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TPS, I love my Poang! It's my reading chair and I spend a lot of time with it. Be sure to buy the footstool too, if you're a feet-up kind of person.
I have a dog-heavy weekend planned.
Saturday after work I'm taking my dog to Bark in the Park After Dark, Knoxville's biggest party for dogs and their people. Sunday a friend is holding a vintage trials motorcycle event on his farm. It's free to spectate so I'll be there a-spectatin'. Monday evening the Tennessee Smokies are playing the Mississippi Braves, and it's the Dog Days of Summer! My aforementioned dog and I (and probably Mr. Ant, if I can drag him along) will go to the stadium, enjoy the game and maybe share a tasty bratwurst.
Tomorrow we are going to a jeweler to start designing a ring!
Then I am having a joint bday party with my sister.
Sunday I am going to try to go see Snow White and the Huntsman with some friends.
I'm hauling four truckloads of dirt (okay, my husband's doing the bulk of that work) to fill in my probably overly ambitious front yard garden area. Then I'm going to plant my very own flowers in my very own garden for the first time in my life-- glads, day lilies, and shallots ('cause I like the way their green parts look and it's efficient to grow them with the flowers).
Then I'm going to continue to work on "walking" with both of my huskies. This is challenging, because they're, well, huskies. May take them to go swimming in the pond at the dog park too.
Then we're going to re-seed our front and back yards because despite lawn being (IMHO) man's stupidest invention, we are somehow obligated in our neighborhood to grow it-- and because we only put the dirt in last year, it's currently half-grass half-weeds.
WOOOO, happy blowout birthday, Eideteker! It sounds like a blast.
Welcome, mireille! Sounds like a good productive weekend!
In fact, everyone's weekend plans sound wonderful. TPS, SO JEALOUS. I need a MOLGER bench and stepstool; I somehow got it in my head that those specific pieces are necessary to my continued well-being.
Today, I'm going to curl up with a book: either A.M. Homes' This Book Will Save Your Life, which I am tearing through and loving to bits, or Stephen King's Bag of Bones, which is proving to be a solid little pageturner and exactly what I needed to read late at night.
Saturday: Asian market (tofu, miso, sesame oil, and a SEAWEED BONANZA because I am having very odd cravings) and art supply store, then home to make miso soup and maybe some avocado-cucumber salad. And probably eat some nori right out of the box. VERY ODD CRAVINGS.
Sunday, I'm going to cook up a care package (I'm thinking quiche with kale and mushrooms, white bean salad with a bag of greens to serve it on, rolls, and either oatmeal cranberry cookies or almond biscotti) for some friends who just had a baby, then drop it off at their doorstep Monday.
Hey, TPS, can you pick me up an espresso footstool with a black leather cushion? They're always out at our Ikea.
Thanks ever so.
I dunno what we're doing this weekend. We're probably going to see Deer Tick tonight, and I have the sneaking suspicion that the Dixieland Jazz memorial for our elderly former neighbor is tomorrow, but who knows. We saw our designated movies last week, too.
Thanks, Elsa-- your reading material (A.M. Homes) is such a coincidence for me! Just two days ago I started re-reading In a Country of Mothers. The Safety of Objects is one of my all-time favorite short story collections too-- if you haven't read it, it's good (pleasantly warped) weekend material!
Going to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops tonight at the Three River's Arts Festival. Probably eat some fried festival food too.
Hopefully finish up the back bedroom painting project that's taken a year or so. Just a little trim painting and door/window hardware replacement to do.
Might walk in the Pittsburgh Pride Parade on Sunday. Wife is walking with her office and asked me to tag along.
Nothing special. I need to do a Hallmark run though I suspect I'll end up at Target for Father's Day cards.
I've decided the pups need a new bed and it would be cheaper to make 2 than buy one. I brought foamy stuff for inside at lunchtime but I couldn't decide about a fabric. I'm think I'll just pick up some quilting cotton I like with the thought I'll make a new cover whenever it gets trashed.
And I should make the bedskirt I brought fabric for ages ago.
And I have a ebook to finish and a couple library books to read.
I remember the last time I staged my own Birthday Blowout. It was my 19th birthday and the biggest 'celebrity' was a weekend DJ at KROQ who I was writing jokes for, unless you count the flyover by the Goodyear Blimp (my apartment was directly under the approach path for the L.A.-based blimp and it happened every weekend there was a local football game at the L.A. Coliseum - still, the blimp had excellent timing). And then there was THAT POLAROID PICTURE. Flanked by two ex-girlfriends who I'd accepted the 'let's just be friends' dare from (two totally different young women who neither knew or suspected the other's status - I was still a few weeks away from meeting my future ex-wife), I was leaning over my birthday cake to carve away at it... and showing, for the first time to my knowledge, a shiny balding spot on the back of my head. Now my father was totally bald by the time I was born (he was 35), so this visual was especially alarming. Amazingly, all that followed in the years since was a very slow general thinning of hair that is only noticeable when photographed with a bright flash - as that was. But what a way to put a damper on my fun. So, as I said, it was the last time I staged my own Birthday Blowout.
