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November 9, 2006
I really enjoyed reading your last great thing comments (I now have a Scum Buster to buy and a box of Snickers ice cream bars to devour) and so did JB; he’s officially convinced he should drop his XM radio in favor of Sirius.
I tried to think of the last great thing I bought for my own self and I think the answer is a “mini-prep” Cuisinart, which was purchased to replace the older, smaller one I broke a while back. Totally not as interesting as your answers, what with your trips to Paris and new kittens and exotic perfumes and chocolate body lotions and all.
Riley appears to have made a speedy recovery, just in time for JB to return from the business trip he was on during Barforama 2006. The man flew to Chicago to have Brazilian barbecue dinners (”More meat on a stick, sir?”) with suit-wearing clients while I was trapped in a House of Barf obsessively googling “vomiting +toddler+should+I+fucking+panic+or+what”, I think he owes me a favor or two. (I can just picture him reading this, nodding his head and raising his eyebrows like the sleazy guy from Office Space [the "O face" guy] and saying, “I’ll give you a favor, baby.” I AM TALKING ABOUT THE BRAND NEW FULLY LOADED INFINITI FX KIND OF FAVOR, JACKHOLE. In black with the tan leather interior, thanks.)
This weekend Riley and I are descending upon my mother and aunt’s house in Port Angeles, where they will doubtlessly immediately regret their cheery invitation once he demonstrates how he can actually shatter glass with his voice, now that he’s a bit older since the last visit. Then again, maybe grandparents see their grandchildren through eternal rose-colored glasses; JB’s mom sure goes on and on about how Riley’s such a “good, sweet kid” and I have caught myself thinking, wait, are you talking about THIS KID RIGHT HERE? Don’t get me wrong, I’d take a bullet for him even on a bad day, but are you talking about the kid who is currently going apoplectic over the existence of carseat restraints? You must mean sweet like a lemon.
(Actually, now that I think about it Riley’s usually on better behavior when there are lots of people around, I think he enjoys the activity and attention and is less likely to burst into actual flames over a dropped toy. This is a rule with no guarantees, however, considering that he recently chose a crowded Fred Meyers to protest at top volume the great injustice of socks.)
So tomorrow we’ll be taking the ferry (the ferry, not the ferry boat as they repeatedly and annoyingly say on Grey’s Anatomy, it’s a goddamn ferry, saying ferry boat is like saying car vehicle; ferry ferry ferry ferry!) over to Kingston and driving up the peninsula; I’m looking forward to getting the hell out of Dodge for a while.
JB will be spending his own weekend shooting at innocent, moist-eyed Bambi-esque woodland creatures in Oregon. God help me, I actually encouraged this activity because he doesn’t get to spend much time with the Menfolk wearing their Hickory Shirts and Crapping in the Woods Wherever They Damn Well Please. Of course, that was before the Barf-fest so I hope he brings me back something purty. Like an Infiniti, not a fucking elk pelt.
If you’re not sick of me asking, and I totally understand if you are, what are your own plans?
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I am going to a friend’s evening wedding on Saturday. It is at a nice (I think) hotel in Downtown Seattle. Plus I traded shifts with another nurse so I don’t have to work on Sunday and I will be able to sleep in. Luxury!!!!! I bought a new outfit yesterday and it is actually pretty comfortable and I got my hair cut today (it had been over 7 months) and so I will look snazzy. :)
Oh! And when they said “Ferry boat” on Grey’s Anatomy I immediately thought of a little kid saying something like “choo-choo train” – it sounds silly from an adult and VERY un-Seattle-like! Ferry boat, indeed!
I am going to be reading about exorcisms all weekend. Not as exciting as you would think at first. It gets a little old around the 10 billionth time you’ve had to copy out an exorcism for salt. I will, however, make time for bad movies – my favourite kind!
fly fishing on the kern river for FOUR DAYS. yay! but then i will come back to work next week facing an audit by the state FDA. boo.
I’m going up to Fort Bragg (with my last $20 till payday!) to visit some friends. Hopefully they will feed me.
And, if you REALLY want JB to do you a favor, have him buy you my ‘72 Mini Cooper — I just can’t afford to own it anymore, and I think you would probably give it a good home. Of course, if anyone hit you while you were driving it, you would disintegrate, but, um … yeeeah. It’s a great car!
God. I just can’t help myself. I SHOULD, but I can’t I’m one of those people who just has to know (and announce) for myself… I’m apologizing now because I can’t seem to resist typing this and I know I can’t resist hitting the wonderful little button to post. And I have lived in Seattle, and I know everyone calls it the ferry but… but… but…
Ferry – to move something across a body of water.
Ferryboat – the way in which to move a person or thing across a body of water.
Yeah. It’s actually Ferryboat. My anal retentive ass is going to go get a glass of wine now.
Tomorrow I’m going to sleep in, make myself a nice breakfast, go shopping for all the things my husband hates to shop for, then I have a 4 o’clock baby shower to attend in my honor. Saturday begins the great house clean-up, as my dear husband has just deployed on a submarine for 11 weeks and I’ve been waiting for him to leave before I pick up his stuff. Sunday, church- and then a “purse party” complete with coach and kate spade wanna-be purses to buy. Yes, I will worship Jesus and purchase illegally manufactured fake purses on the same day. I may go to hell, but I’ll have a nice handbag.
Lots of laziness.
We may have tickets for the VT/Kent State football game on Saturday. Otherwise, I will spend a lot of time sitting on the couch watching college and pro football and obsessing over my fantasy teams.
And my husband will probably make me spend at least an hour outside raking leaves. Boo, hiss.
it’s a ferry. ferry. ferry.
not a ferry boat.
and seriously? they need to stop. seriously!
If JB does happen to bring you home a fucking elk pelt, will you please post pictures of it? Even just to make fun of? ‘Cause I’m sort of (read:completely) into that, and I’d love to see one!
I’m going to Florida for my grandfather’s 90th birthday celebration, and I’ll be meeting one of my super-favorite bloggers while I’m there. Yay.
