And January is already on it's last day? Not that we've had much of a January but that's okay with me. I could get used to winter weather like this every year except for the fact that we really really need some rain.
We mowed our parched dead grass this weekend, the few bits of green in it were looking a little scraggly so out came the mower and the weed whacker and I mowed, leaving the weed whacking part for Keith. He turned the dirt in the flower beds and then got a bug up his you know what about cementing in the little part of flower bed along the garage that is totally useless because the dryer vent is right there and nothing will grow. So, he dug up the dirt where he wanted the cement to go and then got a late start pouring the cement on Sunday and ended up staying up until midnight messing around with cement. Apparently you have to pour it and then let the moisture seep up, wipe up the moisture, trowel it smooth, and repeat a few times.
I wanted to do something fun over the weekend but it was kind of damp and foggy and not the kind of weather where you really want to be outside. There is not all that much in the way of fun (and cheap) things to do in this town but I thought a trip over to the California Living Museum might be nice, get out in the not so fresh usually polluted air and see the new bobcat exhibit and look at some bears and stuff, so we will try and do it this next weekend. I'm feeling a little bored and really need to get out somewhere other than the grocery store, but still within our budget.
We finally got the window in the car fixed on Friday and now it is no longer being held in place with Hello Kitty duct tape, and I'm really surprised that the duct tape held up for a month, so if you ever need to duct tape your car window up, by all means use the Hello Kitty tape, it's good stuff! Keith was going to take the day off to take the car in but his boss told him he could borrow his extra truck, so that worked out well with Keith still being able to get to work even though he really kind of wanted to take a day off. We also got new rotors and brakes which were badly needed. The window was under recall and didn't cost anything, but the rotors and brakes were not, so we had to spend some money on that, but brakes are something you kind of really need to be working well, so...
The mechanic recommended a couple of other things that we didn't get done, a battery service? which costs $40.00. Um, no, we'll wait on that.
Yesterday Mimi found one of those plastic rings that come on jars or drinks, I don't know where it came from but she found it somewhere and spent hours and hours playing with her plastic ring. We do buy our cats lots of cat toys but she prefers found objects to play with. She gets paper out of my trash can in the work room and brings it into the living room, meowing that she's caught some paper, then lays it on the floor for me. It was cute watching her entertain herself for so long. Just like a toddler in the tupperware cupboard.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011
What We Did This Weekend
Saturday morning I was planning to go to Target to do my Christmas shopping and get gifts for the company party that night. I was ready to go at 8am. Keith wasn't. So, my day started out waiting for him to finally get up and get dressed and stop reading his magazine and get dressed and stop playing with the cats and get dressed and come on already, let's get going before everyone else in the world decides to go to Target.
I wanted to drop packages off at the post office so decided to stop at the Other Target which is near the post office but first we stopped at Carl's Jr to get something to eat because there were no eggs in the house or anything else to eat for breakfast and we didn't want to go to a real restaurant and have to sit there for an hour while everyone else in the world bought all the stuff that I was planning to buy at Target. However, stopping at the Other Target was a mistake because what I was planning to buy was nowhere to be found, either that or we had been beaten to them by everyone else in the world, so let's just go to Our Target where I know exactly where want I want to buy is. But first we need to go into Pier One because something else that I wanted to buy is in there. We got a little exercise by parking between the two stores and then walking instead of parking, walking, shopping, driving, parking, walking, shopping. Our Target had exactly what I wanted to buy. But then we needed to go to the Dollar Store for gift bags and gift wrap, but at least the Dollar Store was prepared and had lots of checkstands open so it was fairly painless to shop there and since everything is a dollar, not much money spent either.
