Weekend Fun
This past weekend, after paying some bills, I got to go on a date with the wife. We went to dinner at Red Robin ('yum!') and then walked around the shopping center for awhile...doing some birthday shopping for my sister. Its dangerous when I do this because I get in 'find a gift mode', where everywhere I look, I automatically ask 'can I get a gift for her there? would she like it?', etc. Good when you're in stores like Barnes & Noble or Francesca, but beware if you pass say, a Victoria's Secret, as asking 'can I get a gift for my sister here?' is a horribly wrong thing. Kinda gross. No one EVER needs to be buying their little sister lingerie. EVER. For ANY reason. This rates fairly high on the heebie-jeebie meter, see the previous post on that.
We also went to our favorite candy shop, where they make the most awesome homemade truffles. My favorites are the dark chocolate razzleberry and the milk chocolate bananas foster. Honorable mention to the 'Sunday Brunch', which is milk chocolate with pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon. Have I blogged about this before? I feel like I have. Anyway, we went there, and then the wife dragged me into girly stuff stores like Francesca and Charming Charlie's until I started foaming at the mouth, then we went and got a drink at, and those of you who know me will love this, a bar where we are REGULARS. Oh yes. The bartender knows us on sight, knows our name, knows our usual drinks (I can order 'the usual'...that is AWESOME...) and so on. She's great too. Always in a good mood, friendly, good with the drink-making. Spells her name weird though. Lyndsie. Not Lindsay, but Lyndsie. Odd. Oh well. I'll not hold it against her.
Sunday I worked on the yard...mowed, seeded, raked, fertilized, weed-killed, edged...it was looking good by the end. Also got the components to fix the hose spigot for the back of the house, except as per home repair law, I have to make at least TWO more trips to Home Depot before I can think about getting it done. Went once yesterday, and today will be twice. I thought I had everything, but the copper pipe I have that I pulled out of the wall is about an inch too short. So I need to get another one. And then I'll get everything in place, and either something will break, or I'll need some glue, or SOMEthing, and will have to go a third time. Three times per home repair to Home Depot. So it is written, so let it be done.
For my next upgrade of the man cave, I'm thinking of, in addition to painting the room red, adding a hammock. Not sure how that's going to work, yet, doubtless there will have to be loops screwed into the studs, and strung diagonally across the room, but I'm not sure how to get it to swing without hitting bookshelves or whatever. Plus it needs to be an all-cloth hammock, so as to be easily storable. Hmmm. Plus I need a bearskin rug for the floor. Or a jackalope head. :)
Yay, only 2 more hours to go...I'm ready for another weekend. Work on the bucket list progresses. I feel sorta bad putting things on it I've already accomplished, though, like 'get married' and 'buy a house'. Thoughts? Comments?
We also went to our favorite candy shop, where they make the most awesome homemade truffles. My favorites are the dark chocolate razzleberry and the milk chocolate bananas foster. Honorable mention to the 'Sunday Brunch', which is milk chocolate with pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon. Have I blogged about this before? I feel like I have. Anyway, we went there, and then the wife dragged me into girly stuff stores like Francesca and Charming Charlie's until I started foaming at the mouth, then we went and got a drink at, and those of you who know me will love this, a bar where we are REGULARS. Oh yes. The bartender knows us on sight, knows our name, knows our usual drinks (I can order 'the usual'...that is AWESOME...) and so on. She's great too. Always in a good mood, friendly, good with the drink-making. Spells her name weird though. Lyndsie. Not Lindsay, but Lyndsie. Odd. Oh well. I'll not hold it against her.
Sunday I worked on the yard...mowed, seeded, raked, fertilized, weed-killed, edged...it was looking good by the end. Also got the components to fix the hose spigot for the back of the house, except as per home repair law, I have to make at least TWO more trips to Home Depot before I can think about getting it done. Went once yesterday, and today will be twice. I thought I had everything, but the copper pipe I have that I pulled out of the wall is about an inch too short. So I need to get another one. And then I'll get everything in place, and either something will break, or I'll need some glue, or SOMEthing, and will have to go a third time. Three times per home repair to Home Depot. So it is written, so let it be done.
For my next upgrade of the man cave, I'm thinking of, in addition to painting the room red, adding a hammock. Not sure how that's going to work, yet, doubtless there will have to be loops screwed into the studs, and strung diagonally across the room, but I'm not sure how to get it to swing without hitting bookshelves or whatever. Plus it needs to be an all-cloth hammock, so as to be easily storable. Hmmm. Plus I need a bearskin rug for the floor. Or a jackalope head. :)
Yay, only 2 more hours to go...I'm ready for another weekend. Work on the bucket list progresses. I feel sorta bad putting things on it I've already accomplished, though, like 'get married' and 'buy a house'. Thoughts? Comments?
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