Saturday is a day for pure laziness, Sunday we’re going to my parents’ for dinner and a lil birthday celebration for my mom. Nothing exciting. No glass-breaking screams or dead deer for me this weekend.
I’m spending three full days with four children and a husband who gets jittery and crabby if he’s around the children too much. SEND HELP.
Driving from Chicago to Detroit on Friday afternoon, then back on Saturday afternoon. Thankfully, the Saturday journey will end at a party with lots of beer, which I will desperately need after spending 10 hours in a car in two days.
We are thinking about moving so we are gonna be driving around looking at houses. Sounds fun until you factor in the baby screeching in the car. :) Glad Riley is feeling better!
Sitting comfortably on my ever-expanding ass, and completely avoiding everything else I should be doing. That’s what I’m doing this weekend.
The baby barf thing? Nightmare inducing. I’ve gone through several bouts with it with Aislinn during various ages and stages, though the baby has yet to be afflicted.
Sundry is right. “Ferryboat” may be a legitimate word for the boat used to ferry, but the definitions under “ferry” include “ferryboat” as well as a long definition that includes the entire operation of boats, service, terminals, etc., and also “to go on a ferry”–so even in the definition they call it a ferry, not a ferryboat.
Even if it were technically correct to call it “a ferryboat,” it’s still dorky, and also colloquially wrong. And, as it turns out, “ferryboat” being technically correct doesn’t mean “ferry” is NOT technically correct.
I am in a wedding on Saturday. The bride’s a dear (though I think I may have been demoted from the position of maid-of-honor (because it is, after all, totally a contest of who’s the better friend) because one of the other bridesmaids wanted to walk down with her husband (who is the best man) and all these parenthesis and drama make my head hurt), but I hate the prep for a wedding. AndI had to go buy a new straples bra, and with all the multitude of clasps and the turning around of it while still wearing of it and when that didn’t work, i tried pull it over my head and I think I hurt my shoulder. Oh, and when I went tanning so I didn’t blind everyone walking down the isle, I think I laid wrong or something, because i now have a white stripe down the middle of my back. I have no idea how it happend. And it’s my special time
But, there weill be friends there I haven’t seen in a long time, and there will be dancing and good time will be had by all. Plus, the dresses are pretty and I will get to drink champagne.
The only certain thing about my weekend plans is working on Saturday. Everything else is still up in the air, so…
I do have a question, though. I use Internet Explorer (welcome to the dark ages!) because my mouse sucks and is incompatible with Firefox (I can’t scroll, which drives me INSANE). In Firefox? The site looks great, just the way it always did.
In IE, it looks like plain text on a white background with links. That’s all I get (well, photos work too). It was working fine in IE, but I’ve noticed this for a few entries– no one else seems to be mentioning it, so maybe I’m the only person who still uses it? Oh, the shame.
I just wondered if there was some magical internet wand you could wave so it look good again… it’s a major pain to switch to firefox to read your blog, and then I am once more infuriated by my inability to scroll.
… and now it looks fine again. Maybe I’m going crazy? I’m SO CONFUSED!
I am actually going to meet another fellow blogger, whom I adore, on Saturday, and beyond that, I can’t think of much else, for it will likely involve steam cleaning and maybe some picking up of dog poop and preparation for the massive onslaught of in-laws for the week of Thanksgiving in a little more than a week. No one said my life wasn’t exciting.
I hope you have a great time on the ferry (boat)! And let’s all thank Christ that Riley is feeling better. Phew.
*I just noticed that Lawyerish, my date on Saturday, commented above. I am going to try not to be as socially awkward as I am normally capable of being. Thinking smooth thoughts until then. SMOOOTH.
Much needed haircut and brow-attention, and lunch with my mom Saturday. Sunday – it’s anybody’s guess! Not very exciting, I’m afraid….
We have a three day weekend here; tomorrow is a movie with our Cub Scout den at 10 am, then lots of looking at housework that needs to be done and rationalizing it by promising to do it tomorrow (you know, like I’ve been doing ALL WEEK). Saturday is my birthday so Jr and Hubby will be baking me either cupcakes or a full on cake, thus meeting another Cub Scout requirement and ensuring that I will never lose more than 10 lbs EVER. Sunday will busy even though soccer has ended until Spring: church, including a party for the kids in Children’s Church, then our Cub Scout Den will march in our local Veteran’s Day Parade. Then at 6 pm it’s Children’s Choir. After that I shall promptly collapse.
Sat. morning my husband is getting up early to go dirt biking with the menfolk so they can practice for the race on Sunday that they will be taking part in. I plan to sleep in, lounge around, maybe get a pedicure?? Then I’m helping my buddy Kevin sell tickets for a soccer game in the afternoon. Then Saturday night my husband and I have a dinner to go to for ICSCC (International Conference of Sports Car Clubs *i think) so my hubby can accept his award for winning the Sport BMW conference club championship, blah that’s a lot of words :) Plus I love how they want you go come to collect your trophy and praise etc. but they charge you $80. a stinking plate for it :| What’s that about? Sunday is the dirt bike race. I think *hope* that’s it. :) -h
MovieFest 2006: Netflix just delivered “Cars” and “The Wild” and maybe we’ll watch “Over the Hedge” again because it was just too dang funny. Saturday the hubby is going steelhead fishing. I’d go, but the thought of 40-ish degrees on a rainy day in a drift boat while pregnant doesn’t sound appealing to me. I’m using the excuse that I just can’t fit into my waders. Think I might just veg out watching season two of Grey’s Anatomy while trying not to get annoyed about the whole “ferryboat” thing. Basically, I’m traveling for work all next week, so I’m not going to do anything. Whee!
I’ve got tomorrow off work so it’s a ‘me’ day. I’m getting a pedicure and leg wax in the morning and then more waxing will be done later that day in places that make my boyfriend love me more. After that I’m getting my hair cut and I’ll probably dye it too!
