Winding Down With Waffles

It was a long weekend, and an even longer Sunday, and at 9pm we still hadn't eaten dinner. The closest immediate place was the Waffle House, which I think Laura was counting on, so waffles it was. 

Between Laura, Susie, Yuula and myself we ate 6 waffles and all other sorts of breakfast foods and I got to pick the tunes out on the jukebox since we were the only ones there.

Strange Flowers, Stranger Behaviors

Another weekend in the books. The last before our little family getaway. Laura did some hardcore gardening, and I picked up heavy rocks and put them back down again someplace else. Yuula swam. She seemed to have a fairly intricate storyline going on there that involved plenty of action, catfood, a beachball and multiple bathing suits. As long as it was keeping her happy we don't really question it.

We stopped midday at around 90 degrees and went for a ride to Maryanns for some rainbow jimmies on vanilla and then to Ross N Ross for a few pepper plants and these weird looking flowers.

The weirdest part of the weekend was when Laura popped up at 5:30am and disappeared. When I went to look for her she was in the garden planting away. This marks the very first time in our relationship that not only did she wake up before me but she also left the bed before me and started her day. I'm a little freaked out by it still, but I plan to get tot the bottom of it.

In other, more Yuula-on-the-potty related news, progress of sorts was made this weekend. But not really. At one point while taking a break from her pooling she had to pee and decided just to pop a squat over a rock in the yard and pee. Then later on in the day she told us she had to go again so she walked over to the same rock and peed again. We didn't think anything of it, til later on that evening while Laura was cooking up some stuffed green peppers and I was cleaning up the yard, Yuula was inside and told us she had to pee. We gave her the okay, so she took off her bathing suit, ran outside to the same rock as before and peed. So apparently all this time she just needed a rock to pee on instead of a toilet. Gonna be a pain to carry around with us everywhere but we'll figure it out.

Stressed Or Busy, Dancing Is She

Rough couple of days to end the week. And we never get to say we end the week because weekends aren't our bag, We both work jobs that ignore the weekly work schedule, sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. But this week end has come. We have two days off, and tho I may do a little tinkling here and there just to make my Monday less nuts, I think we're gonna kick back. May take the tree down, will watch some football, Laura may have some form of going away party for Bone. Whatever it is it's gonna be enjoyable. We're both a little stressed out, which is quite unlike us, so we're gonna unwind. We've already started. That's the cool thing about having a kid. You can count on them to help you unwind. Every night. Sometimes twice. 

Who am I kidding? I love it.

Eyes: Portlandia
Ears: Lucrecia Dalt - Congost

Choose, But Choose Wisely

On the road. 611. Country road. Out for the day. Baby asleep. Jazz on shuffle. Pastries moist. Lovely day. Utilizing sunroof. Now, which one to eat...

Going For A Record For The Record

I can't stay down. Presented with the perfect opportunity to sleep in and I'm brewing coffee at 6am. Mom & Dad are up for the weekend. Here to relax, even tho Dad will want to get his hands on some project but the rain may keep him inside. That and the baby will keep him seated.



I've watched many films so far this weekend. Some straight thru, some while we're watching others, some beginnings, some endings. The list is kinda silly:

Battle: L.A.
Adjustment Bureau
Trailer Park Boys
A Hard Day's Night
Willy Wonka (starring Gene Wilder)
The Terminal
Will Wonka (starring Johnny Depp)
Hook
The Empire Strikes Back
Morning Glory
Beetlejuice
Titanic
Annie

...and it's early still. May be another film during burger dinner.



Mostly sitting around playing with Yuula. Getting her to clap and wave and dance and walk and flash her new piggy smile. Then a nice long nap, in which we all get to participate. I'm thinking there should be more weekends like this. Or maybe all weekends while we're at it.