Then we had to go to the Company Christmas Party slash Safety Meeting that night. They used to have it at the nearby Golf Course in the clubhouse with really good food prepared by the golf course people but it was getting too expensive so they opted for the meeting room in the only fancy motel in Wasco and have it catered by some barbecue company. So we drive to Wasco and pass by the only other motel in town, the Motel Cinderella that promises Color TV on their sign and go to the Best Western which is right across the street from the Motel Cinderella and I'm sure the Motel Cinderella was really annoyed that the Best Western moved in across the street. Not that anyone puts Wasco on their list of vacation destinations.
I wasn't real impressed by the food, tri-tip and chicken and very soggy green beans and rice. Before dinner there were 'appetizers' of cut up weenies in barbecue sauce and some icky meatballs and chips and dip. Dessert was grocery store bakery cake.
Safety and the next growth phase of the company were talked about and safety bonus checks were handed out and handshaking done and we did the gift exchange and we actually got something usable this year, a blanket for the couch and a Starbucks coffee sampler. No massaging slippers this year- yay! Someone did give a bubbling pet fountain as a gift, and why in the world would you think a bubbling pet fountain would be a good gift for the company gift exchange anyway?
The not so good food and the coffee after dinner gave me an upset stomach and I kept waking up feeling kind of sick all night long so on Sunday I was feeling not so good and tired. Keith slept late again and then wandered around in his underwear, finally settling on the couch to watch football. Still in his underwear.
I worked on my shops for a while and then decided to mow the lawn which was looking a little shaggy. Keith finally put some pants on and came out to do the weed whacking and help me finish up. We decided to go to the movies which we haven't done in months, so grabbed our free movie tickets (thanks, Jennifer!) that we've been hoarding, and off to the movies to see J Edgar. Which was a good movie, very interesting, and Leonardo Di Caprio is one of my favorite actors, but the movie theater was so cold that my feet and legs were aching and it was very hard to sit through the whole movie. Plus the seats are nothing like being at home on your reclining couch and being able to pause the movie to go to the bathroom. Note to self, either bring a blanket next time or wear three pairs of socks and two pairs of pants. Or just save movie going for the summertime when you want to sit inside a cold dark place.
I wanted to drop packages off at the post office so decided to stop at the Other Target which is near the post office but first we stopped at Carl's Jr to get something to eat because there were no eggs in the house or anything else to eat for breakfast and we didn't want to go to a real restaurant and have to sit there for an hour while everyone else in the world bought all the stuff that I was planning to buy at Target. However, stopping at the Other Target was a mistake because what I was planning to buy was nowhere to be found, either that or we had been beaten to them by everyone else in the world, so let's just go to Our Target where I know exactly where want I want to buy is. But first we need to go into Pier One because something else that I wanted to buy is in there. We got a little exercise by parking between the two stores and then walking instead of parking, walking, shopping, driving, parking, walking, shopping. Our Target had exactly what I wanted to buy. But then we needed to go to the Dollar Store for gift bags and gift wrap, but at least the Dollar Store was prepared and had lots of checkstands open so it was fairly painless to shop there and since everything is a dollar, not much money spent either.
Then we had to go to the Company Christmas Party slash Safety Meeting that night. They used to have it at the nearby Golf Course in the clubhouse with really good food prepared by the golf course people but it was getting too expensive so they opted for the meeting room in the only fancy motel in Wasco and have it catered by some barbecue company. So we drive to Wasco and pass by the only other motel in town, the Motel Cinderella that promises Color TV on their sign and go to the Best Western which is right across the street from the Motel Cinderella and I'm sure the Motel Cinderella was really annoyed that the Best Western moved in across the street. Not that anyone puts Wasco on their list of vacation destinations.
I wasn't real impressed by the food, tri-tip and chicken and very soggy green beans and rice. Before dinner there were 'appetizers' of cut up weenies in barbecue sauce and some icky meatballs and chips and dip. Dessert was grocery store bakery cake.
Safety and the next growth phase of the company were talked about and safety bonus checks were handed out and handshaking done and we did the gift exchange and we actually got something usable this year, a blanket for the couch and a Starbucks coffee sampler. No massaging slippers this year- yay! Someone did give a bubbling pet fountain as a gift, and why in the world would you think a bubbling pet fountain would be a good gift for the company gift exchange anyway?
