So I don't get the women in my office building. We have several businesses on our floor that all use the same bathroom.
I couldn't tell you how many times I go in there and the counter around the sink is all wet.
Really? You can't wipe down the excess water after you're done? Really?
At least the rest of the bathroom is clean.
Oh wait, not quite.
They also can't get their paper towels into the wastebasket. Which is really really sad considering it's an open trash can. And it's a wide one at that.
UGH!
Although, admittedly, the paper towels in the garbage can isn't nearly as bad as the water. They've gone whole weeks with getting them in there. But still....
Media quote of the day:
Let me guess... it was in the garbage. - Robin Scherbatsky - How I Met Your Mother
No, no it wasn't, that's the problem - me
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Little bit of this and a little bit of that
So we went ahead and upgraded our cell phones to the 4s. We also got one for his mom (she paid us back) and added her to our plan. HDiTty has been having fun playing with Siri. I on the other hand keep forgetting she's there so haven't used her once. Oh well, I'm sure I will one of these days.
While we were at the Apple store I looked at the cases they had and didn't find anything I liked for myself but found a perfect one for his mom. She loves all things Paris, France related. They have a cover that's a black and white picture of the Eiffel Tower and then has a little green VW bug parked in front. I showed it to HDT to see if he thought she'd like it since I wasn't so sure about it 'cause of the bug. He thought she would so we bought it as well.
He went over to her place to help her set the phone up and she gave me a call to let me know she was excited that we got the phone (she thought it wouldn't be for a little while longer) and also to thank me for the cover. She said she loved it and although it was a little green bug and not a little blue mini cooper she was just fine with it. That it was close enough. So that made me happy.
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We STILL haven't done anything more in the kitchen. We have such good intentions but are just lazy about it. One day we'll get there. The good thing is is that we don't plan on moving any time soon, if ever, so there's no rush.
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My job is still going good. I'm liking it a whole lot. Totally different from what I used to do and every now and then I feel a little worried that I'm gonna screw something up but at least those thoughts are fleeting.
We'll be moving to a new building this summer and from the little bit I've heard it sounds like we're all going to have our own offices. Which if that's the case, YIPPEE. I don't mind too much being out in the middle of everything but there are days that it gets old.
We shall see.
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We saw The Hunger Games on Saturday. Went with Jim, his sister and her husband. We both very much enjoyed it. Now I feel compelled to go get the books and read 'em before the next one comes out. The whole way home we're all asking Wendy questions since she's the only one who's read 'em. My big question was was she disappointed with any of the changes. She said no. They of course left out some things that she would've liked to have seen but understands that it was for time and they weren't necessary for story to be understood. Also that Rue was slightly bigger than expected since she's described as small like Prim. But that didn't really bother her per se just that she didn't expect it. Although, truthfully, I'd have to see the two girls standing side by side to see a difference because I didn't see where Rue was all that much bigger than Prim. Ah well.
With all the hate that's being thrown out there about Rue and Thresh being black I was very happy that she didn't say anything at all about the color of her skin. Not that I knew about any of the hateful stuff before we went. But after reading the Jezebel site I recalled what she said and it was only about her size, nothing about her being black.
Media quote of the day:
Thank you for your consideration. - Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. - President Snow - The Hunger Games
While we were at the Apple store I looked at the cases they had and didn't find anything I liked for myself but found a perfect one for his mom. She loves all things Paris, France related. They have a cover that's a black and white picture of the Eiffel Tower and then has a little green VW bug parked in front. I showed it to HDT to see if he thought she'd like it since I wasn't so sure about it 'cause of the bug. He thought she would so we bought it as well.
He went over to her place to help her set the phone up and she gave me a call to let me know she was excited that we got the phone (she thought it wouldn't be for a little while longer) and also to thank me for the cover. She said she loved it and although it was a little green bug and not a little blue mini cooper she was just fine with it. That it was close enough. So that made me happy.
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We STILL haven't done anything more in the kitchen. We have such good intentions but are just lazy about it. One day we'll get there. The good thing is is that we don't plan on moving any time soon, if ever, so there's no rush.
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My job is still going good. I'm liking it a whole lot. Totally different from what I used to do and every now and then I feel a little worried that I'm gonna screw something up but at least those thoughts are fleeting.
We'll be moving to a new building this summer and from the little bit I've heard it sounds like we're all going to have our own offices. Which if that's the case, YIPPEE. I don't mind too much being out in the middle of everything but there are days that it gets old.
We shall see.
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We saw The Hunger Games on Saturday. Went with Jim, his sister and her husband. We both very much enjoyed it. Now I feel compelled to go get the books and read 'em before the next one comes out. The whole way home we're all asking Wendy questions since she's the only one who's read 'em. My big question was was she disappointed with any of the changes. She said no. They of course left out some things that she would've liked to have seen but understands that it was for time and they weren't necessary for story to be understood. Also that Rue was slightly bigger than expected since she's described as small like Prim. But that didn't really bother her per se just that she didn't expect it. Although, truthfully, I'd have to see the two girls standing side by side to see a difference because I didn't see where Rue was all that much bigger than Prim. Ah well.
With all the hate that's being thrown out there about Rue and Thresh being black I was very happy that she didn't say anything at all about the color of her skin. Not that I knew about any of the hateful stuff before we went. But after reading the Jezebel site I recalled what she said and it was only about her size, nothing about her being black.
Media quote of the day:
Thank you for your consideration. - Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. - President Snow - The Hunger Games
Friday, March 16, 2012
Upgrades
So not much has been going on with us these last couple weeks. We've been trying to eat better and exercise more. That comes and goes, hasn't become a habit yet. But I am doing it more than before so that's always good.
The weather has turned nice and we've been able to take Poydras for a walk that we all enjoy. Need to do that way more than we ever have before as well. We all could use it.
We still haven't done anything more in the kitchen. Like I've said more than once we are the King and Queen of Procrastination. I'm thinking I might do something with the walls this weekend. He's working this weekend so it's not like I can do much more than scraping the peeling paint off the one wall and washing all the others. But he should have an 8 hour day on Saturday, if so we're thinking of going to Home Depot or one of the other places and getting the wood necessary to do the shelves in the pantry.
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Last Saturday we took Sarge and his family to Plum Garden, our favorite Chinese restaurant. We talked it up so much that I started to worry we did it too much. But luckily he and his whole family loved everything they got and were delighted with all the food they were taking home for leftovers. HDT even got more than he expected because one of the boys doesn't like leftovers and since he got the same as HDT the leftovers went home with us. They agreed that the 35-45 minute drive is completely worth it. Which made us very happy.
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Let's see, anything else? Oh yeah, we're upgrading our cell phones. We're each getting the 4s iphones now. I was originally going to get HDT's when he upgraded to the 4s but he really wants me to get one as well so he's going to push to sell his X-Box and then we'll also be selling one of our phones now and that'll pay for my upgrade and possibly even his. His mom wants to get put on our plan and will either be buying my phone or his. Although I think it'd be better for her to get his since mine is now having battery issues. The battery has been draining very fast compared to before these last couple of days. So the upgrades are coming at just the right time.
That's about it really, nothing special.
Media quote of the day:
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special
Just a couple little lines from Radiohead's Creep
The weather has turned nice and we've been able to take Poydras for a walk that we all enjoy. Need to do that way more than we ever have before as well. We all could use it.
We still haven't done anything more in the kitchen. Like I've said more than once we are the King and Queen of Procrastination. I'm thinking I might do something with the walls this weekend. He's working this weekend so it's not like I can do much more than scraping the peeling paint off the one wall and washing all the others. But he should have an 8 hour day on Saturday, if so we're thinking of going to Home Depot or one of the other places and getting the wood necessary to do the shelves in the pantry.
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Last Saturday we took Sarge and his family to Plum Garden, our favorite Chinese restaurant. We talked it up so much that I started to worry we did it too much. But luckily he and his whole family loved everything they got and were delighted with all the food they were taking home for leftovers. HDT even got more than he expected because one of the boys doesn't like leftovers and since he got the same as HDT the leftovers went home with us. They agreed that the 35-45 minute drive is completely worth it. Which made us very happy.
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Let's see, anything else? Oh yeah, we're upgrading our cell phones. We're each getting the 4s iphones now. I was originally going to get HDT's when he upgraded to the 4s but he really wants me to get one as well so he's going to push to sell his X-Box and then we'll also be selling one of our phones now and that'll pay for my upgrade and possibly even his. His mom wants to get put on our plan and will either be buying my phone or his. Although I think it'd be better for her to get his since mine is now having battery issues. The battery has been draining very fast compared to before these last couple of days. So the upgrades are coming at just the right time.
That's about it really, nothing special.
Media quote of the day:
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special
Just a couple little lines from Radiohead's Creep
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Birthday weekend
So it was my birthday on Sunday. I'm an old 42 now. Since it wasn't a milestone birthday and I really didn't care what we did we didn't do much. Saturday evening we collected Jim and went to see a couple movies. First was Chronicle, which was a fun movie over all, about as good as expected what with all the twitter love it was gettin. Then we went to Chili's for dinner then headed up to a different theater to watch Safe House. Which was actually better than I expected. I do love me some Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington.
After that we just headed home where we just hung out for little while before Jim went home. Then HDT and I watched something, can't remember now, until I just couldn't keep my eyes open anymore and crawled into bed around 2:30.
Sunday I got up long enough to let the dog out to do his business, feed him and the cats and then I crawled back into bed for some more sleep/rest. I woke up fully around 9:30ish or so but lazed in bed reading my twitter feed until just around 11:00 when I started to feel really hungry.
HDT got up while I was making blueberry muffins for brunch. Then all we did was sit around doing a bunch of nothing all day. Just started catching up on all our DVR'd shit that's been piling up.
I did get on the treadmill though for a quick walk/jog. Oh yeah, HDT and I are once again trying to be better with the food and exercise. So far we've been pretty damn good. It's only been a week but I think this time we'll do much better than other times. We shall see.
So around 4 I went up to soak in the tub and then get ready to go out to dinner. I decided on Outback for my steak dinner, mainly because it was the only place I could get garlic mashed potatoes. Then he surprised me by going to Red Lobster for the worst best dessert ever:
It's their chocolate chip molten cake. Full of huge calorie goodness. But I don't care since it was for my birthday.
We went to Walmart afterward to pick up a few needed items and both of us were walking around groaning from our stomachs being so full. It wasn't until close to 10 that I was finally back to feeling normal.
A nice relaxing, well entertained and well fed birthday weekend. Tonight we're supposed to be going over to his grandma's for his mom to make me a birthday dinner. That'll be nice.
Media quotes of the day:
There's something wrong with Andrew - Matt Garetty - Chronicle
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Yes, it was the black guy this time... - Steve Montgomery - Chronicle
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I'm not your only enemy tonight. - Tobin Frost - Safe House
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How am I supposed to get more experience by staring at four walls all day? - Matt Weston
After that we just headed home where we just hung out for little while before Jim went home. Then HDT and I watched something, can't remember now, until I just couldn't keep my eyes open anymore and crawled into bed around 2:30.
Sunday I got up long enough to let the dog out to do his business, feed him and the cats and then I crawled back into bed for some more sleep/rest. I woke up fully around 9:30ish or so but lazed in bed reading my twitter feed until just around 11:00 when I started to feel really hungry.
HDT got up while I was making blueberry muffins for brunch. Then all we did was sit around doing a bunch of nothing all day. Just started catching up on all our DVR'd shit that's been piling up.
I did get on the treadmill though for a quick walk/jog. Oh yeah, HDT and I are once again trying to be better with the food and exercise. So far we've been pretty damn good. It's only been a week but I think this time we'll do much better than other times. We shall see.
So around 4 I went up to soak in the tub and then get ready to go out to dinner. I decided on Outback for my steak dinner, mainly because it was the only place I could get garlic mashed potatoes. Then he surprised me by going to Red Lobster for the worst best dessert ever:
It's their chocolate chip molten cake. Full of huge calorie goodness. But I don't care since it was for my birthday.
