Weekend

Had a nice productive weekend. It went too fast but now that I only have 2 days instead of 3, I think they're always going to go fast. Friday night I stayed home and watched Training Day. It was a surprisingly excellent movie. I think the best part for me was the story wasn't at all what I expected.

Saturday
I got up early and started working on the den. Our den had this horrible white paneling all the way around the room. But the paneling didn't reach all the way to the ceiling, so the two feet of wall between the paneling and the ceiling was sprayed with acoustic ceiling texture. Don't know if you can picture it but it looked bad. So Saturday I tore it all down. In the process I managed to break off pieces of both window sills (stupid, stupid) but I'm hoping I can glue them back on. Dad came over and helped cut up all the wood so we could put it out with the trash. (Cross your fingers they take it today.) So now all the furniture is in the middle of the den and the walls are bare. Pretty ugly but it's movtivating me.

In the afternoon, Karen and I went to the mall to get Mom a Mother's Day present. As is typical, I found all sorts of new summer clothes for myself in the process. We did end up getting a gift (yeah, Karen for finding it!) and an awesome one at that. Came home and watched Serendipity. Cheesy romantic movie about fate and love. Should have known better than to rent a movie like that. But I talked with Autumn for a long time which definitely cheered me up. I hate that she's all the way out in El Paso because we need to hang out. It's so hard when your best friends live a million miles away. Saturday night ended up falling asleep as I was reading. Luckily I book marked my page just before I fell asleep .

Sunday
Since I fell asleep pretty early the night before, I got up plenty early on Sunday and mowed the lawn. Yes, I'm that annoying neighbor who's mowing while you're trying to sleep. (I hope I woke up the person who was mowing early Saturday morning.)

After mowing and trimming the hedge, which is a LOT harder than it looks, I headed over to Mom and Dad's to cook. Afterall, it was Mother's Day and we didn't want Mom to lift a finger. So we had corn on the cob, green beans, yellow rice, salad, grilled salmon, garlic bread, grilled chicken, and cherry pie with homemade whipped cream! (Dad gets all the credit for grilling.)

After lunch we took the dogs to the Pecan Street Arts Festival in Arlington. I ran into Jeremy, an acquaintance from Tech. Says he does a swing night on Wednesdays at Sons of Herman Hall. I'm going to have to check it out soon. It was fun to be outside, hear some music, but I was definitely disappointed in the art. Tiger and Sophie got so much attention while we were out. The funniest was the little girl who ran up, petted Tiger, and said, "Big!" then ran off again.

I spent the rest of the afternoon scraping ceiling acoustic off the walls. Then I spent an equal amount of time cleaning up all the white powdery stuff which was all over the den after scraping. Messy, messy stuff. But the walls are clean and ready for texture, which I hope to get to this weekend.

In order to celebrate my accomplishment, I headed off to Fry's for a new mouse. I'm so sick of cleaning the crap out of the roller so I bought an optical. So far I'm quite happy. On the way home, I called my friend Brian since I hadn't done anything social all weekend, we got together for margaritas. First we sat in his garage and watched the storm roll in. Feeling the temperature drop sharply was enough to give me goose bumps. Then we ran inside to check out what the Weather Channel had to say. We're such dorks.

Monday
Suddenly the week started and I was slammed as soon as I got to work. I think I looked up a total of 2 times all day. Luckily Gary came to save the day and took me to a great lunch at Tenaya. It was definitely, definitely the highlight of my day. Got back to work, was super busy and suddenly it was time to go.

The evening was mostly uneventful. Karen and I walked the dogs since the weather here was absolutely perfect (70's). Then I spent the rest of the evening obsessing over the bug bite on my leg. Originally we thought it was a spider bite and I was going to lose my leg. After finally having some common sense, Kristen's friend, Courtney, called her aunt who is a nurse for us. Based on the symptoms (a puffy, red spot surrounded by a white ring and nothing else), she concluded I was allergic to something that bit me but it probably wasn't poisonous. Took a benedryl, put some ice on it, and called Kevin. The benedryl must have really kicked in because I fell asleep on the phone. This morning the bite is much, much better though it itches more than it did yesterday! (Is that a good sign?)

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