Friday night, I had to go grocery shopping. Boo. I had to buy some expensive things that we were out of, and spent $40 more than I had generously budgeted.
I went to Farmer's Market Saturday morning. I bought bacon, brats, and eggs. I picked up my farm share, which included 2 bags of pasta, a few heads of garlic, a huge bag of basil (it's pesto time!), and really buttery little potatoes. Then I ate breakfast at the grocery co-op.
When I got home, I went swimming. I swam laps for half an hour and loved it! Then I sat in the sun to read a book. But when I got out of the water and stretched out on the pool chair, I noticed I hadn't shaved! So I didn't read for long and I went back inside before anyone could see.
Saturday afternoon, we went to a neighbor's house to watch the World Cup. It was a good game, but the USA lost. Boo.
Saturday night we went to a farm about 2 hours away to a party called Neckbrace Fest. Lots of great bands played, and it was fun to party with them. Our friend Marc's band played, Wild Jesus and the Devil's Lettuce Family Party Band. (Remember Marc? He was the bassist for The Wina-Freds.) (Special note for Lady Strange: I know who you're looking at. His name is Jay, he sings and plays guitar, he is HOT, and my husband knows that I think so and doesn't mind. But he does have tattoos.) Here's the link to their Facebook page, songs are at the bottom left. They have a rock/bluesy/weirdness type sound: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-Jesus-The-Devils-Lettuce-Family-Party-Band/121657877854888?ref=ts
Sunday morning, once the dead (aka hungover) were risen, we formed a caravan and descended onto a small cafe in Anderson, IN. We pretty much took over the place with the members of 3 rock bands and accompanying spouses, roadies, and groupies (including a guy who was the chef for Journey for a number of years). It was hilarious, and the staff were really accommodating.
Then we went to see my dad for a late Father's Day. We played Euchre (my stepmom and I won, haha! [we usually lose]) and Dominoes (I won, haha!), then went out to dinner.
Then we drove through a storm home, showered, and crashed.
Next weekend, for July 4th, we're going up to Chicago to see Wild Jesus at Star Lounge. It promises to be an all night wild party. Anyone here who wants to drop by Chicago are invited to come.
Okay, time to turn in your essays. What did you do this weekend?
-- Edited by MzHartz on Monday 28th of June 2010 07:25:01 AM
-- Edited by MzHartz on Monday 28th of June 2010 07:26:19 AM
Mrs Web was gone to Greeley Colorado to a Keith Urban concert. She took one of her friends and they headed out Saturday morning and got home yesterday afternoon. They had a blast.
While she was gone, I:
Did my normal weekend server stuff and work related emails, etc Did all the laundry Washed sheets of one bed and made them both Hauled the tree pile to the tree dump Hauled the recycling to the recycling center Swept up paint chips around the house from the painters working on the trim Practiced bass Went to Pamida with the boy for their specials and pizza (got the boy a couple small Lego kits, and me a home town t-shirt) (Turns out they were NOT doing cholesterol testing as they said so I went all morning without eating for nothing) Vacuumed the upstairs Vacuumed the steps and basement floor Practiced bass (again) Took the boy to Runza for supper Took the boy to "Toy Story 3 (3D)" Kicked JR's butt in a world series of online pool Praise Team practice at 8:00 Sunday morning Took the boy out for a donut Church Hauled the old clothes line pipes to my nephew so he could recycle them Made us some lunch Went to the grocery store, got a pork roast and fixn's for supper Started the roast smokin' on the Traeger Napped for about 30 min before the neighbor woke me up asking for help Listened to Mrs Web go on about how awesome Keith Urban is Made supper Dried dishes Crashed.
It feels like I'm missing something, but that was most if it.
WebGuy wrote: Went to Pamida with the boy for their specials and pizza (got the boy a couple small Lego kits, and me a home town t-shirt) (Turns out they were NOT doing cholesterol testing as they said so I went all morning without eating for nothing)
You went all morning without eating so you could fill your tummy with sweet, sweet pizza... ;)
This was mine and Paul's childless weekend. We made the most of it.
Friday night we went to a cajun restaurant in Nashville called Chappy's. It was a little more pricey than anticipated so Paul and I split an appetizer of crabcakes, then for dinner I had a cup of gumbo and helped paul eat his entree of Grilled Mahi Mahi. Afterwards we went to downtown Nashville to Printer's Alley (this is a little piece of French Quarter) and went to Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar to watch Stacy Mitchhart play. He was AWESOME!! It felt just a little bit like the movie "Adventures in Babysitting" where she's in the blues bar and just doesn't fit in. But... Paul and I very much enjoyed it anyway.