The not so good food and the coffee after dinner gave me an upset stomach and I kept waking up feeling kind of sick all night long so on Sunday I was feeling not so good and tired. Keith slept late again and then wandered around in his underwear, finally settling on the couch to watch football. Still in his underwear.
I worked on my shops for a while and then decided to mow the lawn which was looking a little shaggy. Keith finally put some pants on and came out to do the weed whacking and help me finish up. We decided to go to the movies which we haven't done in months, so grabbed our free movie tickets (thanks, Jennifer!) that we've been hoarding, and off to the movies to see J Edgar. Which was a good movie, very interesting, and Leonardo Di Caprio is one of my favorite actors, but the movie theater was so cold that my feet and legs were aching and it was very hard to sit through the whole movie. Plus the seats are nothing like being at home on your reclining couch and being able to pause the movie to go to the bathroom. Note to self, either bring a blanket next time or wear three pairs of socks and two pairs of pants. Or just save movie going for the summertime when you want to sit inside a cold dark place.
Monday, November 28, 2011
What We Did Last Weekend
Remember when you were a kid in grade school and you always had to write about what you did for your summer vacation? And you really didn't do anything all that exciting to write about? Well, that's kind of like our holiday weekend.
We did drive down to Katie's for dinner, leaving here about 12:30 and me driving while Keith napped the whole way. We had planned on leaving a little bit earlier but he went to the store at about 10am to get stuff for breakfast and took FOREVER so breakfast was late and then he was being lazy and I had to yell at him to go clean the windows on the car so we could see where we were going, so we got a late start and got to Katie's after the designated dinner time of 3pm. Her house was very very crowded and it's very very small so it was kind of like standing room only. Instead of actually cooking, she got one of those pre-made frozen turkey dinners from Vons and a pre-cooked ham so all she had to do was heat everything up. She rented folding tables and chairs so at least everyone could squeeze in around them to sit and eat.
Then after dinner, the long drive home. The long boring drive home. The road from Bakersfield to the mountain pass and vice versa is very straight and very very boring because there is nothing but flat farmland to see in the daytime and nothing at all at night and it's really kind of hypnotizing and I'm really surprised that more people don't fall asleep on that road and there aren't more sleeping people type crashes.
Then we decided to do our small business shopping on Friday instead of Saturday so we went downtown and hit a few antique stores. Well, we did go to one big business, Barnes and Noble to get some cookbooks to send to James for Christmas. He is very interested in cooking and wants to go to culinary school if he can ever afford it so we thought some cookbooks would make a good gift. We were thinking about sending him a gift card for Starbucks and then realized that the very small town that he lives in probably doesn't have a Starbucks, so...later we did find out that no, they don't have a Starbucks anywhere near them but they do have a Walmart. I think every small town in the South has a Walmart nearby.
I wanted to stop for lunch before shopping but Keith wasn't hungry yet so I got some tea and a cookie at the bookstore to hold me off until lunch. I did find a pink plastic bread box at one antique store so that is what we bought for our small business purchase. I almost decided against it because it was such a frivolous purchase, but after getting it home and re-arranging the kitchen counters around I'm really glad I bought it. It's very cute.
I didn't realize that young people don't know what a breadbox is until after the girl behind me in line was asking what it was and what it was used for. I do have to admit that we were discussing what to use it for, should we hide our counter junk in it, and then we kind of went DUH, we could keep BREAD in it.
It also came with a bonus sugar bowl and creamer.
Keith found some train track that still had the original price tags from Woolco on them so when we got home he got out his trains and messed around with those for the rest of the day.
Saturday was more shopping but for cat food and all the household stuff we needed. We went to Target and you would have never known that Black Friday ever happened it was so quiet and calm in there. Yesterday I did the grocery part of the shopping. So we should be done shopping for at least a few days. Keith wasn't feeling well and slept in late and then napped on the couch.
