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October 19, 2006
To those of you who commented on my last post, thank you so much for sharing such thought-provoking, respectful points of view. I feel like that conversation actually changed my perspective on the whole difficult subject, in a good way. A broadened way. That’s some pretty awesome blog-post fallout, you know? So: thank you.
:::
We had friends stay with us last night, a couple we’ve known for years who recently spent 12 months traveling around the world. They started in New Zealand, moved on to Asia, and then went to Africa before coming back home. I thought it might be awkward to spend time together, I thought that compared to traveling the Kalahari in a Land Rover and camping in Thailand the life we’ve been living for the last year would seem excruciatingly boring.
I mean, they’ve been doing this. And seeing things like this. While we’ve been, uh, changing a lot of diapers.
But of course we are all living rich and interesting lives in our own way, and they seemed as excited by Riley’s development (and even the progress on our remodel, which was awfully damn nice of them to care about being as how I personally find the subject about as thrilling as, say, watching drywall dry) as we were in their travel experiences.
The last time they visited was over a year ago when Riley was a tiny little suctopus who brought all conversation to a startled halt when he turbo-horked a geyser of milk all over the sofa, floor, and JB’s lap. This time I thought he would be infinitely more charming, but whether it was end-of-day weariness, the stimulation of having new people around (and their massive, friendly Golden Retriever), the alignment of the planets, or some combination thereof, Riley basically morphed into a human spider monkey whose temperament veered dizzily from Cackling with Insane Glee to Howling in Great Sorrow while he clambered around falling into things because he was too hyper to keep his freaking balance.
If this couple decides against having children, I think we’ll all know who’s to blame, is what I’m saying.
Tonight JB’s parents are coming to stay for a couple days, which certainly brings up the monthly average of our bed-and-breakfast hosting activities. I’m hoping their presence will allow JB and I to escape for a while on Friday or Saturday night; maybe see a movie, or eat a meal that doesn’t involve being anywhere near those godforsaken Gerber “Pasta Pickups”.
I’m guessing our weekend will involve lots of sitting around and talking, marveling over the grandchild, and if the weather cooperates, some park-walks or geocache outings. I know it’s only Thursday, but indulge me again, won’t you? – (and give me something to read when I sneak away from all the festive family bonding to the computer) – what are you doing this weekend?
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Beading like a crazy fool. I have a convention to attend next weekend which draws a big captive audience, and my colleague and I attempt to part many of the attendees from their hard-earned dollars with shiny baubles.
Ugh! The dreaded in-law visits. Good luck with all that. My family is like yours. My parents NEVER come to visit, but my mother-in-law tries to come every few months. She brings her dog who is a complete terror! I think my hair is falling out just thinking of her coming next. As for weekend plans, not sure. It is suppose to be friggin cold so I am thinking blanket, TV, and possibly a book. Have a great weekend!
Tomorrow night I’m goig out on a date with my husband for the first timme in three months, Saturday I’m going to play Bunko, and Sunday we may go wine tasting.
I loved yesterday’s post but I think maybe your comments are full. It wouldn’t let me post.
I am doing what you guys did last weekend. My husband is out of town so I am taking by little one to a pumpkin festival with some friends. He is 19 mos. so I am expecting him to love all of the animals and pony rides, etc.
I will be driving up to Holy Hill to view the fall foliage, carving pumpkins, taking my dogs to the dogpark, cleaning my house, seeing The Dark Horse Project (listen to their awesome music at http://www.myspace.com/thedarkhorseproject) raking leaves, and watching the two disks of “Dead Like Me” that I got from Netflix. Not necessarily in that order.
I am going bear hunting with a bunch of men (sadly, mostly all married) and dogs. It’s a toss-ups who’ll smell worse by Sunday; the men ro the dogs. It won’t be me because I bring my shower with me. So I’m frantically running around getting shit ready: fuel, ice, food, pie. Have to have pie.
I’m sure Riley was more interesting, anyway, even if he didn’t manage to turn on the charm full blast. The lack of turbo-horking (which I’m going to have to use as a description at some point because it is so perfect) has to have been an improvement.
This weekend we have a meeting, a couple of people are coming over for dinner, and we have two rehearsals on Sunday. Oh, and we’re starting the process of finding our exchange student a new home because he just doesn’t fit well with us. We’re too busy and he doesn’t want to do anything that we’re doing, which means he really doesn’t see us much. Hopefully he won’t be too ticked off.
In a couple of weeks we have a whole weekend off. I can’t wait. We’ve been much too busy this month.
Have a great weekend!
Plugging up my ear holes with my fingers because of the damn molars that are poking through James’ gums, and trying to decorate a pumpkin with some crystal bead thing that I picked up at the pumpkin patch on Monday. We’ll see how that goes.. I’m not so crafty.
I must go to a pumpkin patch before my son outgrows his jack-o-latern outfit and the opportunity to turn a photograph into incriminating evidence is lost.
Running my SECOND 5K since I started “training” for a half-marathon. It’s the Red Ribbon Run and it supports a local cancer organization.
I didn’t dare read the comments on your last post, because I was worried they’d be bad or upsetting. I’m glad to hear they weren’t! (I still don’t dare read them, though.)
Well in my head, the husband and I would charter a small plane up to Maine where we’d eat lobster and take long walks to see the Fall foliage in all its blazing glory. We’d end each day in the lobby of some quaint B & B, reading books by a crackling fire - Elizabeth Berg for me and something Non-fiction and word-heavy for him. This fantasy stems from the fact we live in Florida, and even though it’s supposed to be Fall, it’s 87 freaking degrees right now. Ugh!
In reality, we’re planning on hitting the flea market in search of a an old cheap table to re-finish and also try to find a pumpkin I can make last until the end of the month, without having it rot in the oppressive heat. I suffer from Autumn envy.
Saturday I’ll be madly cleaning the house because…
Sunday is Grant’s first birthday party. My relatives are coming to our house, some for the first time, to enjoy cake and a hopefully gleeful little boy who’s on the verge of walking. We’ve got Elmo decorations and an Elmo cake coming from grandma, and a yet to be determined menu that I need to get working on. I’m leaning toward sloppy joes and lasagna, both if which require little prep time or talent.