I might fly down to Los Angeles with my boyfriend to visit his mum and have some Apple Pan burgers. Sweet Jesus, Apple Pan burgers! If you’re ever in SoCal and you find yourself lacking in products to pimp on Sundrybuzz, visit the Apple Pan. It will free you and give you great material for Sundrybuzz as I’m sure you have lots of SoCal readers.
Then I’m coming back to San Francisco to see the U.S. premier of Edward Scissorhands (can’t fucking wait because I love ALL THINGS associate with Tim Burton) with my friend who works at the San Francisco zoo and always has some great stories involving animals. I always ask him really stupid Borat style questions about his work experiences and he always makes up fantastic answers. We have great conversations, except nothing we say is really meant seriously. I love those kinds of friendships.
Sunday I’m cleaning. I’m extremely tempted to go out and buy a magic eraser and a scumbuster in order to increase my cleaning motivation.
We are going to my in-laws for a Brunswick Stew. This stuff has chicken, pork, and beef in it, along with lima beans, corn, potatoes, onions, and tomatoes. Except all the veggies are mushed up before being added, which makes the stew look like, well, something you’ve written a lot about recently. It tastes OK but is one of those things that after you make it, you must shower immediately because you realize you reek. It must be a southern thing. To which I say, WTF?
I’m going to meet my neice in North Carolina!
Dropping the kids off at my folks and staying at the Madonna Inn (Cave Room) for our 13th anniversary (that’s buckshot isn’t it?).
We have a babysitter for three whole hours Saturday afternoon, so we’re going to our favorite place for brunch to celebrate our six (!) year wedding anniversary. And then we are going to have a nice big party at our house.
Oh, and yes, ferry, not ferry boat. That shall be filed under other Grey’s Anatomy Seattle anomalies, such as how Meredith, who appears to live in Capitol Hill, can jog to a park and run into Derek and the dog taking a walk, even though he has to take the ferry to get to Seattle. I can’t believe I just wrote that. I apologize for being so incredibly anal, and also obsessed with that stupid show to even recognize these things.
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Going to Columbus, OH with my fiance to see the Decemberists. I am the fangirl, and he’s just tagging along to be nice, and also to enjoy a nice hotel stay and some good food, to be sure. :)
On Saturday, I will clean the house, then we’ll attend our daughter’s cross country banquet. On Sunday, we will drag our son’s ass out of bed so he can go to work and the rest of us will go to church so our daughter can fulfill her confirmation requirements. I hope we put handles on the dresser drawers so we can bring the dresser (which we’ve been refinishing since July) up from the basement to our bedroom. I will promptly and happily empty the shoe boxes and Target bags in which I’ve been storing my clothing. I also plan to put garland and lights on the porch railings if the weather cooperates. While my husband obsesses over Sunday Night Football, I will try to watch the Amazing Race and Desperate Housewives.
I am in Australia for the weekend: I’ve been shopping all day and am on my way to see some big huge kill-you-so-much-as-look-at-you sharks. Tonight is a bellydance show, tomorrow is a bellydance workshop (and more shopping) and seeing a band, and Sunday is MORE SHOPPING (kill me now) before I head back to Welly. It is super sunny and nice here: after an extra three months of winter I feel almost drunk with vitamin D.
Out for tea with the boyfriend tonight, hopefully somewhere we haven’t tried from our ‘entertainment book’- a handy way to try some different (and flasher) places, most places are buy 1 main, get 1 free – yah! (hopefully that doesn’t make me sound like a real cheapass). Sleeping in both days, haircut on Saturday, usual domestic chores as well at some point…
Good choice with the infiniti fx, looks scrummy!
Enjoy your weekend :)
It’s been a long, long week. I’m hoping to do nothing. Maybe some painting. Hopefully mostly the nothing.
We are going to my husband’s dad’s house Saturday night in Ft. Worth. Not earth shattering, but it is always nice to hang out with family. Sunday we have to run (training for 1/2 marathon) and are supposed to be up to 2 hours – haha…hohoho, oh bloody hell, we are so behind. Sunday night is dinner with the neighbors – which I am so excited about – as we are friendless and it feels like a date or something.
So – to recap: in-laws, dinner, running. Whee.
Does elk taste less ass-y than venison? Bambi may be cute, but she tastes like shit. I keep hoping my husband will find time to go on a boar hunt. Mmmm bacon.
My weekend plans are so boring they aren’t worth mentioning. I am going to IKEA tomorrow, though. I guess that’s worth somethin.
Well, tonight, I am going on a FERRY. To celebrate the end of my course, or something – its course related and paid for with our student union fees. I haven’t washed my hair in forever so I feel ick, but it seems pointless to wash it and go through the hassle of drying/straightening (TAKES 2 HOURS WITH MY HAIR, THE THICKEST HAIR KNOWN TO MAN) before going on a boat where I’ll probably fall overboard or something.
Tomorrow, I am blissfully doing nothing. Sunday, I am blissfully doing nothing.
My trainer made the mistake of telling me you can get all of your weekly exercise in one fell swoop and still be ok, so since I haven’t so much as lifted a finger this week, this is the workout weekend from hell. I’ll be doing an hour and forty-five minutes tomorrow, then again on saturday. I’m also preparing a presentation for a class, teaching a doctrine class at church, and generally eating as much ice cream as I can get my hands on. Wish me luck!
Tomorrow night I am going with my friend to a concert and maybe having a couple of drinks. The rest of the weekend? Guitar Hero II, World of Warcraft, and maybe some writing (I’ve got a cool idea for a story. I never write fiction, but I want to more, so I’m going to give it a go.)
I think this weekend will be the one where I commence the freaking out that we’re hosting both of our families for Thanksgiving at our still-chaotic place. Eek. I need to practice the whole cinnamon-in-a-stovepot fragrance thingy so when I need to use it I won’t mess it up.
I used to live in Brazil. I laugh at Brazilian steakhouses, because I remember going to real ones when I was 14 & being shocked at the meat-on-a-stick thing. I want to go to one here & take my husband.
