Daily Life
Invoicing, New Apartments and Napping
As we get older, and our nights are earlier, that makes the early morning lifting sessions easier to do. Dave and I met again today before church. I like meeting before church because it is a time frame I might have been awake anyway, why not be productive and use that time to lift. Sarah usually needs most of that time to get ready, but said she would go with us if we could go a little earlier. Next time…
After church we closed out the service again. A crowd of about 10 of us stood around and talked, felt like awhile since we had done that.
When we got home, it was time to work on the computer. Late last night my laptop did the crappy thing with the screen going out again. I hope I can fix it with the same tricks, but I must not be doing them right because I tried what I did with the HP tech before and they aren’t working. So I just worked on the desktop.
I decided it was time to pass the reigns on the final piece of church updating, and gave some of the content editors two weeks to determine who would do the weekly news before I stopped. I didn’t know a better solution, but I really need to step away from that.
I also had some updates I needed to do for Madeline’s Dance.
Just before we had some lunch, I ran out to the movie store and did a exchange for something new – A Good Year. We ate, watched part of the movie, and then got back at it.
I don’t know what Sarah was doing, but I think it was school work. I feel bad that I don’t know…I should. I think she was evaluating a planet earth special someone gave her on DVD for her class. I had to do some invoicing, so my activity was less than fun anyway.
We then took a little break to go and visit some friends. Rachel and Joel had moved into a new apartment around the time we got back from our vacation, so I wanted to go and see them, support them in their new place, and get a good sense of where they are now located. We talked about a lot of stuff, including her schooling and what their future held. Their new apartment is really nice, they did a nice upgrade without having to sacrifice location.
When we got back Sarah kept me company working on school work while I dissected the Mr. Do! to prep to move the monitor and iso transformer into the R-Type. I worked on that for a little while before I hit a road block, I really need solder wick.
We went back upstairs, I put on cartoons and fell asleep. Sarah talked with her parents for a little bit I think. Then, knowing that I was groggy and concentrating was probably out of the picture I just popped the movie back in and watched a good portion of that before heading off to bed.
Looking forward to Superbad
Originally today was going to be really busy with Habitat in the morning for four hours. But now, we had the whole morning to do the catchup game. Catchup on all the neglected stuff from the past work week.
We got up early and took Nokes on a walk.
When we got back, Sarah played with the dog and I worked on the laptop, doing some vectorizing work of some arcade sideart (The Glob).
I decided to try more of our movie “21 Grams”. We watched about a half hour of it the night prior, pretty intense, couldn’t really get into it. It was easier going today, and we finished it off. Decent movie, interesting way to tell a story.
Then, it was nap time:)
After I woke up I got to work. I had a layout I have needed to do for quite some time and now I had a large chunk to work. I worked for over three hours, right up to when Lori and Kenny were coming over for dinner.
We had something simple to eat, Sarah just got out taco stuff. We had to be kind of fast about it so we could make our $5 movie club card showing of Superbad. Lori pegged me, I loved that movie. It was vulgar, sure, but it was my type of humor. I loved it, it was the best of some originally crazy high school personalities, hijinks and silliness. I would not recommend it to many people because of the content though, you have to be pretty ready.
When we got back, we had some drinks and played some euchre. It felt like ages since we played last, it was good. Even though Sarah and I lost on the last trick. We talked about music and other odds and ends before we called it a night.
Friday’s are good for winding down
Knowing that tomorrow we would be probably going to Habitat for humanity, Sarah and I wanted to take it easy. Not to mention our little late night last night baby sitting and watching the game with the Bolden’s.
Come to find out, looking at the information a little closer, I had my dates mixed up, so Habitat isn’t tomorrow but the end of the month. But we still just hung out.
We went to the gym right after work and got home to be with our puppy at a reasonable time.
I made a number of business follow up calls, two of them concerning freelance work. I got a couple of bills paid, and that was the extent of my excitement for the night. We watching some tv / movies, and went to bed.
Big Breakfast, Big Music, and Dog Parades
Both of the dogs were up early early this morning. By the time I finally woke up, Sarah had been up with Nokes for probably and hour and a half, and she with mom and dad had taken a long walk around the block.
We did the big breakfast thing a little later in the morning. Sarah braved making omelettes, and did an awesome job. I tried to make a breakfast tortilla in the tortilla maker. It was good, but not perfect. Next time it will be better:)
One of the original thoughts was that we might go to some public auctions in the area. There were 3-4 four, at different spots all around the city and they all started at 10 am. Well, by the time breakfast was done, it was 11 am, so we decided to just skip it.