Oh, and this weekend I’m sitting home coughing, with three coughing children who need antibiotics forced down their little throats twice a day. Pity me, oh pity me!
for Saturday I’ve arranged for some fellow flickrites in the Glasgow (Scotland) area to gather for a photoshoot at the Cathcart Cemetery. That’s the morning shoot. We’ll break mid-day and then meet up again at dusk to shoot night shots of City Centre and, if I can get enough to agree, we’ll finish off the night up at the Necropolis.
Sunday I’m going for a wander, catching up with friends over coffe, and then maybe take a wee hike up Ben Lomond.
Cheers.
My nephew (4 years old) is having surgery on Friday morning, so Saturday morning we’ll go visit him with our 2 year old son. The children’s hospital is just so damn sad, so I’m not looking forward to that really. Saturday afternoon is a baby shower for some friends/neighbors of ours. They are having a boy so it’s been fun to hand down some of Ivan’s stuff to them. Saturday night we’re going to our favorite French restaurant, just the two of us for a change! Sunday is just hanging around, cleaning up and preparing for the next week. I didn’t comment last week, so I’ll say that last weekend was infinitely more fun: we went to San Antonio for the weekend (we live in Austin, so just a 1.5 hour drive) and stayed in a fancy hotel on the Riverwalk for our 6th anniversary–but we brought our 2 year old so it wasn’t exactly…romantic. Still had lots of fun–went to the International Accordion Festival (Zydeco! Conjunto! Klezmer!), walked along the Riverwalk, ate at our favorite Mexican restaurant and visited the zoo Sunday a.m. Yay!
i’m a little worried because i picked up a second job at a 24 hour convenience store. i start working 3rd shift this weekend and i’ve been told i should be scared. 3rd shift at a college campus convenience store. fun!!! :)
that’s ok, i’m looking forward to it sort of. tonight, however, i get to enjoy a night with my honey relaxing and hanging out together. :)
My son has a birhtday party to attend Saturday, so we will go shopping either Friday evening or Saturday morning. Besides a gift, we’ll also pick up items for my Halloween costume (a witch — I’m serving “Witch’s Brew” at my son’s school Halloween party), and possibly some new shoes. Sunday we have the last flag football game of the season. Other than that, it’ll be laundry, laundry, laundry.
I’m off to Skopje in Macedonia (again) with my husband, our 7 week old boy and the entire Danish UN contingent to do some shopping. Not that many good stores here in Pristina see :P Other than that I need to buy a gazillion big ass candles because the power keeps cutting out… and it gets coooooold in the Balkans. Brrrr…rrrr
I’m going to finish up my scuba certification, yay! Four Open Water Dives, here I come …
First time commenter & I just have to say how much I love your site & how cute Riley is.
We are taking our 8 month old on her first trip away for the weekend to the beach. The amount of stuff we are bringing with us is freaking me out, not to mention whether she’ll sleep at all this weekend.
Have a good one!
Well, we’re working on the house hardcore around here. We’re cleaning and my best friend has moved in so we’re getting everything rearranged. It’s actually been fun, strangely. Since I hatehatehate cleaning.
You have fun Sundry!!!
That monk in the waterfall pic is amazing! My husband and I are celebrating our anniversary a little early. My in-laws are coming in to watch our daughter and we are finally going to see The Departed! Then going out to dinner at this place, Del Posto. New Mario Batali restaurant here in New York. Really looking forward to some alone time with my husband. Hope you guys can do the same. :)
My husband and I are going to some event at the Houston Zoo - a wine and food 21-years-and-up only thing. Should be pretty fun. Also, my parents are watching the kiddo for the whole weekend - I’m definitely looking forward to time spent doing something other than dot-to-dot books!
watching house and americas next top model.
studying for the exams i have in less than two weeks (environmental phil, judaism christianity & islam, latin).
looking at more reception venues.
moving some of my furniture out. moving some of my fiances stuff in.
going to my brothers pre-emptive halloween party as a preist (its got a ‘p’ theme).
being hungover.
trying to teach the small child the meaning of ‘inside voice’.
My BF is going to Reno for an exam, and since he lives a stone’s-throw from the Port of Long Beach, and since he’s a bit of a conspiracy theorist/paranoid person/freakshow, and since it’s the week of ramadan and the terror alerts are elevated and apparently, there is all kinds of buzz about probable attacks, his 18-year-old son will be staying with me in his absence, just in case terrorists blow up Long Beach. WOE IS HIM, for I have no internet and crappy basic cable, he he doesn’t own a car and will be dependent on me to drive him around. I don’t know what he’ll do since he can’t play WoW.
Eating out with family on Friday night.
Taking a ride in beautiful mid-Michigan to see the fall colors which are at their gorgeous peak right now and then…rooting for our own Detroit Tigers in the World Series. GO TIGERS!!!!!
Saturday morning I am going to choir rehearsal, and Saturday evening I’m going to a birthday party for a close friend’s three-year-old son. Hopefully I’ll fit a quick bike ride in during the day. Sometime this weekend I also need to purchase more yarn for the scarf I am making my SIL. Sunday I’m planning on a 25-mile bike ride with my husband, and then Sunday evening I’m going to my sight-singing class. Also on the agenda: laundry and clearing all the fucking paperwork off my damn table.
It’s actually already Friday for me so this request for weekend plans is totally time-appropriate. Also! Labo(u)r Day Weekend! Tonight I am going to have a gigantic bowl of hot chocolate and see an arty movie at the Paramount in town. Tomorrow I am either going to the zoo or to a barbecue and then hosting a movie night at my house. Sunday I am spending at the library and the museum before going to a bellydance show in which my friend is performing, and Monday I am going to brunch and possibly to the bird sanctuary. I felt really lame for not getting it together to go away for the long weekend, but it turns out that spending it at home is going to be pretty fun anyway.
I’m contemplating going down to Richmond to a dinner party my friend’s friend is throwing. But I’m scared, because 1. My friend (who I love more than life itself) is really awesome, but her friends from colelge kind of suck. They all wear pointy-toed shoes to the grocery store and are always on diets and are all either married or engaged and like to ooh and ahh over each others rings. 2. Dinner parties scare me. I know I”m going to feel very unsophisticated, and then I’ll probably get really drunk just to drive that point home.
Hmm. I don’t think I”m going. Instead I’ll work on painting my living room and watch as much TV as possible.
I’m going to get some hot fish and chips and sit on the beach eating them. I’m also going to read on the couch (or beach if the weather permits) and walk in the park down the road with the huge willow trees taking in the fresh spring air, and pretending that i am Anne of Green Gables (a very heavily pregnant one though i might add)…..
