Dear QotD?ers,
A 4 day weekend! I had one! I was able to spend some time with my family, including Saturday afternoon, just me and Mom. Justin and I spent all of today lazing around the house, playing games, watching movies and I even took a nap! mmm. nap.
A 4 day weekend! I had one! I was able to spend some time with my family, including Saturday afternoon, just me and Mom. Justin and I spent all of today lazing around the house, playing games, watching movies and I even took a nap! mmm. nap.
Today's Question of the Day? is:
What did you do for Memorial Day weekend?
What did you do for Memorial Day weekend?
Love,
The Asker
The Asker
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Happy June 1st!
Sheesh, the year is going fast.
Had some good family time, some good rest time, some cleaning time, some yard time, lots of good food, some good friends time.
Great weekend!
I had many unscheduled events to contend with for the weekend.
I stepped on a nail Friday. Umm, that really hurts.
We babysat a dog for my brother Steve.
We ate over at my mom and dad's house yesterday, but there are no free meals there. Bob had to patch the ceiling, as my mom put her foot through the attic floor.
It was eventful, and full of surprises, but not so much in a happy, joyful way.
I didn't sleep. Seriously- to bed at like 2 or 3 and up at 5. I don't sleep well alone at home and Kevin was gone for the weekend. I need a housemate if I don't have a roommate.
I did a lot of knitting, a little bit of quilting, and a tiny bit of shopping.
We drove to Kansas, dropped off our now-ex-roommate, drove back, got lost in Missouri, listened to a lot of audio books, and drank a lot of coffee.
After that, we watched a few episodes of Farscape and collapsed into an exhausted coma.
That was Friday and Saturday.
Sunday, we drove north and investigated a few properties for sale in the Lodi area. I got us lost, but not quite as lost as we got in Missouri.
We found a parcel of land that we like a lot, but that has no build site on it.
On the way home, we investigated two "we make buildings!" companies to get pricing and play around in their model buildings.
We tried to buy a cat bed for Ninners, but the pet store had just closed.
We bought groceries, so tired that we stared at a package of celery for far too long, trying to decide if we wanted THAT much celery (ah, Costco).
We did not buy the celery.
We came home, watched a few more episodes of Farscape, and fell into an exhausted coma.
Monday, we drove south and investigated some properties there. We did not like south.
We came home, finished our grocery shopping at a store that, thankfully, thought maybe four pounds of celery was too much celery at a time.
We cooked our meals for the week (chicken pot pies, beef stew, and tamale pies) and looked to see if there were any other properties we were interested in nearby. We didn't find any, so we contacted our buyer's agent and asked if she could look into the parcel we'd found the day before.
Then, we disassembled Frankendesk and moved it into the now-empty bedroom. We moved my old corner desk in to the place Frankendesk had lived and moved my tiny, adorable, perfect writing desk there as well. My computer was disassembled (no disassemble Johnny 5) and Mr. Moore's computer was re-assembled (new and improved with a wireless NIC card!)
I went through half of the kitchen and moved the dishes we never use into the second bedroom. If we need them, they'll get to come back. Otherwise, they will need to find new homes. Same with our extra kitchen gadgets and machines.
I fully broke a half-broken plastic knob on our little toaster oven, which we decided we will replace rather than keep futzing with the cheapo knobs. We bought it used anyway and it didn't come with the baking trays it should have.
We also swept, mopped, and vaccuumed.
Oh! And I batched up a bunch of books, movies, and old records that we don't want to carry with us for the rest of our lives and put them in the car so I can donate them today.
And we plotted the remainder of the Choose story arc that will round out Volume 2.
And we watched another episode of Farscape before the inevitable exhausted coma.
I think that was the bulk of the weekend.
On Friday I cleaned in preparation of picking up John from the airport and bought some flowers. On Saturday I planted the flowers, was disgusted with the 3 moldy plants, and later in the day bought some new ones. We also welcomed home John after 5 months of deployment. He brought Annelise a Burka Barbie. Seriously, the doll is wearing a burka. We didn't feel like cooking so we went to restaurants for both meals. On Sunday we went to the Statue of Liberty, ate at my favorite restaurant for lunch, and grilled steaks for dinner. On Monday we lazed around the house for a while, went out for yakisoba and yummy desserts, played at the park, and fell asleep early.
And today, Wednesday, we are going to Shipwreck Beach!!
Wow. People were busy.
I flew to Campinas, spent a day with my extended family, ate way too much at the Outback and remembered what American food tastes like, took a bus to São Paulo, moved into my new temporary home with a family, started looking at apartments, started my new job, and am now trying to survive the frigid cold. No more flip-flops.
Dear The Asker,
Is this the longest answer contest? Bwahahaha ill win.
On Friday i noticed a large fungus growing in between the large and lager toe on my left foot.
I decided to remove it.
After ten hours of rubbing and prodding and toe creams (that can be churned into cheese) i decided to see a doctor.
When i told him of my ailment our conversation went something like this.
"Hello doctor"
"Hello Doctor"
"What seems to be the problem son?"
"Dont call me son. I have a fungus growing in between my toes"
"Yes so it seems. Would you like me to see what i can do for that son?"
"..." ZZZZZap.
Needless to say the doctor adventure was cut short.
On saturday i noticed the space behind my stove looked quite unclean.
When i pulled back the stove i noticed that the fungus from my toe had spread to the dark scary place behind the stove that nobody looks in ever.
So i called a maid to help clean up.
Our conversation went something like this.
"Hello"
"Hola"
"I would like you to look at my stove i think its infected"
"Si, nino"
"Dont call me boy. Can you get it clean?"
"Si, nino"
"..." ZZZZap
So there I was with infected toes and an infected oven. I thought to myself, whats the best way to handle this?...
So I took a nap.
Sunday was even more of a disaster. I tried making brownies and they came out they seemed unnervingly stary and glowing.
So i called the local baker. our conversation went something like this.
"Hello"
"Hello"
"I need to know whats wrong with my brownies."
"Well let me show you son. You see the fungu-" ZZZap
Ugh, people.
So monday i left for france to see if i could fit my clowns into the large hadron collider there.
I was stopped on my way though Kentucky by a man who smelled my brownies.
"Hello"
"Hello"
"I see you have brownies"
"Yes they were home grown in toe fungus"
"Toe fungus? In the oven?"
"Yes what of it?"
"Well they look all magic and cosmical, son"
"........" ZZZZZap
The moral of the story is that I dont want your stinkin magic cosmic brownie points that i should get for hating children! Because they taste like toe fungus!!!!
Angrely,
Dr. Fandango, teller of stories
Mom, Yay family!
Anne, Wow very eventful indeed!
Skittl, ouch, that's rough. I haven't had to sleep in our house without Justin yet.
TamiJean, you were entirely too productive!
Angel-A, welcome home John!!!
Sabrina, good luck with finding a place! I assume you mean frigid as in 80ºF?
Dr. Fandango, toe fungus brownies? that sounds like a terrible weekend.
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