Saturday, we worked on our shrubs, took the recycles, stopped by my moms to help Pop out with the never ending leftovers. She still cooks for a family even though it's just the two of them now, then... we hit the grocery.
Saturday night we had one of Paul's friends over with his wife. VERY nice couple!!! Paul grilled some chicken. I roasted some asparagus, fried some squash, and did a topping for our chicken of mushrooms, onions, and garlic in a white wine sauce. It was yummy. We topped it off with my specialty: Peaches and Cream Cheese Cake.
Sunday, we attended a new church (we are looking for a new church rather than Paul adapting to mine or me to his). Afterwards, we met Granny and Pop for lunch at Captain D's.
Stopped by Lowes on the way home and picked up some pavers. Doing a short-term fix for the area between our deck and house where it stays muddy and yucky. Can't afford the full-blown landscapers challenge yet.
At 3:00 we went to a fundraiser for Rippavilla Plantation. It's a civil war home that is restored and used for special events. it was a wine and cheese reception. They had jazz playing followed by an auction of handpainted chairs.
Went to evening church then finished the night going to a free concert in Brentwood, TN where the WannaBeatles played. We took us a little picnic and enjoyed the music.
Now... we are back in the real world. It is a Monday and I have five more days to go. Carry on...
Friday evening we watched Invictus -- good movie. When It first started comming on I said to Mr. DS, "That guy really favors, Matt Damon." He says, as he pats me on the head, "Yes, Dingy, that's because it IS Matt Damon." Afterwards, I talked on the phone to my step-daughter for about an hour -- she is 35 and just found out that on top of having chronic human parvo, she has an autoimune disease that is attacking her muscles and she has to have a hysterectomy .
Saturday, I watched Doodlebug while Maranda went to work. She showed me her new trick -- rolling over. Well, almost. She hasn't figured out how to pull her arm out from under her, so she gets frustrated. I did the usual domestic duties -- dishes, laundry, cleaning bathrooms. For supper, I made salmon burgers, which to my suprise, were a hit with the test monkeys; and also coleslaw for a side.
Sunday, I watched Doodlebug again. More laundry -- towels & sheets. Swept & vacuumed. Didn't feel like cooking supper, but then changed my mind -- fixed chicken breast & turkey breast on the Foreman grill, Rice-a-Roni, & green beans.
I think the best thing about my weekend was that I didn't have to jockey any kids around. Mr. DS took Jacob to & from work.
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Friday I had bought a restaurant.com gift certificate for a place in town that I have not eaten before. It was a place that has slow cooked BBQ menu items. Restaurant.com was having one of their specials, so I was able to buy the $25 certificate for $2. Who doesnt like that deal? We arrived at the place and was able to get a table without waiting. The lady cam over, we got our drink, she took our order and they we waited. And waited. And waited. And the waitress never reappeared. We had ordered appetizers (wings and onion rings). 50 minutes later we still didnt have them. Then the waitress tried to deliver food to us that wasnt ours (no, it wasnt the appetizers). Like we dont know what we ordered. We think it was for the table of people who got up and walked out about 5 minutes prior top her trying to deliver the food. She was all flustered by that. When she had come out to deliver that, she placed a basket of onion rings on that table. Ran around for a few minutes trying to find a home for this food and then went into the kitchen. She came back out, picked up the onion rings, put them on the table and said the wings would be right out. The onions were cold, not even close to warm. We waited another five minutes and never cam back. We left the money for the drinks and walked out after an hour of waiting. I have no idea what the issue was but I have never had to walk out of a place like that. We ended up stopping at KFC for dinner before we went over to the Strawberry festival. It is a 3 day festival and the fireworks are Friday night. I swear they get later in the evening every year. It was fireworks with a big full moon. Eventually we made our way home.
Saturday was a semi busy day. Was up, did a few things before leaving for the baseball game. The game was at 4pm, we left at 2pm. Hit the ATM for some cash, gas station to fill up and off we went. Got stuck in some heavy traffic on the way down. Arrived at the stadium and our seats just as the first batter was coming to the plate. So, not late, but I wanted to be there earlier. Then the Phillies sucked. Our pitcher gave up three homeruns during the game for five runs. The Phillies offense was non existent. The Phils won big Friday night, won big yesterday but managed to lose the only game I have been to and will probably go to all year. We had dinner at the place attached to the stadium and then traveled home. Didnt do too much after that. Not much was on tv. Stayed up to watch a silly movie Hot Shots Part Duex, and then went to bed.