Then I am going to finish doing my Christmas cards and do a spot of Christmas shopping because I won’t have time to do that later. And, I start Life Drawing class next week so i am going to purchase some lovely new charcoals and paper from the local artshop. Also the Indian Diwali Festival is going to be celebrated in a big way this weekend in Auckland City so will rock along to that and buy jingly wrist bangles and also soak in some Bollywood dancing…..cool.
Saturday my mom is coming down to wrangle the small one while G and I paint the dining room (and, hopefully if we’re extra special productive, the office). These are the last 2 rooms tha require painting, and we’ve been in this house for 6 (SIX!!) years. We’re hosting Thanksgiving this year and I wanted to be able to have a little pride in my dining room. The girl is at the smearing food all over the table stage, so we’ve put off getting a new dining room table (and there’s also the SIL’s destination wedding next spring - Florida in March, can you dig how spendy that will be? - and also the roof and domer we’re hoping to do next summer/early fall) until we’re done with that little bit of exploration and learning. My mom’s going to spend the night and we’ll either play some card games, dominoes or maybe watch a movie. Do we know how to party or what?
Sunday, I’m expecting we’ll do some more painting because there is also the awesome task of painting all the ceilings that needs to be undertaken before Thanksgiving.
Whenever all the leaves fall off the trees is when we’ll be doing the 2006 chop ‘em and rake ‘em and pile ‘em ritual. The leaves are taking their damn time this year though, and I hope we can get this done BEFORE the snow flies.
Kim–I’m with you on the fall envy! It was like 80 degrees today in Louisiana. This weekend? Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins AND Ani Difranco are playing…I think I will be a big girl and go on my lonesome because lo, the boy is working all weekend long, and meh, I like them so much I don’t know if I want to be distracted by a casual friend I have to feel out conversation with (still new-ish in this city and lots of acquaintances but no tight-tight buds). Oh yes deep dark truthful mirror, I am socially awkward and a little bit bitchy!
I didn’t get a chance to respond to your post last weekend because I was already out of town! Last weekend we drove to Florida to visit with my friends and family. I got to see my friend Sara’s new house, which is st00pid huge (15 ft ceilings, marble floors, six bedrooms, three full bathrooms & two half bathrooms, and an AVIARY. Who needs such a house??), Jay and I bummed around my brother’s house, and had a barbeque with my mom & stepdad. Then, we drove to Orlando to spend three sinful days in a condo at a spa resort in Disney World, which included a day of drinking our way through the wine festival and a night of “trick or treating” at the park’s halloween party. Then we drove back to Atlanta just in time for work on Wednesday.
This weekend we’re totally spending ASLEEP. I might insist on driving to the farmer’s market in the morning for things called VEGETABLES and REAL FOOD, since we’ve been living off of spaghetti and halloween candy for two days. I think we also have a trip to the Apple Store of Doom planned, and maybe a hiking trip to Red Mountain if the weather clears up.
I’m dragging the hubs to the Everglades for an airboat tour in the brackish swamps, along with a drive through less-than-idyllic Indian reservations (where they have signs posted that say “WE HATE AMERICA. GO HOME, TOURISTS.”) to a local park where we will watch alligators eat giant birds while we eat our lunches. Later, we’ll do more various and sundry touristy things, because dude, we need to get out of the house and live a little. We’ve been home or at Target every weekend for about six weeks and I am slowly losing my bloody mind.
I’m running the Chicago Marathon this weekend! It’s my first marathon, it’s in a city I have never been to, the weather is supposed to be hellacious, and I’m battling a cold. I’m nervous, excited, anxious, and completely thrilled. It’s going to be really difficult, but I feel confident that after training for four months, I’m ready. It’s a scary thought…26.2 miles? Damn.
Don’t those Pasta Pickups smell like Hot Ass? My daughter would only eat the spinach ones. I finally said screw it and bought Chef Boyardee.
We are having a belated baby shower for my sister tomorrow night. Yeah, her son is 4 weeks old. She refused a shower so we are just getting together with out other sisters and some friends (and a LOT of kids).
Sunday is MY BIRTHDAY. I am going to be 28 and my mommy is coming over for dinner. My husband is on the road this weekend but he should be back early Sunday afternoon. I hope so, because if not I have to clean the house myself on Saturday.
My mother is coming for a visit from across the county to attend a family friend’s funeral. Sunday my husband and I are going to a work-related dinner function (so, not much fun—but free drinks and dinner and no kids!)
We are in the midst of a kitchen remodel - electrician coming tonight (he’s the only one we’re paying to do anything), hopefully placing some cabinets tomorrow night and saturday morning. Then have to go to a wedding on saturday (blah, one of those I feel like I SHOULD go to but don’t really want to, two hours away) and some of our good friends are moving back into town that day as well. And of course, this is the weekend when there is a flight special to the hometown I desperately miss…
Got a new bike (Trek Pilot 5.2) so I will be doing a long ride Sat and working on the house Sun. My brother won the IPO lotto twice so he had every cool geek toy you could imagine. Without a family he had the freedom to take a year off to bike around Europe and work as a ski patrol at Mammoth. Funny thing, he was jealous of my mundane life raising two kids and working on a house. Grass is always greener.
Good luck with the inlaws. By the way, loved the pic yesterday of Riley staring suspiciously at the pumpkin. He’s such a cutie. =)
This weekend, my boyfriend and I will be doing laundry, packing and making the final arrangements for our trip next week to Georgia to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in concert. I’m going out of my mind with excitement about it.
Moving! And getting rid of the world’s largest cat.
Friday night we’re getting together with family who are coming in from out of town. Saturday we’re hitting the pumpkin patch to look for a nice huge pumpkin for the porch and then we’ll probably go out for a bite to eat after. They’re calling for rain on Sunday, so I think we’ll spend it at home and I’ll catch up on a few things.
As a grad student, I have a never-ending supply of homework to do. I hope I’ll do some, because I really REALLY need to, and it’s so easy to fill time with other “wasteful” things, like sleeping and laundry and eating.
I have a party to attend for my grad program; a party at which I am both hoping and dreading that I might see a friend with whom I recently had a very serious falling-out. And I don’t even know why, exactly. I think we are no longer even on speaking terms, which saddens me very much, but if we see each other at the party it will either be very painfully clear that the friendship is, in fact, dead OR that things will be ok between us. I made the last conciliatory gesture; we shall see if it will be returned or ignored. Still.