Couched Carcass

We woke up this morning and Laura said "This has been a long weekend". It was Saturday at 7:30 am. We did nothing today. We did make Laura's carcass soup. More than our fridge could hold. And we did watch the old 1966 Batman movie. At least as much as we could take. It's hard to get past the opening scene with the shark repellent. Since then it's been flipping between College football, Zohan, Gangs of NY and a show about Woodstock. We ate too much chocolate today and not enough turkey. We may be turkeyed out. Laura's threatening bed, so I don't have time to write, so photos it is. You'll figure out the storyline on your own. What fun!

We like the new stroller.

Ate Seven Sick Fire For Tree Too Won

This is the best time of the week. I punched out. I deposited and printed receipt with check images. I drove home to unintentional hot weather music by Cap'n Jazz, an album I haven't called on since I lived in Boston in 2000, and listened to it way too loud. I devoured an orange on the ride with no consideration for the lack of napkins in the truck. I showered and napped and applied fresh linens. Now I have time. The most time I'll have all week, of any week. And this weekend is gonna need it. I'd show you my to-do list, but I haven't made it yet.

First thing on the list is this subway series, the first of which is halfway thru the first inning. First time starter Hisanori Takahashi going for this home team, so that should be interesting. Good matchups the rest of the weekend too. Pelfrey/Hughes tomorrow and Santana/Sabathia Sunday. Will probably miss that one tho, due to the 5 hours set aside that evening for us to either revel or resent the all too ambitious ending of Lost.

I have been kind of obsessed with this lately. Mainly because the fact that I doubt I'll get involved with another show after this, at least of this ilk. The ilk, that is, of the insane amount of dedication it's taken to actually be able to follow the storyline thru 121 mind-bending, maze-like episodes. We tied together the first 4 seasons thru self-regiment on DVD. The waiting week to week and scheduling a sit down may be easy for most, but we just forget. And you who know, know that missing an episode is not wise. But the point I'm trying to get to is that I've rather enjoyed the mystery of the whole shebang. I've come to the decision that i don't really care is the ending, if there even is one, is disappointing to the masses. I can't imagine them wrapping this into a nice neat package, what with time travel, mysterious light, smoke monsters, polar bears, Egyptian Gods, adverse realities, communicating with the dead, magical healing powers, electromagnetic immunity, whispering woods, birthing deaths, donkey wheels cause the islands disappearing... is that enough? There's so much to have had to keep track of... I don't know that we're gonna be able to make sense of it all. Like, for instance, do you remember who Campbell Wallace is? How about Mr. Eko & Walt? They seemed to make a pretty big deal about Walt, and nothing ever came of it. What's up with Jack's tattoos? What's up with that dog painting? What's the significance of the Hurley Bird? Is Annie really someone else? Have no idea what I'm talking about? That's what I mean. I could go on all weekend. But that's just it. We only got 48 hours now. 52 and it'll be over. And I'm just gonna say I had a nice time not knowing. Being Lost. Very clever.

In my spare time, I still got the letter J to contend with, some patches to plant grass, and some flatrock to steal from neighbors. Wish me luck. Time is ticking.

Eyes: Takahashi vs. Vazquez
Ears: Cap'n Jazz - In The Clear

Extras On Saturday

The painters missed...

Saturday. That's right. Get to sleep in. So why did my alarm go off at 3am? And downstairs nonetheless. So not only did I have to wake up, I had to get up too, and tiptoe my stocking feet all the way downstairs, in the dark to shut it off. So I was up. But I managed to nod off to catch a few extra hours, but still, that 3am wakeup is brutal, especially on a day like today.

But save that curse, it's been a pretty weekend-y Saturday. I've had two cups of tea with extra creamer, cereal with extra sugar, and watched a movie, Sideways, with an extra movie which should be over just in time to pick up the Mets game. Paid some bills and then paid some extra bills that aren't even due yet. Oooh that's a dayful right there. Poor Laura had to go in to work today, but she's home early and we'll catch up on some Lost and probably have some baked ziti for dinner.

And then there's Sunday...