After hanging out and talking about the plans for the day, we left around 1 and the girls went to get haircuts at the beauty school. Dad and I went to Menards to get a 3/4″ joint for the hilly billy golf game fix, and I also got some more Goof Off and put it on our Discover card present from last Christmas that we found again on Friday night:)
We weren’t home for long. We headed right back out with the dogs to Christine’s house to walk Lady. Christine was out of town for the weekend, so everyone piled into the van for a fun time walking the dogs in some sort of parade around her sub-division. Hunter and Lady didn’t get along well, which is what I was concerned with. Lady just growled and growled, and attacked at one point. This is true to what Christine has said in the past, but we just haven’t seen it. Our parents had met her before and knew how complacent she normally is and were equally surprised at her actions. It was weird seeing Nokes by Lady, he really has gotten bigger, and is bigger than she is now.
When we got back we were hoping that the Tigers were going to be on Saturday tv. They weren’t, at least not until the Braves / Mets game was over. We got to see one inning of the Tigers game before it was all said and done.
We finished the night off with some dinner, and then played games outside. Dad put the new joint in the hilly billy golf, and we played that and cornhole. I made a fire for a little while and we roasted mini marshmellow (that is all we had) and made smores.
When we came inside, I finished watching “The Perfect Stranger” before I went to bed. It was a weird movie, kept you guessing.
Having company forces you to start cleaning
I got out of work early today because my boss is so nice. I picked up Sarah and we went to the gym and lifted.
We got home, and then went back out on our bikes to run some errands, stopping at the bank, the movie store and Aldi for some buns and green peppers.
Then when we got back, the cleaning started. Sarah did some vacuuming, I organized papers that needed to find a home and picked up general clutter. I didn’t have much of that to do, so I sat down and transferred a whole section of blog posts over to the new blog. Sarah then went into her office with the idea that she was going to clean it up.
She didn’t finish before her parents arrived around 9:30. But her mom helped her clean, which more power to them. I can’t be in there without being less than helpful, and they got one heck of a mess cleaned up and more importantly, filed away so we could use the bed in that room.
We took it easy, just sat around and talked and then finished the night off with some tv and part of a movie.
Long’s, Fantastic Four and Moving Relatives
The dogs were up early again this morning, so the parents and Sarah got out and walked them. When they got back, Sarah went with Dad to go and fill up the van, and they stopped on the way back and got some Long’s donuts, a whole box full as a matter of fact.
I don’t remember exactly what we did for most of the morning other than lounge around. We did sit down and have a nice lunch though before they left to return to Michigan. Steak and potatoes, the all American works.
Soon after they headed back, we looked up show times for Fantastic Four 2 and went and saw that at the cheap theaters. It was very average, about what I expected. They have made that really geared towards younger kids to see IMO.
We called Pat and Tom when we got back and wished them well as their move is coming up this Wednesday and they are permanently leaving Michigan.
I did some research on the internet on how much a trip with Sarah would cost for a school conference to Kansas City, and then about 7 pm Eric came over and chatted with us for a bit.
We finished off the night in front of the tv, I worked on doing some vector artwork and posting on the blog, Sarah did some school work that I had helped her put off all day.
Shopping, Mallow Run Winery, and The Choking Tigers
In the morning I met Dave at the gym at 8:30 to get our third and final workout in for the week. Sarah and her mom put together a breakfast caserole that everyone sat down and gobbled right up soon after I got back. We were pressed for time and weren’t sure if we were going to make the 10:25 service.
When we got home everyone relaxed a little bit on the couches and watched the dogs. We talked about what time we should leave for the winery and decided to leave around 1:00 to do some shopping and get down there at a reasonable hour. We stopped at the Teacher store and at Bed Bath and Beyond before we made it down to Bargersville just after 3.
It got hotter out today again, so we made sure to find some shade. The pulled pork was ok, but the whole meal was a good amount of food and different items in general for a nice variety.
Mom, Dad, Sarah and I did some wine tasting inside, Dad ended up getting a bottle of red for use to drink.
When we got back home we hung out outside. Mom and Sarah sowed some toys for the dogs, I got out the football and played catch with Amanda and a little bit with Dad, and I went inside intermittantly to check on the Tigers. We thought for sure being up 7-2 over the A’s that they were going to win. They lost 8-7 in the bottom of the 10th. Not the way a World Series bound team would play.
At about 8 I came inside to watch tv, it was still miserably hot outside and any movement made me perspire. The regular cartoons were on, and after they were over we all just watched whatever I flipped to. Nice relaxing end to a hot day outside.
