The Borings Strike Again!

Or, What We Did Last Weekend.

Well, it wasn't the weekend but we did go to BJs for dinner for my birthday where I ordered my salad, totally forgetting that I have one tooth on one side of my head that they keep telling me there is nothing wrong with but I know there is because anything cold or crunchy makes my tooth hurt, and on the other side of my head is my new crown, which also hurts when something cold hits it and I can't eat cold salad without one or the other tooth hurting. It's hard to chew salad with only your front teeth.

Just another benefit of getting older, sensitive messed up teeth.

Keith's brother had called him (at work where he doesn't like to get phone calls because he is trying to, you know, WORK!) on Thursday inviting us to come down on Labor Day for dinner or something. We thought about it and really didn't want to face that long boring drive down there and Labor Day isn't like Thanksgiving or something where you really have to accept any invites, so didn't really want to go all that much. Then on Friday there was a near miss on Keith's hand getting broken by his co-worker who is notorious for unsafe work habits and Keith was so upset by it all that he just drove home. I thought he had gotten fired or quit, but he was just too angry to try and keep working. He talked to the big boss on the phone who was all mad at him for not resolving the issue with his yard boss, so he went back to work and kissed a$$ and then was worried all weekend that he would get fired when he went back to work on Tuesday. Savage is all let's be safe but this one individual has been written up many times and has broken equipment and almost hurt other people on the job and is still working there. I told Keith that they were not going to fire him since nobody else ever gets fired there for their screw ups. He was still worried and not in a real good mood so when Bruce called back about us coming down he told him that he really wouldn't be good company and really didn't feel like driving anywhere. Plus, on Saturday morning I drove down Rosedale Hwy and saw big flashing signs about delays going south on the interstate, so it probably would have taken an extra hour or two to get over the mountains. No thanks.

So, Saturday and Sunday were spent in our usual dull ways, errands and cleaning and Keith messing about in the garage building a gate out of old lumber, a gate that we really don't need and it turns out can't be set where he wants it to go because there is a bunch of cement from when the slab for the house was poured where he wanted to set the gate. He has done nothing further inside the house where things really need to be finished. I still don't have doors in the kitchen where the washer and dryer sit inside their cupboard, and the trim in the kitchen still isn't painted, and the back door screen has still not been fixed so we can't open the sliding glass door to let some air in.

Anyway, we did do something on Monday but you are probably totally bored with our boringness by now so I will write about that tomorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Boring Strike Again

And, boy, did we strike out this weekend.

It was incredibly hot (and still is) with the weekend temps being like 109, and of course when the temps go up so does the bad air index where you aren't supposed to breathe when you go outside. So, outside activities, not that we do a whole lot of those anyway, are definitely curtailed.

After a boring Saturday with Keith doing a little yard work and me telling him not to stay out there too long so he didn't get too overheated, he suggested going to see a movie yesterday morning. We still have some free tickets that we've been hanging onto, waiting until something we really wanted to see came along. General movie going is definitely not on our budget, why spend twenty or thirty bucks to go see a movie and buy incredibly overpriced popcorn when you can get one out of the Red Box for $1.00 and pop some popcorn with the new air popper that I got for Keith. $20.00 for the air popper and a few bucks for the popcorn kernels and it's still cheaper than going to the movies even if you only use it once.

Anyway, we thought we'd go see the new Bourne movie, having really liked all three of the others, and off we went to the 11 am show, wanting to get there before it got real busy because there is nothing worse than a crowded movie theatre as far as I'm concerned. I always have to sit on the aisle because I can't sit through an entire movie without having to go to the bathroom, which is one of the reasons I'd just as soon watch them at home where there is a pause button.

So, off we go and give our free tickets to the girl at the ticket counter and she's having problems with the tickets and wanting to know where we got them and the manager comes over and it turns out that we can't use the tickets on a new release movie. Well, okay.

Do we want to pay the regular price and go see the movie anyway?

NO, we don't, so back up the road we go and stop at Save Mart and get some movies from the Red Box and go home and watch some movies. Because it's too hot to do anything else anyway.

What did we see? In The Land of Blood and Honey, very good but very disturbing, and Friends With Benefits, a very cute if somewhat raunchy romantic comedy. Both were good choices and worth a buck apiece.