This weekend was the definition of nice. Before I forget, let me get the negative rant out of the way. This morning I am behind a woman putting on her makeup in the car. Not just while she was stopped, AS SHE WAS DRIVING. She had her rear view mirror turned so she could use it as her beauty mirror (ironic cause she was an overweight middle aged woman that looked liked Julia Childs) She was styling her hair and applying facial makeup as she drove in the passing lane of the road. Needless to say I was infuriated. As soon as I got a chance I passed this idiot. Unfortunately she wasn’t looking at me as I mouthed DONT DO YOUR MAKEUP IN THE F’IN CAR when I passed her. I mean come on, get a clue.
On Saturday I got up without an alarm at 5:30 am so I could get into work to do some stuff I had been putting off for awhile. It went well and I was done in less than 3 hours. So I was home before 10 am and ripped right into the cleaning duties. We knocked that out quickly.
Since we moved into the house we have had an idea of how we wanted our house to be utilized. We wanted to use one spare bedroom as a nice guest room, the other for hobbies, crafts and as a secondary guest room. It’s been about 2 and a half years and we still hadn’t gotten things under control to where we could do this. Finally this weekend we got it all setup. In order to do this required us getting the outside shed to store junk, my mom moving out to clear up that room, and then on Saturday we went and got a decent but inexpensive computer desk for myself at Wal-mart that allowed us to setup both of our old ones in the craft/hobby room. Our day didn’t end till close to midnight by the time we got done moving all the crap around and assembling the new desk. The new layout is great! Hopefully we can keep things in order. We are gathering stuff for a flea market and our new motto is if we buy something new, we get rid of something old.
We also found time to watch Finding Nemo saturday evening. It was a good flick but I don’t know that it was good enough to me to understand why it did HUGE box office numbers. Enjoyable but nothing outstanding for me.
Sunday was my first football-less day in 4 months. Luckily Sunday was near perfect weather, mid 70’s, blue skies and low humidity. Just going out on the lanai, sitting in the sun and realizing that it is the end of January can make you forget even something as dramatic as the impending end to football season. I finally conquered my Tivo project on Sunday. I am now able to run my second Tivo independently using tv listings that are downloaded off the internet. If Tivo used good sense and offered customers with multple DVR’s a discount on their service for multiple household dvr’s I would have never investigated this option. However there was no way I could justify paying close to 30 bucks a month just to have two Tivo’s download the same tv guide data. It is one of the most involved and complicated hacks I have tackled, it’s good to have it behind me.
Sunday afternoon I came up with the idea to take Nicki to the dog park. We have talked about doing this for months but never got around to it. Nicki needs socialization. Whenever she meets someone or some new dog she cowers in fear and immediately retreats. The dog park is a beautiful large fenced in area with benches, water stations and tennis balls lying around everywhere. When we first got there she was terrified as normal. It was comical, when dogs would approach, Nicki would retreat to a bench and hop onto it, almost like what you imagine with women and rats. It was quite entertaining. We stayed almost an hour and a half. By the end she still wasn’t participating in the dog games but at least she would let the other mutts come up and sniff her without jumping on the bench. We will just have to keep taking her to these sort of places till she relaxes.
Got in my first rc plane flight in weeks. It was a high speed acrobatic fest in relatively high winds. I zigged when I should have zagged and put it into a tree at high speed but it came out unscathed. I was able to reattach the battery and chuck it right back into the sky.
Tonight I am planning to head to the community center to kick off my 2004 volleyball campaign. 5-6 years ago volleyball was such an integral part of my life. Back then I could not imagine not playing for 6 months at a time. But that is exactly what I have done and not even thought twice about it. I’m hoping to stay more consistent with it again. It’s good exercise, quenches my competitive thirst and is a good way to meet people. I get to break in one of my 3 new volleyballs too. 🙂
