Today was a Holly Day. I got up around 9 am and then proceeded to watch TV and read my book until 2 pm (that’s right, no shower either). What a bum I am! While I was being a bum, I found a new want item. This ring has been moved to the top of my want-to-have-but-will-never-get list.
Just to prove my worth – After 2, I showered, bathed the dog, cleaned the house, did the laundry, ran errands, cooked dinner, and did some soldering for one of Wade’s projects.
I think everyone knows I have “interesting” taste in movies. Most people would call my favorites bad movies. But I know a few of you appreciate The Best of the Best, American Ninja, the real Gladiator, etc. right along with me. Brad gave me a Christmas present when he came over for Wade’s birthday last Saturday. It was a movie called Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior, which I somehow had never heard of. Then he and Ryan invited us over to watch it on their new HUGE tv. Wade wasn’t too sure about the movie (he doesn’t share my love of “interesting” movies). We all loved it. The best movie ever! The movie was in Thai with English subtitles, but that guy can fight. I’ve never seen anyone use his elbows and knees so much to take people down. Great movie! I’m betting Jason Phinney, if he hasn’t already seen it, would love it!
I am sitting at my desk eating sushi for lunch. Wade doesn’t like it so I rarely get it at a restaurant. However, I remember the good old days of DC. There was a Chinese restaurant across from my work that had an all you can eat sushi buffet at lunch time. Yum! Restaurant sushi is much better than grocery store sushi (which is what i am currently eating). I wonder what about it I like so much? I think it is the rice – sticky Japanese rice. What I don’t like is cucumbers. California rolls all seem to have lots of cucumbers. I don’t remember those from my DC restaurant, but maybe I just liked cucumbers back then.
Wade’s birthday is next Tuesday, so we did most of our celebrating this weekend. Melissa and Chris got in late last night and we all slept late today. After maple bran muffins (yummy) for breakfast, Melissa and I headed up to the Mall of Georgia. Wade had just gotten up and Chris had just gone back to bed. Liss and I had a full day of shopping, but we got back in time for present opening and a quick nap.
Wade told me exactly what he wanted and I tried to get it right. We had 12 people meet us for dinner at Corky’s (a Wade approved BBQ restaurant). We had Melissa, Chris, Josh, Jamie, Grant, Paddy, Ryan, his girl, Brad, Steven, Wade, and myself – what a crowd. Grant kept insisting there would be some making out with Jamie before the main course, but he’s just a lot of talk.
The next stop was laser tag. We were there a little early so we proceeded to play air hockey (I won my game!). I’d love to have an air hockey table some day – what a fun game!
It turns out that there is an “Iron man” laser tag competition at 10, which means you get to play for a full 30 minutes. We had a blast! Wade was the overall top scorer, so he got a free game. I guess we’ll have to go back one more time at least before we move.
Then it was back to our house for cake. On the drive home from Thanksgiving, I had asked Wade what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. He got creative and described the perfect cake, which I tried to provide. He wanted a Baskin Robbins strawberry ice cream cake with clown cones on top (which weren’t supposed to have any icing). The candles were supposed to be a number “2″ and a number “7″ surrounded by 25 regular candles. Then he wanted ice cream cookies- with oatmeal cookies on either side of some vanilla ice cream. I couldn’t find those, so we ended up with round ice cream sandwiches. The guys working at Baskin Robbins got a huge kick out of my order.
The rest of the night was spent just hanging out and talking or playing Wade’s new Gamecube game – Mario Strikers. Steven also came through and brought Wade’s new favorite drink – Orangina. (Which can only be found at one Kroger – the one near Steven’s).
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 Steven, the Orangina, Chris, and Melissa |
My friend Josh invited us to a movie on Friday night. I looked at the link to the movie and read the summary. It looked pretty good so I said I’d go. I vaguely knew the movie was playing at the High Museum but didn’t think much about it. I invited a couple of other friends and we all met up on Friday night. And by that I mean Wade and I got there minutes before it started.
It turns out that the movie was part of the Danish Film Festival. The movie was called Stealing Rembrandt. After the head lady introduced the movie and one of the actors from Denmark (how cool, he flew over just for this festival), Wade leaned over to Jamie and asked if the movie was going to be in English. The first opening lines were and then it was subtitles.
We all really enjoyed the movie – subtitles or not. Wade was excited about ice cream afterwards, but my sister and Chris were coming into town and we wanted to be home when they got there.
We all know I am addicted to tv shows – most of the time the weirder the better. The one show with a cult following that I didn’t watch was Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. One would think this show would be up my alley – even I thought so. But I never could get into the show. I’d catch an episode here and there and rarely even finish the episode.
Well, my friend Steven recently watched the show from first episode to last. I told him I would give it a try when I finished my class. Well, I am no longer taking my EMT class. I went over to Steven’s the other night and we started watching Season 1. I think we watched four episodes that night and I was sent home with a bunch of DVDs. The jury is still out on whether I like it or not, but I am definitely giving it a good faith effort.
Wade and I finally chose a house – the brick one. Wade took care of most of the details and if everything continues according to plan we will close on February 3rd! There are pictures in my gallery. These pictures were all taken while we were looking at the house – so none of the decor is ours. We are planning on painting and some remodeling. The first thing to change will be the pink and blue tiled bathroom!
I have a friend at work who loves blonde jokes. This is one of my favorites.
A blonde called her boyfriend and said, “Please come over here and
help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get it
started.”
Her boyfriend asked, “What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?”
The blonde said, “According to the picture on the box, it’s a tiger.”
Her boyfriend decided to go over and help with the puzzle.
She let him in and showed him where she had the puzzle spread allover
the table. He studied the pieces for a moment, then looked at the box, then
turned to her and said, “First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going
to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger.”
He took her hand and said, “Second, I want you to relax. Let’s have a
nice cup of hot chocolate and then…………”, he sighed,…………………..
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Let’s put all these frosted flakes back in the box.”
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