of a let down. I'm not explaining it very well, at least I don't think I am. But that's sort of how I felt on the way home from the theater yesterday. Sometimes it's a feeling of wanting more and that is also how I was feeling yesterday. I'd like them to do a 4th but it should be it's own movie, not part of this one.

Damn, once again I had a few ideas of what to write about and now I can think of the others. So I guess I'll have to think of something else.

We've caught up on all the shows we watch except for Desperate Housewives. We finally went to do that one the other day. We have 5 of them and when I went to the oldest one and we're looking at the previously on portion to get reacquainted with it there's scenes that we never saw. It turns out that when I set this show up to record I set to only save 5 showings. As a new one would be recorded the oldest would be let go. Before when we were keeping up it wasn't a big deal but when we started getting behind I forgot the setting was like that and never changed it. So now we have to figure out where we left off and watch the shows online. Oh well.

We're both pretty pissed that Jericho got canceled. That was great show and deserved a lot more people watching it then were.

For any of you who happen to watch UFC. Did you watch the Liddell vs. Jackson on Saturday? Wow what an ending!! Actually all of the fights. I think that was the best show ever. Usually there's one or two fights that are boring as all get out but every one of these were something to watch.

Well, I still can't think of the other things I wanted to write about and it's getting late in the morning so if I'm going to get done everything that I need to today I better get going. Have a great day everyone.

Media quote of the day: Did no one come to save me just because they missed me? - Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End