A Real Post

Whew. All weekend my intention was to sit down and write a real post. But somehow this whole two days off wasn't enough time to really get around to it. All weekends should be long, all weeks should be short. Pay needs to stay the same. I don't even know what I did this weekend. Yesterday is a blur of going around town looking for a cross stitch sampler kit - for my friend who is expecting a baby, I made one for the first baby and feel like the second one deserves as much - and I failed to find one. Then I went to dinner. The day was over. Today I did even less, I met Derek for lunch and researched vacation packages. I broke my dryer doing laundry (it squeals and obviously needs a bearing or greasing or both). Now the day is pretty much over. The only good thing is my back no longer hurts. Ah, that's right, I spent a large portion of yesterday on my back watching netflix doing stretches to try to make it feel better. Getting old sucks.

Last night's dinner was at the Acropolis, a Greek restaurant in town I've never tried. I met up with my friend Julie and a girl she works with. I am horrible with names, but the new girl was delightful. I like meeting new, awesome people. Our dinner was also very enjoyable. It was very drawn out, in what I am chalking up to as a European style of dining, not poor service. We were there over 2 and a half hours. But the wine and the conversation were both enjoyable and I also had the best creme brulee for desert. Blow torches make a meal much more fun. Our scallops were also flambeed. It's rewarding when twice during a meal the whole restaurant looks at your table because it's got fire.

After dinner my car battery was inexplicably dead. I had gone out the passenger door - I was wearing new boots, but driving in sensible shoes (Dad approved) and scooted over there to put on the boots so I could lean out onto the sidewalk not into traffic - so I wouldn't have gotten the warning tone about the lights on. However when we boosted the car the lights weren't on, so they were not the culprit. So that leaves a dome light or gremlins. I am leaning towards gremlins. I really need new car, it will be smart enough to defeat gremlins. I added that option. Also three cheers to Julie for having booster cables and having used them before. I've only watched and let her take charge - haha so to speak. Christmas idea for Kristina - booster cables.

Today all of our snow melted. There were dying snowmen on a few lawns. We are back into that fall season and I can rush out to buy salt, washer fluid and a new scraper hopefully before the next dose. I just checked and that's Saturday. 5 - 10cm. eep.