Sunday Was one of those cleaning, laundering kind of days. I didnt do as much as I should have done. Then there was dinner, dishes and sitting around.
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I took Friday off so my weekend started kind of early.
Spent most of Friday morning and early afternoon painting the finished part of the north wall of the house. Cleaned up from that. Went to the grocery store to get food for the weekend float trip. Came back and packed up the Excursion for the trip. Was informed that the wuzband that we needed to go to Wal-Mart to get him shorts and shoes to wear in the river. Did that... which put us on the road an hour and a half later than I wanted, which put us in the middle of rush hour traffic. But we had also stopped at Sonic, so at least we were having dinner on the go. Stopped in Missouri to get gas, ice, and a map because SOMEONE doesn't remember now how to get to the farm he has been to at least 5 times before and is now asking me (never been there) how to get there. Back on the road for the 3.5 hour drive. Got beotched at the whole way because I couldn't describe an interchange on the highway that I had never seen before. Got there, then had to go to Wal-Mart AGAIN because someone (Kev) failed to bring the bungee straps to secure the cooler to the canoe. Finally got to sleep around 1AM.
Saturday... up at 6:00AM. Off to the gas station 3 miles away from the farm... which has no running water because the well went dry... to use the bathroom and to get more ice and gas. Go back to the farm, make sandwiches and assemble the stuff we are taking with us on the float. Wait for everyone else to wake up and get moving... then back to the gas station with everyone else... bathroom again... more bungee straps because someone (Kev) managed to lose the bungee staps I'd bought the night before. Drive the 45 or so minutes down to Noel, MO to go on the float trip. Spent most of the afternoon on the Elk River which was nice when someone (Kev) wasn't steering us into logs, rocks, other canoes, people... and fussing at me for trying to help paddle to keep these things from happening... Went back to the farm where Kev decided that we were going home because he was DONE and was having no more of camping. I drove us back home, unloaded the truck, started the laundry, took a shower, then went to bed.
Sunday... got up at about 9:30AM. Finished painting the done part of the north wall. Mowed the yard. Took a shower. Shuffled the laundry. Cleaned out the fridge. vacuumed the downstairs, the steps to the upstairs, and the hallway. Mopped the kitchen floor. Went to Costco, the bank, and the gas station. Got back home to make dinner, fold the laundry, and watch True Blood. Finally crashed around midnight. On the up side, before I left for Costco, Kev decided to be nice and charge the air conditioner in my truck since he had been such a whiney tiny one most of the weekend and I actually didn't club him to death as I'd threatened. YAY for air conditioning!!
Now, I'm at work to relax from my weekend.
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That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
It was one tremendous act of self control after another. At one point on the trip down I seriously did tell him that if he didn't stop his b!tching and whining that I was GOING to beat him in the head with a canoe paddle and drown him in the river. He knew I meant it too... so he did actually shut up for about 20 minutes. I expected the fussing about his shoulders hurting and stuff like that... it happens all the time so I mostly tune it out. Didn't expect him to go all whiney over the camping situation when he is the one always wanting to go camping. It totally surprised me when he was talking about wanting to go home before we were half way done with the float. I just wasn't going to argue with that given that there would be NO peace if I didn't go along with it.
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lets see. Friday night Heather and I went to Kohls so she could look for some shorts and summer clothes. She hurt her knee awhile back, and while getting better, still can use a helping hand with stuff like this. And she really likes the Kohls that is closest to us rather than the one she always would go to, so going there has been fun for her. Finds stuff she really likes. Which makes me happy cuz its easy then. That was hard for her at the other one. boring stuff there. So I hung out at Kohls Friday night. Which was ok, I was tired, wasn't in a lets go out and party place, and I knew she was happy shopping and finding things so I was looking at suits, shoes, watches a bit. Afterwards she took me out for Mexican food and beer at a nice quiet place so it was all good. We got back to her place, played with the ferret for a bit, watched the Robot Chicken and called it a night.
Saturday we got to sleep in a bit, which was good. Heather wanted to go tanning (sisters wedding is coming up) so she took off for that, but either someone threw a rock through the window of the tanning place or the storm the night before blew out the window. They still are not sure. Its not a bad neighborhood, but punks will be punks. So they were closed that day.