I decided to bring the cat house that Lucy wouldn't use inside where maybe the indoor cats would use it and it wouldn't get ruined outside in the weather because after we bought it we realized by the instructions on the box that it came in that it really wasn't intended for outdoor use. As soon as we put it in the corner of the bedroom every cat came to inspect and we had both Mimi and Harri standing inside of it. It's getting a lot more use now, with Pepper inside it most of the time and Harri actually sitting inside it the other day.
Mimi was enjoying the deck.
We did drive down to Katie's for dinner, leaving here about 12:30 and me driving while Keith napped the whole way. We had planned on leaving a little bit earlier but he went to the store at about 10am to get stuff for breakfast and took FOREVER so breakfast was late and then he was being lazy and I had to yell at him to go clean the windows on the car so we could see where we were going, so we got a late start and got to Katie's after the designated dinner time of 3pm. Her house was very very crowded and it's very very small so it was kind of like standing room only. Instead of actually cooking, she got one of those pre-made frozen turkey dinners from Vons and a pre-cooked ham so all she had to do was heat everything up. She rented folding tables and chairs so at least everyone could squeeze in around them to sit and eat.
Then after dinner, the long drive home. The long boring drive home. The road from Bakersfield to the mountain pass and vice versa is very straight and very very boring because there is nothing but flat farmland to see in the daytime and nothing at all at night and it's really kind of hypnotizing and I'm really surprised that more people don't fall asleep on that road and there aren't more sleeping people type crashes.
I wanted to stop for lunch before shopping but Keith wasn't hungry yet so I got some tea and a cookie at the bookstore to hold me off until lunch. I did find a pink plastic bread box at one antique store so that is what we bought for our small business purchase. I almost decided against it because it was such a frivolous purchase, but after getting it home and re-arranging the kitchen counters around I'm really glad I bought it. It's very cute.
I didn't realize that young people don't know what a breadbox is until after the girl behind me in line was asking what it was and what it was used for. I do have to admit that we were discussing what to use it for, should we hide our counter junk in it, and then we kind of went DUH, we could keep BREAD in it.
It also came with a bonus sugar bowl and creamer.
Keith found some train track that still had the original price tags from Woolco on them so when we got home he got out his trains and messed around with those for the rest of the day.
Saturday was more shopping but for cat food and all the household stuff we needed. We went to Target and you would have never known that Black Friday ever happened it was so quiet and calm in there. Yesterday I did the grocery part of the shopping. So we should be done shopping for at least a few days. Keith wasn't feeling well and slept in late and then napped on the couch.
I decided to bring the cat house that Lucy wouldn't use inside where maybe the indoor cats would use it and it wouldn't get ruined outside in the weather because after we bought it we realized by the instructions on the box that it came in that it really wasn't intended for outdoor use. As soon as we put it in the corner of the bedroom every cat came to inspect and we had both Mimi and Harri standing inside of it. It's getting a lot more use now, with Pepper inside it most of the time and Harri actually sitting inside it the other day.
Mimi was enjoying the deck.
Monday, October 24, 2011
We Fix Flats
So, my new bike tires which are a pleasure to ride on? The front one is FLAT! What the hell? They are supposed to be never go flat new bike tires but I'm thinking maybe Keith put it on wrong or put the fancy valve adapter on wrong or something but I'll never say that to his face. I think he should just put the old inner tubes that never went flat in the well over ten years that I've had this bike and never changed the tires back into the tires and screw the fancy new never go flat but they did inner tubes.
I was looking forward to a bike ride this morning but that's not going to happen today.
I was looking forward to a bike ride because our weather has been incredibly pleasant this past week despite the calender saying that it's almost November. We actually turned on the a/c yesterday afternoon to cool the house down, it was getting downright hot in here. The one thing that is nice about the central valley is the springs and falls are definitely never need a jacket kind of weather, even late at night.
