Weekend In Review
Friday was Mia's appointment day, so I left work early and took her for a haircut, during which she was an angel, and then to her first appointment with a new doctor. She's been diagnosed with eczema and is caught up on her vaccinations, 3 shots later. Ugh. By the time we left the doctor's office, she was tired and fed up with being jabbed with needles and I was exhausted and fed up with wrestling with a toddler while trying to file out the umpteen pages of paperwork that the office wanted.
Mia fell asleep in the car on the way home and transitioned easily to bed for a three hour nap. I followed suit and woke up when Ed called to tell me he was on his way, which is just about when I realized that I had apparently been hit by a truck while I was mostly-unconscious, and couldn't breathe. A cold. Wonderful.
Ed ordered dinner for us when he got home and I sat pitifully on the couch eating and trying desperately to breathe before finally giving up and going back up to bed where I spent the night reading and watching TV. Ed kindly took care of Mia until her very late bedtime at 9:30 when she crashed for the night.
We all got up around 8:30 on Saturday and lazed in bed for awhile. After I showered and Ed got ready, we all headed out to hit Old Navy where we picked up a slew of clothes for Ed and a few summery things for Mia. I swung by for jeans at Lane Bryant, but the ones I wanted weren't in stock, so we got back on the road to get lunch at Noodles & Company, which proved to be a mistake. For me, anyway.
Ed and I first tried N&C a couple of years ago and neither of us liked what we had. The potstickers were gross and the Pad Thai with shrimp that I had was mediocre at best. Ed's been on his own since and thoroughly enjoyed the Japanese Noodles, which he'd been craving recently. I finally caved and went with him, this time going for the Mac & Cheese with chicken. Again, it was mediocre at best, and overpriced for such uninspiring flavor. Mia ate a little bit of it, but that was it. I've told Ed that he's welcome to return... on his own. I'm not wasting money again.
After lunch we went home and put a tired Mia to bed while we killed time around the house, me being lazy and trying to rest up a bit, Ed running to Lowe's where he was unable to return my blue paint, but brought me back the correct shade. So, uh, if you want a gallon of a very lovely light blue paint, let me know - $15. No more impulse-buy paint for me.
I eventually got Mia up, got all of us refreshed and out the door, and we took Mia down to my Mom's where she was spending the night so that Ed and I could have a belated Valentine's Day celebration. Mia was peachy keen with being left with Gram and barely batted and eye when Ed and I left. I'm all for socialization, but she could at least pretend to care! Brat.
I'd chosen Tsunami, a sushi place in Annapolis, as our dinner location. Wrong choice. It's a great restaurant if you're in a party kind of mood and hanging out with friends, but for a romantic dinner for two, it was shitty. It's way too loud and our food took 45 minutes to an hour to arrive. The sushi was good, but no better than what we can get up here in Bel Air. Lesson learned... we won't be returning. After eating we walked down to Rams Head so that Ed could see where I go for concerts from time-to-time, and then high-tailed it back to the car in the cold wind.
Back at home we relaxed, watched a movie, and went to bed. It was actually a really nice night, just the two of us, and it was nice that we could both sleep in on Sunday.
I left our house around 11:30 to get Mia, and while I was gone, Ed took care of starting laundry for me and got to work on some stuff he needed to do from home this weekend. I hung out at Mom's for a little while, visiting with her, cleaning up Mia's mess and packing up her stuff, before we loaded up and hit the road. I swung by Toni's to drop off something for Brandon and check for Xbox 360 that we were purchasing, which I picked up from them at the same time.
Ed started looking into various game systems a few months ago, doing some comparisons and trying to decide which one he wanted to buy. By the time our tax money came in, he knew he wanted and Xbox 360 so that he could buy the Rock Band package, a game he's been playing with the guys fairly regularly and has come to thoroughly enjoy. In a lovely little fit of coincidence, my sister and her family decided to sell their Xbox, which we offered to purchase, thus saving some money on the game system itself... handy when the game he wants most is over $100. Gah.
So anyway, I got Mia home and Ed put her down for her nap before returning to the work he was doing. I scrubbed cat puke off of the basement floors - someone had a rough night last night, switched over the laundry Ed started, and fiddled on the Internets. I can't get Gmail to load and it's ticking me off. Ed's taken a break from work to hang a planter basket from our kitchen window so that we can get my Valentine's Day rose plant out of the cats' reach until the weather warms up and it can be replanted into a container outside. Now he's fiddling with the Xbox, clearing out the older profiles so that we can create our own, and once Mia's up, we're headed off to Gamestop for more toys for my husband. And me. I want the original Halo!