We went to Walmart afterward to pick up a few needed items and both of us were walking around groaning from our stomachs being so full. It wasn't until close to 10 that I was finally back to feeling normal.
A nice relaxing, well entertained and well fed birthday weekend. Tonight we're supposed to be going over to his grandma's for his mom to make me a birthday dinner. That'll be nice.
Media quotes of the day:
There's something wrong with Andrew - Matt Garetty - Chronicle
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Yes, it was the black guy this time... - Steve Montgomery - Chronicle
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I'm not your only enemy tonight. - Tobin Frost - Safe House
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How am I supposed to get more experience by staring at four walls all day? - Matt Weston
Thursday, March 1, 2012
I'm on a sandy beach every time I walk in my kitchen
So the kitchen floor is complete and it looks absolutely terrific. HDT and Sarge did great. HDT admits that Sarge did most of the actual laying of the tiles but he still did a lot himself. He did just about all the cutting needed, of which there was plenty, and a lot of other stuff needed. The grout is a little lighter than what the color sample on the bag looks but I still like it. Very, very happy we didn't listen to everyone else and go with a dark color. It blends in and I see the tiles not the lines.
It's like a sandy beach but without all the sand getting in places it doesn't need to be, love it. Now we just have to get around to getting the walls prepped and painted. With us being the King and Queen of Procrastination who knows how long that'll be. But that's ok, the floor is done and that's the most important part.
They had to take the kitchen door off to do the work and we both agree that it looks better with it open. It came in handy when we had to lock up Poydras in the kitchen but now that he doesn't chew on things and there's no worry about accidents we don't need it anymore. And when we need to lock up the cats we can just do it in the bedroom.
Happy!!
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I've been wanting to see The Woman in Black ever since I first saw the trailer for it last year. We finally saw it last night. We took his mom and she had no idea it even existed. We all three liked it. It was a good little creepy movie. I thought Daniel Radcliffe did very well in it. I didn't once see Harry Potter which is a really good thing.
HDT said as soon as it was over that he didn't like it but I think it was just because of the ending, which I of course won't disclose here. But then as we talked he admitted he did like it. I, for one, liked the ending. His mom was making jokes about having to worry about dreaming about the creepy old lady face. Which I find amusing since she takes care of her mother who has Alzheimer's and has gotten up in the middle of the night a few times. The good thing is, even though she's an old lady, she's a tiny old lady and as sweet looking as can be. Not scary in the least.
Media quote of the day:
I will never forgive. - Jennet - The Woman in Black
It's like a sandy beach but without all the sand getting in places it doesn't need to be, love it. Now we just have to get around to getting the walls prepped and painted. With us being the King and Queen of Procrastination who knows how long that'll be. But that's ok, the floor is done and that's the most important part.
They had to take the kitchen door off to do the work and we both agree that it looks better with it open. It came in handy when we had to lock up Poydras in the kitchen but now that he doesn't chew on things and there's no worry about accidents we don't need it anymore. And when we need to lock up the cats we can just do it in the bedroom.
Happy!!
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I've been wanting to see The Woman in Black ever since I first saw the trailer for it last year. We finally saw it last night. We took his mom and she had no idea it even existed. We all three liked it. It was a good little creepy movie. I thought Daniel Radcliffe did very well in it. I didn't once see Harry Potter which is a really good thing.
HDT said as soon as it was over that he didn't like it but I think it was just because of the ending, which I of course won't disclose here. But then as we talked he admitted he did like it. I, for one, liked the ending. His mom was making jokes about having to worry about dreaming about the creepy old lady face. Which I find amusing since she takes care of her mother who has Alzheimer's and has gotten up in the middle of the night a few times. The good thing is, even though she's an old lady, she's a tiny old lady and as sweet looking as can be. Not scary in the least.
Media quote of the day:
I will never forgive. - Jennet - The Woman in Black
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Birthday Surprise and Kitchen Floor
So, we've been hating our kitchen tile for a long time now. It's really old and scratched up and even after washing it it still looks dirty because it's so stained. So since HDT received a nice bonus check this year we decided to finally do something about it.
He's been working on tearing up the old tile, three layers of old tile even. The first layer (or bottom whichever you choose to call it) actually had nails in several of the squares. Which made little to no sense since they were glued down. So it's not like they needed to nail them in place. So that just made his work that much harder.
It's taken a couple weeks now to get it all done because of his work schedule and the friend that's helping him do it. But last week they were finally able to get the stove out of the kitchen and the underlayment down. The stove was a pain in the ass. There isn't a cut-off valve anywhere between the floor and the stove. The only cut-off was in the basement in the room directly below and the valve was frozen in place. But they got some stuff, sprayed it on and they were able to loosen it up. So now it, the fridge, a rolling cabinet that holds pet items amongst other stuff and all the contents from our pantry are in our living room.
I believe today they were actually going to be putting the tile in, hope so. We bought 18" porcelain ceramic tile. It's a grayish/silverish marble. I really like it. We also plan on painting the walls as well. They'll be some shade of yellow with a darker version on the ceiling and maybe around the top of the walls. We shall see.
I asked him on the day that he and Jim (not the friend helping lay the tile) finally got the rest of the old tile up if he had taken any pictures from before. He hadn't, he had forgotten. Not sure if he's taken any since. Kind of hope so. But not a big deal if he hasn't.
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HDT's birthday was on the 11th. He turned a big ole 41 this year. I decided I wanted to try to surprise him. Since it isn't a milestone year I wasn't worried about making sure any of his family would be there. Issues and other stuff on why not.
So I shot an email to Jim letting him know what I was thinking. That I'd try to get HDT out the house by taking him somewhere for dinner and then have everyone there. You know, the typical route. But only because getting him out the house is very difficult. He hates shopping and if I tried a movie he'd either flat out say no or try to do it another time. Jim said he'd try to think of something else as well, as in him taking him somewhere.
Through talking with him and Pat I then decided we'd just stay home and have everyone meet somewhere and then come to the house at once and just start filing in. That'd be just as much a surprise as the other way. Maybe even more so. As I'm letting his friends (all from when he was in high school - they call themselves The Mutants - yep they're geeks) know and discussing the dinner plans one of them suggest meeting at a restaurant and surprising him there.
So that's what I finally decided on. I made reservations for 6:00 but told HDT it was at 6:15 to allow everyone a good chance of making it there before us. I also didn't tell him where we were going. I started heading north like I was taking him to this steak place we both absolutely love but it's expensive so it's a treat. He guessed that place but then decided it couldn't be since it takes about an hour to get there and we didn't leave the house until after 6. Unless of course I fibbed about the time. Heh But before I actually got on the highway I turned off the road we were on and headed in another direction.
I then let him know that yes, I was heading back into town. He guessed it after that but still didn't know people were going to be there. Then, I'm driving around the damn lot looking for a place to park and the only one left is all the way in the back of the building. As we're walking back to the front I notice all the windows along the way are wide open and you can see everyone in there. He was on the window side. And without thinking I grabbed him and pulled him to the other side of me and said, "You can't look in there!" Then immediately said, "Damn, I just ruined it!" He laughed and said I didn't ruin anything and I said I did, now he knows there are people waiting for us. But he still didn't know if would be family, friends or some mix of them. Not until we were being walked back to the tables and he saw two of his buddies. Then of course he knew.
AND, AND, AND it turns out they had us in a backroom that I didn't even know existed and the only way you could see in was through a glass door (that we did pass) but it was so fogged up you wouldn't be able to distinguish anyone through it. Man, that was frustrating. But oh well. He was surprised. He thought as soon as he knew it was a place in town that it would just be us for dinner and when we got home there'd be people there. So I'm glad I didn't go that route he wouldn't have been surprised at all.
Only a few of the people were able to show up. Pat, because of his medical issues wasn't able to make it. But Jim was there along with two of the other Mutants (Pat isn't one, they became friends with him at a hobby shop after high school) and their wives were there though. So it was still a nice little gathering. We had a good dinner and good conversation. Then one of the couples had to go home, couldn't stay out late because of their sitter. But the other couple, Jim and HDT & I headed back to our house for game night.
Since it was his birthday he chose to play Star Wars Trivia Pursuit. Jim's sister Wendy was on her way over from work so while waiting on her I started gathering the alcholol and cake and other things needed. She made it there before I was done so as soon as she got there were able to start the game. We of course had to have teams as we three girls knew little to nothing about the movies. I knew more than the other two but still not a whole heckuva lot. Although I was confident on a couple answers where HDT wasn't so that was a nice ego boost. The teams, unfortunately for Howie, were Jim, Wendy and Andy on one team and HDT, me and Andy's wife on the other. Andy's wife new nothing about the movies. She's seen them but probably only once or twice at most and since they're not all that interesting to here didn't maintain much of anything.
We modified the way to win though since the three boys know so much. Each team had to answer every question on the card to win. Because of that it allowed HDT's team to catch up and then compete to win. But in the end the other team won.
By then it was close to midnight and Andy and his wife had to head home as they had to get up by 7:30 for church the next day.
Jim and Wendy stayed and we played the new game Logo. Like that game a lot. I think it's become my new favorite next to Apples to Apples.
After the game was done it was pretty late so those two went home, I cleaned up just enough to not be too bad and then went to bed. HDT came up a little while after.
All in all it was a good night.
Media quote of the day:
The Mentalist: The Blood on His Hands (2010) We both really like this show
Huh? Always nice to know, but that's not why I'm here. It seems your friend John, is planning a surprise party for you. - Bret Stiles - the always impecible Malcolm McDowell
He's been working on tearing up the old tile, three layers of old tile even. The first layer (or bottom whichever you choose to call it) actually had nails in several of the squares. Which made little to no sense since they were glued down. So it's not like they needed to nail them in place. So that just made his work that much harder.
It's taken a couple weeks now to get it all done because of his work schedule and the friend that's helping him do it. But last week they were finally able to get the stove out of the kitchen and the underlayment down. The stove was a pain in the ass. There isn't a cut-off valve anywhere between the floor and the stove. The only cut-off was in the basement in the room directly below and the valve was frozen in place. But they got some stuff, sprayed it on and they were able to loosen it up. So now it, the fridge, a rolling cabinet that holds pet items amongst other stuff and all the contents from our pantry are in our living room.
I believe today they were actually going to be putting the tile in, hope so. We bought 18" porcelain ceramic tile. It's a grayish/silverish marble. I really like it. We also plan on painting the walls as well. They'll be some shade of yellow with a darker version on the ceiling and maybe around the top of the walls. We shall see.
I asked him on the day that he and Jim (not the friend helping lay the tile) finally got the rest of the old tile up if he had taken any pictures from before. He hadn't, he had forgotten. Not sure if he's taken any since. Kind of hope so. But not a big deal if he hasn't.
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HDT's birthday was on the 11th. He turned a big ole 41 this year. I decided I wanted to try to surprise him. Since it isn't a milestone year I wasn't worried about making sure any of his family would be there. Issues and other stuff on why not.
So I shot an email to Jim letting him know what I was thinking. That I'd try to get HDT out the house by taking him somewhere for dinner and then have everyone there. You know, the typical route. But only because getting him out the house is very difficult. He hates shopping and if I tried a movie he'd either flat out say no or try to do it another time. Jim said he'd try to think of something else as well, as in him taking him somewhere.
Through talking with him and Pat I then decided we'd just stay home and have everyone meet somewhere and then come to the house at once and just start filing in. That'd be just as much a surprise as the other way. Maybe even more so. As I'm letting his friends (all from when he was in high school - they call themselves The Mutants - yep they're geeks) know and discussing the dinner plans one of them suggest meeting at a restaurant and surprising him there.
So that's what I finally decided on. I made reservations for 6:00 but told HDT it was at 6:15 to allow everyone a good chance of making it there before us. I also didn't tell him where we were going. I started heading north like I was taking him to this steak place we both absolutely love but it's expensive so it's a treat. He guessed that place but then decided it couldn't be since it takes about an hour to get there and we didn't leave the house until after 6. Unless of course I fibbed about the time. Heh But before I actually got on the highway I turned off the road we were on and headed in another direction.