I accidentally shot Dusty last night with the nerf gun and scared the heck out of him. It was dark and I thought the gate to the back yard was shut and I see this siamese cat running towards me and I thought it was Bandit from next door and so I shot him. And then I felt terrible and will definitely not be so trigger happy in the future.
Keith was the laziest ever this weekend, he was supposed to be working on Lucy's winter house and got as far as opening up the garage and bringing out the saw. Where it sat on the driveway for a while. I, on the other hand, did grocery shopping, laundry, floor mopping, vacuuming, cat box cleaning, and lots and lots of work on things for the shop. This is the best month yet for the Mimi and Lucy shop so I'm stocking up for the holidays and hoping it keeps up! Now if we could only figure out how to stop spending our money as fast as we make it. It seems like we just spend, spend, spend. This weekend after all the bike tire spending, it was groceries and cat food and gas and there went another $200 or so dollars. And it's not like we are even spending it all on something fun like vacations and fast cars, it's just daily living seems to be SO EXPENSIVE!
I was looking forward to a bike ride this morning but that's not going to happen today.
I was looking forward to a bike ride because our weather has been incredibly pleasant this past week despite the calender saying that it's almost November. We actually turned on the a/c yesterday afternoon to cool the house down, it was getting downright hot in here. The one thing that is nice about the central valley is the springs and falls are definitely never need a jacket kind of weather, even late at night.
I accidentally shot Dusty last night with the nerf gun and scared the heck out of him. It was dark and I thought the gate to the back yard was shut and I see this siamese cat running towards me and I thought it was Bandit from next door and so I shot him. And then I felt terrible and will definitely not be so trigger happy in the future.
Keith was the laziest ever this weekend, he was supposed to be working on Lucy's winter house and got as far as opening up the garage and bringing out the saw. Where it sat on the driveway for a while. I, on the other hand, did grocery shopping, laundry, floor mopping, vacuuming, cat box cleaning, and lots and lots of work on things for the shop. This is the best month yet for the Mimi and Lucy shop so I'm stocking up for the holidays and hoping it keeps up! Now if we could only figure out how to stop spending our money as fast as we make it. It seems like we just spend, spend, spend. This weekend after all the bike tire spending, it was groceries and cat food and gas and there went another $200 or so dollars. And it's not like we are even spending it all on something fun like vacations and fast cars, it's just daily living seems to be SO EXPENSIVE!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Another Weekend Gone By
And it was a busy one. And hot. We are having what is hopefully our last heat wave of the season, we are promised cooler weather by the end of the week. Poor Keith is really suffering at work, he comes home just exhausted and he's been having leg cramps and stomach troubles, all heat related I think. I told him to tell his boss that if he starts feeling sick he is going to have to wrap things up by about noon so he can get out of the sun and come home and cool off.
He did a yard sale on Saturday morning, which worked out really well because our next door neighbors were also doing a yard sale (yes, the lesbians) and they had lots of baby things out and clothes, so the women shopped at their sale and the men shopped at Keith's, which was all man type garage junk, and he made $175.00 selling JUNK! yay!
I did lots of errands on Saturday and had to park way down the street when I came back because the yard sales were so busy.
I've been working on new stuff for the shop and am feeling very inspired for a change and even got up at 6 today so I could get started on the cat box cleaning and vacuuming early, the sooner to get back in the workroom and get busy. I need to take a bunch of pictures and will start listing the new stuff later this week. I'm going to be offering the soldered glass pendants at a new low wholesale price and see if I can sell a bunch of those, I've also got some bigger glass for tree ornaments. It goes much faster using collage sheets than trying to make collages or find vintage pictures.
I'm also doing some chipboard pins with the resin coating again, I found some way fun collage sheets in one shop that will make great retro type pins and got some chipboard that is just perfect, easy to cut but still sturdy enough for a pin. I went out to Beverly Fabrics this weekend, I used to shop there all the time but since I don't sew anymore, haven't been there in probably 6 months. They did have a few things that I can't find closer to home so it was worth the trip across town.