My big plans are to buy a new wedding band, go grocery shopping at the farmer’s market (we have no vegetables!), maybe make a pot roast, and maybe write some more for NaNoWriMo. I dunno, I’m just not feeling the fiction vibe.
Let’s see, tomorrow and Sunday will mimic each other: I will be on a boat in the Pacific training for my new job swimming with Dolphins. Go, me.
Saturday is blissfully wide open at the moment–perhaps I will explore a new beach, perhaps I will watch the latest Netflix arrivals (RV and Spellbound), perhaps I will get some laundry and grocery shopping done, perhaps I will wash my car, perhaps I will read my library books, perhaps I will sleep all day. The possibilities are endless. And excruciatingly exciting.
Well, I SHOULD complete felting the shed roof that I didn’t get finished last weekend, but heavy rain and strong winds are forecast for the next couple of days days so it looks like that won’t happen. (If you think it rains a lot in Seattle you should come to Ireland!). Last week included the birth of my brother’s first grandchild (and my parents’ first great-grandchild) and the funeral of my wife’s uncle. It’s possible we’ll take the trip to see the new baby boy. Hopefully I’ll also be able to take in watching Ireland’s first autumn rugby international against South Africa on TV.
Oh My God. I’m so glad you asked because it’s all I can talk about. I’m running my first EVER half-marathon. The one I’ve been training for (kinda). After months of races (3 5Ks) and long runs (every Saturday or Sunday) I have had perfect weather every time. It has never been too cold or rainy. But tomorrow? The forecast is cold AND rainy and I don’t think I’m going to make it because I’m a wuss.
So, my plan is a half-marathon. Let’s hope it actually happens.
We’re leaving our 3-month-old with her grandparents and going away for a night:
http://millfalls.com/inns/church_landing.htm
Ours is a spa package, with massages and herbal soaks. Dinner and full breakfast included. And we have one of the rooms with the birch beds. We’ll miss our girl, but I CAN’T WAIT.
Tonight my boyfriend and I are going to see Borat, then head home and sleep. Tomorrow we plan to get some grocery shopping done and just lie around at home. Sunday, I have no idea…
It’s nice to hear that Riley is feeling better. Have a fantastic weekend! ^___^
other than working that whole 3rd shift gas station job that i cant seem to shut up about, i’ll be starting a diet on sunday. i am having surgery in feb. and have to lose weight and stop smoking before my surgeon will even touch me…..oh dear god it’s so hard!! lol
this diet is that one that they put you on when you have to lose weight quickly for things like surgery. lucky me…… ;)
wish me luck :)
We’re buying glasses for my 2yr old. He’s got a temporary vision problem (slightly crossed eyes due to farsightedness) that needs glasses to solve (or else we move up to a patch and start dressing him like a pirate). Problem is he’s the kind of kid that HAAAATES anything on his head. Hates with the fury of a thousand cats having their tails stepped on. We’ve never been able to keep hats on his head; hoods are viciously yanked off, sunglasses are a joke. It’s not like he’s old enough to bribe, either. I know, I’ve tried.
It’s the first weekend in about 87 weeks that I don’t have to go somewhere for work or to visit family or what not, so I am so happy to be staying in the City. However, Saturday will be filled with the stress of trying to buy a new car, since husband got hit by a jackass who ran a red light last weekend and smashed our car.
But, I am so psyched because Sunday I am going to the Museum of Science to see Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds 2. If you haven’t seen this, check out his website, it’s pretty amazing stuff. (http://www.bodyworlds.com/index.html)
I’m thinking maybe Greek food tonight. The kids brought home these amazing report cards (WHO’S kids are these anyway I asked myself?!) and passed their swimming levels to boot, so a celebration is in order. Then I must pen a Eulogy for my Grandgeezil’s memorial service on Remembrance Monday. I always get the jitters at even the prospect of speaking before a group of people, so I have to find a way to push those thoughts away and reflect on his amazing life without reservation. Soccer on Sunday, if the fields are not still flooded after all the rain we’ve had here in BC this past week. And definitely, sleeping in! The only thing I like about all this rain, is hearing it patter on the roof when we’re all snuggled up in our beds! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
It’s going to be cold and snowing here in Wisconsin, so I plan on making a pot of 5-alarm chili and hunkering down in front of a roaring fire.
Saturday morning my son has basketball practice, which is fun to watch (3rd graders!) and I got some of those little stained glass kits to work on with the kids.
That’s about it. And I suppose I’ll have to do some laundry at some point.
I only work a half day today (that is, if the moons align correctly), so I’m hoping to get down to the salon and get my brows waxed, as they currently resemble two furry caterpillars perched above my peepers. Tonight is weekly potluck with my girlfriends, where we are also setting up one friend an online dating profile (she needs a man yo! Or a woman! No pickiness here!) Saturday is the Arkansas vs. Tennessee game, where ESPN Sportscenter will be broadcasting from, so I’m sure I’ll get drunk and make a fool of myself on television at some point. And Sunday I hope to finally change the cat’s litter box, lest my husband and I perish from ammonia fumes.
gull. Not sea gull. gull, gull, gull.
Are you ready for this one? You’re sure to be jealous…
I have to take care of a plant for one of my classes and then write a ‘creative paper’ on its ‘adventures’. So I’m taking my plant around campus all “Flat Stanly” style and taking pictures of it with all the campus landmarks and then writing a paper on it.
And also coming up with a tapas-style menu.
Yes, my weekend is filled with homework and greenery. Not exactly the most thrilling of all weekends, but I guess I still have half a box of Ice Cream Snickers to fall back on….
This weekend my husband and I are house/babysitting for our pastor’s kids. (Two boys – 10 and 14.) The parents left us a little money to take the kids out to dinner and rent a movie, but other than that we’re on a tight budget, so we’re still trying to figure out what to do. Especially tomorrow. It’s easy for me and my husband to spend all day on Saturdays watching college football and not get bored (well, as long as I have knitting I’m fine – gotta have something to do with my hands), but I’m not sure if middle-schoolers are going to be interested in our sedentary plans. Heh. Maybe we’ll go hiking or something…who knows!