I then let him know that yes, I was heading back into town. He guessed it after that but still didn't know people were going to be there. Then, I'm driving around the damn lot looking for a place to park and the only one left is all the way in the back of the building. As we're walking back to the front I notice all the windows along the way are wide open and you can see everyone in there. He was on the window side. And without thinking I grabbed him and pulled him to the other side of me and said, "You can't look in there!" Then immediately said, "Damn, I just ruined it!" He laughed and said I didn't ruin anything and I said I did, now he knows there are people waiting for us. But he still didn't know if would be family, friends or some mix of them. Not until we were being walked back to the tables and he saw two of his buddies. Then of course he knew.
AND, AND, AND it turns out they had us in a backroom that I didn't even know existed and the only way you could see in was through a glass door (that we did pass) but it was so fogged up you wouldn't be able to distinguish anyone through it. Man, that was frustrating. But oh well. He was surprised. He thought as soon as he knew it was a place in town that it would just be us for dinner and when we got home there'd be people there. So I'm glad I didn't go that route he wouldn't have been surprised at all.
Only a few of the people were able to show up. Pat, because of his medical issues wasn't able to make it. But Jim was there along with two of the other Mutants (Pat isn't one, they became friends with him at a hobby shop after high school) and their wives were there though. So it was still a nice little gathering. We had a good dinner and good conversation. Then one of the couples had to go home, couldn't stay out late because of their sitter. But the other couple, Jim and HDT & I headed back to our house for game night.
Since it was his birthday he chose to play Star Wars Trivia Pursuit. Jim's sister Wendy was on her way over from work so while waiting on her I started gathering the alcholol and cake and other things needed. She made it there before I was done so as soon as she got there were able to start the game. We of course had to have teams as we three girls knew little to nothing about the movies. I knew more than the other two but still not a whole heckuva lot. Although I was confident on a couple answers where HDT wasn't so that was a nice ego boost. The teams, unfortunately for Howie, were Jim, Wendy and Andy on one team and HDT, me and Andy's wife on the other. Andy's wife new nothing about the movies. She's seen them but probably only once or twice at most and since they're not all that interesting to here didn't maintain much of anything.
We modified the way to win though since the three boys know so much. Each team had to answer every question on the card to win. Because of that it allowed HDT's team to catch up and then compete to win. But in the end the other team won.
By then it was close to midnight and Andy and his wife had to head home as they had to get up by 7:30 for church the next day.
Jim and Wendy stayed and we played the new game Logo. Like that game a lot. I think it's become my new favorite next to Apples to Apples.
After the game was done it was pretty late so those two went home, I cleaned up just enough to not be too bad and then went to bed. HDT came up a little while after.
All in all it was a good night.
Media quote of the day:
The Mentalist: The Blood on His Hands (2010) We both really like this show
Huh? Always nice to know, but that's not why I'm here. It seems your friend John, is planning a surprise party for you. - Bret Stiles - the always impecible Malcolm McDowell
Monday, February 20, 2012
How wanting a couple cookies leads to shoulder surgery
So, let's see. There were a few other things I thought about writing about when I did my last post. Now I have to just remember what they were. I think one was about HDT's birthday that just passed. Another was about my mom. Seems there was at least one more. Oh yeah, our kitchen floor.
I'll start with mom, since what happened to her is the oldest of the three. Back in September I believe it was, maybe October, she fell and dislocated her right shoulder. Yeah, it was definitely October. HDT, Jim, his exwife, their two kids and I were helping move Pat while he was in the hospital for some medical issues. We had just finished for the night and were all heading to our respective homes when my brother Roy calls. Now, normally I just ignore most phone calls. But since he's never called me before (just texted) I figured I better answer. Good thing I did as he says mom's fallen, the paramedics are there getting ready to take her to the ER and I'll need to go meet her there since he's had too much to drink to be able to drive. Plus he's a mess anyway, I wouldn't want him to drive.
So, yeah, HDT and I meet her there. X-rays show the shoulder way out of whack. We have to leave the room while they put it back in. Her hand and wrist are also hurting so they X-ray that but luckily nothings wrong with them.
After they clear her and provide several prescriptions that we take care of we take her home. I stay the night (HDT doesn't as he has to work in the morning) so I'll be there if she needs any help overnight or the next morning. But by 10/11ish in the morning she's feeling much better and can get around by herself so I leave.
Her follow up appointment with a joint doctor shows she has some tearage so there are two choices. 1st choice is therapy and after 6 weeks they look again and reevaluate how she is. If therapy isn't doing what they want she'll need surgery and then more therapy. Or choice two - just go with surgery now and then do therapy. Because she's a very healthy 70 and is also very active normally she, me and the doc all agree to do surgery now.
So we make the appointment and I take her in. Turns out she had a massive tear and it took 5 sutures or whatever they're called when they're reconnecting the tissue inside the body. According to the doc a normal procedure only takes 2 - 3. 7 holes in her shoulder altogether though. Because when they went in they found her bicep was out of place as well so they had to fix that too.
The surgery went very well. She stayed overnight though because she went into A-Fib while on the table. Everyone figures it was just the body's reaction to surgery since all tests after were very good. But to be safe she stayed the night. They taught her how to work the sling and we had her outta there the next evening.
Since then healing and therapy have gone very well. Everyone was very surprised, happily though, that she's healing so quickly and she's had no pain at all except during therapy itself. I believe she should be done with therapy this week, maybe next. In fact, I'm due for another chat with her soon so I'll find out.
Luckily I was out of work when I was so I was able to take her to all her appointments with no problems. Which there were plenty. By the time I got my job she was able to drive by herself and felt confident enough to do so.
This is a big enough post for today so I'll write about the next two things later.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to say how she dislocated it. Duh! So she was watching tv in her loveseat which reclines. She decided to get a couple cookies and when she got up she thought she had put the footrest all the way in but turns out it didn't stay down. As they're not want to do. When she went back to her seat she also decided to grab a bird book. So she has the book in one hand and cookies in the other. So rather than just sit and scootch herself back into place she lifts her right foot to push the rest down and proceeds to lose her balance and fall directly on her right shoulder. Luckily she missed her coffee table as it's square with very sharp corners. My brother who lives with her (in the basement) hears the big thud of her falling and knows that it's not a typical dropping of something. Goes running upstairs and before he's made it all the way she's hollering for him.
When he called me I could hear her moaning in the background, gotta say I really didn't like to hear that.
No media quote today either. Mainly because I can't think of anything that would fit right now.
I'll start with mom, since what happened to her is the oldest of the three. Back in September I believe it was, maybe October, she fell and dislocated her right shoulder. Yeah, it was definitely October. HDT, Jim, his exwife, their two kids and I were helping move Pat while he was in the hospital for some medical issues. We had just finished for the night and were all heading to our respective homes when my brother Roy calls. Now, normally I just ignore most phone calls. But since he's never called me before (just texted) I figured I better answer. Good thing I did as he says mom's fallen, the paramedics are there getting ready to take her to the ER and I'll need to go meet her there since he's had too much to drink to be able to drive. Plus he's a mess anyway, I wouldn't want him to drive.
So, yeah, HDT and I meet her there. X-rays show the shoulder way out of whack. We have to leave the room while they put it back in. Her hand and wrist are also hurting so they X-ray that but luckily nothings wrong with them.
After they clear her and provide several prescriptions that we take care of we take her home. I stay the night (HDT doesn't as he has to work in the morning) so I'll be there if she needs any help overnight or the next morning. But by 10/11ish in the morning she's feeling much better and can get around by herself so I leave.
Her follow up appointment with a joint doctor shows she has some tearage so there are two choices. 1st choice is therapy and after 6 weeks they look again and reevaluate how she is. If therapy isn't doing what they want she'll need surgery and then more therapy. Or choice two - just go with surgery now and then do therapy. Because she's a very healthy 70 and is also very active normally she, me and the doc all agree to do surgery now.
So we make the appointment and I take her in. Turns out she had a massive tear and it took 5 sutures or whatever they're called when they're reconnecting the tissue inside the body. According to the doc a normal procedure only takes 2 - 3. 7 holes in her shoulder altogether though. Because when they went in they found her bicep was out of place as well so they had to fix that too.
The surgery went very well. She stayed overnight though because she went into A-Fib while on the table. Everyone figures it was just the body's reaction to surgery since all tests after were very good. But to be safe she stayed the night. They taught her how to work the sling and we had her outta there the next evening.
Since then healing and therapy have gone very well. Everyone was very surprised, happily though, that she's healing so quickly and she's had no pain at all except during therapy itself. I believe she should be done with therapy this week, maybe next. In fact, I'm due for another chat with her soon so I'll find out.
Luckily I was out of work when I was so I was able to take her to all her appointments with no problems. Which there were plenty. By the time I got my job she was able to drive by herself and felt confident enough to do so.
This is a big enough post for today so I'll write about the next two things later.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to say how she dislocated it. Duh! So she was watching tv in her loveseat which reclines. She decided to get a couple cookies and when she got up she thought she had put the footrest all the way in but turns out it didn't stay down. As they're not want to do. When she went back to her seat she also decided to grab a bird book. So she has the book in one hand and cookies in the other. So rather than just sit and scootch herself back into place she lifts her right foot to push the rest down and proceeds to lose her balance and fall directly on her right shoulder. Luckily she missed her coffee table as it's square with very sharp corners. My brother who lives with her (in the basement) hears the big thud of her falling and knows that it's not a typical dropping of something. Goes running upstairs and before he's made it all the way she's hollering for him.
When he called me I could hear her moaning in the background, gotta say I really didn't like to hear that.
No media quote today either. Mainly because I can't think of anything that would fit right now.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
New Job - Finally
So, yeah, it's been a pretty long time since I posted last. Him, 9/11 to be exact and then I only reposted my entries on Brendan Dolan and Douglas Ketchum.My last real post was in August stating that it sucks to be me since I was out of work again. I, along with at least one other girl, was laid off on June 3, 2011. I didn't get another job until Jan. 4, 2012. Yep, that sucked big time. But I had unemployment and that helped at least.
In all that time I only got 2 other interviews. One came fairly quickly after loosing my job but I knew it wouldn't be the place for me so was actually happy I didn't get a call back. The next place I had to work at getting interviews, won't go into all the boring details here but it was a hassle. But even still I would've liked to have worked there I think. It was a tiny office which I like. Would've just been me, the girl I'd be working for/with and two project managers. It was a satellite office. Unfortunately the VP of the company decided that rather than hiring someone to help with the work load the corporate office would just take over running some of the projects for them.
It was another couple months before I got the interview for the place I'm at now. And so far so good. It's not in construction so that's a bit weird. Well, not "true" construction anyway. I work for a company that installs and dismantles the "booths" at trade shows. Yep, never knew that kind of place existed either. Always thought that the company of the product just did it themselves. Who knew?
But I'm liking the position. I've gotten back into helping out with accounts payable and payroll while still working in receivables. Although we have an outside company doing the payroll we still have to audit what they do to make sure it's all completed correctly and we also distribute the checks. And the receivables is a bit weird for me as well. I don't actually do the billings like I used to do. I only enter them in Quickbooks after someone else does the actual preparing and sending out of the invoice. I also don't do collections, someone else handles that as well. Also, when the checks come in she collects them, works up a spreadsheet and then hands them over to me to make the deposit and enter the payments into Quickbooks. I'm liking all this. For once it's not on me if an invoice goes out incorrectly and it's not on me to have to hound the company for payment. Yep, much nicer.
It's also a small office, which I like as mentioned before. We're split into two floors but only because the office I'm in doesn't fit everyone. There are 8 of us upstairs and 4.5 in the basement. The .5 is a part timer, she's only there four hours a day. So that's all the office people but there are a ton of guys out in the field throughout the US working at all these trade shows. We also set up retail stores for companies if they'd like. But we're looking to relocate, luckily still in the same town we're in. Right now I only drive about 8 miles (one way) straight down the highway. We live just off the highway and the office is just off the highway on the same side. Nice shot. Not as nice as the last place only being 1.2 miles from door to door but still really nice. But the new place won't be quite as straight a shot but it'll at least be close still.
