Dinner and a Movie

Had a good day. My mom and I went to see The Interpreter at Jordan Creek. It was a great movie, and it was nice to go to a movie for once. As you know, I don't go to many movies because I CAN'T STAND PEOPLE TALKING. Mom has a theory that if you sit in the very back row, no one behind you can talk. That seems to work. Also, the sound system is so loud there, that I probably couldn't have even heard mom talk!

Afterwards, Todd met us at Joe's Crab Shack for dinner/lunch? When you eat at 3:30, I'm never sure what to call it. One funny thing happened - a new server put coffee in the iced tea machine, so the iced tea sure tasted funny!

Looking forward to vegging out tonight and watching Grey's Anatomy. Looks like Desparate Housewives is one of those stupid clip shows.

Well, it finally stopped raining, but ....

Hallelujah! It has finally stopped raining, but it is really cold. This a.m. Diane and I went to the State Fair to help with the spring cleanup of the Master Gardener's Discovery Garden. It was freezing, especially in the shade. I am on the rose garden committee, and it shouldn't be too hard to take care of since there are only ten roses in it! This afternoon Todd painted a wall in the basement and we painted the trim boards. We had the trim boards set up on sawhorses in the driveway and were painting away when our neighbor came out and started mowing his lawn not 12 inches from where we were painting. We got grass on the boards and in the paint can. Great.
Then I made Todd homemade beef and noodles and brownies for his lunch. I am such a good wife :) Why don't my brownies every get done in the middle though?

Viva Las Vegas!  

Viva Las Vegas!

Well, I am back from a conference in Las Vegas. Everything in Vegas is so surreal, 200 people at a crosswalk waiting to get across the Strip, waiting 45 minutes in line for a buffet when there are buffets every 50 feet, walking until you can't walk anymore, watching the weirdos on the stip, paying $8 for a 6 inch at Subway when it is only $3.69 in Des Moines....

I did everything I wanted to do. Had a good conference, mingled, went to the top of the Eiffel Tower at Paris, learned to play keno, won on a slot machine, finally found a decent buffet (MGM), went to my favorite - Caesar's Palace, visited all the new casinos built since the last time I was there (Venetian, Paris, Bellagio), saw the pirate ship sink at TI, had a 99 cent shrimp cocktail, and watched the fountains at Bellagio. There was a 40 mph wind the night we went to see the fountains at Bellagio, so the fountain would go off and then you would see a big wall of water blowing toward you, everyone would run away but still get soaked, then go back to see it again, repeat....the only draw back besides the water being freezing was that the music they were using was that damn Celine Dion song from Titanic! And, I walked and walked until thought I would just lay down in the strip and die. This was before I figured out a 24 hr bus pass was only $5. I won $80 on the 40 for 20 machine at the Riveria, so between that and conference, the whole trip cost me nothing.

Todd and I had a big day of gardening and mowing planned, but since it is raining we are trying to figure out what to do. I don't have any cleaning to do because Todd did it all while I was gone. He even cleaned up the huge pile of clothes in our boudoir.

View from the Eiffel Tower 

It's the Little Things

It's the little things in life that make it good. One of the most exciting things that happened this week on Allison Avenue is that I actually went and bought groceries at the Evil Wal-Mart in Windsor Heights. Going at 10 am on Monday morning was the smartest thing I have ever done. The clerks were just hanging out, waiting for someone to go through their lines! Another good thing was that while I was there I picked up a Rotisserie chicken. It was a big risk, but Todd loved it and actually ate it! Whoo-hoo. Add another meal to the list! The other exciting thing, was that after two years, I finally caved in and bought a Sizzix for scrapbooking. I practically fainted at the price, but I am excited to use it! And so is Jen, and so is Heather. I may even start punching out letters and sell them on Ebay. The downer this week was that Diane and I went to work at the MG Greenhouse on Saturday and were assigned to wash flower pots. We washed pots for an hour before someone told us that we were washing the wrong stack and that the ones we washed didn't even belong the the MG group. I was not happy!

Good Lord, I am old!

We went to a party last night and we could really feel our age. It was a backyard barbecue, so we dressed sensibly for the weather. You know, pants and normal shoes. I was ended up putting on a big cardigan to keep warm when the sun went down, and my friend Diane had on a big windbreaker. All of the little twentysomethings had on their low, low pants, tank tops, tons of makeup, and they all had on high heels! The one chick had on a beautiful pair of stilletos that probably cost more than I spent on shoes all last year, and she had chunks of grass hanging from them from where she sunk into the lawn. At one point I looked up, and there was a whole row of Barbies, all talking away on their cell phones.

Side note, the little server we had at Rack and Roll (most disgusting food ever) had on pants that were cut so low, that I said to Todd, "If my dad or Kurt were here, they wouldn't be able to eat, or focus on anything!"

Just What Exactly What Time Is It?

Apparently Todd changed some clocks ahead, but not all? I am confused. I think it is about 11:30 but not sure. Todd is still sleeping and all I have accomplished is reading the paper and showering. Whoo-hoo. Maybe I shouldn't have started a blog. I have a feeling it may be too boring!

Gardening Tip #1

It is time to cut back your autumn clematis to about six inches
above the ground. I know it seems scary, but it will grow back!