(Can you tell we don’t have kids and have no idea what to do with them?)
The kids are going with their dad tonight which will give me time to get as much cleaning and errands done as I possibly can until 3 p.m. on Saturday (I need a nap just thinking about all the work!). Then I will be taking the kids to see my friend’s 11 year old son (who is also blind) play in a recital at a Borders bookstore in DeKalb, IL. Cody is the 11 year old’s name and he is such an amazing boy! He taught himself keyboards when he was just a tot. For the last couple of years, he has been taking music classes at Northern Illinois University (NIU) which is also in DeKalb, IL. I am looking forward to watching and hearing Cody play!
The rest of the weekend is play by ear. We will go to church on Sunday and after we get home, my 3 year old girl will need a nap (and so will I).
Have a nice weekend, Linda! You will probably get to relax some since it sounds like Mom and Grandma will be falling all over Riley.
I’m going to see my mom as well (well, my dad too, but, yeah). Which means that tonight will be comprised of chicken wings, beer and trivia games, and then tomorrow while the boys are playing computer games and watching football (and probably drinking more beer), my mom and I will be visiting a small nearby town which is full of antique and trinket shops and a chocolate shop that has desserts to die for. And we’ll probably work on a quilt I need help with. Should be an awesome weekend, and I’m really looking forward to it. Hope you have a great time too!
Tonight I’m watching TV and doing laundry. Saturday my sister, brother-in-law and I are going to visit our NYC grandparents, grandma’s in the hospital, as I said to my sister, well at least there’ll be enough parking there. We’re going to take Grandpa out to lunch so we can give Grandma a little peace. Drive back the two and a half hours, make cookies for Sunday and go to a neighborhood gathering in the evening. Sunday I have church and then a surprise baby shower, the thing that the cookes are for. Then in the evening I have auditions for a show.
Tonight we’re babysitting our friend’s 18-month-old and hoping he doesn’t cry the whole time we’re there. Our friends say he’s the Easiest Kid Ever (”You won’t even have to ask him to go to bed. At 7:30 he’ll just stop whatever he’s doing, say night-night, and walk to his room.”) Somehow I don’t think that will be the case tonight—but maybe we’ll be surprised.
Saturday we’re escaping the dreary cold and snow of Minnesota for … the dreary cold and snow of Wisconsin. Staying at a friend’s cabin, complete with fireplace and excess amounts of space for two people and NO TV for my husband to watch sports (YES!!) and privacy, privacy, privacy and the peace and quiet of being tucked away in the midst of the Northwoods. I can’t wait.
Hey MELISSA! Have fun at Church Landing! What a beautiful place! My MIL has a cottage right down the street (literally have to drive through the CL parking lot to get there) right on Meredith Bay. I highly recommend “Sunshine & Pa’s” for breakfast…. good eats and great local color. (It’s just up and around the corner from Mills Falls).
As for my weekend….I will be spending it in a rehearsal hall. I am in a production of “South Pacific” at the Skylight Opera in Milwaukee (www.skylightopera.com)…. 8 shows a week starting the day after Thanksgiving and running til the day before Christmas Eve. Good times!
Have a banner weekend everyone!
A friend of mine is coming to visit whom I ever so rarely see. So we are going to tour some NYC staple sites and go see BORAT! That’s about it! Have fun!
I honest to god can’t believe I’m posting this in cyberspace, but I shaved my legs yesterday for the first time in AGES (it looked like a small bear exploded in the tub when I was done), and so am feeling more feminine. I may dress up, fix my hair, open a bottle of wine and get laid. ….maybe I should also change the name on this entry to Jane Doe…. Naaaah. Live a little, right?
Tonight my husband and I are going to a fundraising gala/dinner. The organization that helped us raise money to buy his wheelchair accessible van is holding their annual fundraiser and my husband is this year’s featured recipient. Whee!
Tomorrow I am spending time with my parents and nephews as they are in town for a quick visit.
Sunday I am going to the Minnesota travel show at the convention center AND to the Chocolate Extravaganza at the International Market Square. Yum.
Linda, I don’t know if you read parenting books or not, but I found a book that reminded me of your writings about Riley. It’s called The Happiest Toddler on the Block by by Harvey Md Karp and Paula Spencer. Search for it on Amazon and read an exerpt. Their premise is that toddlers are like chimps or neanderthals and a parent’s job is to integrate them into polite society. It’s an interesting read whether you have children or not. Let me know if you get it and what you thought about it.
We’re taking our 27 month old son to my hair stylist to get his first haircut. *sniff* He has beautiful red ringlets, but it is getting to be such a chore to wash and comb his hair out (he needs more “product” than I do!) that it’s time for a trim. Just a trim, though. I’m also going on a home visit to check out someone who wants to adopt a dog with the rescue group I belong to–Yay!
Today I’m going to the fabric store with my sister to get the rest of the fabric for my nursery (because I have nothing else better to do that actually sew all the crap I think I need for that room) and maybe I’ll pick up some paint too. Then I will “politely remind” my husband that he was going to move his shit out of the soon-to-be nursery and into another room by the end of the weekend. I will watch the Vikings on Sunday; I will say I am going to study for my classes and then silently nag myself all weekend as I obsessively read blogs and get nothing done. (And I bitch about the hubby playing WOW all the time; am I really any better?)
I may go to church, (that is the plan anyway) but although I complain about the hubby, we are really enjoying each other’s company lately, so I may just stay in bed and cuddle up to him before I get all domestic and make something stereotypical for Sunday breakfast.
And I may look into that Chocolate Extravaganza thing at International Market Square, because, really, can a pregnant lady have too much chocolate?
