Weekend in Reverse
I just bought xhollydayx lawn tickets for Fallout Boy & The Academy Is at Blossom. That certainly qualifies as her guilty pleasure concert of the year. As for myself, I will be the oldest non-parent there. And she'll be the second oldest one. Although even I must admit that William Beckett is a good looking young man. I might even go so far as calling him dreamy, if pressed.
After much assistance and the expenditure of $180 the lawn has been mowed by my new Sears Craftsmen 3-in-1 lawn mower. I went to the Home Depot lawn mower sale first, but by the time I got there there was nothing left in my price range. I also now have trash cans, and the wasp nest on my fence got a hefty dose of bug bomb. Next up: making a list of things that need to be fixed / hung up, and doing at a few small ones each month. Or conning someone else into doing them.
My good friend KJF in Atlanta is the hostest with the mostest. tigerlily_blue and I had a great time visiting her and our friend KAM and playing with Kitten, a pit bull mix that KJF rescued from the pound. We watched the Braves lose to the Dodgers on a gorgeous night at Turner Field, which is a truly gorgeous retro stadium with very vocal fans. Admittedly, I still find the Tomahawk Chop Chant disturbing, but the fans were into it. Turner Field also has the best scoreboard ever for people who keep book - every time a batter came up it showed the correct scoring notation for their previous at-bats. Very sweet. We also drank some very cheap 'margaritas' for Cinco de Mayo.
Earlier in the day we went to the Georgia Aquarium, which is not even close to being worth the $24 per person entrance fee. Only 1 of the 5 exhibition areas was truly cool, and that had more to do with it having a giant window into the fish tank the size of a movie theater screen. A BIG movie theater screen - the glass was 2 feet thick. Sadly, the fish behind that particular window weren't all that impressive, except for the whale sharks, and the other 4 exhibitions ranged from truly craptastic to average. I can't particularly recommend the place, at least not at that price. If was also extremely crowded, which made wandering through slowly and checking the place out at our own pace unfeasible - and it wasn't even sold out! All in all, a disappointment.
For breakfast Saturday morning the four of us dined at The Flying Biscuit, which was apparently onced owned by The Indigo Girls. The biscuits were delicious. So was everything else. I also made time to read three books by Simon Green that KJF has and I don't. They were admittedly short books (average length = 150 pages) but fun and entertaining. KJF hasa respectable collection of books, especially if you ignore the niggling the detail that most of them are trashy vampire romance novels (her words, not mine). Good times all around.
After much assistance and the expenditure of $180 the lawn has been mowed by my new Sears Craftsmen 3-in-1 lawn mower. I went to the Home Depot lawn mower sale first, but by the time I got there there was nothing left in my price range. I also now have trash cans, and the wasp nest on my fence got a hefty dose of bug bomb. Next up: making a list of things that need to be fixed / hung up, and doing at a few small ones each month. Or conning someone else into doing them.
My good friend KJF in Atlanta is the hostest with the mostest. tigerlily_blue and I had a great time visiting her and our friend KAM and playing with Kitten, a pit bull mix that KJF rescued from the pound. We watched the Braves lose to the Dodgers on a gorgeous night at Turner Field, which is a truly gorgeous retro stadium with very vocal fans. Admittedly, I still find the Tomahawk Chop Chant disturbing, but the fans were into it. Turner Field also has the best scoreboard ever for people who keep book - every time a batter came up it showed the correct scoring notation for their previous at-bats. Very sweet. We also drank some very cheap 'margaritas' for Cinco de Mayo.
Earlier in the day we went to the Georgia Aquarium, which is not even close to being worth the $24 per person entrance fee. Only 1 of the 5 exhibition areas was truly cool, and that had more to do with it having a giant window into the fish tank the size of a movie theater screen. A BIG movie theater screen - the glass was 2 feet thick. Sadly, the fish behind that particular window weren't all that impressive, except for the whale sharks, and the other 4 exhibitions ranged from truly craptastic to average. I can't particularly recommend the place, at least not at that price. If was also extremely crowded, which made wandering through slowly and checking the place out at our own pace unfeasible - and it wasn't even sold out! All in all, a disappointment.
For breakfast Saturday morning the four of us dined at The Flying Biscuit, which was apparently onced owned by The Indigo Girls. The biscuits were delicious. So was everything else. I also made time to read three books by Simon Green that KJF has and I don't. They were admittedly short books (average length = 150 pages) but fun and entertaining. KJF hasa respectable collection of books, especially if you ignore the niggling the detail that most of them are trashy vampire romance novels (her words, not mine). Good times all around.