Oh, and I am (finally!) getting new glasses! I went over to the Target Optical on Friday for my eye exam and ordered glasses and sunglasses. It was cheaper to get the 2 pairs than to get transitional lenses on the 1 pair, and the transitional lenses really don't get dark enough for driving and such and I still squint. It will be nice to be able to see close up again, I've noticed that things have been kind of blurry lately. The glasses weren't cheap, but I really needed them and really couldn't wait much longer, I've been having a lot of eye strain type headaches lately.
And that is about it, back to work!
He did a yard sale on Saturday morning, which worked out really well because our next door neighbors were also doing a yard sale (yes, the lesbians) and they had lots of baby things out and clothes, so the women shopped at their sale and the men shopped at Keith's, which was all man type garage junk, and he made $175.00 selling JUNK! yay!
I did lots of errands on Saturday and had to park way down the street when I came back because the yard sales were so busy.
I've been working on new stuff for the shop and am feeling very inspired for a change and even got up at 6 today so I could get started on the cat box cleaning and vacuuming early, the sooner to get back in the workroom and get busy. I need to take a bunch of pictures and will start listing the new stuff later this week. I'm going to be offering the soldered glass pendants at a new low wholesale price and see if I can sell a bunch of those, I've also got some bigger glass for tree ornaments. It goes much faster using collage sheets than trying to make collages or find vintage pictures.
I'm also doing some chipboard pins with the resin coating again, I found some way fun collage sheets in one shop that will make great retro type pins and got some chipboard that is just perfect, easy to cut but still sturdy enough for a pin. I went out to Beverly Fabrics this weekend, I used to shop there all the time but since I don't sew anymore, haven't been there in probably 6 months. They did have a few things that I can't find closer to home so it was worth the trip across town.
Oh, and I am (finally!) getting new glasses! I went over to the Target Optical on Friday for my eye exam and ordered glasses and sunglasses. It was cheaper to get the 2 pairs than to get transitional lenses on the 1 pair, and the transitional lenses really don't get dark enough for driving and such and I still squint. It will be nice to be able to see close up again, I've noticed that things have been kind of blurry lately. The glasses weren't cheap, but I really needed them and really couldn't wait much longer, I've been having a lot of eye strain type headaches lately.
And that is about it, back to work!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Quiet Weekend
Firstly, go read today's cat blog post.
And now, What We Did Over The Weekend.
Saturday morning Keith went over to get a haircut since all the kids at work have been teasing him about looking like Bozo with his hair sticking out from under the sides of his hardhat. While he's driving over to get a haircut the check engine light comes on. The car had also been really hard to start for a few days so we were thinking that it was time to get a new battery. Unfortunately with these newer cars with all the computer stuff in them, you can't just pop a new battery in, all of the computer junk has to be reset or something. So, after his haircut he goes over to the dealership where we just finished getting windows fixed and tune ups and new brakes and all that other stuff, and he ends up sitting there for about 4 hours while they are putting in a new battery and figuring out why the check engine light is coming on. It has to do with a fuel injector or something that hasn't been working right for a while but has been readjusting itself to where it didn't need fixing just yet. But it will soon and it's not something they fix on a Saturday because Saturdays are just for oil changes and stuff. He would need to take a day off work and we are not going to have him do that for at least 3 or 4 months since he just barely went back to work and it really wouldn't look good to ask for a day off when you've only been back at work for a week.
Anyway, that pretty much took up his whole day. We hadn't been to the grocery store yet, so we thought we'd just go get something to eat instead of scrounging around the cupboards for some thrown together dinner. I suggested we try Sizzler since they have that salad bar and he's been wanting a steak dinner, so we drive across town to Sizzler and pull into the parking lot just in time to see about 50 people walking across the parking lot and going into Sizzler for dinner. I think they came from a tour bus or the nearby motel, but we really didn't want to wait in line behind 50 people for a so-so steak dinner and salad bar, so where to go? There is a Marie Callenders and a Mimi's Cafe just down the street, but there is also a place we had thought about trying called Coconut Joe's in a nearby shopping center.