I might also run a 10k on Sunday — a knee problem and laziness about waking up at 5:30 on Sunday morning in order to race are leaving me feeling a little indecisive.
This Saturday my dog “Anna Bella” and I will be taking the Pet Partners pet assisted therapy/activites evaluation/test to see if we will make a good team to visit homes and hospitals for petting and cute little dog therapy, who doesnt feel better just petting a fluffy white dog? :)
Our family will cut the pumpkins, i will make the seeds and we will eat them all, also selling coffee for my sons fundraiser and Sunday is church and quiet time for all. Next back to the same old grind on Monday!
Have a great weekend!
Trying like mad to stop procrastinating and start studying for my RN boards–which I take in, uh, 6 days and haven’t begun to prepare for.
But, you know.. I promised the dog a walk and the carpet needs cleaning and I want to take a ride through the mountains and look at the leaves changing, so…… Here’s hoping for a little common sense and a LOT of luck.
Have a great weekend!
I plan on painting my dining room, cleaning the house like a mad woman (family is coming next week), spending time with my two boys & husband probaby geocaching, and possibly even hitting a fall festival to get some pumpkins, and just enjoy the fall weather! I love your blog by the way!
This weekend will be spent watching many glorious hours of I Claudius and various incarnations of Robin Hood (ie. the horrible Kevin Costner and Men in Tights). I will also be avoiding researching a presentation and not doing my translation homework. Yuss.
My weekends are pretty monotonous, but I didn’t tell you what I was doing last weekend, so I guess it can’t hurt!
Friday– going to sleep in, hopefully watch some damn history videos (I have a video history class, and it SUCKS), then head over to my friends house where we will very likely play video games until early in the morning. I may or may not have done something extremely regrettable with one of those friends on Monday night when we were both extremely drunk, so I’m actually a bit nervous about it. And I am not going into any details, because I already feel like a douche.
Saturday– WORK til 11 pm. There is a halloween party (I know, on Oct 21st?!) that I may attend after work, but costume is required and I don’t have anything ready. Maybe a demon.
Sunday– do some schoolwork (probably around 2am monday, actually). Slum around the house, doing nothing of benefit. Clean.
My life is boring. I wish I were going to the pumpkin patch or biking 25 miles or running a 5k! You have some interesting people reading your blog!
Editing, tending to the needs of a 3 month old’s last remnants of his first cold and maybe - just maybe - some window shopping with the hubby and the boy. Maybe.
bah, also playing host to the out-laws this weekend. Dreading it, to be honest. They’re wonderful people, and I love them dearly, but not in my home.
On the agenda–Friday: either going to see the Tut exhibit at the museum of natural history, or going to the Museum of Science and Industry. Considering we did Tut a couple weeks ago with my parents, I’m hoping they’ll vote for Science and Industry. Friday night: Indian food for dinner, then a show at Second City comedy club.
Saturday: the Chicago Botanic Gardens, and then dinner at some undetermined location, probably our favorite barbecue place.
Sunday: avoiding the Chicago marathon as we try to get them to the airport for their mid-morning flight. Eesh. I really, really, really hope they don’t miss their flight.
At least the stuff we have planned will be fun, even if his mother is driving us apeshit all weekend.
Remaking the intricate pearl braclet i may LAST weekend, damn thing!
This weekend we are tiling the kitchen floor. By ourselves. And neither of us has done it before. We are armed only with advice from my step-sister and the Lowe’s do-it-yourself guide. Pray for us.
It’s interesting being nosey into everyone’s weekend plans!
Mine are…
Saturday - work, domestic fun like vaccuuming and washing, hopefully a walk in the spring sunshine
Sunday - sleep in, bbq at partner’s parent’s house with all his extended family
Monday (yep, 3 day weekend for us lucky NZers, Monday=labour day!) - sleep in, brunch somewhere and maybe some geocaching, we’re absolute beginners so wish us luck!
Enjoy your weekend :)
I have a blind date. He’s a CPA. Oh my gawd what was I thinking????
Friday, I’m going to watch hubby get an epidural in his neck to help with the pain of bulging discs. He wants to go on a date Friday night, but we’ll see how he feels. I’ll probably just baby him, feed him and pamper him all day. Saturday I’ll be attending a baby shower for my favorite niece. It should be fun. I so love babies and can’t wait until this one arrives. Sunday is family day. My husband and I will stay in bed late, then get up and eat with the younger girls (8 & 12). Then, my older two, (18 & 20) will be home in the afternoon and I’ll cook and we’ll eat some more and watch T.V. My 20-year-old daughter always stays to watch Desperate Housewives with me - my one guilty pleasure.
As for the last post - my internet was down so I just read it today. I, like you, am pro-choice. However, I would never want to have to make that choice. I have 4 beautiful children and after seeing that 8-week in utero baby, it changed me as well. I didn’t read any of the comments for lack of time, but I’m glad to hear that they were supportive and kind. There are many women I love who made the same choice you did.
My husband’s aunt is in town from Vermont, and so we have to attend a party where she can meet our kids. Then, we are going to a birthday party for someone we aren’t particularly drawn to. Because it’s at a really swanky restaurant in the Pearl District, and includes cocktails and dinner. Our budget would never allow us to go there under ordinary circumstances, so we are going despite our ennui about the guest of honor. I feel a little guilty about it, but probably not so much that it will interfere with my ability to choke down a few mojitos. On Sunday we are getting together with some oldy/goody friends and doing the pumpkin patch with our assorted toddlers. I am really jazzed about that. In between, I will be doing all the laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning I can squeeze in before I go back to work on Monday.
WELL. I’m sure Riley just wanted to prove to your friends about how hard you work day in and day out. Who needs freefalling and bathing monks(?) when you have Suctopus??
This weekend I will will be partying the nights away as it is my birthday today!
The BF has three (THREE!) days off in a row (IN A ROW!) starting tomorrow, so I am feeling a bit under the weather already, oddly enough. Also, we are getting a new mattress tonight (swoon!) and, yep, there’s that fever coming on. Crazy how that happens.
