Weekend Recap
Sep. 15th, 2008 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesliepearIt was a busy weekend as usual and stressful.
Saturday - we went to the Farmer's market for fruit to make a fruit salad (if you invite us to a party, DH makes fruit salad!). Then Alan had soccer practice, and afterwards he and I drove DH's car through the local football/cheer leaders fundraiser car wash. It was kind of silly to wash his old not-working-so great car, but it was for a good cause.
All 3 of us then went to a potluck party at a friend (and former co-worker) of DH that we go camping in Ithaca with. They have a large yard with a hot tub. They set up a projector and show a video or two on a screen attached to the house. Alan spent most of the time in the hot tub! They showed Young Frankenstein and The Thin Man for the adults (Alan saw a bit of Young Frankenstein which was projected right over the hot tub) and Underdog (the recent live action movie) inside for kids. We all had a great time, despite a complaint from their neighborhood grump about showing a movie without a license (I think he wanted to be invited <g>).
Sunday - I went to pick up a dresser I won on auction on eBay which was for Alan's room. I got there and the dresser was just a bit too wide to fit in my back seat and wouldn't fit in the trunk So the previous owner and I tied one back door slightly open and I cautiously drove toward home. Two blocks later a cop stopped me (no ticket, just a warning). I called my MIL, but it didn't fit in her old Taurus either...to make a long story short, I managed to find a local taxi service with a mini van and paid him to bring it home. I ended up being a bit sunburnt and Alan missed his soccer game (it was probably too hot for him on the astroturf field anyway). The dresser did fit where I wanted it, and I will be getting new knobs for it as it is missing some, At some point, I may try to refinish it, it's very solid but has some scratches (and got more in the misadventures of getting it home alas).
I really miss my old Escort hatchback at times like this when I need to get big items - oddly enough it's still sitting in the lot of the mechanic I signed it over to when it was not worth it to repair, I wonder if he will give it a new engine someday.
Later we went over to my cousin's house. He's up there in one of the Wall Street firms (he had his CEO at his son's bar mitzvah last year, most people don't invite the CEO of a big company they work for to a party). Although we don't talk work with him, we did see him texting a lot and he had financial stuff up on his computer. We did walk over to Van Dykes for homemade yummy ice cream - he lives a block from there :)
Saturday - we went to the Farmer's market for fruit to make a fruit salad (if you invite us to a party, DH makes fruit salad!). Then Alan had soccer practice, and afterwards he and I drove DH's car through the local football/cheer leaders fundraiser car wash. It was kind of silly to wash his old not-working-so great car, but it was for a good cause.
All 3 of us then went to a potluck party at a friend (and former co-worker) of DH that we go camping in Ithaca with. They have a large yard with a hot tub. They set up a projector and show a video or two on a screen attached to the house. Alan spent most of the time in the hot tub! They showed Young Frankenstein and The Thin Man for the adults (Alan saw a bit of Young Frankenstein which was projected right over the hot tub) and Underdog (the recent live action movie) inside for kids. We all had a great time, despite a complaint from their neighborhood grump about showing a movie without a license (I think he wanted to be invited <g>).
Sunday - I went to pick up a dresser I won on auction on eBay which was for Alan's room. I got there and the dresser was just a bit too wide to fit in my back seat and wouldn't fit in the trunk So the previous owner and I tied one back door slightly open and I cautiously drove toward home. Two blocks later a cop stopped me (no ticket, just a warning). I called my MIL, but it didn't fit in her old Taurus either...to make a long story short, I managed to find a local taxi service with a mini van and paid him to bring it home. I ended up being a bit sunburnt and Alan missed his soccer game (it was probably too hot for him on the astroturf field anyway). The dresser did fit where I wanted it, and I will be getting new knobs for it as it is missing some, At some point, I may try to refinish it, it's very solid but has some scratches (and got more in the misadventures of getting it home alas).
I really miss my old Escort hatchback at times like this when I need to get big items - oddly enough it's still sitting in the lot of the mechanic I signed it over to when it was not worth it to repair, I wonder if he will give it a new engine someday.
Later we went over to my cousin's house. He's up there in one of the Wall Street firms (he had his CEO at his son's bar mitzvah last year, most people don't invite the CEO of a big company they work for to a party). Although we don't talk work with him, we did see him texting a lot and he had financial stuff up on his computer. We did walk over to Van Dykes for homemade yummy ice cream - he lives a block from there :)