I had woken up at 3 am. Even tho the ocillating fan was on, it was the winds outside that woke me up. The trees were really getting whipped around with a steady force wind. Plus I had two scared cats trying to bury themselves in my armpits. I only heard two thunder boomers and saw only a couple flashes of lightening. But I honestly thought these winds must have been 60-70 mph. No mention of it really in the local news, so maybe it was really a local event just around our side of town? I fell asleep and woke up about 5:30 am with 2 purring cats nuzzled in my armpits and complete calm outside. Weird.
Anyways so Heather came back with breakfast. We had that, and then had to get everything ready because my family was doing the Brewers game that afternoon- tail-gating, the whole nine yards. We got everything packed up, met up at the designated spot and caravanned into Miller Park. I think abbout 7 cars total. We got a good spot for tailgating too, which was nice- Nice grassy island near an isle that was blocked off- plenty of space! It was a hot day but we had a canapy to dine under which was good.
It was fun to hang at the ballgame that day. The seats were kinda split up, but I sat by my dad on one side, heather on the other, and we were probably the 3 people there in our group who actually wanted to watch the game so that worked out well.
Afterwards a few of us hung out for coctails back at the car for a bit, and then heather and I headed back to her place. I had a beef tenderlion and asparagus that I grilled out for dinner, which was awesome. Usually I only marinade the meat for an hour or so, but this was marinating for at least 8 hrs so it really rocked.
Its none of your business how we spent the rest of the evening.
Sunday we got up and had to run some errands. We then headed out to brunch at this cool place called Cafe Lulu. I had a moroccan chicken sandwich, and she had her Luni Tuna sandwich. We had a boatload of coffee which hit the spot and split a piece of rhubard pie which took a bit, but it was all good- fresh from the oven. No problem when the coffee keeps comin around. And its awesome coffee! Altera. If you are a coffee nut hit me up for a bag. Starbucks has a better french roast, but otherwise, alterra is the shiznit. Near lulu is a cool little old italian grocery store called Groppi's that we went to. They have the BEST hot italian sausages there, so we got those, some of their awesome bakery buns and some food french bread along with mozerella balls, basil and some real good domestic proscuittio (11.99 a pound vs the 28.00 a pound for the imported stuff!!!), some tomatoes, a big ass grilled panino sammich (enough for 2) (for lunches this week). We also got a humungus slice of red velvet cake too for dessert.
Back to the house. Start the laundry, time for a coctail, and I just grilled out a bunch of food to get us through lunches and dinners at least through wednesday. A rack of asparagus, marinated pepper steak, center cut pork chops, the italian sausages.....two of which were for dinner, wrapped in provalone, topped with gardinera, with a side of smokehouse baked beans. YUM!
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I went to Farmer's Market Saturday morning. I bought bacon, brats, and eggs. I picked up my farm share, which included 2 bags of pasta, a few heads of garlic, a huge bag of basil (it's pesto time!), and really buttery little potatoes. Then I ate breakfast at the grocery co-op.
When I got home, I went swimming. I swam laps for half an hour and loved it! Then I sat in the sun to read a book. But when I got out of the water and stretched out on the pool chair, I noticed I hadn't shaved! So I didn't read for long and I went back inside before anyone could see.
Saturday night we went to a farm about 2 hours away to a party called Neckbrace Fest. Lots of great bands played, and it was fun to party with them. Our friend Marc's band played, Wild Jesus and the Devil's Lettuce Family Party Band. (Remember Marc? He was the bassist for The Wina-Freds.)
(Special note for Lady Strange: I know who you're looking at. His name is Jay, he sings and plays guitar, he is HOT, and my husband knows that I think so and doesn't mind. But he does have tattoos.) Here's the link to their Facebook page, songs are at the bottom left. They have a rock/bluesy/weirdness type sound: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-Jesus-The-Devils-Lettuce-Family-Party-Band/121657877854888?ref=ts
We had dinner at the place attached to the stadium and then traveled home. Didnt do too much after that. Not much was on tv. Stayed up to watch a silly movie Hot Shots Part Duex, and then went to bed.
Did that... which put us on the road an hour and a half later than I wanted, which put us in the middle of rush hour traffic. 
Back on the road for the 3.5 hour drive. Got beotched at the whole way because I couldn't describe an interchange on the highway that I had never seen before. 