Well, I THOUGHT my plans for this weekend were going to involve working on my novel (for NaNoWriMo) and hooking up our second-hand plasma screen (bless my parents and their constant need for a better TV), but instead we’re entertaining people. My husband’s cousin called us last month to say he would be in the area this week and maybe we could get together for dinner. We’ve heard nothing from him all week long and then we got a phone call this morning saying “Oh yeah, we’re still on for dinner, right?” We tried to call him back to arrange plans, but only got his voicemail and haven’t been able to confirm whether we’re having him over, meeting in the city, or what have you. Now maybe my mom was a little strict on the ettiquette, but I was raised to believe that this kind of behaviour is a bit rude. And then we’re meeting more friends tomorrow, because my husband can’t say no to any sort of social engagement. Sorry if I’m a bit ranty, but I don’t think you can encourage a person to try to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days and then proceed to arrange your whole month so that said person is lucky to fit in a thousand words a day, what with booking every single goddamn day of every single goddamn weekend in November so that I HAVE TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE.
I’m also planning to purchase my Thanksgiving turkey.
This is so embarassing to admit, but I will be taking part in a craft fair in my town. Now, I don’t mean any offense to those who lurve to do craft fairs, but, if I was told five years ago that I would be getting up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, not hungover, to drive to a church and sell crap that I made, I would have fucking slit my wrists then and there.
But, I have taken up a few “hobbies” over the past few years, and then promptly dropped these hobbies, and I have enough scrapbooking, arts and crafts, Rag Shop shit in my basement to decopage an entire town, and I am tired of lugging it from house to house everytime we move. I’ve lost interest in all of it, so I am selling all of the supplies in order to make some room in my basement and maybe a few extra bucks.
Tomorrow I am going to a clothing-exchange party in Shoreline, then hanging out and making dinner with friends at night. But the rest of the weekend is free and empty, as my husband just left play a couple of shows in Canada with his band. Just me and the cats sitting here in the rain! Maybe a walk around Green Lake today? Nobody’s there when it rains, which is nice.
Very dull weekend ahead, much like my plans for the rest of November through mid-December, which I refer to as “End-of-the-semester-freak-out-holy-shit-what-was-I-thinking-applying-to-law-school-time?!?”
Friday night: lots of cleaning to be done..dishes, refrigerator, laundry, dusting, sweeping, mopping, vaccuuming, and junk mail trashing. Drinking wine. Lots of wine. Ordering pizza. Watching Battlestar Gallactica, my husband’s favorite tv show. (At least that’s what he claims as his favorite…ahem…Grey’s Anatomy)
Saturday and Sunday: reading cases, outlining rules, studying the law, over and over and over until I go cross-eyed or run out of coffee.
Tonight I’m meeting a friend — the kind who makes you laugh until you almost barf — to analayze and discuss the recent insanity in Hollywood. Reese, Ryan…. Brittney, KFed. If Rita and Tom are next… it is Armegeddon. (Yes, we have no lives.) Saturday will be spent taking care of Silly Errands, like maybe finally doing something about the 3 Zappos boxes in the back seat of my car which have been there since… oh, I don’t know… August? — as well as finally getting postage on the first series of “Lost” which I promised to send a fellow blogger. Oh wait, and there’s a huge poker game — I forgot about that. Sunday morning I will watch HB tear around the house flinging open boxes muttering things like “where is my goddamn fingerless camo gloves, goddammit my Bum Warmer — you have it, don’t you?” as he prepares to venture north to the hinderlands for an entire week of “deer hunting” (which I now know translates into “reading” and “napping” and “drinking beer”, but I think they still might poop in the woods because… well, who wouldn’t given the chance.) Personally I think it’s all about how long they can go without bathing or changing their underwear. I count. It’s bad. As SOON as he leaves the girlfriends descend upon the house at which time we will watch 27 of the worst movies in the world while sneaking cigarettes and making bread (seriously — we ARE going to make bread) and doing WHATEVER THE HELL WE PLEASE because the MEN ARE GONE. I love my man. I love hunting season, too. Have fun at your Mom’s — SO glad Riley is on the mend.
Going out with my husband tonight…to a nice restaruant? a dingy bar? Doesn’t matter which. I don’t care becuase we are going WITHOUT THE BABY! That means I will actually be able to sit back and relax instead of holding onto the slippery piece of contorting jello that I refer to as my 13 month old son.
Hmmm, tonight: moving furniture out of the family room so that the carpet guys can come and lay new carpet tomorrow, whee!! No more denim blue, cigarette burn-full, ugly as hell original carpet! Saturday: see above. And maybe Hellvue Square for a dress for Teatro Zinzanni next weekend – I saw something in a Coldwater Creek catalog (for once) that bears a closer look. And dinner in Seattle. With wine. Lots of wine. Sunday: recovery. And the gym. Hopefully in that order.
Jon and I will be finishing the Great Maude Bathroom Remodel of 2006, which at this point really only includes installing the bathroom sink. We were originally slotted to go out to the Peninsula, but there were a lot of people going and we would have had to board the dog, etc etc etc and so decided to finish the guest bathroom *before* the in-laws arrived for Thanksgiving. Fancy that!
If all goes well (ie, nobody gets sick) – ha, get it? Well. Sick. I slay me. Anyway, I plan to drive up to IKEA with my sister for our annual voyage of spending money we don’t have on things we must have. And, going to the grocery store, the library, etc. Doing laundry. Cooking meals. The usual.
Well, as a Seattle native, recently re-located to SF, I feel your pain on the massive amounts of rain you guys are getting. If it makes you feel even a little better, we’re getting your leftovers this weekend, so we’re heading up the coast to Mendocino for a little mini-getaway. It may still be raining, but at least I won’t be trapped in my own house. Of course that means massive amounts of laundry tonight so we’re not stuck with it on Sunday night.
Netflix just delivered the Sopranos season…6 I think? Whatever the last one was. I will be watching that from start to finish. I am going to go on my first solo outing with my 8 week old son (can I reach the carseat to re-insert binky while navigating through these CRAZY snowbirds here in the desert? Only time will tell) I am in that lame stage where my pre-preggy clothes are WAY too small, and my maternity clothes are too big…good in-between stage clothing suggestions would be appreciated.