We had to park halfway across the parking lot because Coconut Joe's is right next to the Dollar Theatre and everybody was going to the movies, but Coconut Joe's didn't look too busy. I had alway assumed it was a regular restaurant and thought it might be kind of expensive, but we were pleasantly surprised to find out that it's an order at the counter semi fast food hamburger place with beachy decor, fake palm trees, and old sixties surf movies playing on numerous TVs. I ordered fish and chips and Keith got the grilled chicken dinner. It was pretty good, and we'd probably eat there again, they did have a couple of salads on the menu and of course lots of hamburgers.
Then yesterday the weather turned rather chilly with clouds moving in and a chance of sprinkles. We did our errands, Target for our meds and cat food, then to the grocery store. We were getting kind of bored in the afternoon and didn't feel like working on any projects but couldn't think of much else to do. We thought about going to a movie but figured it would be way busy on a Sunday so we did the next best thing and rode the bikes up to Blockbuster to pick out a movie or two. We haven't rented movies from Blockbuster in years, and there were so many movies that we hadn't seen that it was hard to choose. We ended up with Solitary Man and The Green Zone and watched those and had a lazy afternoon.
And now, What We Did Over The Weekend.
Saturday morning Keith went over to get a haircut since all the kids at work have been teasing him about looking like Bozo with his hair sticking out from under the sides of his hardhat. While he's driving over to get a haircut the check engine light comes on. The car had also been really hard to start for a few days so we were thinking that it was time to get a new battery. Unfortunately with these newer cars with all the computer stuff in them, you can't just pop a new battery in, all of the computer junk has to be reset or something. So, after his haircut he goes over to the dealership where we just finished getting windows fixed and tune ups and new brakes and all that other stuff, and he ends up sitting there for about 4 hours while they are putting in a new battery and figuring out why the check engine light is coming on. It has to do with a fuel injector or something that hasn't been working right for a while but has been readjusting itself to where it didn't need fixing just yet. But it will soon and it's not something they fix on a Saturday because Saturdays are just for oil changes and stuff. He would need to take a day off work and we are not going to have him do that for at least 3 or 4 months since he just barely went back to work and it really wouldn't look good to ask for a day off when you've only been back at work for a week.
Anyway, that pretty much took up his whole day. We hadn't been to the grocery store yet, so we thought we'd just go get something to eat instead of scrounging around the cupboards for some thrown together dinner. I suggested we try Sizzler since they have that salad bar and he's been wanting a steak dinner, so we drive across town to Sizzler and pull into the parking lot just in time to see about 50 people walking across the parking lot and going into Sizzler for dinner. I think they came from a tour bus or the nearby motel, but we really didn't want to wait in line behind 50 people for a so-so steak dinner and salad bar, so where to go? There is a Marie Callenders and a Mimi's Cafe just down the street, but there is also a place we had thought about trying called Coconut Joe's in a nearby shopping center.
We had to park halfway across the parking lot because Coconut Joe's is right next to the Dollar Theatre and everybody was going to the movies, but Coconut Joe's didn't look too busy. I had alway assumed it was a regular restaurant and thought it might be kind of expensive, but we were pleasantly surprised to find out that it's an order at the counter semi fast food hamburger place with beachy decor, fake palm trees, and old sixties surf movies playing on numerous TVs. I ordered fish and chips and Keith got the grilled chicken dinner. It was pretty good, and we'd probably eat there again, they did have a couple of salads on the menu and of course lots of hamburgers.