This weekend? I think I'll spend the time trying to NOT remind myself of such memories.
mireille, I loved The Safety of Objects when I read it a few years ago. This is the first of her novels I've read, though. Looking forward to the rest.
Pride Parade! Thanks for the reminder, octothorpe: ours is the 16th. I always like to turn out to cheer.
DC Pride parade! My wife's wedding space/office is right on the route, so we'll be hanging a banner and welcoming folks in for drinks and such. Drop by, if you're in the neighborhood.
The same thing I do every weekend, Pinky--watch Nascar, drink beer and eat foods that raise my cholesterol. This weekend is Pocono, and it should prove to be quite exciting for those of us who can find excitement watching a pendulum swing back and forth.
Ardiril, I used to go to the old Pocono 500 with my dad and his brother Al back in the seventies when it was an open-wheel Indi race. I don't watch them much on TV, although my dad always did, but they're a lot of fun to go to in person.
On vacation. Spent all afternoon and will spend all evening traveling. Going to Eideteker's blowout, and then to Yankee Stadium. Next week I fly to Florida to visit family. Traveling is very tiring but hopefully there will be much rest and relaxation between travel times.
Debating about whether to go to photography workshop at the zoo tomorrow AM. If not, sleep in, then go to acupuncture appointment. And a few errands. If feeling good, maybe a little run. Possibly a movie with the Bear tomorrow night.
Sunday, sleep in, nice egg/toast/fruit breakfast, crossword, then Bear and I need to spend time getting our guest bedroom into decent shape for arrival of 6 week house guest from the UK on Monday.
I love the sleeping in each day part. Will doubtless sneak in some more listening to Nineteen Minutes and some more Kindle reading of The Sense of an Ending.
I almost forgot... this weekend I'll be Redshirts-Reading. While wearing a green shirt... I do NOT trust Scalzi to NOT reach through my ebook reader and strangle me.
- Watched the first four episodes of season one of The Game of Thrones last night, will be watching more more more!
- Going to see MiB3 tomorrow.
- A group of my Guild members gets together Sunday evenings to play WoW (dungeon runs, mostly) and we'll be doing that (email me if you're interested).
- Reading, eating and sleeping, not necessarily in that order.
I'd love a visit to Ikea but not sure when that'll happen. I need a couple six foot Billy bookcases. Too bad shipping is so freakin' expensive.
Tomorrow we are going to a jeweler to start designing a ring!
Yes! I remember our talk when we had dinner in March about the style you want, the miligrain detailing you like and I'm sure you'll design something absolutely beautiful.
Knowing it's Eid's birthday weekend reminds me that this time last year I was in New York, surprising jason's_planet with a birthday gathering and then we all went to Eid's karaoke, which was a blast. Wish I could be there this year.
Instead I'm having a quiet weekend, cleaning the flat and doing laundry because on Wednesday I am going to Ohio for two weeks, where I'll be attending this festival, and also going to a wedding. Diane is coming back with me and we're going to Paris for a couple of days, and then Diane is here for a further week after I go back to work at the beginning of July. So a lovely long holiday ahead for me, which means that a weekend spent cleaning and doing laundry is worth every minute spent on chores.
Divide and conquer this weekend. LT stays home to nurse our kitty slowly recovering from surgery. I go to Martha's Vineyard to visit with my folks. We had planned to both go, but see above, kitty surgery. Major thanks to LT for holding down the fort, giving the meds, allowing me to go see my parents.
Friday: Spend the day at the pharmacy trying to figure out why you have no meds.
Saturday: Go back to the pharmacy. Ruin tenderloin steak, do laundry, pack.
Sunday: Ass crack of dawn, to the airport. Week in Denver for work.
Update:
Didn't go to see MiB3, not up to it. Maybe next weekend.
It looks like Mum scored tickets for the King Tut exhibit in Seattle for September (I think it's the last stop before it goes back to Egypt). Yay! This just may make up for not taking me to see it in 1976.
brujita: I just read the story in the NY Times, that sounds like a really neat show! Hope the run goes well!
Yesterday, I made a vodka sauce for the first time in my life. Instead of heavy cream, I used half & half, I may have over roasted the fresh garlic, and I used diced tomatoes from a can (which I then processed with our stick blender), but with a little basil, a little Parmesean, a little salt, and a wok, it turned out really well! Next time, I'm going to try it again with fresh tomatoes and a better mise en place so that I don't burn the garlic, and fresh Parmesean instead of the Kraft stuff.
Today, I need to stop procrastinating and finish a post the Saucy Goose Press website, write some letters, and renew my plan for keeping more in touch with my family ever since I heard that of of the uncles I briefly met in the Philippines on my mom's side passed away, all alone without his children near. And maybe dungeons with deborah?
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