We will be going to a great oceanside restaurant called the Beachcomber one day during the weekend, to enjoy this view during dinner, http://www.robertoswatersports.com/images/crystalcove11_0031.jpg (not my photo, but a good one!), preferably after a hike here http://www.mountainbikebill.com/images/Trails/ElMoro/LagunaElMoro-7SEP03-21.JPG (also not my picture, but also a good one!). However, the Santa Ana winds are a-blowin’ and that means hot + dry… we shall see.
Also we are going to get our Halloween costumes, and are still trying to decide between St. Pauli Girl and Sam Adams, or doing the Reno 911 thing again. It’s been 2 years, so we will need to, um, upgrade those costumes, but seeing the bf in a size 16 women’s hot pants is always funny.
Enjoy the in-laws and try to stay sane! And enjoy your date night, if you get it.
This is fun! I’m going to a wedding at the Woodmark hotel on Saturday. At noon. What the hell do I wear? Autumn wedding, so it’s cold here, but it’s at noon? And Semi-formal? Gah. At any rate, we’re making a weekend of it and staying there Saturday night, even though we live less than 20 minutes away. (That’s where my husband and I were married too, so we’ll get to reminisce a little.)
Should be fun - now what the HELL do I wear??!!
:)
I’m going to a Wiccan Handfasting… which I never ever have done before. What does one wear to a handfasting? He’s wearing a kilt and dagger, she’s all Renaissanced out… I’m clueless :)
Wow, all the people running marathons and 10ks and such make me feel so lazy!
My fiance’s brother is coming to visit us for the weekend, so on Saturday we’re going to see the Decemberists, and on Sunday we’re going to Disneyland to check out their special Halloween stuff. I’m also getting my hair cut, going to Kiehl’s and Victoria’s Secret, and helping my fiance buy dress shoes for the first time in his adult life.
I love this weekly installment of your and everyone else’s weekend plans! So fun.
Mine? Friday night: Netflix and pasta with chicken to rest up for Saturday morning: 18 mile run (the marathon is two weeks from Sunday! TWO WEEKS! AAAH!). Saturday mid-morning: lay gasping on living room floor and want to die. Saturday afternoon: clean apartment, run errands, consume ginger ale to stave off post-run nausea; eat everything that comes within a foot of my body to satisfy animal-like hunger. Saturday night: drinks and dinner with friends. Sunday: rejoice for the day off of running; write; maybe take some photos in Central Park if the dang leaves ever wake up to the fact that it’s fall; possibly clean out closet and bookshelves in seasonal purge of extraneous things. Stare into space at the prospect of the work week beginning anew. Check BlackBerry compulsively. Make Sunday night special of turkey burgers and fries. Weep.
Whoot! I made it to the what-are-your-week-end-plans post before Monday this time! This week-end husband, little boy, giant furry dog, and I are going to visit my in-laws in Sisters, OR where my awesome Mother-in-law has already set up massages for my husband and I while she gets some grandson time. Might be able to squeeze a Saturday night movie date out of it too, we’ll see. We’re going to go to a pumpkin farm there with a corn maze and all of that. Will feel ridiculous if we end up getting a pumpkin there and dragging it back to Portland when we could just get one here, but if we find the perfect pumpkin, I guess we’ll have to do it. The only thing I’m not looking forward to is spending 6 hours in the car in three days. My son is really unhappy about it as last week-end we drove to Eugene for a Ducks game - he’ll be completely car-ed out after this week-end, a 3.5 YO can only handle so much car time in one month.
Friday — Sleep in, watch PBS with Harper (23 mos. old), have a lazy evening at home with the hubby.
Saturday — Ditch graduate class to go to a family “reunion” (what I told the professor) in Indiana. My brother, his girlfriend, my husband and I (driving from Ohio) meeting my mom, dad, and sister (driving from Wisconsin) to watch the Wisconsin Badgers play Purdue. Nothing like Big-10 football on an autumn Saturday!!! I say that totally without sarcasm. Really. I mean it.
Sunday — Spend time with our in-laws, who live in town, watch more football (we’re a sports family), and laundry. Homework.
Ironman! No no, I’m not competing in it, I’m volunteering for it. The World Championships are right here in Kona, HI, and apparently the whole town just shuts down for the day. I have finish-line duty. Whee! I’m stoked.
Other than that, I shall see where the wind blows.
Commenting for the first time - which seems woefully inadequate given the enormous amounts of pleasure your blogs give me daily. Writing to you from Barbados. This weekend: a large part of it will be spent on working on an illustration for the final cover in a series of children’s primary (grade, I guess?) school textbooks; which will also involve removing the cat on a rather monotonous basis from my drafting table, smudgy spoilable things being an irrestistible draw. There’s also a belated birthday (mine) dinner out with the Other Half, and (bah) at least one session of running and/or tormenting various bodily bits and pieces in the gym. If really lucky, we will also see “An Inconvenient Truth”, which has just shown up on the listings for the local cinema…or could simply be less socially responsible and go see “Over The Hedge” at the drive-in. Oh yeah…and checking in on the blogs…always!
It’s a long weekend in New Zealand for Labour Day, so tonight I’m going to my favourite rock/metal bar. Then tomorrow I am meeting up with friends and going to my favourite rock/metal bar. The day after that is my friend who owns the bar’s birthday, and he is opening the bar for the night, so umm…we are going to his rock/metal bar. So um, summary - rock and metal. Then Monday I’ll probably sleep.
Here in IN we will be visiting the near-by pumpkin patch for a second time, this time with friends. It should be fun to let the kids run around with friends, instead of just “family time”. (By the way, your PP was MUCH cooler, letting you cut your own pumpkins. This one cuts them and dumps them all in one feild–randomly though. Not that it matters, all my boys care about is riding the tractor out to the feild and back.) Then Saturday evening we have our first Halloween party of The Season. Sunday is supposed to be cold and rainy so we will stay inside and watch football. I’m looking forward to a nice mix of social time and vegging time.
As Jem mentioned, it’s a long weekend here in New Zealand, and I’m heading to Queenstown (which may be where those bungy photos were taken?) for a wedding. I barely know the happy couple, but my boyfriend is in the bridal party. I’m anticipating an interesting time at the wedding as he has to make a speech but has a crippling fear of public speaking. Heee! Ooo, that’s mean, I’ll stop now.
We’re bording the dog (sad!), putting out extra litter pans for the cats, and taking a quick weekend trip to visit my fiance’s family. For a bonfire. Eleven hour drive tomorrow, visit Saturday, eleven hour drive Sunday. Whooo.