Then yesterday the weather turned rather chilly with clouds moving in and a chance of sprinkles. We did our errands, Target for our meds and cat food, then to the grocery store. We were getting kind of bored in the afternoon and didn't feel like working on any projects but couldn't think of much else to do. We thought about going to a movie but figured it would be way busy on a Sunday so we did the next best thing and rode the bikes up to Blockbuster to pick out a movie or two. We haven't rented movies from Blockbuster in years, and there were so many movies that we hadn't seen that it was hard to choose. We ended up with Solitary Man and The Green Zone and watched those and had a lazy afternoon.
Monday, August 24, 2009
The Weekend
Was not all that exciting, but we did go to the movies yesterday afternoon. We were both bored and tired after spending the morning grocery shopping and really had no energy for doing much of anything, and it's been so long since we've done anything fun on the weekend, so we treated ourselves to a matinee and saw District 9. Very good sci-fi alien type movie, way better than what I expected, and unusual in the way they filmed it documentary style. We both gave it big thumbs up!
We did a dine and dash on Friday evening, but without the dining part. It was payday so we went to run a few errands after Keith got home from work, the usual go to Target for cat food and toilet paper type running around and since there wasn't much in the way of food at home, decided to go to Denny's to get something to eat. We get seated in the mostly empty side of the restaurant, look at the menus for a while, and finally the waiter comes ambling over. I was asking about the $5.99 dinners that Denny's has been advertising, and he kind of looks around to see if there are any specials menus laying around, which there aren't, so he lazily names three dinners that are the $5.99 specials, none of which sound good and since there is no menu to look at, none of which I can remember two seconds after he names them.
So, we order iced tea and Keith wants a chocolate shake. And we wait. I notice three people in a booth across the way with a coffee pot on the table but no coffee cups and no food. Then some more people come in and are seated near us and their drink orders taken after they sit for a few minutes . Then another group of people whose drink orders are taken. So, we are still waiting for our iced tea and shake, which I know takes a few minutes to make, but not the going on ten minutes that we have been sitting there waiting. I hear someone in the kitchen saying 'those people are still waiting for their coffee' apparently meaning the three people in the booth with the coffee pot but nothing else on their table. And, we wait some more, and finally here comes the waiter with a tray of drinks. For the tables of people that came in a good five minutes after us. Not our drinks. By now we had been sitting there for at least 15 minutes, and no drinks and we hadn't even ordered our food yet. So we got up and left. I think the coffee people may have finally given up, too.
We went down the road to Spencer's to eat, which is where we should have gone in the first place.
We did a dine and dash on Friday evening, but without the dining part. It was payday so we went to run a few errands after Keith got home from work, the usual go to Target for cat food and toilet paper type running around and since there wasn't much in the way of food at home, decided to go to Denny's to get something to eat. We get seated in the mostly empty side of the restaurant, look at the menus for a while, and finally the waiter comes ambling over. I was asking about the $5.99 dinners that Denny's has been advertising, and he kind of looks around to see if there are any specials menus laying around, which there aren't, so he lazily names three dinners that are the $5.99 specials, none of which sound good and since there is no menu to look at, none of which I can remember two seconds after he names them.
So, we order iced tea and Keith wants a chocolate shake. And we wait. I notice three people in a booth across the way with a coffee pot on the table but no coffee cups and no food. Then some more people come in and are seated near us and their drink orders taken after they sit for a few minutes . Then another group of people whose drink orders are taken. So, we are still waiting for our iced tea and shake, which I know takes a few minutes to make, but not the going on ten minutes that we have been sitting there waiting. I hear someone in the kitchen saying 'those people are still waiting for their coffee' apparently meaning the three people in the booth with the coffee pot but nothing else on their table. And, we wait some more, and finally here comes the waiter with a tray of drinks. For the tables of people that came in a good five minutes after us. Not our drinks. By now we had been sitting there for at least 15 minutes, and no drinks and we hadn't even ordered our food yet. So we got up and left. I think the coffee people may have finally given up, too.
We went down the road to Spencer's to eat, which is where we should have gone in the first place.
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