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Saturday 7:00am
Yay. FINALLY. A normal Saturday! So today, for once, I have no work-related things to do or to attend. It’s going to be great. I’m going to finish cleaning out all the junk in the garage and maybe start working on other parts of our home. Our little condo is going to get back to being its tidy self yet. Yes sir. You just wait and see.
Saturday 10:00am
Waiting for L to get up so we can go out and run some errands. And get some breakfast or something. I think I’m gonna make myself some fun compilation cds to listen to in the car for when I’m driving around. When is the last time I’ve had time to make myself a fun compilation cd on a Saturday morning? Ne-VER. Well okay not for a LONG time anyhow. I think I’ll make a girl-power mix of old and new stuff from stuff that’s already in my playlist... some Alanis Morissette, K’s Choice, Kate Bush, Cranberries, Imogen Heap, Save Ferris, Letters To Cleo, Josie and the Pussycats, Cava, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson... yeah there’s even some Hannah Montana and one Lindsay Lohan song (Ultimate) on the playlist. What can I say… I love pop music!
Saturday 2:00pm
L and I just got back from running some errands. The vacuum cleaner decided to quit on me. I think there was a loose plug connection that finally just got completely disconnected. Blah... I was actually looking forward to vacuuming today too. Oh well. So we dropped the vacuum off at the place that services Miele vacuums. Then we went to Target to get a bunch of other stuff for around the house. Mostly cleaning products. Oh and we also got a George Foreman grill because our old one is really old and annoying. After Target we went to get lunch at the Caribbean burrito place. Black beans, soy chorizo, grilled plantains, avocado, and cheese, all wrapped into a burrito... sounds like a big mess but it’s amazingly delicious! Got stuck in heavy coast-highway traffic on the way home... who’s bright idea was it to have a college graduation ceremony at the race track? But it’s beautiful outside today and L and I were just happy to be out and about together. And hey if you have to be stuck going slow, the coast highway is not such a bad place for that. Especially if you’re not in a hurry to get anywhere. Gee I’m stuck having to stare out my car window at the beautiful ocean on a beautiful day? Can you THINK of anything more terrible? Haha.
Saturday 5:00pm
Yikes we're experiencing a heat wave or something. It feels like it's the middle of an unusually hot SoCal summer. Or it feels like a typical spring morning in Arizona when the warm weather is just starting to get uncomfortable. Yeah, that’s what this weather here reminds me of. Getting into a hot car on an early spring day in Arizona. Well it finally got a little too hot to continue organizing around the condo (no air conditioning!). So I decided to make some phone calls to my brothers to say “Hi” and “What’s up?”. Alex is really good at multi-tasking... when I called, he was placing an order for his family at the McDonald's drive-thru. He was able to place the order, pay for the food, hand over the food to all his passengers, and drive the rest of the way home. All of this WHILE talking to me on the phone at the same time. I'm not saying this talking–on-the-phone-and-driving thing is a good idea. But WOW I can barely even just talk on the phone and do anything else at same time. And did I mention that he had all four of his kids in the vehicle at the time? All between the ages of two and six. Crazy, huh? At least his little ones must have been pretty tired out from being out and about all afternoon. All mellowed out or something like that. At least I couldn’t hear any crying or shrieking or any of the usual kid sounds over the phone. Ed was also driving when I called. Right away he said he’d have to call me back in a sec. He was in the process of parking one of the trucks at work and he said if he didn’t use both hands he was going to crash the truck into the side of the warehouse. Ed’s car broke down recently so he’s been working Saturdays to try and save up for a more reliable vehicle. He car pools on the way in to work and then on the way home he takes the bus. We talked as he was walking to the bus stop and in the middle of our conversation he was all, “Hey that’s my bus that just drove past.” Which means he’d have to wait an extra twenty minutes for the next bus to come around once he got to the bus stop. Which is not too bad of a wait. But still. I can’t help thinking that there are a lot of times when things just don’t quite seem to go his way. And boy are he and Alex different. Alex has tons of friends, a big family of his own, two jobs... Whereas Ed prefers to be a loner, he’s still trying to work things out with his ex and he has one kid that he doesn’t get to see very often, he’s trying to make ends meet by working an extra day during the week... you get the picture. Well at least Ed’s got a good attitude. That’s one thing that he and Alex have in common. That and the fact that they both have the best sister in the world of course!
Saturday 7:00pm
Buffalo burgers and green bean fries for dinner tonight. L’s grilling on the new George Foreman... the best part about the new George Forman is that the grill plates are removable and dishwasher-safe. The old GF grill was such a pain to clean! Yay for easy clean-up. And I forgot how tasty buffalo burgers are. Yummy! Oh and the green beans are so yummy that you just want to eat them up real fast. We just eat 'em with our hands, as if they were the super yummy, but oh so bad for your health, McDonald's french fries. Anyway that’s why they're called green bean fries.