So other than the new job everything else is still going as normal. My brothers are still coming over for each UFC fight night. HDiTty is still at his 911/Communications Officer job. 19 years this January. As a matter of fact my first day of work was his 19th anniversary there. I find that kinda geeky cool really. The two kitties are still around, going strong for getting up there in years. 11 1/2 now. And the puppy will be four this April.
There are a couple other items I'll be writing about but I'll save them for another update. I'm going to try to go back to a daily post or at least multiple times a week posts. I'm also going to get back on my other site theseweightlossgames and get back to playing those damn games. UGH!
No media quote this time.
In all that time I only got 2 other interviews. One came fairly quickly after loosing my job but I knew it wouldn't be the place for me so was actually happy I didn't get a call back. The next place I had to work at getting interviews, won't go into all the boring details here but it was a hassle. But even still I would've liked to have worked there I think. It was a tiny office which I like. Would've just been me, the girl I'd be working for/with and two project managers. It was a satellite office. Unfortunately the VP of the company decided that rather than hiring someone to help with the work load the corporate office would just take over running some of the projects for them.
It was another couple months before I got the interview for the place I'm at now. And so far so good. It's not in construction so that's a bit weird. Well, not "true" construction anyway. I work for a company that installs and dismantles the "booths" at trade shows. Yep, never knew that kind of place existed either. Always thought that the company of the product just did it themselves. Who knew?
But I'm liking the position. I've gotten back into helping out with accounts payable and payroll while still working in receivables. Although we have an outside company doing the payroll we still have to audit what they do to make sure it's all completed correctly and we also distribute the checks. And the receivables is a bit weird for me as well. I don't actually do the billings like I used to do. I only enter them in Quickbooks after someone else does the actual preparing and sending out of the invoice. I also don't do collections, someone else handles that as well. Also, when the checks come in she collects them, works up a spreadsheet and then hands them over to me to make the deposit and enter the payments into Quickbooks. I'm liking all this. For once it's not on me if an invoice goes out incorrectly and it's not on me to have to hound the company for payment. Yep, much nicer.
It's also a small office, which I like as mentioned before. We're split into two floors but only because the office I'm in doesn't fit everyone. There are 8 of us upstairs and 4.5 in the basement. The .5 is a part timer, she's only there four hours a day. So that's all the office people but there are a ton of guys out in the field throughout the US working at all these trade shows. We also set up retail stores for companies if they'd like. But we're looking to relocate, luckily still in the same town we're in. Right now I only drive about 8 miles (one way) straight down the highway. We live just off the highway and the office is just off the highway on the same side. Nice shot. Not as nice as the last place only being 1.2 miles from door to door but still really nice. But the new place won't be quite as straight a shot but it'll at least be close still.
So other than the new job everything else is still going as normal. My brothers are still coming over for each UFC fight night. HDiTty is still at his 911/Communications Officer job. 19 years this January. As a matter of fact my first day of work was his 19th anniversary there. I find that kinda geeky cool really. The two kitties are still around, going strong for getting up there in years. 11 1/2 now. And the puppy will be four this April.
There are a couple other items I'll be writing about but I'll save them for another update. I'm going to try to go back to a daily post or at least multiple times a week posts. I'm also going to get back on my other site theseweightlossgames and get back to playing those damn games. UGH!
No media quote this time.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Out of work again. Sucks to be me.
So, yeah, obviously I haven't been here in awhile. Although I have "all the time in the world" now to be able to update. I was laid off in June. June 3rd to be exact. One of my coworkers and I were brought into a conference room together and were told that because the estimating department couldn't get their shit together and get us some jobs that they had to start laying people off. Of course it wasn't said in that way but that's basically it. They hadn't gotten us a decent sized project since before the 1st of the year and most of the projects we did have were starting to wrap up. So since there were too many on the payroll they had to start letting people go.
Unfortunately I was #2 out of 2 people in my department so of course was the only one that had to go there. I let them know how much I enjoyed working there and when they were ready to hire again to please give me a call if it truly was just the lack of work and nothing to do with my performance as they said several times. I don't see it happening but ya just never know.
I of course have been looking for work and had one interview since then. But didn't get the job which although sucks was also ok since it wouldn't have been the right one for me. Had a lot of phone work which I despise and the pay was really really low. But not as low as unemployment so that's why it would've been ok. I at least would've been making more than I do now.
And it's looking like I'm gonna have to call a temp place again since no one else is calling. I really didn't want to do that. Yes, that is how I got my last job but still. It's more because I hate dealing with them. But if nothing else they hopefully could get me a temp job somewhere.
So my days that HDiTty works have been pretty much looking for work on line in the morning. Reading some of the journals/blogs I follow (need to catch up on a few others). Reading articles from Yahoo and MSN. Reading books. Working out (that's been sporadic, need to make it a priority). Watching marathons of Lost. Watching shows that HDT doesn't watch. Doing the shopping and house work.
Days that he's home are spent job hunting, reading the journals/blogs, articles from Yahoo and MSN, sometimes working out and watching shows with him. Sometimes we'll play for what we're watching other times we'll just play cribbage while watching something we agree on.
We also helped his mom move, or at least partly move. One of my brothers and two of our friends helped move a bunch of her furniture and several other items to her mother's house where she's living now. Also, grandma fell and broke her arm so we've visited her in the hospital and the nursing home where she's doing her physical therapy. Although she should be home now. She was supposed to be released either yesterday or this morning so I would assume she's home now.
There's been a few birthday parties for family members that's been attended in the last couple months and some UFC fights and movie watching as well. Very much enjoyed the final Harry Potter but need to see it again. Although I was watching and enjoying I was also wondering what they'd keep in, what they'd take out, what they'd change. Most of the changes I didn't mind but the final battle did bother me more than anything. Although visually it was much better than the book I still would've preferred the books fight to the movie fight. So that's why I'd like to watch it again so this time I could just sit back and enjoy it a lot more since I already know all the changes.
Ok, I better get off here and get my workout on.
Media quote of the day:
Nothing. He didn't work. He was unemployed. - Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Unfortunately I was #2 out of 2 people in my department so of course was the only one that had to go there. I let them know how much I enjoyed working there and when they were ready to hire again to please give me a call if it truly was just the lack of work and nothing to do with my performance as they said several times. I don't see it happening but ya just never know.
I of course have been looking for work and had one interview since then. But didn't get the job which although sucks was also ok since it wouldn't have been the right one for me. Had a lot of phone work which I despise and the pay was really really low. But not as low as unemployment so that's why it would've been ok. I at least would've been making more than I do now.
And it's looking like I'm gonna have to call a temp place again since no one else is calling. I really didn't want to do that. Yes, that is how I got my last job but still. It's more because I hate dealing with them. But if nothing else they hopefully could get me a temp job somewhere.
So my days that HDiTty works have been pretty much looking for work on line in the morning. Reading some of the journals/blogs I follow (need to catch up on a few others). Reading articles from Yahoo and MSN. Reading books. Working out (that's been sporadic, need to make it a priority). Watching marathons of Lost. Watching shows that HDT doesn't watch. Doing the shopping and house work.
Days that he's home are spent job hunting, reading the journals/blogs, articles from Yahoo and MSN, sometimes working out and watching shows with him. Sometimes we'll play for what we're watching other times we'll just play cribbage while watching something we agree on.
We also helped his mom move, or at least partly move. One of my brothers and two of our friends helped move a bunch of her furniture and several other items to her mother's house where she's living now. Also, grandma fell and broke her arm so we've visited her in the hospital and the nursing home where she's doing her physical therapy. Although she should be home now. She was supposed to be released either yesterday or this morning so I would assume she's home now.
There's been a few birthday parties for family members that's been attended in the last couple months and some UFC fights and movie watching as well. Very much enjoyed the final Harry Potter but need to see it again. Although I was watching and enjoying I was also wondering what they'd keep in, what they'd take out, what they'd change. Most of the changes I didn't mind but the final battle did bother me more than anything. Although visually it was much better than the book I still would've preferred the books fight to the movie fight. So that's why I'd like to watch it again so this time I could just sit back and enjoy it a lot more since I already know all the changes.
Ok, I better get off here and get my workout on.
Media quote of the day:
Nothing. He didn't work. He was unemployed. - Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Friday, June 3, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Weekend update 5/20-22/11
So this was a pretty boring weekend overall really. Friday night after getting home from work HDT and I had a long back and forth about what we would do for dinner and whether we'd be going over to his grandma's for dinner with her and his mom. And also to go see a movie or not. The only movie we'd be able to make after eating would be a late one and we were both pretty tired and just didn't feel like doing that. And finally we decided we'd just hang out at home rather than going out anywhere. So he texted his mom to let her know we were staying home.
So we just made some dinner and watched recorded shows that we've been behind on because of watching Doctor Who and Ally McBeal so much. Since he had a dentist appointment at 9am the next day we went to bed at a decent hour.
When he left for his appointment in the morning I went to the grocery store and he made it home just before I did. We were both starving so I threw a frozen pizza in the oven for our brunch and then watched one of the recorded Mentalist shows. After it was done I asked him if he was ready to go do the shopping/returning of items he was wanting to do, he wasn't and wouldn't be any time soon. So I decided to go out and mow the lawn.
By the time I got to the back yard it started to misty rain but I figured since it's not such a big yard I decided to just continue on. By the time I was half way through it started to actually rain but I continued on still. At one point I had to ask HDT to come out and help me to empty the bagger into the bag. I had used up all the garbage cans and now had to use bags. The first one I used the first time dumping into it half of the grass fell out. So with the second bag I decided to have his help.
He ended up staying out with me while I finished up which was a good thing because we filled a few more bags. The rain kept going between misty and actual rain so as the grass kept getting wetter and wetter it was obviously getting heavier and heavier. It got to where I could only do two swipes before I had to empty the bagger.
After I was done mowing he got out the hose and hosed it all off and made it nice and clean for me. Then he hosed and I swept off the concrete/deck like area. After all that I was pretty well worn but took a shower since we had those plans to do the shopping.
But he decided he didn't really want to go do any shopping/returning of items so we just ended up hanging out for the rest of the day/evening doing a bunch of nothing. Oh wait, I had my dentist appointment at 3:00 so I did that. That lasted just under an hour so I got home just after 4:00. Then we did nothing much for the rest of the day.
Sunday I made us breakfast: eggs, bacon and biscuits. After I let that settle for a bit I got on the elliptical for 15 minutes then did some weight lifting for a few reps then got back on the elliptical for another 25 minutes.
Hopped in the tub and after a little while he decided he wanted to finally go do the shopping/returning. So I finished reading my chapter and then we got ready and headed out. We returned his ear piece that just wouldn't sit quite right on his ear. He also has been wanting to get another electric toothbrush so we looked at those. We ended up going to three stores but couldn't find the one we wanted for the price we wanted.
I was so worn out and hungry by the 3rd store that I put my throbbing foot down and said I couldn't go anywhere else. Although we did end up going to Dairy Queen to pick up a couple blizzards and then to a local burger joint to pick up an order of fries (they're pretty damn good) and went home and heated up a couple burgers that I had cooked up on Saturday along with the left over bacon from the morning for dinner.
We again watched some recorded shows and then a couple Buffy's until it was time for bed. So it was a good weekend for me for my workouts that I've been wanting to get back into (I include mowing the lawn as a workout) but a pretty typical boring one overall. Although the eating of the food wasn't the best I didn't eat a lot so I believe I was still pretty much in the calorie range needed.
Media quote of the day: From Dinosaurs - The Son Also Rises. My goodness how I loved this show, we even bought the DVD's but haven't watched them yet. Shame on us, we should do that soon.
I thought I told you to mow the lawn. - Earl Sinclair
I told you, the lawn mower is broken. - Robbie Sinclair
Scissors. Cut it with scissors. - Earl
Oh come on. - Robbie
Geez you kids have it too easy. When I was your age we didn't have lawn mowers, we didn't have scissors, we had to get down on all fours and graze like a cow. - Earl
Dad. - Robbie
Mooooo - Earl
So we just made some dinner and watched recorded shows that we've been behind on because of watching Doctor Who and Ally McBeal so much. Since he had a dentist appointment at 9am the next day we went to bed at a decent hour.
