T – 2 days, hot weekend, xmen
We are pulling out for PA either tomorrow evening or early Wednesday morning. It seems weird to have it so close. This weekend I cleaned up the party van, checked the oil, put air in the tires all in the hope that it gets us to and back from our destination without incident.
It was a very, very hot weekend. On Sunday we did a complete mowing of the grass since we will be gone for 7 or 8 days. I was out with the weedwhacker for a solid two hours. Then after that I had the stupid idea to work on cleaning up the cabbage palms. Cleaning the cabbage palms involves pruning the low and/or dead fronds, pulling out dead seed branches, pulling out vines that grow into them and cutting off these annoying fern things that like to grow out of the crevices. Our palm trees have grown quite a bit over the years and now require a ladder for me to get to some of the branches and even with the ladder there are certain areas I can’t reach. After cleaning the trees in the back of the property I had had enough. I was hungry, thirsty, tired and covered in a a combination grass, sweat and tree dirt film. Luckily I finally have the pool clean enough that it was suitable for swimming which helped get our body temperatures down.
Sunday afternoon Ali said she was tired and wanted to take a nap. She asked me if I wanted to nap. I said no, I never nap. It feels like a waste of time. However after initially saying no, I came back and laid down with Ali, saying I would lay down for a couple minutes. 3 hours later I woke up. I guess I needed it. So I had napped through the time period I planned to finish up the housework, so I had to knock that out, fun.
Saturday night Ali and I went to a movie and dinner. We saw the X-men movie, it was sweet. It had great action, great effects and surprises in the plot that I didn’t expect. At the end there is a split second shot that makes you think another sequel is possible however I don’t know how they will pull it off because of what happened during the flick. It gets a B+. After the movie we went to my favorite place, Carrabba’s to eat. We had another great meal, with a great waitress in a great atmosphere. I love that place.
I have the full scale facial hair thing going on. This is part of my Rumble prep (see tip #2). By the time next Saturday hits I should be a hairy looking freak. You can see a bit of it on the cam.