Can I have a day off to recover from my weekend?
1. First, a very happy birthday to 3starsinmyeyes!! I hope you had a wonderful day, sweetie.
2. This was another of those weekends that made me wish I could take Monday off.
Saturday:
* took M to PetsMart at 9:45 a.m. so she could work for the animal rescue groups' pet adoption thinger until 2 p.m.
* did some minor shopping
* did our weekly grocery shopping (and learned, via my new pedometer, that I take about 2,300 steps to go through our huge supermarket).
* brought groceries and other stuff home at 12:45. Unpacked and put away, another half hour.
* left around 1:50 to pick M up from PetsMart. She hadn't eaten the lunch I sent with her. Took her to Wendy's for lunch. Got home at 3:30.
* 5:45 - brought her to a slumber party about 2-3 miles east of us, hosted by one of her classmates.
* 7:30 -left w/Mr. Annearchy for a "date" which was our big anniversary celebration. Had a great dinner (samosas, lamb curry and rice, coffee and rice pudding) at the Maharaja Restaurant, a terrific East Indian place. Then went to see All The King's Men, which was pretty good. Movie ended about 11:40. We got home about midnight and found several voice mails from M, who was begging us to come and pick her up. *SIGH*
* 12:15 - 12:45 a.m. Spent on phone with M, trying to explain to her that we couldn't pick her up unless she let her friend's parents know she was going to leave (so they didn't think she had wandered off or been kidnapped).
* 1:00 a.m. - picked M up and brought her home.
* 1:15 a.m. - put M to bed, fell asleep on her bed for an hour then went to our bed for the rest of the night.
Sunday
* Got up at 7:55, showered, ate breakfast, blah blah
* 9:15 dragged M out of bed, shoved a bagel & bacon sandwich at her for breakfast
* 9:25 left to pick up CH on our way to church (CH has joined M's sunday school class)
* 11:45 attended parent/teacher conference for high school class I'm helping with
* 12:20 left church and drove across town
* 12:50 deposited M and CH at AP's birthday party at Rocky Rococo's pizza plce.
* 1:00 went to East Towne Mall and got sandwich from Quizno's.
* 1:15, while eating, missed 2 cell calls from hermorrine
* 1:20 - 2:55 walked around the mall and windowshopped (putting a couple thousand steps on my pedometer, yay)
* 3:05 arrived at Rocky's to pick up M and CH
* 3:20 or so, got another call, managed to answer it. hermorrine and I decided to meet at Starbuck's inside Barnes & Noble. Drove back to mall.
* 3:45? Met hermorrine at Starbucks (more below)
* 4:30 or so, left B&N and drove home. M and CH have argument about whose house to play at the rest of the afternoon. End result: NO playdate, we drop off CH who walks most of the way home. Man, this thing sucked. I wanted to slap both girls for being so frakking stubborn.
* 5:00 p.m. finally got home and wanted to collapse.
* 6:00 started cooking dinner. Play Destructo-Match II on Neopets while waiting.
* 6:45 ran across street with M to give a baby gift to Ed & Wendy, dad and step-mom of MM, one of M's friends
* 7:15 dinner finally ready. Missed most of Bob Woodward on 60 Minutes (baah).
The rest of the evening was slightly less frantic, but it still took me until now to have time to write about it. As usual I will get not enough sleep tonight.
3. The highlight of my weekend was my brief meet-up with hermorrine, who was on her way home after spending the weekend with her sister's family. It was lovely to see you again, dear, even if we didn't get to spend much time together at Starbuck's. I hope you enjoyed your cheesecake. I did love my peanut butter cookie and Pumpkin Spice Latte :)
ETA, borrowed from cassievalentine: 4. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
2. This was another of those weekends that made me wish I could take Monday off.
Saturday:
* took M to PetsMart at 9:45 a.m. so she could work for the animal rescue groups' pet adoption thinger until 2 p.m.
* did some minor shopping
* did our weekly grocery shopping (and learned, via my new pedometer, that I take about 2,300 steps to go through our huge supermarket).
* brought groceries and other stuff home at 12:45. Unpacked and put away, another half hour.
* left around 1:50 to pick M up from PetsMart. She hadn't eaten the lunch I sent with her. Took her to Wendy's for lunch. Got home at 3:30.
* 5:45 - brought her to a slumber party about 2-3 miles east of us, hosted by one of her classmates.
* 7:30 -left w/Mr. Annearchy for a "date" which was our big anniversary celebration. Had a great dinner (samosas, lamb curry and rice, coffee and rice pudding) at the Maharaja Restaurant, a terrific East Indian place. Then went to see All The King's Men, which was pretty good. Movie ended about 11:40. We got home about midnight and found several voice mails from M, who was begging us to come and pick her up. *SIGH*
* 12:15 - 12:45 a.m. Spent on phone with M, trying to explain to her that we couldn't pick her up unless she let her friend's parents know she was going to leave (so they didn't think she had wandered off or been kidnapped).
* 1:00 a.m. - picked M up and brought her home.
* 1:15 a.m. - put M to bed, fell asleep on her bed for an hour then went to our bed for the rest of the night.
Sunday
* Got up at 7:55, showered, ate breakfast, blah blah
* 9:15 dragged M out of bed, shoved a bagel & bacon sandwich at her for breakfast
* 9:25 left to pick up CH on our way to church (CH has joined M's sunday school class)
* 11:45 attended parent/teacher conference for high school class I'm helping with
* 12:20 left church and drove across town
* 12:50 deposited M and CH at AP's birthday party at Rocky Rococo's pizza plce.
* 1:00 went to East Towne Mall and got sandwich from Quizno's.
* 1:15, while eating, missed 2 cell calls from hermorrine
* 1:20 - 2:55 walked around the mall and windowshopped (putting a couple thousand steps on my pedometer, yay)
* 3:05 arrived at Rocky's to pick up M and CH
* 3:20 or so, got another call, managed to answer it. hermorrine and I decided to meet at Starbuck's inside Barnes & Noble. Drove back to mall.
* 3:45? Met hermorrine at Starbucks (more below)
* 4:30 or so, left B&N and drove home. M and CH have argument about whose house to play at the rest of the afternoon. End result: NO playdate, we drop off CH who walks most of the way home. Man, this thing sucked. I wanted to slap both girls for being so frakking stubborn.
* 5:00 p.m. finally got home and wanted to collapse.
* 6:00 started cooking dinner. Play Destructo-Match II on Neopets while waiting.
* 6:45 ran across street with M to give a baby gift to Ed & Wendy, dad and step-mom of MM, one of M's friends
* 7:15 dinner finally ready. Missed most of Bob Woodward on 60 Minutes (baah).
The rest of the evening was slightly less frantic, but it still took me until now to have time to write about it. As usual I will get not enough sleep tonight.
3. The highlight of my weekend was my brief meet-up with hermorrine, who was on her way home after spending the weekend with her sister's family. It was lovely to see you again, dear, even if we didn't get to spend much time together at Starbuck's. I hope you enjoyed your cheesecake. I did love my peanut butter cookie and Pumpkin Spice Latte :)
ETA, borrowed from cassievalentine: 4. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.