Eyes: As Good As It Gets
Ears: Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

Catalogued The Letter H

Oh Boy. I've spent a lot of time at the keyboard this weekend. But I got a lot accomplished. Or at least I feel like I did, which is half the battle. The weekend has wound down and we've served ourselves some butter chicken. It's settling much better than the Swedish beef curry couple nights back. Good thing. I don't know if I could go the full term without that deliciousness.

We watched Law Abiding Citizen today. Good movie. Reminded me of Seven a little, but much less twisted. Seven lite, if you will. I was confused at the end tho because the whole film I realized I had been rooting for the wrong guy. I had my hero and villain switched up. Oh well. I find I do that in real life quite a bit too. C'est la vie.

Eyes: Mets Vs Cardinals on ESPN
Ears: Free Energy - Dream City

This Day Is Hazardous

Early this morning I asked a fellow coworker, an elderly gentleman named Carl, how his weekend went. He said "All my weekends are magnificent."

I sigh. Soon.

That Machine Kills Fascists

Another week in the can. A little balancing and projection and things are looking up. Or at least they will be. Laura's addicted to powdered donuts. Eaten two boxes in just under three days and there's no end in sight. A nice lazy week end to a long tiresome week. Gonna try for a repeat next. Maybe a threepeat. See if that's possible.



We watched I'm Not There today. Been sitting in the folder for over a year now. I really liked its meandering but I was in and out. Beat the hell out of all those dinoshark and giant crocodile movies that were on yesterday. Why couldn't I have been tired then? Maybe I was.

Salvaging It Takes An Oversight

Another weekend at Sitao. Started off bad. Got out of my truck and Brian told me one of the kids quit. That's really obnoxious, only because we spent the entire last weekend staging the show and once that's done, it's really hard to just remove one person and have it all make sense. The kid had two months to figure out if he wanted to do it, and chose the worst possible weekend to figure out that he didn't. I have no sympathy for people like that. Moving on.

I think the kids had a good weekend. I think they like the show. Any show that challenges them is good enough to me. And I think this show is challenging. Specifically, this weekend we worked on a little partner section, which normally I'm totally against because of the usual total lack of creativity and continuity, but I think we got something here. Now if they can just get thru it.

We had very little left to actually stage and most of that went pretty quickly. had we had the correct props that house the equipment efficiently we could've done a complete run. That's pretty good for two weekends work. It also means we're onto the cleaning and refining process, which can be tedious. I'm hoping that the next two weekends are sufficient.

Here's some photos I took outside the gym on Sunday morning. It's was rainy, but I managed.

My new mantra: Peace, Love & Dollar Signs

I call this one "Who Doesn't Love A Butterfly Spacecraft?"

So that's what everyone's doing with their Yellow Pages.

The long climb to rehearsal.

I was gonna save this one for Valentine's but I didn't want him to get the wrong idea.

(I highly doubt you notice but most everytime I write about SITAO I entitle the post using the guard's name as an acronym. Mainly I did this because the name originally derived from an acronym itself that I find at the very least distasteful to the point that I will not type it here (again). Instead I chose to explore the possibilities that could someday replace this unfortunate label. I don't this one's making the cut.)

Saw & Scythe

I was gone Saturday to Monday and came home with a saw and a scythe.

How did you do?

I Ate A Lot Of Ice Cream This Weekend

What? I did. Two bowls at the Ming Ping Valley Chinese buffet around 10 pm last night (best soft serve ever in a buffet setting + rainbow jimmies), then again at Brian's island around 2am (vanilla/chocolate Breyer's with caramel sauces), and then again tonight at Mom & Dad's during halftime (vanilla fudge sandwiched in waffle). Other than that good weekend, apparently 70% complete and ahead but behind. What can I say, I'm a troubled child & a selfish orangutan.

I also took these....:::|||

Tomorrow? Attic raiding & patio relocating. Then winter meeting and checklist checking.

Andy Reid eats kittens.