Relaxed weekend

I had one of my more laid back weekends of recent memory. No grass mowing, only minor housecleaning and no real “projects”. On Saturday we went to the state park with the intentions of renting kayaks to tool around on. The rental place we remembered from the last time we were there was no longer there. So we decided to just hang at the beach. This beach is very natural and has the clearest water of any of the beaches in our area. Lots of fish, shells and natural beauty. It was very peaceful, very relaxing and once again reminded us of why we moved to Fla. Late October, relaxing on the beach with the sounds of surf and birds to put you to sleep. We really enjoyed it. Down the beach a bit, outside the state park lines we found a rental place that wanted 25 bucks for a hour rental of a kayak and you were limited to paddling in a small rectangle area. No thanks, we wanted to take it down the inlets.

Saturday night I totally forgot about the World Series game and tuned in just as the celebration was taking place. What a great performance by the Marlins. Talk about a dark horse, noone would have given them a shot to win it all in the beginning of the year.

We took my mom out to dinner at Romanos Macaroni Grill. She has been very negative and we hoped a dinner out would help change that. Great food, so so service. I can see where I get some of the negative part of my personality from. Mom seems negative about most things and is scared to do most anything outside of her “box”. After dinner she was ranting about her windshield wipers and their poor performance. I just replaced them a month ago. She was happy that with the time change she could wake up to sunshine. However that evening, she complained about it getting dark early. I know I complain more than the average Joe I’m sure, but I hope I don’t get that bad.

On Sunday we went for a walk/run of 3.2 miles, the distance to the end of our road and back. It was quite warm and humid. We both were sweated through our clothes by the end. We went through our closets and cleaned out a shitload of stuff we didn’t wear or didn’t need, about 5 trash bags full. I am making a trip to the donation store at lunch.

The rest of Sunday was filled with football, some rc plane flying and video game playing. The Eagles won and looked better than they had the prior weeks. However they were playing the 2-4 Jets so they SHOULD look better I guess.

A good weekend for sure.

I am not sure if I mentioned this before, but if you can find Windy City Heat on Comedy Central, tape, tivo it. It is REALLY funny. It is basically a movie about playing a prolonged practical joke on some schlub. I laughed my ass off.