Well, another weekend slipped through my fingers and it’s Monday once again!
Last week went by fast, which was great, and this weekend was a perfect marriage of productivity, entertainment & fun, and rest & relaxation!
Friday night I headed off of work early so that I could be home by 5 p.m. so we could get on the road to see Curt’s mom and sister who are about 55 miles away or so, and in rush hour traffic this turned out to be 1.5+ hour trek for us! Yikes! Once we got there we visited with Curt’s mom who had knee surgery earlier that day, then went out to Pappasito’s with Courtney and her guy friend, Jeff, to have a drink and order take out for the family. The ended up losing our order, so we ended up just chatting and drinking for an hour or so, which was great, and then went home and had a really late dinner, but it was so yummy! We got home around 11:30ish or so, and crashed!
Saturday morning was full of productive errands: Garden Ridge to get the cash for the gift certificates I couldn’t use, Lowe’s to get mold battling supplies, Kohl’s to trade Curt’s two LEFT shoes for one of each – LOL!, to the hospital to visit a coworker and his wife as they just had their baby, Hobby Lobby with the portrait and painting to pick out frames, and Potbelly for lunch – whew! Hobby Lobby was a lot of fun, and we were SO lucky because their frames were half off this weekend, so instead of paying $1000 for only two frames, one with a mat, it will only end up to be about $600 or so (higher b/c the Italy painting has to have TWO frames, one on the underside to stretch on, etc. and this costs extra in labor, too! But I am excited to have these two things finished so they may display on our wall instead of being hidden away… so anyone who comes over at the end of August will be able to see our two new additions!! Let’s see – then we went home to tackle the mold, which was really smelly as we used all bleach (don’t worry, I made us wear fume face masks, which were SO HARD to breathe in, but instead of taking 2 seconds to get woozy, we were only getting woozy there at the end when we were finishing up… so killed all the mold, and Curt sawed into our sheetrock to ensure it was not coming from the INSIDE, which thankfully it doesn’t seem to be, so we’re thinking that because we hung our towels up on the door, combined with shower steam and no separate air vent for the tiny toilet room, that this must have been it… So did that, and then Kendyl came over and we all went swimming to get the yucky bleach smell out of our nostrils for good! While Kendyl and I played with the torpedo, and other *classic* pool games, Curt floated and then started working on the pool lights, which of course Kendyl got interested in so then I read… then she had to run, and Curt and I got cleaned up, had some dinner, put in a Netflix, and relaxed before our big night of Blue October! Sam, our YL friend, came over too as he said he would join us for the concert, so we were happy to have the company! We finished our movie (The Libertine – was 4 out of 5 stars in my book), then at about 9 p.m. we headed out to the horse track to see
Blue October, my favorite band when I was in college!
We had an issue at the gate, that thankfully got resolved, but in a nutshell, we had these two free coupons for concert tickets at the park from participating in the MS150 that I’ve just been sitting on waiting for the *perfect* concert, and so I called the box office several times over the last few weeks, and then twice this past week, making sure there were still enough tickets left, did I have to go in advance to trade them in to be able to get in, etc, etc. So we get there, and of course they have no idea what I’m talking about, and this girl was trying to tell me that it’s just free admission into the PARK, not the CONCERT, which was great as NOWHERE on the coupon does it say, free admission ONLY TO THE PARK, and ON the coupon it had Verizon Wireless Concert Series with the dates, etc! I recap for her my numerous box office conversations, show her the coupon, and then I ask politely if she can please call a superior to discuss this with, so she gets on her cell phone and calls this other girl, and I kid you not, here is what she said, “yeah hi, I have th
is lady here who has a coupon to get into the park, but is trying to say it should be free for the concert, too, yeah, ok bye.” Then to me, “she said no.” I then said, “you didn’t even tell her the whole story! Can you please call her back, and this time let me speak with her?” To which she grudgingly did, then I had my chance to tell this girl what the coupon said, what had been communicated to me at the box office, etc. and so she said she would let us in. Ugh! Anyway, so that was successful but such a chore – I mean I didn’t ride 150 miles to go gamble on horses, people – what kind of “prize” is that? They obviously intended the *CONCERT!* Ok, off my soapbox there…
So anyway, after that brief instance, the rest of the night was GREAT! It was a fantastic concert – they played a few of their songs that I loved from college, including HRSA which is my all time Blue October song (just LOVE the violin!)
and a lot of new great songs, as well. We also had some extra entertainment as this woman, who seriously had to be late 60’s, early 70’s was rockin’ out! I mean, hands in the air, dancing WAY offbeat, holding up a lighter occasionally, and just bopping along… it was hysterical, omg. She even had her hair all hair-sprayed and in a top bun (as a normal grandma would), but then with a black heavy metal t-shirt with the middle finger as the main image, with high water, high wasted jeans and white tennies – too funny. Sam enjoyed it, too (he had never heard them) so that was good, too. So the night was just great, and then we headed home. When we got home, Curt played their new song for me – "Congratulations," a duet with a woman, and it’s SO good… Take a listen on their myspace or online.
Sunday was a semi-lazy day… we slept in from our late evening (we had planned to go to church, but when the alarm went off neither of us could muster the strength – ugh, I hate that!), decided to make homemade waffles, then lounged around, got Cottonwood from Kendyl (we have her for another week), then took the boat out for a few hours. The lake was ROUGH so wasn’t the most enjoyable days we’ve had, but still fun and lots of laughs (specifically Curt in the middle of these huge waves after he’s just “coached” me on how to maneuver them – LOL), then headed in so I could make a lovely lasagna meal complete with wine and bread – was perfect! We also watched another movie, and then climbed into bed at a decent hour so that I could get up early to workout, which I did – yea!
As for this week – we’re going to try and run tonight and swim in the pool, then sometime this week take the boat out, and tomorrow we have
National Night Out tomorrow evening which should be fun, and we’ll go from there!
Hope all is well with everyone!
Love,
Tasha xx
Well it’s early Friday morning and wanted to post before the big Labor Day weekend starts! Today is work as usual, but from home which is nice, getting ready for our party, tomorrow is the Aggie game (whoop!) which is going to be a GREAT kickoff to the season, Sunday which is when we’re having a small get together, then Monday which will most likely be boat day if the weather is nice!