ALSO, I am going to take a real, no joke, honest to goodness, no fakies, NAP. I hope.
Have a fabulous weekend!
I need your advice because my weekend plans include giving AJ a haircut. He’s about a year older than Riley but, ask JB: how do you get them to SIT STILL??! I’ve done it a few times before but it’s never easy, and I’ve been too timid to use the clippers before, but reeeeeeally want to this time….
Or plans only include having a friend ove r for dinner tomorrow evening as excitement. My husband and I head up the greter ministry at our church so we are trying to work up a schedule for next year, plan an appreciation and see who actually wishes to continue greeting next year. We’ve had some drop out, my only discovering it when I called them to remind them that they were scheduled to greet that Sunday. I’m not sure why I signed up to head this thing, but that’s not about weekend plans, sorry. I also plan to teach Ian new animal sounds. He says that a duck says, “Cack! Cack!”
I am heading into the last week of the academic quarter, so I will spend many hours studying and working on projects and kicking myself for reading too many blogs and being such a grad. school procrastinator. I will also be pinning my nearly-ywo-year-old down for breathing treatments, as she has recently contracted some kind of virus that is wrecking havoc on the little lungs. Jealous, are you?
I will be escaping the house for class on Saturday morning and to play a tennis match Saturday afternoon/evening. By then I’ll probably need to take some frustration out on a little yellow ball!
Today I’m heading to Norhtland (NZ) where my band are performing at a beach party. We are awful. We’re called Cabin Boy, and in keeping with the nautical theme we headed to the army surplus store to kit ourselves out in some naval gear. We did our best with what was available and the guys are all wearing white pants several sizes too small and white shirts (the only ones available were womens so they have a generous bust). I’m in the same shirt and a knee length white skirt. Hopefully the comedy of our terrible outfits will compensate for just how bad we’re going to be. On the setlist? A handful of originals, and butchered versions of ‘Summer of ‘69′, ‘Livin on a Prayer’ (so what if we can’t reach the high notes), ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’, ‘Wicked Game’ etc and so on.
We’re picking everyone will be drunk so we might be able to pull it off.
I will be working. All weekend.
I, along with 6 other women in my family, will be crossing the border into Buffalo, to go shopping. Apparently, an hour and a half outside of Canada will bring you retail wonders… I really hope they mean more than Target…
Watch Chris play Ultimate Frisbee (or sleep in, hmmm…), clean girls’ bedroom, rehang pictures so our wedding picture is prominent when Chris’ ex shows up next week for daughter’s bday party, write thank-you notes, plan next summer’s road trip, wash car, walk dogs, drink lots of chai lattes, maybe catch a movie, clean living room, check gifted stemware for breakage, return ugly wine decanter (possibly exchange for mini-prep), buy new Wusthof kitchen shears….
I’ll be sleeping late with the main squeeze. Also on the ticket are items like “try to get guesstimate values for obscure and tacky witchcraft books from the 60’s-70’s”, as I’m presently faced with a box full of ‘em (thanks dad) and have no idea what to do with them. Ebay? Main squeeze will be baking his famous chocolate babka. Also we’re slated to help a friend move. That’ll be like, easy though. Won’t take any time at all – barely worth mentioning really. (HAR HAR!)
I’m headed back to school! Binghamton here in NY is hosting a Super Saturday visit day! I’m going to go check out the nursing program there and then head to a delicious dinner with my boyfriend at Big Willie’s Cajun Barbeque. (This would be so much funnier for you if you could see where it is.)
maybe on grey’s anatomy they are saying “fairy boat”, like it is full of gay guys.
Going to Rio de Janeiro to spend the weekend!
Hope it doesn’t rain!!
I have no plans! My husband just left today for AU (lucky dog) and I am left home with a 2 yr old and am 7 mos. pregnant! What to do?? I will prob go shopping :) When all else fails! Enjoy your weekend.
well, let’s see. thing 1 still has an ear infection so we’ll be stuffing him full of antibiotics and tylenol. thing 2 just has fluid on the ear so hopefully he’ll maintain. thing 3 is her same ol’ self but just started crawling so she can keep with her toddling brothers (triplets, blah blah blah). older kid walks around complaining that he’s bored and i hobble around in my cast. but!! husband and i are getting away for a few hours tomorrow to “talk”. how exciting! maybe we’ll drink a little and come back to tipsy child rearing (i’m kidding).
oh, and fernada? going to rio? man, just rub it in. i’m so jealous.
My mom is coming to visit (next weekend, not this one) for the first time since we moved into this house in Bellingham. Her visit is the catalyst for us to do (THIS weekend) all the little house projects that we keep putting off. For example, about the SIX bicycles that are currently leaning against every wall in the guest room: put up bike hangers in the utility room and hang the suckers in there. Also need to put up the stairs banisters (so she won’t fall to her death balancing down a steep set of stairs with nothing to hold on to… she is getting older, stairs are not her favorite!)
Also we’re going to the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra concert Saturday night, they are featuring Evelyn Glennie as the guest soloist. She’s a professional percussion player (plays all the cool “you can hit it and it’s music” toys such as marimba, tuned cymbals, vibraphone, gourds, congas…). She has also been profoundly deaf since age 12 so hers is an even more inspiring story! http://www.evelyn.co.uk/homepage.htm
yay, friday, my favorite sundry feature and blog event, the posting of the plans! :) seriously, i love reading what everyone is doing. :) glad riley feels better, and goooo zoot!
today i went to notre dame to take gargoyle pictures, but the sky sucked, so i wandered around the 4th and took street pictures and some of the seine. tomorrow i am taking statue of liberty and eiffel tower pictures, now that i finally found that kickass riverwalk i’ve seen pictures of and always gone “where the hell is that?” and sunday night, i am going to a french musical called “le soldat rose.” since i don’t speak french which in any way approaches what could be called fluent by even the loosest of definitions, it should be…fun. i hope the music’s good…
Taking care of my mom’s farm, which includes my horse, while she and my dad are on the first vacation I EVER remember them taking. Wrangling my son away from the electric fence. Leaving him at my best friends’ house for a couple of hours in the evening so my Godson can “babysit” him. (How can I be old enough to have a Godson who is old enough to babysit? I don’t know when that happened.) Going to a dear friend’s 30th birthday party for a couple of hours. Sunday the boy and I will head to an ex co-workers’ house for a baby shower. More farm animal care. That’s it! My husband is (perpetually) at the fire station this weekend, then off on business for his other job for 2 days.
