What are you doing this weekend?

Me? I'm

- Potty training Tavernertoddler
- Catching up on some reading (yeah, like Tavernertot's gonna let THAT happen)
- Preparing my garden

& u?

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I may be a bit late because I'm picking up some Bay Area DUers from Amtrak but I'll be there. :)

I would love to go, but Shine Girl's softball team is having a season kick-off family bbq thang, on top of her game, and I can't miss out on them.

I'll be there, in spirit. :toast: Call me in....

I wanna see pix, too, dammit. :) :hug:

So pics will be forthcoming.

Hopefully the Bay Area folks will put together the next event, since we won't have too much more comfortable weather here in the valley.

:woohoo:

:hi:

esp. the Monterey Bay area. :)

I'm not willing to take on organizing one, though. I'll admit that. :D

:hi: How are you doing, LM? Have you moved yet? I'm thinking of you and wishing you well....

so it would be convenient for people from "red" California.... Redding, Fresno, etc.

And lemme tell ya, I am never organizing one again! :banghead:

some other liberals in the swath of our state.

a thousand-fold, XemaSab. :loveya:

I, for one, think :yourock:

:hug:

since my employer (I lived on site at work) had given me until monday AM.

I'm doing okay.

Opera Friday night.
Massage Saturday morning.
Working in our little urban garden in the afternoon
Spelunking in and excavating closet space (a la swag's "get rid of 20 lbs of shit)
Church Sunday morning
French film festival at 1928 movie palace late Sunday afternoon

Reading in between

But hey - who am I to judge.

I just don't "get" opera, much like I don't "get" NASCAR or Star Trek.

so you don't have to know the foreign languages to follow the dialogue. Sometimes you need the titles for the operas in english. Also, sometimes now the characters are younger and believable in the roles instead of an aging, balding tenor as the love interest, or the balcony straining under the weight of the "most beautiful, desirable princess in all of China".

Everything isn't for everybody and I know I've already attended my first and last Monster Truck Show.

How are you?! Has work slowed down, yet?:hug:

:hug:

Work was absolutely awful for about three weeks and once I got finished with the project my body rewarded me with a bronchial slop thing. I stayed home for a couple days and all was pajamas, DVDs, cough syrup and Bewitched. (Livin' large!)

Now it has evened out to enjoyably normal. This is an unusual weekend for good stuff.

I go to a cool old church that is all about love instead of hate, but if you come visit--Sunday morning will be all about Brunch!!!

:loveya:

Ick about the bronchial stuff, though! My boy had a nasty case of bronchitis awhile back. Not fun. I've been to some scary churches. When my husband and I were looking for someone to marry us (in retrospect, I SHOULD have insisted on a JOP) someone sent us to a church where the person we met with said in order for him to marry us, I would have to move out of our apartment and live separately until the wedding. We had a newborn baby, at the time, and I didn't work. I was polite until we got out of the church, and then I laughed my ass off!

:rofl:

and speaking of restraint (no, khashka, not that kind) I'm still holding firm. Thanks for the secret Lahti quote! The change of seasons stirred the voices a little--suggesting now that winter is over there were lots of great springtime activities that smoking could be a part of. But I think I'm in a pretty good place mentally to turn a deaf ear.

We are strong, sistah! :thumbsup:

and I'll be in the stands cheering my brother's homemade, no-sponsor street stock car. He's been laid off from Chrysler for more than 18 months, and he needs something to look forward to, as there is no sign he'll ever get called back. Indiana sucks - except for the racing!

2. Realize we forgot the check book, turn around and return to the East Side.
3. Get back in the car, drive to Bay View.
4. Meet future landlady. Hand her large check.
5. Get keys, begin walk-through.
6. Experience renters' remorse as we realize the place is a lot smaller/darker/uglier/etc. than we remembered when we applied for it a month ago.
7. Feel better about the place when we see that the kitchen/bathroom/etc. is, indeed, much better than we remembered.
8. Finish the walk-through, search frantically for child.
9. Simultaneously find her, and realize the previous tenants didn't leave any toilet paper, and we left our "essentials box" at home, when child yells "I NEED HELP!" from the bathroom.

etc.