Saturday 8:00pm
Ha we just voted in the California special election. Via absentee
ballot. Which is how we’ve been voting ever since L’s old consulting
days when he was always out of town. Hey why don't they include some
“We voted” stickers when they mail out absentee ballots?
Sunday 1:00pm
What do you do when you’re an old-school traditional-hymn-singing girl and all of a sudden your church goes all contemporary-music on you? Well you join the band of course! It hasn’t even been a year since our church combined their traditional and contemporary services. All the traditional service people were complaining about the organ, the traditional hymns, and the choir director being replaced by the music director/lead singer who plays lead electric guitar and is accompanied by a rhythm guitarist, a bass player, a drummer, back-up vocalists, an occasional violinist, and (about every other week) piano. Oh and they also complain about not knowing how to sing along with any of the contemporary songs. I totally know how they feel. The first time I attended the contemporary service I was like, what the... ? And I miss those traditional hymns too! But in less than a year I have gone from knowing absolutely zero contemporary songs for church to knowing about a hundred. I still think a lot of contemporary church songs out there sound like crap. But so do a lot of songs in general. I know the purpose of the music at church is not just so I can have a good ol’ time singing along now that I know how the contemporary tunes go. But it doesn’t change the fact that for me it sure IS a lot more meaningful now that I CAN sing along. Anyway, I’m happy that I’ve given contemporary church music a chance. I even openly admit now that I can tolerate it. I even LIKE some of it. I don’t know if it will ever grow on some of the other traditional-hymn folks like it has with me though. I guess there’s always the happy middle ground which happens occasionally when we play a rockin’ version of some old traditional hymn. That is MY favorite type of contemporary church music and, I’m guessing... from the number of people who actually sing along, the favorites of a lot of others as well. We always get good feedback, especially from the older generation at our church, when we rock out an old traditional hymn.
Sunday 2:00pm
Love is in the air. What is up with all the weddings this year? My dad just sent me the link to my cousin Brian’s wedding website. In just this year alone I count at least six of our friends or family that will be getting married. Three close friends from L’s cohort at school, one of L’s cousins, my cousin Brian, my good friend Tamara that I’ve known since seventh grade, and my good friend Susan that I’ve known since third grade. Anyone else out there planning on getting married this year that I’ve forgotten to mention? Oh yeah I just remembered... the fourth grade teacher in the room right across from mine, she’s getting married too. Okay that’s eight people, people that I know quite well, that are getting married this year. Even if I’m only invited to half of those, it will still be a record number of weddings I anticipate attending this year!
Sunday 10:00pm
Before this weekend I hadn’t posted to this thing in over a month. Now just SEE what I have time to do when I have a normal ol’ weekend? Nine entries in one weekend documenting all SORTS of exciting stuff (ha). WHEN is the last time I had time to post to this thing multiple times in one WEEK, let alone in one day? I don’t care if it’s boring ol’ stuff. It’s the stuff that normal weekends are made of and I am proud to say that I did not ONE ounce of school-related work this weekend! We just got back from having a nice relaxing dinner with Ted and Natalie and their super cute nine-month-old. Oh and I thought this was kind of interesting… Ted self-diagnosed the small bump in his own arm to be a blood clot. He got an unofficial second opinion from Natalie who also decided that he probably had a blood clot after going over his symptoms and discussing some likely causes. She made him go in to get it officially checked out. Ted told the nurse at the clinic that he was pretty sure he had a blood clot and then while he was waiting for the doctor Ted, from the other side of the curtain, heard the nurse say to the doctor, “he says he has a blood clot but I’m skeptical” upon which a very annoyed Ted comes out from behind the curtain and says to the doctor, “I will bet you fifty dollars right now that I have a blood clot!” The doctor wouldn’t bet but was still really hesitant to send Ted to the ultra-sound person even after checking his arm out. And then during Ted’s ultra-sound they still couldn’t find anything on the first and second tries. Ted tells us that he is completely exasperated at this point and he’s just about to give up when they finally say, “yup, there it is, a blood clot.” Afterward Ted says he just HAD to go and find the doctor and tell him it was a good thing he didn’t take the bet. And that he did indeed have a blood clot in his arm. I know that doctors probably get really annoyed with the many patients who insist they have this or that when they actually don’t. But when your patient has an M.D.? Even if they don’t specialize in that area, I’d think that the doctor would at least be more willing to give a fellow M.D. the benefit of the doubt. And the nurse voicing skepticism while the patient is within hearing distance? That is just uncool. Well I’m off to try and get some sleep even though it is yucky hot and humid right now. I swear this reminds me of humid summer evenings during monsoon season in Arizona when the swamp cooler doesn’t do much good to cool you off. Also uncool… literally.
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