I'm still sick, but don't feel quite as deathly as I did Friday evening. This is going to be a VERY long week, and I'm already looking forward to next weekend. I'm going to see Carbon Leaf!
Oh, and 19 days to Ireland. Eeee!
Mia fell asleep in the car on the way home and transitioned easily to bed for a three hour nap. I followed suit and woke up when Ed called to tell me he was on his way, which is just about when I realized that I had apparently been hit by a truck while I was mostly-unconscious, and couldn't breathe. A cold. Wonderful.
Ed ordered dinner for us when he got home and I sat pitifully on the couch eating and trying desperately to breathe before finally giving up and going back up to bed where I spent the night reading and watching TV. Ed kindly took care of Mia until her very late bedtime at 9:30 when she crashed for the night.
We all got up around 8:30 on Saturday and lazed in bed for awhile. After I showered and Ed got ready, we all headed out to hit Old Navy where we picked up a slew of clothes for Ed and a few summery things for Mia. I swung by for jeans at Lane Bryant, but the ones I wanted weren't in stock, so we got back on the road to get lunch at Noodles & Company, which proved to be a mistake. For me, anyway.
Ed and I first tried N&C a couple of years ago and neither of us liked what we had. The potstickers were gross and the Pad Thai with shrimp that I had was mediocre at best. Ed's been on his own since and thoroughly enjoyed the Japanese Noodles, which he'd been craving recently. I finally caved and went with him, this time going for the Mac & Cheese with chicken. Again, it was mediocre at best, and overpriced for such uninspiring flavor. Mia ate a little bit of it, but that was it. I've told Ed that he's welcome to return... on his own. I'm not wasting money again.
After lunch we went home and put a tired Mia to bed while we killed time around the house, me being lazy and trying to rest up a bit, Ed running to Lowe's where he was unable to return my blue paint, but brought me back the correct shade. So, uh, if you want a gallon of a very lovely light blue paint, let me know - $15. No more impulse-buy paint for me.
I eventually got Mia up, got all of us refreshed and out the door, and we took Mia down to my Mom's where she was spending the night so that Ed and I could have a belated Valentine's Day celebration. Mia was peachy keen with being left with Gram and barely batted and eye when Ed and I left. I'm all for socialization, but she could at least pretend to care! Brat.
I'd chosen Tsunami, a sushi place in Annapolis, as our dinner location. Wrong choice. It's a great restaurant if you're in a party kind of mood and hanging out with friends, but for a romantic dinner for two, it was shitty. It's way too loud and our food took 45 minutes to an hour to arrive. The sushi was good, but no better than what we can get up here in Bel Air. Lesson learned... we won't be returning. After eating we walked down to Rams Head so that Ed could see where I go for concerts from time-to-time, and then high-tailed it back to the car in the cold wind.
Back at home we relaxed, watched a movie, and went to bed. It was actually a really nice night, just the two of us, and it was nice that we could both sleep in on Sunday.
I left our house around 11:30 to get Mia, and while I was gone, Ed took care of starting laundry for me and got to work on some stuff he needed to do from home this weekend. I hung out at Mom's for a little while, visiting with her, cleaning up Mia's mess and packing up her stuff, before we loaded up and hit the road. I swung by Toni's to drop off something for Brandon and check for Xbox 360 that we were purchasing, which I picked up from them at the same time.
Ed started looking into various game systems a few months ago, doing some comparisons and trying to decide which one he wanted to buy. By the time our tax money came in, he knew he wanted and Xbox 360 so that he could buy the Rock Band package, a game he's been playing with the guys fairly regularly and has come to thoroughly enjoy. In a lovely little fit of coincidence, my sister and her family decided to sell their Xbox, which we offered to purchase, thus saving some money on the game system itself... handy when the game he wants most is over $100. Gah.
So anyway, I got Mia home and Ed put her down for her nap before returning to the work he was doing. I scrubbed cat puke off of the basement floors - someone had a rough night last night, switched over the laundry Ed started, and fiddled on the Internets. I can't get Gmail to load and it's ticking me off. Ed's taken a break from work to hang a planter basket from our kitchen window so that we can get my Valentine's Day rose plant out of the cats' reach until the weather warms up and it can be replanted into a container outside. Now he's fiddling with the Xbox, clearing out the older profiles so that we can create our own, and once Mia's up, we're headed off to Gamestop for more toys for my husband. And me. I want the original Halo!
I'm still sick, but don't feel quite as deathly as I did Friday evening. This is going to be a VERY long week, and I'm already looking forward to next weekend. I'm going to see Carbon Leaf!
Oh, and 19 days to Ireland. Eeee!