When he left for his appointment in the morning I went to the grocery store and he made it home just before I did. We were both starving so I threw a frozen pizza in the oven for our brunch and then watched one of the recorded Mentalist shows. After it was done I asked him if he was ready to go do the shopping/returning of items he was wanting to do, he wasn't and wouldn't be any time soon. So I decided to go out and mow the lawn.
By the time I got to the back yard it started to misty rain but I figured since it's not such a big yard I decided to just continue on. By the time I was half way through it started to actually rain but I continued on still. At one point I had to ask HDT to come out and help me to empty the bagger into the bag. I had used up all the garbage cans and now had to use bags. The first one I used the first time dumping into it half of the grass fell out. So with the second bag I decided to have his help.
He ended up staying out with me while I finished up which was a good thing because we filled a few more bags. The rain kept going between misty and actual rain so as the grass kept getting wetter and wetter it was obviously getting heavier and heavier. It got to where I could only do two swipes before I had to empty the bagger.
After I was done mowing he got out the hose and hosed it all off and made it nice and clean for me. Then he hosed and I swept off the concrete/deck like area. After all that I was pretty well worn but took a shower since we had those plans to do the shopping.
But he decided he didn't really want to go do any shopping/returning of items so we just ended up hanging out for the rest of the day/evening doing a bunch of nothing. Oh wait, I had my dentist appointment at 3:00 so I did that. That lasted just under an hour so I got home just after 4:00. Then we did nothing much for the rest of the day.
Sunday I made us breakfast: eggs, bacon and biscuits. After I let that settle for a bit I got on the elliptical for 15 minutes then did some weight lifting for a few reps then got back on the elliptical for another 25 minutes.
Hopped in the tub and after a little while he decided he wanted to finally go do the shopping/returning. So I finished reading my chapter and then we got ready and headed out. We returned his ear piece that just wouldn't sit quite right on his ear. He also has been wanting to get another electric toothbrush so we looked at those. We ended up going to three stores but couldn't find the one we wanted for the price we wanted.
I was so worn out and hungry by the 3rd store that I put my throbbing foot down and said I couldn't go anywhere else. Although we did end up going to Dairy Queen to pick up a couple blizzards and then to a local burger joint to pick up an order of fries (they're pretty damn good) and went home and heated up a couple burgers that I had cooked up on Saturday along with the left over bacon from the morning for dinner.
We again watched some recorded shows and then a couple Buffy's until it was time for bed. So it was a good weekend for me for my workouts that I've been wanting to get back into (I include mowing the lawn as a workout) but a pretty typical boring one overall. Although the eating of the food wasn't the best I didn't eat a lot so I believe I was still pretty much in the calorie range needed.
Media quote of the day: From Dinosaurs - The Son Also Rises. My goodness how I loved this show, we even bought the DVD's but haven't watched them yet. Shame on us, we should do that soon.
I thought I told you to mow the lawn. - Earl Sinclair
I told you, the lawn mower is broken. - Robbie Sinclair
Scissors. Cut it with scissors. - Earl
Oh come on. - Robbie
Geez you kids have it too easy. When I was your age we didn't have lawn mowers, we didn't have scissors, we had to get down on all fours and graze like a cow. - Earl
Dad. - Robbie
Mooooo - Earl
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Breaking into the house
So, I have to tell you what happened Sunday night. I didn't do it in the weekend update because it was already getting long and this deserves it's own entry.
It was late, going on 11pm, and I was getting ready to head to bed but then remembered the garbage, recycle and lawn clippings still needed to go out to the curb. So I ask HDT to come help me and I step out onto the back porch and he comes out behind me and shuts the wooden door.
And with his hand still on the knob and a sheepish grin on his face he says, "I just locked us out."
I said, "No you didn't."
He said, "Yes I did."
I said, "No you didn't, you're just trying to trick me."
He said, "No I'm not, I locked us out."
I said, "You're kidding me right, you didn't really lock us out."
He said, "Yes, I did, I'm not kidding."
So I reached forward and tried the knob and sure enough it was locked. We have the kind of knob that even when it's locked it'll turn like normal on the inside but of course is locked from the outside.
I can't believe it. I ask him why he would shut that door when we're just taking out the garbage but he didn't think about it, just did it. And what's even weirder is that usually when we're leaving to go somewhere before he shuts the door he'll ask if I have the keys or he'll check his pockets/hand to make sure he has his. Maybe because it was so late and he was getting tired himself that it just didn't cross his mind to do so. Who knows.
At any rate, we were locked out of the house. Luckily he had grabbed a flashlight because we were going to take one large item out of the garage to put at the curb as well and our garage doesn't have electricity right now. So he asks if all the windows are closed and locked. I wasn't sure so we started looking at the ones to the kitchen with the flashlight and luckily enough the large one on the side was shut but not locked.
So we grabbed the ladder out of the garage and he took off the screen and was able to slide open the storm window and inside window. All the while he's worried that someone will think we're breaking in but I wasn't worried at all. Besides, as I told him, it's a good thing he works for our police department, so even if someone did call the cops they'd know us as soon as they saw us. We determined that I'd be the one crawling through it so we switched places on the ladder.
I grabbed the garbage can that sits under the window and pulled it closer to me. It's a nice big square wooden can with a flat top/lid. Love that can. Anyway, the ladder only went up so far so the step was still well below the window that I couldn't just stick a foot/leg in and "walk" through the window. I had to go in head first with my belly on the sill and the can under my chest. I was trying to figure out how I was going to finish getting in when the can started to lean forward and I started to go to the floor head first. I yelled for HDT to grab my legs and steady me.
And in the meantime Poydras is standing on his hind legs doing a little dance all excited to see me crawling through the window pretty much under me or in my way.
So HDT grabs my ankles and helped me to "walk/slide" in using the can far enough until I could bend my knee and step down onto the floor still using the garbage can as support. It wasn't all that easy either since I was laughing and trying to make sure Poydras and the cats were out the way.
I teased that I was going to leave him outside but of course didn't do so. But I definitely teased when he came walking around the corner of the house, pointing at the doors, "See, this is how you do it. Keep the big door open and shut the screen door."
I let him know that I'd be writing about this and would have to tell at least one person (probably my coworker, which I did) if not others.
On Monday morning when I was getting ready for work I see a bruise just above my right knee and couldn't figure out how I'd gotten it. Then later in the morning when I went to the bathroom and see it again it dawns on me that it's from crawling through the window. I also have a tender spot on my left forearm but no actual discoloration so that's good.
So that was a fun end to my weekend.
Media quote of the day:
From Bones:
Wait a minute. Bones breaks into my bathroom and I'm weird for being naked? - Special Agent Seeley Booth
So you didn't tell her to leave? You just sat there naked? - Dr. Lance Sweets
It was my own bathroom, okay? What do you wear in the tub? Floaties? - Booth
_________________________
From Inception:
By creating something secure, like a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect. Understand? - Cobb
Then you break in and steal it? - Ariadne
It was late, going on 11pm, and I was getting ready to head to bed but then remembered the garbage, recycle and lawn clippings still needed to go out to the curb. So I ask HDT to come help me and I step out onto the back porch and he comes out behind me and shuts the wooden door.
And with his hand still on the knob and a sheepish grin on his face he says, "I just locked us out."
I said, "No you didn't."
He said, "Yes I did."
I said, "No you didn't, you're just trying to trick me."
He said, "No I'm not, I locked us out."
I said, "You're kidding me right, you didn't really lock us out."
He said, "Yes, I did, I'm not kidding."
So I reached forward and tried the knob and sure enough it was locked. We have the kind of knob that even when it's locked it'll turn like normal on the inside but of course is locked from the outside.
I can't believe it. I ask him why he would shut that door when we're just taking out the garbage but he didn't think about it, just did it. And what's even weirder is that usually when we're leaving to go somewhere before he shuts the door he'll ask if I have the keys or he'll check his pockets/hand to make sure he has his. Maybe because it was so late and he was getting tired himself that it just didn't cross his mind to do so. Who knows.
At any rate, we were locked out of the house. Luckily he had grabbed a flashlight because we were going to take one large item out of the garage to put at the curb as well and our garage doesn't have electricity right now. So he asks if all the windows are closed and locked. I wasn't sure so we started looking at the ones to the kitchen with the flashlight and luckily enough the large one on the side was shut but not locked.
So we grabbed the ladder out of the garage and he took off the screen and was able to slide open the storm window and inside window. All the while he's worried that someone will think we're breaking in but I wasn't worried at all. Besides, as I told him, it's a good thing he works for our police department, so even if someone did call the cops they'd know us as soon as they saw us. We determined that I'd be the one crawling through it so we switched places on the ladder.
I grabbed the garbage can that sits under the window and pulled it closer to me. It's a nice big square wooden can with a flat top/lid. Love that can. Anyway, the ladder only went up so far so the step was still well below the window that I couldn't just stick a foot/leg in and "walk" through the window. I had to go in head first with my belly on the sill and the can under my chest. I was trying to figure out how I was going to finish getting in when the can started to lean forward and I started to go to the floor head first. I yelled for HDT to grab my legs and steady me.
And in the meantime Poydras is standing on his hind legs doing a little dance all excited to see me crawling through the window pretty much under me or in my way.
So HDT grabs my ankles and helped me to "walk/slide" in using the can far enough until I could bend my knee and step down onto the floor still using the garbage can as support. It wasn't all that easy either since I was laughing and trying to make sure Poydras and the cats were out the way.
I teased that I was going to leave him outside but of course didn't do so. But I definitely teased when he came walking around the corner of the house, pointing at the doors, "See, this is how you do it. Keep the big door open and shut the screen door."
I let him know that I'd be writing about this and would have to tell at least one person (probably my coworker, which I did) if not others.
On Monday morning when I was getting ready for work I see a bruise just above my right knee and couldn't figure out how I'd gotten it. Then later in the morning when I went to the bathroom and see it again it dawns on me that it's from crawling through the window. I also have a tender spot on my left forearm but no actual discoloration so that's good.
So that was a fun end to my weekend.
Media quote of the day:
From Bones:
Wait a minute. Bones breaks into my bathroom and I'm weird for being naked? - Special Agent Seeley Booth
So you didn't tell her to leave? You just sat there naked? - Dr. Lance Sweets
It was my own bathroom, okay? What do you wear in the tub? Floaties? - Booth
_________________________
From Inception:
By creating something secure, like a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect. Understand? - Cobb
Then you break in and steal it? - Ariadne
Monday, May 16, 2011
Weekend update 5/13-15/11
So let's see. For the most part this was an uneventful weekend really. It was his weekend to work and he didn't get his 8 hour day on Saturday since he switched so he could get out early on Tuesday when we took my mom out for Mother's Day.
Friday after I got off work I debated doing the lawn. The grass was over a foot high in some places. Our lawnmower was in getting serviced and the company he kept calling to come out and do a spring "cleaning" was basically ignoring him. So while we were waiting for them to call back and the mower to get it's tune up the rain was coming down and the sun was coming out and the grass was growing like crazy.
So yeah, I was debating on taking care of it then or waiting to do it over the weekend. But since there was a high chance of rain for both days and HDT said he'd help when he got off of work on Friday I decided to go ahead and do it then. I started in on the backyard then did the small side yard and decided to wait for him to get home to get the front and other side yard done. He got home around 6:30 and shortly after that we headed out. He was weed eating while I continued to mow. He also did some edging along the front sidewalk and the driveway. Looks much better now. We also chopped down some bushes that were growing on our side of our neighbors fence. Pain in the ass bushes. We finished up around 8pm and let me tell you we were a couple tuckered out people we were. We had some dinner and watched a show or two and then headed to bed.
Saturday I decided I'd get the shopping done and out of the way and of course when I get home and am putting things away I realize I forgot a couple things. Even with a list I forget things. UGH! But I didn't want to go back out so didn't.