Do I sound bitter? I might be feeling a tad bit bitter.
My weekend is filled with the joy that is preparing to move into a new house.
Saturday: carpet cleaning. Cleaning kitchen and laundry room. Waiting for delivery guys to deliver and install new oven.
Sunday: shopping for stuff for house (as carpets will be drying) and doing homework.
Monday: To be determined. Whatever needs to be done.
Monday’s a holiday here. And its supposed to pour all weekend here in Vancouver.
I don’t know if anyone mentioned this to you the other week/day/whenever you asked for good children book suggestions – but I just wanted to mention the ‘just so stories’ by Rudyard Kipling – classics and very cute fantasy stories about how the whale got his throat or how the camel got his hump. Enjoy!
ok. so i know its sunday, but i thought i might say what i DID this weekend. i live in nyc and my parents and sister came to visit. we saw THIS , which was like an acid trip but without all the nasty side effects and at a slightly higher price. [$125 a ticket wasnt cheap, let me tell you...but worth it, really.] go see it, if it comes by you. trippy and entertaining.
AND we had a nearly orgasmic dinner at at very reasonable price [well...reasonable for nyc and also the incredibly high quality food] here. a place definitely worth checking out if youre ever in the city. their wine list is ridiculous.
oh…and im moving and found a new apartment. so all in all a productive weekend.
when do we get to see pics of the new car? ;)
I want to know how Zoot’s half marathon turned out because I’m running my first ever half marathon in about a month and I’m starting to panic. I don’t want to be a wuss!
I was too late to say what my weekend plans were, but it turned out that’s fine because they were: work. I got to hang out at the office this weekend. Awesome!
Also, the “ferry/ferry boat” thing reminded me of a similar quirk on a show that I think has now been cancelled. It was “Vanish” or “Vanished” or something like that, set in Atlanta. Since we live in SC (practically an Atlanta suburb), we thought we should watch. Anyway, in one of the first episodes, one of the characters refers to someone taking the interstate somewhere, and they say something like, “He’s taking the 20 to Birmingham.” We were all like, “THE 20???” I think maybe that’s a west-coast thing? Referring to interstates as “the ___”? We tend call them “I-__”, as in “I-20″ or “I-85″ or more likely just the number itself. As in, “He’s taking 20 to Birmingham.” It was just funny that we were all instantly like, “What the…? Those wacky Hollywood types!”
Late to the comments, but we had dinner with friends on Friday night–newish friends we met at a party last summer. It was kind of our “second date” with them. While we have a lot of old friends, it’s rare these days for us to meet another couple who are fun enough for us to make the effort to get to know them. We are just too busy with the kids, extended family, old friends and TiVo. Other than the fun dinner (looks like there will be a third dinner) we brainstormed activities to keep two toddlers occupied inside while it rained and rained outside. This will be an “interesting” winter.
Your description of Riley’s temperment reminded me of my son. He has a realistic toy cell phone that rings randomly. He was holding it on Saturday when it rang. He looked at it, emitted a glass shattering scream and spiked it on the floor. It was hard not to laugh. Turns out someone was tired (besides me).
Friday.. made peanut butter bear shaped cookies with my kids (so cute!) and took them to our church kids’ club, where I teach 2-4 year olds. (The class is called the Cubbies, thus the bear cookies)
Saturday.. 7 yr old, 6 yr old, and 4 yr old had soccer games in the morning. My husband was working so I was there on my own (also have 2 yr old and 4 month old) and said NO when my 7 yr old’s friend’s coach asked her to stay for a second game and fill in for one of his missing players.
Saturday night… left kids except for baby home with husband and went to friend’s house for a baby shower. My baby was the only child there and everyone passed her around and paid so much attention to her that I hardly saw her all evening.
Sunday.. took all five kids to church on my own since husband was working again. Two oldest went to their friend’s house for the afternoon. I thought the younger ones would nap and I would have some quiet time, but they actually demanded my constant attention all afternoon and I missed my older ones who usually keep them entertained! Made a big pot of potato soup and some garlic toast, then went to pick up the kids before Amazing Race started. The friend’s family had built a bonfire and were making smores, so we hung out there for a little while.
I think I need a break from the weekend :) but am actually trying to clean my mess of a house today!
Had a friend in town to visit. Saw a play. Walked in the gorgeous sunshine Saturday where I could catch falling leaves on the trail. Swing dancing escapades Saturday night. Errands and miscellaneous romance in the toilet repair aisle of the hardware store Sunday.
Thanks for explaing the ferry boat “thing”. Being a viewer in Australia I couldn’t work out why the distinction between ferries and ferry boats was so important…
But…but…I love my XM radio.
Cool, I finally have something to share (better than “laundry” for a change anyway)… :)
On Saturday, I am travelling a little ways to participate in an Inipi (sweat lodge) ceremony with friends. On Sunday I’m meeting with other members of my bellydance troupe to practice some of our choreography for an upcoming performance. After that, I’ll probably do laundry. :)
Oh how typical of me, being an entire week off. :) But the other comments sure were enjoyable to read…
I’ll be spending my weekend relaxing in the dorm room without the roommate. I LOVE having the dorm to myself.
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It is trip worth looking forward to. If I have time and enough funds, I would go all the way down to my friend’s house (I just take the public transportation, not a ferry though..hehehe) and cook in their house. Afterwards my friends and I would go to the beach and enjoy the sea..and we finish the day by watching movies..we are eying on Bourne Ultimatum..we have not watched this..\(^ ^)/
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