Friday night: Bowling, and picking up a friend from the airport.
Saturday: A birthday party for a friend, a store opening for another friend, and yet another birthday party for yet another friend.
Sunday: Halloween Pumpkin Carving Party! Ooooh yeah!
Hope you have a great weekend! :o)
Friday night: Watching The Science of Sleep
Saturday: making art and then looking at art followed by dinner with friends
Sunday: Halloween pet costume contest. I know!
I just checked out Anne Lamott’s Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith on cd. Thanks!
Laura, a black dress would do the trick perfectly. :-)
Friday night: Cuban food and a comedy show with friends. Saturday: yard and laundry catchup then going to hear Barack Obama speak. Sunday the BF has rented a plane to fly us down to Virginia to scope out a space shuttle and do some campaign work for Jim Webb’s senate campaign.
I’m off on Friday so I’m meeting my DD and 2 month old granddaughter for a walk in the park. It’s a marshy kind of park and I’m hoping to get some pictures of the blooming pitcher plants.
After work on Sat (ugh) I’m meeting up with the rest of my Krew to work on our Mardi Gras float.
If the weather is nice on Sunday the BF and I will take a short motorcycle ride and then spend the rest of the day lazing around watching football.
We’re having a big oyster party with friends and family. Lots of food, lots of beer, and at least 3 grandmas on site to attend to the kid so I can enjoy myself.
I like the weekend check-in question. Fun to read what others are up to!
my front tooth broke off today, so i see many sharp evil instruments of torture and nitrous oxide looming for saturday morning.
sunday i plan on doing my halloween decorating. the neighbors have copied my theme for a haunted graveyard from last year, but they don’t know about all the wonderful light-up gravestones i bought last year around thanksgiving for 90% off! so that day shall be spent pissing off the neighbors!
first of all i totally remember you writing about that couple visiting you last year when riley was just a baby. and how it was hard to imagine that when they got back he would be ONE. now i’m feeling the same sense of time running through my hands with my precious three-month-old boy.
this weekend. nothing except that saturday night i will be getting a sleep study done so that maybe i can stop snorting like a wild boar in my sleep and me and my husband can once again sleep in the same bed.
I’m finishing packing up then moving across the state to live with (tell me it isn’t so) my parents. My husband and I plan to save money for the next year or so and then we will begin construction on our dream home. Hopefully we won’t be completely insane by then and maybe we’ll get a live-in babysitter. Hold me.
I’m taking my husband away for the weekend to celebrate his 40th birthday. At his request, there will be NO party and no big family get-together. Even his Mom won’t be here. :) Just the two of us - it should be fun!
Well, since you asked…I’ll be spending my evening looking around campus for a party or two with a friend of mine, and then I’ll be studying for midterms for almost all of Saturday and Sunday. Of course, Saturday’s plans are looking a bit like Friday’s, but who knows…
I suddenly feel out of place. I wonder why that is. =)
My husband is at the fire station all weekend on duty. So it’s me and the boy. His last soccer game was last Saturday, so this Saturday we are SLEEPING IN. (I thought if I yelled it, he would subliminally pick it up in his sleep tonight) We may attend a kiddo birthday party Saturday evening. I haven’t decided yet. The Boy’s sensory issues make those things kind of iffy. I don’t want to drive 30 minutes, be there for 5 minutes, have him gag over a stringy ribbon on a birthday gift, and drive 30 minutes home. Depends on how good a day he has tomorrow. Sunday…..I dunno! This is weird. My weekends have been so mapped out for the last 6 weeks with soccer, now that it’s over, I don’t know what the boy and I should do with our free time. OH!! I’m going to make a cake. Shaped like a pumpkin. I do it every October. Yes. It’s smarmy. I don’t care.
I will be taking care of grandson and granddaughter ages 3 and 2. Daughter and son-in-law are going to see Bare Naked Ladies at Foxwoods.So for the kids, my husband and I it will be pizza and Pumpkintown for a great photo-op. Hug Riley for me.
What am I doing this weekend? As little as humanly possible, I suspect. Actually, Friday I have a medical exam for my new job (SQUEEE!) and then my best friend is coming over for coffee, cinnamin rolls and gossip; Saturday I plan on sleeping in, making pancakes for breakfast and if the weather permits, cutting the grass. Once the grass is cut I need to take Jr out in the backyard for some soccer practice as he missed Thursday night’s practice in lieu of the Cub Scouts Pack Meeting/Fall Festival. Since Tuesday’s practice was rained out he needs all the help he can get, know what I mean? Sunday will involve church, soccer for Jr, soccer for The Captain, then back to church for Children’s Choir. We are in charge of snacks this week. Various amounts of laundry and other assorted domestication will take place, I’m sure.
And you though YOUR life was boring? HA!!! Have a good weekend.
this weekend will be spent hosting my BFs mother and sister. they’ve never come to visit us before (we always go there) so this should be interesting. I’ll be spending most of the weekend trying not to be in the same room alone with his mom, because while I like her she tends to take every opportunity that he is out of the room to grill me on how he is doing. And if he won’t tell her, its then definitely not my place to spill anything. Sigh…
But there will be fun stuff! Like football watching, farm stand visiting (have you ever tried creamed honey? its seriously divine), restaurant eating, shopping…and the weather is supposed to be perfectly fall-like. So it all works out!
I will be painting a room in my house that I call the “gym”, although that’s a farce because calling it that would lead to you believe that exercise occurs in that room. Not so.
Then, on Monday, I have taken the day off to mourn, because I am turning 30. And, if I hear one more person say that it’s not a big deal I will shove an unused barbell up their ass, because it’s a big deal to me.
Cheers!
Tonight will be spent hanging with the gaggle of girlfriends I’ve had since elementary school. Tomorrow the husband and I will be attending the Arkansas vs. Ole Miss football game (Go Hogs!) with my parents. Sunday will be spent recovering from the celebratory hangover. =)
I wish I was having a quiet weekend, but we’ll be attending a birthday party (also bringing the little one - with him being the only little one - hey she wanted him there) So we’ll see how that goes. I want to take the little one to pick pumpkins and also football will be on the big screen if you want to stop by. Have a good one!
This weekend I’m getting all dolled up for “Breakfast Club” - a tradition among my campus to dress up in Halloween gear and camp out at the bars until game time and then I’ll stumble across campus to watch our team lose.
