I have had a well mixed day. I started out the day doing house work, and then getting the lawn mowed. I then went to the spa and had a facial, massage, and had my hair done. I was at the spa for five hours, so it was a nice decadent day for me.
I'm just hanging out with the dogs. Dorie is doing great, one week after her adoption. Tess has been very active, and Dorie is madly in love with her. Everything is good here in my corner of Massachusetts!
Sounds like the PERFECT day to me, Tess -- a productive beginning, a luxurious middle, and a peaceful ending!
My Saturday was a little bit back-and-forth. I had PLANNED a productive day, but it all got bogged down with the logistics of going out to dinner with a newly-acquired friend from California, my husband, my son, and one of my closest girlfriends.
The California friend was/is in town for about five days, doing some work in Maryland. You'd have to know the Virginia/Maryland/DC area a bit to appreciate all of this, but there is a beltway that loops around everything, and is our major travel artery.
So, my husband and I were going to take California friend to dinner at a halfway point in Virginia, near a beltway exit point. We had planned to take everyone to a great restaurant that was in the perfect location, and had notified my son, our friend, and my girlfriend that this is where we were going to eat. However, it turned out that they were unusually heavily booked, and wouldn't be able to reserve a table for five until 9:45 pm! Unfortunately, too, all of the other restaurants that interested us (this friend needed to be fairly casual) fell into that "open seating" category where they refuse to take reservations. On a Saturday night, this isn't good planning -- ESPECIALLY when you want to take a guest out who is already exhausted from having put in a full day's work.
Instead of doing my morning chores, I ended up doing internet searches for something that would suit our needs, but which would also be convenient for our friend. Then, we had to notify our son, our California friend, and my girlfriend of our change in plans. Well, we couldn't reach our son all day long, and for all we knew, he was going to show up at the other restaurant at 7:30 pm instead of the new choice at 8:00!
Anyway, after all of this decision making, it was already early afternoon, and I still had some errands to run, but now limited time to do them. Then, of course, I had to get ready to go out!
The bottom line is that it was a GORGEOUS day here, but I got nothing accomplished, either inside or outside, so I'm now facing those same tasks today on what I normally look forward to as being a peaceful Sunday.
Oh yeah -- my husband just informed me a few minutes ago that he invited our son over for dinner tonight, so I guess that I'm going to have to go through my mental list of what his favorites are to eat. And, thanks for telling me...
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
Yes, dinner was great fun, once we all got there (and our son had received his dad's numerous messages), and it was also quite delicious!
It all worked out in the end.
I just don't like that "open seating" concept, though. And, I don't understand it either! Wouldn't you think that a restaurant would WANT to know how many people are going to show up at their door for dinner on any given night? And, wouldn't you think that a restaurant wouldn't want to risk irritating customers who are either turned away, or who have to wait 45 minutes for a table?
Stupid concept! Unless it's just my husband and me ducking into a restaurant on the spur of the moment, just to see if they might have space because we happen to be in the area, I prefer restaurants that take reservations so that we can be guaranteed a table...
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
Lol my Saturday wasn't very boring at all. Floyd took Cody to his soccer game, since Beth and Aiden were still sleeping. We cleaned the house, went to the store to get an extra SD for my camera and plenty of batteries. We ran to the dollar store to get some stuff we needed around the house. Then we cleaned ourselves up and got ready for the wedding. It was a friend's wedding so I was doing photography as well as enjoying it I guess. Though honestly I would have rather just been there for the photography without the husband. He's in a heap of trouble because I told him that if he wasn't going to help wrangle the kids he needed to just stay home, because since these photos are going to go in my portfolio, I need them to be excellent. Well luckily all of my friends were there because he was more worried about sneaking out with his friends than the kids. HTen we came home and our friends from Decatur came over. It was a late night conversing and watching Knocked up.
Sunday was fairly slow, except for the huge fight the hubby and I had. Guys I nearly walked out this time. I was getting the kids dressed and ready to go. I realize now though that I need a vehicle of my own. I am going to apply for a daytime job from 8 to noon at the local doctor's office. They need a receptionist. He apologized, but I've told him and I fully intend on enforcing this, that if he doesn't start talking to me more nicely I'm out. He talks to everyone else like peaches and to me he's an ass. I really need to slip some of that stuff in his Guinness (that's the only drink that I can guarantee the kids won't sponge from him lol)