Oh yeah, while getting ready I decided I'd just go ahead and cut me some bangs. I've been wanting to do so for awhile now and finally just did it. I've never done that before. Sure I've trimmed them myself but never actually given them to myself. My heart started beating hard when I made the first cut. But I actually did pretty good. Now I just need Jess to come in and soften up the sides, maybe give some layers to the rest of the hair or at least just along the sides of my face. I'm happy I did it though, that's for sure.
For the rest of the day I pretty much watched my recorded shows, played with Poydras and did the dishes until HDT got home. Then we had dinner and watched some shows until we went to bed. Actually, I sat up in bed reading until a little after midnight.
Sunday I decided to do the same as Sat and run out right away and get the few things that I forgot about. Grabbed some McD's breakfast, oh how I love their hashbrowns and watched some more of my recorded shows. After eating I put a flank steak in the slow cooker with some bbq sauce and a can of diet coke to cook all day.
At one point I got a pretty bad headache and was feeling rather tired so I went up to bed and set the alarm for an hour. I dozed on and off for most of that hour and decided to reset the alarm for another hour as I was still feeling tired and headachey. But after about 15 minutes I realized I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep again so I just snuggled with Poydras for awhile.
Finally I made myself get up and finish the dishes (pots and pans) from the day before. Made myself a bologna sandwich and then decided to start watching Lost again. I was able to watch the first two shows before HDT got home. Just after 6pm the flank steak was done so I shredded it up and put it back in the pot to simmer until he got home. Pretty much had just thrown the whites in the wash when he got there.
We made a couple sandwiches and put the rest of the meat away in the fridge and headed downstairs. Played a game of backgammon, I won, so I put in Ally McBeal. After the show ended I was getting ready to set the game up again when he said not worry about it just play another episode cause he was heading back to his computer anyway. So that's what we did for the rest of the evening, watched Ally while he was on the computer.
At one point I went into the laundry room to put the whites into the dryer and noticed the sump pump had quit working. Luckily it once again just moved enough that the floater got stuck. Once he moved it it worked just fine after that.
Media quote of the day:
Guys, where are we. - Charlie from Lost
Friday after I got off work I debated doing the lawn. The grass was over a foot high in some places. Our lawnmower was in getting serviced and the company he kept calling to come out and do a spring "cleaning" was basically ignoring him. So while we were waiting for them to call back and the mower to get it's tune up the rain was coming down and the sun was coming out and the grass was growing like crazy.
So yeah, I was debating on taking care of it then or waiting to do it over the weekend. But since there was a high chance of rain for both days and HDT said he'd help when he got off of work on Friday I decided to go ahead and do it then. I started in on the backyard then did the small side yard and decided to wait for him to get home to get the front and other side yard done. He got home around 6:30 and shortly after that we headed out. He was weed eating while I continued to mow. He also did some edging along the front sidewalk and the driveway. Looks much better now. We also chopped down some bushes that were growing on our side of our neighbors fence. Pain in the ass bushes. We finished up around 8pm and let me tell you we were a couple tuckered out people we were. We had some dinner and watched a show or two and then headed to bed.
Saturday I decided I'd get the shopping done and out of the way and of course when I get home and am putting things away I realize I forgot a couple things. Even with a list I forget things. UGH! But I didn't want to go back out so didn't.
Oh yeah, while getting ready I decided I'd just go ahead and cut me some bangs. I've been wanting to do so for awhile now and finally just did it. I've never done that before. Sure I've trimmed them myself but never actually given them to myself. My heart started beating hard when I made the first cut. But I actually did pretty good. Now I just need Jess to come in and soften up the sides, maybe give some layers to the rest of the hair or at least just along the sides of my face. I'm happy I did it though, that's for sure.
For the rest of the day I pretty much watched my recorded shows, played with Poydras and did the dishes until HDT got home. Then we had dinner and watched some shows until we went to bed. Actually, I sat up in bed reading until a little after midnight.
Sunday I decided to do the same as Sat and run out right away and get the few things that I forgot about. Grabbed some McD's breakfast, oh how I love their hashbrowns and watched some more of my recorded shows. After eating I put a flank steak in the slow cooker with some bbq sauce and a can of diet coke to cook all day.
At one point I got a pretty bad headache and was feeling rather tired so I went up to bed and set the alarm for an hour. I dozed on and off for most of that hour and decided to reset the alarm for another hour as I was still feeling tired and headachey. But after about 15 minutes I realized I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep again so I just snuggled with Poydras for awhile.
Finally I made myself get up and finish the dishes (pots and pans) from the day before. Made myself a bologna sandwich and then decided to start watching Lost again. I was able to watch the first two shows before HDT got home. Just after 6pm the flank steak was done so I shredded it up and put it back in the pot to simmer until he got home. Pretty much had just thrown the whites in the wash when he got there.
We made a couple sandwiches and put the rest of the meat away in the fridge and headed downstairs. Played a game of backgammon, I won, so I put in Ally McBeal. After the show ended I was getting ready to set the game up again when he said not worry about it just play another episode cause he was heading back to his computer anyway. So that's what we did for the rest of the evening, watched Ally while he was on the computer.
At one point I went into the laundry room to put the whites into the dryer and noticed the sump pump had quit working. Luckily it once again just moved enough that the floater got stuck. Once he moved it it worked just fine after that.
Media quote of the day:
Guys, where are we. - Charlie from Lost
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Moms (older moms that is) just shouldn't drink
So we took my mom out for dinner last night for a late Mother's Day get together. The place we took her is a good 25 miles away but it's the best Chinese food we've ever had and she was wanting Chinese so it was perfect. It was also the same place we took HDT's mom.
We each had a drink with dinner and she was so damn funny afterward. When we got outside she says something along the lines of, "Ok, I've had a drink, you'll have to help me to the car. Where is it?" Too funny, one little drink and she was worried about walking across the street safely enough.
Then we're almost home, just another 7 or so miles to go and she realizes she forgot her purse there. She didn't think anything of it because she was carrying something when she carried out her leftovers. So HDT gives them a call so they can look for it and they did find it right where she left it on the floor just under the table next to the wall. She tried to convince us to just go on home and she'd pick it up the next day but we told her there was no way THAT was going to happen. She felt so bad about it but we didn't think anything of it and were very happy to go back and get it.
So when we got her home we went in to spend a little more time with her and give her her cards that I completely forgot to give at the restaurant. I always give two cards, one really nice and one funny, I just can't help it. She of course liked them both.
What made the whole purse thing even funnier is that his mom thought she did the same thing only leaving hers at the store we stopped off at afterward. We had made it all the way back to our house though. She and HDT were outside with Poydras and she's putting things away in her car when she realized she didn't have her purse and starts to freak out. I found our receipt for the store and there was a number on there so I hand that to HDT to give them a call and I step back in the house and there's her purse sitting right on the kitchen counter. Right were she had set it not 1 minute before and already forgot.
So last night I joked with HDT that we can't let our moms drink anymore it messes them up too much. Made mom laugh of course.
Media quote of the day: A line of Have a Drink on Me by AC/DC
I'm trying to walk a straight line
On sour mash and cheap wine
We each had a drink with dinner and she was so damn funny afterward. When we got outside she says something along the lines of, "Ok, I've had a drink, you'll have to help me to the car. Where is it?" Too funny, one little drink and she was worried about walking across the street safely enough.
Then we're almost home, just another 7 or so miles to go and she realizes she forgot her purse there. She didn't think anything of it because she was carrying something when she carried out her leftovers. So HDT gives them a call so they can look for it and they did find it right where she left it on the floor just under the table next to the wall. She tried to convince us to just go on home and she'd pick it up the next day but we told her there was no way THAT was going to happen. She felt so bad about it but we didn't think anything of it and were very happy to go back and get it.
So when we got her home we went in to spend a little more time with her and give her her cards that I completely forgot to give at the restaurant. I always give two cards, one really nice and one funny, I just can't help it. She of course liked them both.
What made the whole purse thing even funnier is that his mom thought she did the same thing only leaving hers at the store we stopped off at afterward. We had made it all the way back to our house though. She and HDT were outside with Poydras and she's putting things away in her car when she realized she didn't have her purse and starts to freak out. I found our receipt for the store and there was a number on there so I hand that to HDT to give them a call and I step back in the house and there's her purse sitting right on the kitchen counter. Right were she had set it not 1 minute before and already forgot.
So last night I joked with HDT that we can't let our moms drink anymore it messes them up too much. Made mom laugh of course.
Media quote of the day: A line of Have a Drink on Me by AC/DC
I'm trying to walk a straight line
On sour mash and cheap wine
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Weekend Update 5/6-8/11
So this was another busy weekend. Friday night we decided to go see a movie and Jim came along. We thought maybe we'd see Thor but since it was opening night it'd be packed so decided on Hanna instead. HDT and I went to dinner at Chili's first though. Had a good gut busting dinner and a drink or two then met Jim at the theater.
For being out for so many weeks now and never a huge hit there were quite a few people in there. Far more than I expected there to be even for a Friday night. There were probably just over 20 of us in there. It was pretty good. Strange though, not exactly what I was expecting but still good. It felt like there should've been more too it, not sure what though, just more.
Jim came over afterward and we watched a Doctor Who episode. Then I headed to bed and I think they played some Madden football or something on line, not sure what.
Saturday we had a group of friends come over around noonish and hung out playing games and bullshitting. The last one, besides Jim that is, to leave left around 7:30. Then we three watched Lo. HDT and I had seen it before quite awhile ago and was telling Jim and the other guy about it and since Jim hadn't ever seen it we decided to watch it. It's a very low budget "horror" movie that's not really a horror movie but since Lo is a demon it's listed under horror. Anyway, it's pretty funny and enjoyable in a fucked up sort of way.
After that Jim headed home and HDT and I played backgammon for what we'd be watching next. We watched an episode each of Doctor Who and Ally McBeal before heading off to bed. Or at least I headed off to bed, he showed up not long after though.
Sunday we got up and headed out to Walgreens to get all the Mothers' Day cards needed and then waited around until his mom came over at noon. We made the calls to everyone else before heading out to our favorite chinese place for lunch. She and I each had a dragon tini (a really really good chocolate martini) and a mai tai with our absolutely delicious food and HDT had a couple long islands with his. All of us were very pleasantly stuffed with plenty left over for more meals.
On the way home we stopped off at a second hand/antique shop. His mother absolutely loves these types of shops and never goes away without getting something. But I can't say anything, we ended up buying a few things ourselves. One of the items were a set of shot glasses. I looked at them, thought they were cute/nice but decided we didn't need anymore and walked away. A couple minutes or so later when I met up with HDT in another part of the store he was holding something so I look and it's the shot glasses. Couldn't argue with that so I didn't even try.
When we got home we decided to watch a movie. She asked about one that we had told her about before and figured out that it was The Princess Bride so we popped that in and enjoyed that all over again. And she even stayed awake throughout the whole thing. She tends to fall asleep during movies. But she didn't this time and she very much enjoyed it. Pretty much right after it was done her phone rang and it was a friend she hadn't talked to in quite awhile so she chatted with her for awhile while HDT and I watched some of the extras. Then she got a call from Jess so she grabbed up her things and headed out to spend the evening with her.
HDT and I played backgammon again for what we'd be watching. He kept winning, the brat. So we watched some Doctor Who's before turning into bed just before 10 o'clock.
Media quote of the day:
The Princess Bride:
You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to kill you. - Inigo Montoya
You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to die - The Man in Black; aka The Dread Pirate Roberts; aka Westley
_____________________
Lo:
You have to do what I say. - Justin
Look at you, pretending to be *brave*. What's your name? - Lo
Justin. - Justin
Ugh. That's a terrible name. Doesn't fit your future. Allow me to baptize you - Lo
Dinner! - Lo
It's Justin. - Justin
Dinner! You have to let go of the past. - Lo
For being out for so many weeks now and never a huge hit there were quite a few people in there. Far more than I expected there to be even for a Friday night. There were probably just over 20 of us in there. It was pretty good. Strange though, not exactly what I was expecting but still good. It felt like there should've been more too it, not sure what though, just more.