After that I’m hitting the mall and I won’t be leaving until I find Halloween costumes and birthday gifts.
Sunday? I’m sleeping in - because I can. And maybe hitting up a haunted house….
I think its fun that you ask us what we’re doing - I didn’t participate last week, because I wasn’t sure if you were serious… but thanks for asking!
You will be jealous. I’ll be here: http://www.nbc12.com/abouttown/halloween/4224291.html seeing alpacas in costumes. Yeah, verily!
My husband is in CO this weekend. LUCKY! SO, I will be at home, with the cat, attempting to quilt. This is the fourth item I’ve tried to sew in my life with a sewing machine from 1971. No joke. (Will be a camo quilt for my husband.) I will be occupied though. Wish me luck!
Hope you have a good time with your in-laws. There is usually tension in our house with the MIL. Also hope you and JB get some together time.
Well, at the house of massive confusion we are having a birthday party for my 15 year old daughter. We are dropping off her, our 16 year old daughter and 11 of their friends at a haunted house where they will giggle and scream and hit on boys (which I want to know NOTHING about). And while they are doing this we will be…. we have a babysitter for the little boys so my husband and I will be going to Dakota’s for dinner. This is a very fancy steak house that is underground in Dallas - and I could not be more excited. There will be no bibs, no pasta pickups, no sippy cups and no pooping at the dinner table. I cannot wait! I dread picking up the 13 kids after, but at least we will have a few hours of bliss.
Number One:
I am flying from Dallas (where I live) to Seattle. My husband and I have been wanting to move for FOREVER, and we’re FINALLY doing something about it. So. We’re prospecting the city, and absolutely giddy with excitement.
Number Two:
I am assuming you use Movable Type. Yes? Please say yes. Just say it, damn it. If so, how did you get the comments numbered? Am lame. Cannot figure it out.
I’m flying to Tampa to finally meet my interweb best friend in person. I can’t wait! There will be laughter, tears, a whole lotta tea-drinking and cookie-eating, and talking even faster than we type.
I just read your bio.
Hey! You’re in Seattle.
And you don’t have Movable Type.
So: disregard my question.
But: is there a place in Seattle that people should go to get a “feel” for the city? We’re going with absolutely NO plans at all, hoping that two and a half days will be enough for us to decide whether we want to move there.
I may just stay in bed with Kleenex shoved up my left nostril. I’ve got a wicked sinus cold, and this one nostril has been leaking since Wednesday night. I look supersexy with Kleenex plugging my faceholes.
OR, I may walk about and try to get to a farmer’s market to purchase cider and other farmy delights.
This week-end I’m reading Sundry’s comments on what everyone’s doing this week-end. And ok, Saturday: run a karaoke show and play secondlife (in the name of work, of course). Take some things (a microwave, towels for yips sake) over to my oldest daughter Ashlei, for her first apartment, help Sabrina with some college app essay question (when did the questions get so hard??) and play chauffer to Danielle’s ring-games and Danica’s homecoming. Possibly work on Lola’s halloween costume (10 mo, I’m painting her floaty innertubey thing and she’s the Michelin baby, heh).
Sunday? Grocery shopping/cooking/cleaning/yard work/nap.
I am going camping at Worthington State Forest in the Delaware Water Gap area in NJ with my fiance and two other couples. We’re going to freeze our asses off, but I expect big fun anyway.
Date night sounds fun. :) I think we’re going to get haircuts for everyone (me, hubby, and 2-yr-old) which is usually a festival of tears and snot and lollipops. (The 2-yr-old.)
A Saturday morning tradition!
My twin is coming home for a visit and a Toastmaster’s state conference thingy, so she’ll be over at my house this afternoon and staying the night tonight. It’ll be good to see her in a way, but, like always, I wish she could stay or visit here more often. We’re going to Uno’s to meet a bunch of people from high school and earlier years for dinner tonight. Tomorrow night, Kevin and I have a date night. *gasp* We’re going to a bonfire. Other than church on Sunday and lunch afterwords with friends, I have no clue what else is going on on Sunday. I hope you have afantastic weekend with the in-laws and yu have a chance to escape for a little while!
The hubby is out of town elk hunting, so Buster and I will be spending Saturday doing a bit of shopping and preparing for all of the cielings in our house to be sanded, re-textured, and painted next week.
If this beautiful Colorado weather cooperates, we are planning a hike on Sunday.
Not doing much this weekend (for a change). Catch up on chores, keep an eye on the soccer redults, watch final Formula 1 Grand Prix on TV. Now next weekend I’ll be….. duh, better keep that for next Friday!!
I am headed to Yosemite — someplace I have never been, despite living in California for a year and a half already! — where I will attempt to not (a) be eaten by a bear, (b) plunge to my death off the edge of a cliff, (c) freeze to death in my unheated tent thingy, and (d) not swear in front of other people’s children while I curse myself for thinking that an 8-mile, all uphill hike sounded like a better way to spend the weekend than parked in front of the TV. Tune in on Monday to see if I survived!
PS — I love that your comments are numbered with Roman numerals! (Hi, my name is Kate, and I’m a dork. Hi, Kate.)
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Yeah, our weekend plans are not so exciting.
Friday - Having 11 yards of dirt delivered so we can happily spread it out in the back yard in preparation for…
Saturday - Sod! Woo-hoo! Does life just get any better?! We get to lay out sod on Saturday and it’s oh, so much fun! You’re welcome to join if you’d like. (anyone?! ANYONE?!)
I haven’t done this yet, but I might just play the pregnancy card and let the hubby handle the sod. I’ll push the dirt around but everyone keeps freaking out about me painting and doing smaller things. Surely, moving big ol’ rolls of sod aren’t good for a pregnant woman. Right?! Help me out here! :o)
I am going to a henna party tomorrow night at a friend’s house. Her husband will hole himself up with the children and movies in the bedroom while get our hands painted for Eid (which is on Monday).
I am going to a conference call “The Everything about Sex Show” where there will be tons of seminars, fashion shows, and workshops. I am 7 months pregnant, and think sex is about as lovely as washing my face with sandpaper right now, but I figure it’s the least I can do for my husband.
As a compromise, I’m dragging him to Costco with me because I’m much more interested free food samples these days.
