Pink Thoughts

It 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 :)

It's pouring from TS Hanna and DH and Alan are in Alan's room watching a Three Stooges DVD. Not my thing, but amazing to think it still brings laughs 70+ years later.

Alan had soccer practice on our brand new soccer field (artifical turf) last night. Hope it will be ok with the rain - there's supposed to be an opening day parade tommorrow. New team, new coach, new teamates. Need to replace the 2nd hand cleats I'd gotten him - they are baseball not soccer ones - but they'll be ok for tommorrow.

Packed his backpack for Monday's start of Kindergarten. On Friday we stopped by the school so I could see where his classroom was. His teacher turned out to be there (she seems very nice). Her aide had Alan in his first year of disabled pre-k, so it was nice to see a familiar face. I also saw some names I knew on the sign she had for the class. It was worth stopping by :) We then checked out a local library book sale and a local park. Alan loves pony rides now. We also looked around the zoo - he's been there a few times this year and loves it - not like when he was a toddler and would just zoom past everything.

He's still bossy at home and I hope that calms down after school starts. Otherwise we may see if we can get some help curbing it at home.

I had my annual visit to Sloan Kettering at the end of last month. All is well, I don't need to go back till August 2009. But I've got some sort of congestion now and my chest feels tight. Hope it goes away, I just got over being sick in Mid August :(

Labor Day weekend we did our annual camping trip to Ithaca. Had a good time, although didn't hike much. I did go in the waterfall pool, wasn't brave enough to try jumping off the diving board. Need to get in shape for next summer to try it. We checked out the Farmer's Market (very crunchy with all sorts of interesting eats - asian/organic etc - but NO pickles!)

Today we had company - our friend Dave stopped by to tell us about his singles cruise - he met some people, but it was an interesting itenary as it was diverted due to Hurricane Hanna. Then a friend of DH's from high school he hadn't seen in 29 years stopped by - he and DH reconnected on classmates.com. Neither one noticed our messy place fortunately.

Anyway, I've got some rebates to send out and paperwork to sort so that's all for now.