Jim came over afterward and we watched a Doctor Who episode. Then I headed to bed and I think they played some Madden football or something on line, not sure what.
Saturday we had a group of friends come over around noonish and hung out playing games and bullshitting. The last one, besides Jim that is, to leave left around 7:30. Then we three watched Lo. HDT and I had seen it before quite awhile ago and was telling Jim and the other guy about it and since Jim hadn't ever seen it we decided to watch it. It's a very low budget "horror" movie that's not really a horror movie but since Lo is a demon it's listed under horror. Anyway, it's pretty funny and enjoyable in a fucked up sort of way.
After that Jim headed home and HDT and I played backgammon for what we'd be watching next. We watched an episode each of Doctor Who and Ally McBeal before heading off to bed. Or at least I headed off to bed, he showed up not long after though.
Sunday we got up and headed out to Walgreens to get all the Mothers' Day cards needed and then waited around until his mom came over at noon. We made the calls to everyone else before heading out to our favorite chinese place for lunch. She and I each had a dragon tini (a really really good chocolate martini) and a mai tai with our absolutely delicious food and HDT had a couple long islands with his. All of us were very pleasantly stuffed with plenty left over for more meals.
On the way home we stopped off at a second hand/antique shop. His mother absolutely loves these types of shops and never goes away without getting something. But I can't say anything, we ended up buying a few things ourselves. One of the items were a set of shot glasses. I looked at them, thought they were cute/nice but decided we didn't need anymore and walked away. A couple minutes or so later when I met up with HDT in another part of the store he was holding something so I look and it's the shot glasses. Couldn't argue with that so I didn't even try.
When we got home we decided to watch a movie. She asked about one that we had told her about before and figured out that it was The Princess Bride so we popped that in and enjoyed that all over again. And she even stayed awake throughout the whole thing. She tends to fall asleep during movies. But she didn't this time and she very much enjoyed it. Pretty much right after it was done her phone rang and it was a friend she hadn't talked to in quite awhile so she chatted with her for awhile while HDT and I watched some of the extras. Then she got a call from Jess so she grabbed up her things and headed out to spend the evening with her.
HDT and I played backgammon again for what we'd be watching. He kept winning, the brat. So we watched some Doctor Who's before turning into bed just before 10 o'clock.
Media quote of the day:
The Princess Bride:
You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to kill you. - Inigo Montoya
You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to die - The Man in Black; aka The Dread Pirate Roberts; aka Westley
_____________________
Lo:
You have to do what I say. - Justin
Look at you, pretending to be *brave*. What's your name? - Lo
Justin. - Justin
Ugh. That's a terrible name. Doesn't fit your future. Allow me to baptize you - Lo
Dinner! - Lo
It's Justin. - Justin
Dinner! You have to let go of the past. - Lo
Monday, May 2, 2011
Weekend Update 4/29-5/1/11
So we had another pretty good weekend. When I had gone home for lunch on Friday I hopped on the treadmill for about 12 minutes. I had made a decision to do that every day several months ago and just haven't done it. No excuse really since most days I'm done eating with a good 10 minutes to spare.
After I got off work I ran out to Walmart and Jewel to get a few groceries we've been needing and I also stopped by our eye doctors to pick up some paperwork needed for our FlexCom account. I had just finished putting everything away and was starting to put a couple steaks in some marinade when he got home. He opened the grill and came in to get the matches to start it when I told the marinade needed at least a 1/2 hour to really soak in so he didn't start the grill and decided to take a shower. Since I had gotten a little warm on the treadmill earlier I decided to take a shower as well after he got out.
While I was still in he decided he was so relaxed now that he didn't feel like grilling out anymore. So we decided to have some baked chicken and tots instead and as usual vegged out on the couch and computer.
Saturday he worked until 2pm and I pretty much did nothing until he got home. Well, I did exercise. I did 10 minutes on the elliptical to warm up then did some weight lifting then another 10 minutes cool down on the elliptical again. Soaked in the tub afterward reading the latest Entertainment Magazine.
He wasn't hungry so I made myself some shrimp and fries for lunch then not long after that we did the little straightening up that was needed before the guys came over for the UFC fights. Which were really pretty darn good. So happy Nick Diaz got his ass handed to him. Oh how it was a beautiful sight to see. Although the third slam onto the mat I was worried for him, never want to see a guy get seriously injured even if I don't like him. But luckily he was ok. And another fighter, can't remember his name now, had the largest hematoma over his right eye that I've ever seen. It had all of us cringing big time along with the bad cut he had under his left eye. Wayne had us all laughing when he wondered which side the guy would be laying on while trying to sleep. I think it was HDT or Scott, or maybe both, that said it'd be his back.
Sunday ended up being a nice lazy day. Our friend Pat came over to watch some Dr Who shows that he's been trying to convince us to watch; the ones that have been on since 2005, not the originals from way back when. We ran out to grab some Popeye's that I've been craving for awhile now while he was on his way over. We vegged out on the couch eating some good food watching a pretty good show. I'd be just fine if we never watched another show but it's definitely enjoyable so I know we'll probably end up watching all the rest of the seasons as well. Eventually anyway.
After we were done watching several of those Pat left for home and HDT and I did some dishes and cooked up some mac and cheese for dinner and watched some Sports Night.
At one point we stopped watching to go over some things that needed going over and while doing that he got a text or something telling him to turn on the tv that Bin Laden had been killed. So I did that and we watched the breaking news about that along with Obama's speech. And then I went to bed not long after that.
Media quote of the day:
From Sports Night:
Is it nature's special time? - Casey McCall
Oh, you know what, bite me so hard for that - Dana Whitaker
From Dr Who:
If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North? - Rose Tyler
Lots of planets have a North! - The Doctor
After I got off work I ran out to Walmart and Jewel to get a few groceries we've been needing and I also stopped by our eye doctors to pick up some paperwork needed for our FlexCom account. I had just finished putting everything away and was starting to put a couple steaks in some marinade when he got home. He opened the grill and came in to get the matches to start it when I told the marinade needed at least a 1/2 hour to really soak in so he didn't start the grill and decided to take a shower. Since I had gotten a little warm on the treadmill earlier I decided to take a shower as well after he got out.
While I was still in he decided he was so relaxed now that he didn't feel like grilling out anymore. So we decided to have some baked chicken and tots instead and as usual vegged out on the couch and computer.
Saturday he worked until 2pm and I pretty much did nothing until he got home. Well, I did exercise. I did 10 minutes on the elliptical to warm up then did some weight lifting then another 10 minutes cool down on the elliptical again. Soaked in the tub afterward reading the latest Entertainment Magazine.
He wasn't hungry so I made myself some shrimp and fries for lunch then not long after that we did the little straightening up that was needed before the guys came over for the UFC fights. Which were really pretty darn good. So happy Nick Diaz got his ass handed to him. Oh how it was a beautiful sight to see. Although the third slam onto the mat I was worried for him, never want to see a guy get seriously injured even if I don't like him. But luckily he was ok. And another fighter, can't remember his name now, had the largest hematoma over his right eye that I've ever seen. It had all of us cringing big time along with the bad cut he had under his left eye. Wayne had us all laughing when he wondered which side the guy would be laying on while trying to sleep. I think it was HDT or Scott, or maybe both, that said it'd be his back.
Sunday ended up being a nice lazy day. Our friend Pat came over to watch some Dr Who shows that he's been trying to convince us to watch; the ones that have been on since 2005, not the originals from way back when. We ran out to grab some Popeye's that I've been craving for awhile now while he was on his way over. We vegged out on the couch eating some good food watching a pretty good show. I'd be just fine if we never watched another show but it's definitely enjoyable so I know we'll probably end up watching all the rest of the seasons as well. Eventually anyway.
After we were done watching several of those Pat left for home and HDT and I did some dishes and cooked up some mac and cheese for dinner and watched some Sports Night.
At one point we stopped watching to go over some things that needed going over and while doing that he got a text or something telling him to turn on the tv that Bin Laden had been killed. So I did that and we watched the breaking news about that along with Obama's speech. And then I went to bed not long after that.
Media quote of the day:
From Sports Night:
Is it nature's special time? - Casey McCall
Oh, you know what, bite me so hard for that - Dana Whitaker
From Dr Who:
If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North? - Rose Tyler
Lots of planets have a North! - The Doctor
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Anther commercial icon is gone
So I just found out that the Empire Man, Mr. Lynn Hauldren, has passed away. He was such a huge icon in the advertising business to me. Just like the "It's time to make the donuts" Dunkin Donuts guy, Michael Vale and original "The loneliest man in town" Maytag Repairman, Jesse White. Although all the others were pretty good as well.
When I moved to Louisiana for those six years I didn't realize how much I missed Hauldren until I moved back and saw an Empire Carpets commercial for the first time. I actually smiled and of course sang the jingle.
And when I saw a commercial for another company by the name of Luna and heard their jingle - singing their phone number and ending in the singing of their name that sounded exactly like the Empire jingle I was actually pissed. To this day whenever I hear their commercial there's a little twinge that goes off in my head about how they're such ripoffs.
Sad, just sad.
Media quote of the day:
"588-2300, Em-pire!" - The late, great Empire Man
When I moved to Louisiana for those six years I didn't realize how much I missed Hauldren until I moved back and saw an Empire Carpets commercial for the first time. I actually smiled and of course sang the jingle.
And when I saw a commercial for another company by the name of Luna and heard their jingle - singing their phone number and ending in the singing of their name that sounded exactly like the Empire jingle I was actually pissed. To this day whenever I hear their commercial there's a little twinge that goes off in my head about how they're such ripoffs.
Sad, just sad.
Media quote of the day:
"588-2300, Em-pire!" - The late, great Empire Man
Monday, April 25, 2011
Weekend Update 4/22-24/11
So, let's see, it was another busy weekend here in peanuthead land. Friday right after I got off work I hurried and changed and then HDT and I went to our friend's home for dinner and also to go to their church's Good Friday services.
Since it would be pushing it for time we actually just had some flat bread and chatted for a little while before heading out to church. The services were very simple but nice and other than the repetitiveness of the songs I enjoyed those as well. Afterward we headed over to the house for dinner. She had made some pasta and a salad. She actually made her own noodles too, they were pretty darn good and I had brought brownies for desert. We had a great time just visiting and having good food. We finally made it out of there a little after 1am and made it home shortly before 2.
HDT tried to convince me to stay up to watch a show but I was just too damn tired and besides we had to get up and out of the house by noonish the next day to take Jim out for his birthday lunch. So I went to bed and he followed about an hour or so later.
We took him to our favorite Chinese food place for a terrific lunch. He'd never been there and was very pleased with his food so HDT and I were happy about that. We got home shortly after 2 and I headed right back out to go to the grocery store to pick up pop and some snacks for the evening's festivities. Got home and put everything away and proceeded to clean with HDT helping. I also made a couple batches of brownies. One batch was left in the pan as that was going to be Jim's birthday "cake".
The couple that we had been with the night before came over, got there just after 7:30. We ordered dinner and played Wise or Otherwise. We were just finishing dinner and were almost to the end of the game when one of HDT's coworkers came over as well. She also brought a couple games to play. Once our one game was done we played one of the ones she brought - Snorta
I've never heard of this game before but I gotta say it was a lot of fun. I can only imagine how it'd be if we had been drinking a lot. A couple of us had a couple of Mike's hard lemonades but with all the food absorbing them there wasn't much of a negative consequence. But I can certainly imagine what it would be like tipsy let alone drunk.
During the middle of it Jess came by after she got off of work. Then after the game the couple had to leave, they had an early morning at their church.
I grabbed the brownie pan and put 40 candles on them for Jim to blow out. Passed out brownies and ice cream to everyone and we chatted for awhile while eating. Then the coworker had to go home, she wasn't feeling well so didn't want to stay up too late. We tried to convince Jess to stay for another game but she took off as well.
So we three who were left played one more game then called it a night. I went to bed and HDT followed about an hour later.