Friday night we are going to eat pizza at our favorite pizza place and then hubby and our daughter are going to his grandparents for the evening. The babe and I are feeling a little under the weather and we really don’t want to subject them to this sickness, so we will go home and snuggle on the sofa and watch the Wiggles.
On Saturday we are taking the kids to pick out a pumpkin so I can take lots of cheesy/cute pics of them with all the pumpkins. Then we will carve the pumpkin intn something fantastic. If I was really creative I would take all the goo from the pumpkin and make a pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that to happen.
Sunday I hope to rest!
Running the Chicago Marathon and staying far away from the law library!!!
Our first (of 4) baby signing class is on Sunday afternoon. We’re hosting, so the teacher and 4 other families will sitting in our living room, smiling maniacally and making the gestures for “milk”, “more”, and “eat” at our bewildered offspring. Dixie will be out on the deck, peering glumly at us through the glass doors. Saturday, we’ll be trying to de-dog-hairify the house in preparation for Sunday.
No big plans here either - might go shopping for furniture for my 2 yr old, as #2 is due in feb. and I don’t want to have to buy another crib. the thought of him being in a bed terrifies me!!! Why can’t they stay in cribs until their teens??
Weekends are just like weekdays to me, with less options on tv, being a stay at home mom, that is what happens :)
Getting ready for my new photography show and then packing my gear and backs for my month-long trip to Pakistan and Philippines. Plus, taking pics of my insanely beautiful wife and child. During the few moments when Jules is smiling and not screaming do to her top front teeth coming in.
Ah, what was life like back when I had eardrums. “No, dear … I swear I didn’t ignore you. I just couldn’t hear you. Our spawn has deafened me. What? Say that again.”
Christian
Now, why did I sign my name? I must be writing waaaay to many emails during the day.
… and NO! I did not mispell “BAGS.” I meant to say “BACKS.” As in medium-format and large-format film backs that you stick on cameras. They’re the holders that … hold … the film. Ummm.. Never mind.
Let’s hear it for comment-posting abuse!
Not working. After working 12 days ina row I am going to rest and spend time with the baby (and hopefully talk my husband — who is a stay at home Dad — into letting me sleep-in one morning). Might also visit the Japanese Gardens in Portland, they are having a Bonsai display. Watch all my recorded shows (America’s Next Top Model, Meercat Manor, Big Cat Diaries, Desp. Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy). Visist with the husband and lie low.
My husband’s working hard to finish a job in Seattle, so it will be me, the pup, and the baby growing in my belly. I think we’ll rake the leaves, check out some resale stores for maternity/baby stuff, have dinner with a girlfriend, work on getting the house clean, and sleep. And, I want roast chicken so maybe I’ll throw some cooking in there, too. Oh, and pick up the chocolate cake with peanut butter filling that I ordered from a gourmet bakery to celebrate our one-year anniversary (a few months late) and to celebrate one year in our own home…I may end up getting to eat the whole thing by myself, too!!
Have a great weekend with the in-laws; I hope you and JB get some adult time with free babysitting…
This weekend I am hosting a PartyLite party (got suckered into that one), and packing for my trip. I am going to New Hampshire to surprise my best friend, who is on leave from Afghanistan.
I hope he doesn’t read this site!
You mean that your last post didn’t attract any comments along the lines of “UR going to hell”? Wow, the internet is shaping up.
Bringing M. Small to his first visit to the circus, which sounds both scary and hy-sterical at the same time.
We have an exciting fun-filled weekend ahead of us!
First, on Saturday, we are going to pick up our daughter’s birthday present out of lay-away. Then, we are taking our lhasa apso, Obi, to get her nails trimmed.
As for the night-time activities, we are driving almost fifty miles away for my husband’s niece’s 24th birthday celebration, which will undoubtedly involve lots of alcohol, cigarette smoke, and crappy music turned up way too loud.
Sunday, we are cleaning, the thourough (sp) kind of cleaning, involving a swiffer and vacuum. Should be a GREAT weekend.
First time commenter-love your site! This weekend will be spent moving my computer to another room; with lots of reading, naps and me time in between.
This weekend we will be:
Selling my old car (never buy a Kia!)
Signing a lease to our new apartment, picking out a pumpkin and doing much carving, seed roasting and enjoying the cool weather. We will also probably sit on our butts and play video games…I’ll enjoy every minute of it!
Oh not to mention watching our 2 new kitties hiss at the older kitties…This activity is actually quite funny…sad but true!
Linda, what would you say would be a good way to get into photography? It has always interested me, but I don’t know what kind of camera to buy or where to start. I love black and white photos and the pictures you take are absolutely incredible!
I will buy my first car this weekend.
LAURA, my friends wear long skirts and blouses with a bohemian, naturey feel. Just wear something pretty and simple and you’ll be fine. :) It’s the same as a wedding, just in a more relaxed setting, so you generally want to avoid formal type things. I mean, don’t go all super casual, but you don’t want to be all belted and rhinestoned up, either. All the handfastings I’ve been to were outside.
SUNDRY/LINDA, I spent all day yesterday (Friday) reviewing and editing images of Giverny and going to the grocery store. Today I’m doing the same thing, replacing the grocery shopping with surfing the web. I may also go out tonight and take pictures of the Eiffel Tower. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing more image reviewing and laundry, and possibly meeting with my illustrator. And taking pictures during the evening, if I don’t do so tonight.
As for your life being boring, I don’t think it is. I often read your blog and wish I had the life you seem to. Even in Paris, I covet your life, so obviously it’s not as boring as you think it is. :)
Trying to get my professional illustrator’s portfolio website up and running (ARGH CSS, WHY?!), cleaning the house while boyfriend works from 10am-2am both Saturday and Sunday, meeting up for brunch with a friend from Indiana - I’m in NYC - and hopefully finishing off an illustration for a t-shirt company so I have money and maybe *just maybe* finishing off the curtains for our bedroom I’ve promised to make for the past two months we’ve lived in this apartment.
It’s fun to bite off more than one can chew.
It’s already the weekend, but I didn’t see your post til tonight…..I’m at Disney World! That’s what I am doing this weekend. Taking my 8 year old on her first Disney vacation! DAMN is it HOT here in Orlando!!
This isn’t about my weekend (which has already past) but I hope you end up reading it anyhoo. May I ask, as a traveler and dog lover, how your friends were gone for a year but have a huge Golden Retriever? Cause, man, that’s lucky!
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