I plan to ride my new bike around, go running, and do homework. Oh, and I'll probably do the usual watch-my-husband-sleep-in-and-then-lay-on-the-couch-all-day routine, while I do every fucking thing that requires effort around here. It should be stellar.:eyes:

the new bike.
;-)

Riding is fun. I was kinda hoping for something racier.

in interesting places, admittedly. It didn't take me much to bruise and certain activities are notoriously....rowdy.:evilgrin:

out!! like on a date. Then tomorrow i'm meeting up with the other sacramento area du'ers and then sunday we leave for SF to stay overnight and on Monday afternoon we leave for London.

Tonight:
Bachelor party drinking with the Seattle boys at some pub over by the baseball stadium
Exhibition baseball game with the Seattle boys between the Seattle Mariners and the Portland Beavers (I didn't name the team)
Dirtbombs show with wife and the Missoula smokejumping contingent at Dantes

Sat:
Oil painting class
Chicken wings and beer
finish filing taxes
pay bills
regret missing yet another Portland DU meet-up while taking a nap
Wake up and go see the Billy Nayler Show at the Town Lounge

Sun:
If it's nice, go on a long bike ride
If it's shitty out, go to the gym and pay the price
Call parents

after this, I am OFFICIALLY over with the ex-wife once and for all.

Plus I'll be working, too. Turns out we need our training materials rewritten. By last week.

:thumbsup:

because even though I have to work late, I don't have to work Saturday for once and we've had a friend in town all week who I've barely been able to hang out with. (He's actually the boyfriend's friend, but I think it would be nice if we could all go out so I could get to know him a little more.) That or watch Bill Maher and drink a lot of wine. Either way really.

Saturday--not a goddamn thing if I can help it. Maybe clean the house. Go out later maybe, watch a movie at home, I don't have a clue. Also, pay rent and reset the clocks. (Excitement abounds).

Sunday--I have no idea. I don't even know if I have to work or not yet. I'm guessing I probably do, but I hope I don't. A full weekend off would be a nice treat.

ANd then preparing a spot for my wife's garden. Weather permitting of course. After all, I do live in North Dakota. It was almost 50 degrees on Tuesday and it snowed yesterday. Go figure.

tonite: "family nite" with the kids, involving dinner together and a fun movie rental

tomorrow: dtr's softball game, followed by a season kick-off team bbq party

tomorrow nite: "date nite" with the hubby, involving dinner together, a movie out and.....:loveya:

Sunday am: performing with our choir at some local new age-y church



Hope you can catch up on some SLEEP, too! Good luck! :hi:

I have the weekend off. First time in two months. So I'm just going to sit back and do nothing...although I may read a book. I haven't decided yet.

1. Pack my stuff for my trip to Germany

2. Go to my uncle's house

3. Watch TV and eat amazing food cooked by his Indian wife

4. Chill out

5. Monday morning, get dropped off at airport by my uncle and fly to Germany

:woohoo:

It's a buddy of mine's birthday and let's just say that there's going to be lots of alcohol involved! :beer:

and I are going to see V for Vendetta on Sunday.

We're going to wait until the 2nd quarter and try to get a discount from the scalpers. Even if we don't we plan on going to the free Encamp concert.

Women, Action and the Media 2006 in Cambridge, MA.
http://www.centerfornewwords.org/wam.html

Watching "Thirteen Days" for my international relations class.
Running a few errands.
Watching the phone like a hawk until ITS calls to tell me that I can pick up my pain-in-the-ass computer.
Watching The West Wing and gorging myself on Chinese on Sunday night.

And, for once...anxiously awaiting Monday. Opening day. :D

But she got sick. No worry - she's coming at a later date - and I'm anxious for that.

Saturday and Sunday should be relaxing.

Everyone have a great weekend!