Sunday we slept in pretty late. I took a bath while he went on line until I got out then took his shower. We made it to his dad's house for Easter dinner shortly after 2:00. Had dinner while watching the Cub's game, which they proceeded to lose. After the game we decided to watch Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Watched a few of the extras after it and then headed home for the night around 7pm.
We had dinner and watched a couple Bones then I went to bed and followed about an hour or so after. Long weekend but a good one.
Media quote of the day:
What rubbish! See? That's what happens when you read all of those fanciful novels on fairy tales of yours. - Eustace Clarence Scrubb
There once was a boy called Eustace/who read books full of facts that were useless - Edmund Pevensie
Since it would be pushing it for time we actually just had some flat bread and chatted for a little while before heading out to church. The services were very simple but nice and other than the repetitiveness of the songs I enjoyed those as well. Afterward we headed over to the house for dinner. She had made some pasta and a salad. She actually made her own noodles too, they were pretty darn good and I had brought brownies for desert. We had a great time just visiting and having good food. We finally made it out of there a little after 1am and made it home shortly before 2.
HDT tried to convince me to stay up to watch a show but I was just too damn tired and besides we had to get up and out of the house by noonish the next day to take Jim out for his birthday lunch. So I went to bed and he followed about an hour or so later.
We took him to our favorite Chinese food place for a terrific lunch. He'd never been there and was very pleased with his food so HDT and I were happy about that. We got home shortly after 2 and I headed right back out to go to the grocery store to pick up pop and some snacks for the evening's festivities. Got home and put everything away and proceeded to clean with HDT helping. I also made a couple batches of brownies. One batch was left in the pan as that was going to be Jim's birthday "cake".
The couple that we had been with the night before came over, got there just after 7:30. We ordered dinner and played Wise or Otherwise. We were just finishing dinner and were almost to the end of the game when one of HDT's coworkers came over as well. She also brought a couple games to play. Once our one game was done we played one of the ones she brought - Snorta
I've never heard of this game before but I gotta say it was a lot of fun. I can only imagine how it'd be if we had been drinking a lot. A couple of us had a couple of Mike's hard lemonades but with all the food absorbing them there wasn't much of a negative consequence. But I can certainly imagine what it would be like tipsy let alone drunk.
During the middle of it Jess came by after she got off of work. Then after the game the couple had to leave, they had an early morning at their church.
I grabbed the brownie pan and put 40 candles on them for Jim to blow out. Passed out brownies and ice cream to everyone and we chatted for awhile while eating. Then the coworker had to go home, she wasn't feeling well so didn't want to stay up too late. We tried to convince Jess to stay for another game but she took off as well.
So we three who were left played one more game then called it a night. I went to bed and HDT followed about an hour later.
Sunday we slept in pretty late. I took a bath while he went on line until I got out then took his shower. We made it to his dad's house for Easter dinner shortly after 2:00. Had dinner while watching the Cub's game, which they proceeded to lose. After the game we decided to watch Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Watched a few of the extras after it and then headed home for the night around 7pm.
We had dinner and watched a couple Bones then I went to bed and followed about an hour or so after. Long weekend but a good one.
Media quote of the day:
What rubbish! See? That's what happens when you read all of those fanciful novels on fairy tales of yours. - Eustace Clarence Scrubb
There once was a boy called Eustace/who read books full of facts that were useless - Edmund Pevensie
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
What's your favorite scary movie?
So HDT and I decided to go see Scream 4 last night. HDT thought it was ok, he wasn't disappointed but wasn't thrilled with it either. I enjoyed it. Sure, there wasn't as much "story" as there was in the others but I still thought it played well.
Without giving anything away: While watching a commercial one night last week I turned to HDT and said I think "that person" is Ghostface or at least one of the ghostfaces as the other movies had more than one. He asked why and I told him because they're not doing what I'd expect them to do in that situation and because of this other scene. He wasn't sure what to think, could be any number of reasons for doing/not doing what they were doing/not doing. Turns out I was right though.
Throughout the movie every now and then someone else would look good to be it or at least one of them if there did turn out to be more than one killer. But I still believed the person I picked in the commercial was the best candidate.
But I gotta say I really like Hayden Panettiere's haircut. That short hair looks really, really good on her. And Emma Roberts does look good for playing a cousin of Neve Campbell, heck they could even play sisters.
And when Cougar Town with Courteney Cox started last fall we gave it a shot and I gotta say it really bugged me to see that she had work done to her face. We gave up on the show so I sort of forgot how bad she was looking. So when she came on screen all huge with those ugly protruding lips sticking out I actually flinched a little. Why oh why do people have to disfigure themselves. Just age gracefully already. Geesh.
Media quote of the day:
Welcome home, Sidney. You're a survivor, aren't you, Sidney? What good is it to be a survivor when everyone close to you is dead? You can't save them. All you can do... is watch. - The Voice (Ghostface)
Without giving anything away: While watching a commercial one night last week I turned to HDT and said I think "that person" is Ghostface or at least one of the ghostfaces as the other movies had more than one. He asked why and I told him because they're not doing what I'd expect them to do in that situation and because of this other scene. He wasn't sure what to think, could be any number of reasons for doing/not doing what they were doing/not doing. Turns out I was right though.
Throughout the movie every now and then someone else would look good to be it or at least one of them if there did turn out to be more than one killer. But I still believed the person I picked in the commercial was the best candidate.
But I gotta say I really like Hayden Panettiere's haircut. That short hair looks really, really good on her. And Emma Roberts does look good for playing a cousin of Neve Campbell, heck they could even play sisters.
And when Cougar Town with Courteney Cox started last fall we gave it a shot and I gotta say it really bugged me to see that she had work done to her face. We gave up on the show so I sort of forgot how bad she was looking. So when she came on screen all huge with those ugly protruding lips sticking out I actually flinched a little. Why oh why do people have to disfigure themselves. Just age gracefully already. Geesh.
Media quote of the day:
Welcome home, Sidney. You're a survivor, aren't you, Sidney? What good is it to be a survivor when everyone close to you is dead? You can't save them. All you can do... is watch. - The Voice (Ghostface)
Monday, April 18, 2011
Weekend Update 4/15-17/11
So this was another fairly busy weekend even though HDiTty had to work. Friday night we didn't do much except hang out and watch Date Night. It was silly but it was fun, pretty enjoyable really.
Saturday he had to work all day - 16 hours, from 6am to 10pm so I was going to do a Lost Season 6 marathon but then decided I better not because I really did have things that needed to be done.
First I got on the elliptical. I've been pretty good with the exercising this week. Soaked for a bit in the tub then got ready to go get Kylie's birthday gift exchanged. She's into Tangled right now and we bought her the dress but someone else had already bought it (turned out to be HDT's mom) so I took it back and exchanged it for the wig. Grabbed some lunch from Pizza Hut (bad, bad I know) and took it back home to eat. Watched a show while eating then made myself get off my ass and go clean the kitchen which has been needing it for some time now. We tend to pile things up, most of it was mail and magazines though so not too bad. Did the dishes as well.
I also finally did our taxes, yes we are THAT bad with the procrastination. Found some of the bills needed for our Flex Com to be fixed and also grabbed last years tax return to prove I did claim the 408k money I took out while I was out of work.
After all that it was now after 6pm, maybe even closer to 7 and I decided I'd reward myself with sitting on the couch watching a movie. I decided on Underworld: Rise of the Lycons. After it was done I switched back to tv and started scrolling through the guide and in less than 5 minutes the same movie was going to start on one of the channels. I was amused.
There wasn't much on so I settled on Forensic Files and was watching that when HDT walked in the door close to 10:30. He stayed up for about an hour so we continued watching the Files until he went to bed. I went with him but sat up in bed reading for about a half hour until I felt tired enough to sleep.
Sunday I decided to take a day off from exercising and just had some breakfast while watching Temple Grandin. Good movie, I can totally see why Claire Daines won so many awards for it. The tears ran down my face more than once I might add.
After it was over I soaked in the tub reading for a little while then got ready to go back out to get Jenn's birthday gift and card. HDT got out of work early to be able to go to Kylie's birthday party that started at 2:30. After meeting him at home and getting the presents wrapped we headed out the door around 3:45. I'm glad I didn't go on time without him because everyone was just finishing eating when we walked in the door which means an hour and half of just sitting around watching the kids run around.
After we finished our plates they had the cake and ice cream then the presents were opened. Kylie very much liked the Rapunzel wig and the reading book we also gave and liked the soundtrack cd even more. So the presents were a hit which is always good.
He made a few copies of the cd so Kylie could actually handle it without ruining the original and we could have a copy of it when she comes over. Not long after the cd's were done copying we headed home.
He got on the computer and I turned on Netflix instant and we proceeded to watch some Buffy's for the rest of the evening until we went up to bed around 11.
Media quote of the day:
My name is Temple Grandin. I'm not like other people. I think in pictures and I connect them. - Temple Grandin
__________________________
Something brought you here, Flynn Rider. Call it what you will... fate... destiny... - Rapunzel
A horse. - Flynn Rider
__________________________
If we are going to pay this much for crab it better sing and dance and introduce us to the Little Mermaid! - Claire Foster
He turned the gun sideways! That's a kill shot! - Phil Foster
Saturday he had to work all day - 16 hours, from 6am to 10pm so I was going to do a Lost Season 6 marathon but then decided I better not because I really did have things that needed to be done.
First I got on the elliptical. I've been pretty good with the exercising this week. Soaked for a bit in the tub then got ready to go get Kylie's birthday gift exchanged. She's into Tangled right now and we bought her the dress but someone else had already bought it (turned out to be HDT's mom) so I took it back and exchanged it for the wig. Grabbed some lunch from Pizza Hut (bad, bad I know) and took it back home to eat. Watched a show while eating then made myself get off my ass and go clean the kitchen which has been needing it for some time now. We tend to pile things up, most of it was mail and magazines though so not too bad. Did the dishes as well.
I also finally did our taxes, yes we are THAT bad with the procrastination. Found some of the bills needed for our Flex Com to be fixed and also grabbed last years tax return to prove I did claim the 408k money I took out while I was out of work.
After all that it was now after 6pm, maybe even closer to 7 and I decided I'd reward myself with sitting on the couch watching a movie. I decided on Underworld: Rise of the Lycons. After it was done I switched back to tv and started scrolling through the guide and in less than 5 minutes the same movie was going to start on one of the channels. I was amused.
There wasn't much on so I settled on Forensic Files and was watching that when HDT walked in the door close to 10:30. He stayed up for about an hour so we continued watching the Files until he went to bed. I went with him but sat up in bed reading for about a half hour until I felt tired enough to sleep.
Sunday I decided to take a day off from exercising and just had some breakfast while watching Temple Grandin. Good movie, I can totally see why Claire Daines won so many awards for it. The tears ran down my face more than once I might add.
After it was over I soaked in the tub reading for a little while then got ready to go back out to get Jenn's birthday gift and card. HDT got out of work early to be able to go to Kylie's birthday party that started at 2:30. After meeting him at home and getting the presents wrapped we headed out the door around 3:45. I'm glad I didn't go on time without him because everyone was just finishing eating when we walked in the door which means an hour and half of just sitting around watching the kids run around.
After we finished our plates they had the cake and ice cream then the presents were opened. Kylie very much liked the Rapunzel wig and the reading book we also gave and liked the soundtrack cd even more. So the presents were a hit which is always good.
He made a few copies of the cd so Kylie could actually handle it without ruining the original and we could have a copy of it when she comes over. Not long after the cd's were done copying we headed home.
He got on the computer and I turned on Netflix instant and we proceeded to watch some Buffy's for the rest of the evening until we went up to bed around 11.
Media quote of the day:
My name is Temple Grandin. I'm not like other people. I think in pictures and I connect them. - Temple Grandin
__________________________
Something brought you here, Flynn Rider. Call it what you will... fate... destiny... - Rapunzel
A horse. - Flynn Rider
__________________________
If we are going to pay this much for crab it better sing and dance and introduce us to the Little Mermaid! - Claire Foster
He turned the gun sideways! That's a kill shot! - Phil Foster
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