July 2009 Archives

It was a long week.  I came home early on Thursday from fatigue and just feeling yucky - that's the technical term for it by the way - yucky.  So when Friday afternoon rolled around and I got to go home, my very thoughtful and loving wife took the girls upstairs to play while I relaxed for a few hours.  We didn't do much on Friday evening but watch some TV.

On Saturday, we went over to our neighbor's for a post-poned 4th of July party (it was also a bday party for Terpie - one of the neighborhood Corgies).  A good time was had by all and it was a bit after 8 when we packed up and headed home.  Jasmine and Alyssa started watching Bolt before going to bed.  Jean and I began watching War, Inc. but she was sleepy so I ended up watching it alone.  It was ok but not really good.

 

I wanted to relax and not do anything on Sunday in preparation for the work week.  Jean wanted to go to the mall so we drove over to the Columbia mall - they went shopping and to the play area and I went to see Harry Potter 6.  It wasn't a great movie.  It didn't seem to me that there was nearly enough impending doom.  It starts out great that way and there is the attack at the Weasley's at Xmas in the middle but that's about it.  Anyway - whatever, I didn't really care for the last 2 books either.  I personally thought Rowling's editors weren't doing their job.  After the movie we headed home.  Jasmine and I curled up on the couch to watch Bolt and after she went to bed Jean and I watched Merlin and Big Brother.  Alyssa, who is normally up late because she takes a nap during the day was out by 8 because she didn't take one today.

I read a little while before bed and was asleep before midnight.  And now begins another week.

A friend and coworker, who we have tried to go out with for quite some time, asked Jean and I if we would like to go out tonight.  He explained that his daughter was in Ocean City for the weekend with family and that he and his wife were free if we wanted to get together.  Well, Jean and I are pretty finicky about who watches the girls and the girls are pretty finicky as well - finding a babysitter all 4 of us can agree on has proved problematic.  I told my friend that I would let him know by Thursday if we could find one.  Jean struck gold with someone in the neighborhood.  She had come over for a visit earlier in the week for a trial run (at my insistence) for a half hour and ended up staying two.  Well, we were out for 3 hours with no phone calls and no crying.  After she left we asked the girls if they had fun and liked the babysitter - they both agreed.  When she came back to make sure we hadn't made a mistake with how much we gave her (I paid her for the trial run as well), Alyssa gave her a high-5, waved and said goodbye.  That was the seal of approval I needed.  Oh, dinner and company were great too :-)

I have uploaded a bunch of photos to FaceBook.  Eventually I will post them here as well but for now, you can view them by going here.