What did you do for Memorial Day?

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then helped my step-daughter move into her new apartment. EVERYBODY'S MOVING!!!! ARRRRRRRGH!

Oh well, the Memorial Day sales saved us a lot of money.

Happy Memorial Day, DU. And a salute to all our veterans, living and dead.

And a big "Fuck You" to all the freepers who like it when our troops are in harm's way, as long as they themselves don't have to fight. :nuke:

and moving can be a good thing!

:)

I'm Canadian! No Memorial Day holiday for us.
:7

They don't often put themselves in harms way!

yet another edit: to add: for NO REASON.

One hour left. Woo-hooo!!!

It is called "Pfingsten" (Pentecost) here and is a Religious Holiday (It is a Federal Holiday, few people have to work) .
I woke up way too early because a <bleep> Protestant Mass was held right under my Bedroom Window :grr: .

After finally getting into gear (about a liter Espresso and a good breakfast) it was mostly work: writing a Paper, building some IKEA furniture, helping with a PC problem in the neighborhood.
Finally I got to enjoy a short walk and a little reading.
Followed by a workout and now DU.

Didn't make it to the Carnival of Cultures, and I'm quite angry about myself because of it...
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9NjI2Jm5yPTE_3,00.html

Unfortunately, although I did get a few things done, I frittered away much of the day by sleeping 'til noon and spending hours here on DU. :shrug:

All my family is far away and I have no life.

I could comment for hours about each of your pictures.

That's all I am at liberty to say.

ALL DAY, ad Wiscosin weather. I just chaged out of my ight cloths aout 2 hours ago. In about 5 minutes they are going right back on.

It started raining again, as it has been all weekend, while I was mowing but I had to get it done or the landlord will mow it for us and charge us. I did make spagghetti with store bought sauce with hamburger and extra herbs added to it. It's been pretty boring. It was bad weather and my husband is temporarily (we hope at least) lame.

I can't remember what rain looks like, but then I read about spagetti.

Dammit. Why did you have to do that to me!!!!!

Spagetti!!!!!!!

Now I have to go out to the store to buy fixin's!

It's a hard life.

family. I then spent the afternoon alone with my cat, who yelled at me for being gone all weekend while it stormed.

1) I spent much of the day excavating the apartment for my upcoming move at the end of June. Ended up taking four shopping carts worth of stuff down to the Dumpster!

2) I finally got around to filling out the "Postcards For Our Troops" that a fellow DUer had sent me about a month ago. I'll be mailing the batch out tomorrow to Blue Star Moms for distribution to Iraq. I did that because I'm a left-winger who hates our troops and wants them all to die.

Would you do me a small favor and post your station's link for audio?

Thanks.

soooooo tasty.

Ribs...mmmmmmm

chicken...mmmmmmm

And animals off the Bar-B !!!

:shrug:

Ate hotdogs at Nathans. But not as many as Takeru Kobayashi.

and watched nuff lakers playoff games!

The SO Prophet and I went to look for Memorial Day specials at the mall. Alas, there were none. So we did come home and begin the procedure of grilling, and feasted on the bratwurst, and hamburgers, and potatoes, and salads, and fruit bats, and yaks, and badgers, and wombats, and breakfast cereals, and...
So let it be written, so let it be done.

but tickets were sold out for all the shows, so we bought tickets for the 4:00 show tomorrow afternoon. Hubby wanted to go with us, but decided to stay home and catch 40 winks. :boring: We shared a delicious fried chicken dinner a little while ago. :9

Saturday was our "busy" day. We drove down to Fredericksburg, Virginia from our house in Woodbridge (about 1/2 hour away) for the Luminaria. Every year for the past eight years, the local Boy Scouts, in conjunction with the National Park Service, light a candle at the gravesites of every Union and Confederate soldier who died during the Siege of Fredericksburg. We went on walking tours at both the Federal and Confederate cemeteries, and paid our respects. (The Federal cemetary is at Marye's Heights; the Confederate is behind the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star building.) "Taps" was played on the half-hour, and the sight of the candles on the hillside once darkness set in was just absolutely breathtaking. At the Confederate site, there was a band playing songs that were popular with the Rebel troops (e.g., "Goober Peas").

Later that evening, we went to Carl's Ice Cream stand in Old Town Fredericksburg, where they serve absolutely THE best frozen custard ever (shameless plug for Carl's here, LOL).

A perfect ending to a wonderful day. :)

http://www.nps.gov/frsp/luminari.htm