Well Well

Sorry…got nothing to say new today….or for the past few days I guess.  Enjoy the silence!

What a fantastic weekend.  Not much of anything happened.  On Saturday, Kimmie fooled me into going to town by saying we could go watch a movie.  We ate at Red Robbins (YUMMMMM), and then went ski clothes shopping.  We didn’t actually get any ski clothes though, because it seems like they were ridiculously expensive.  When I think of buying a ski bib, I think of $50-$100.  These were going for $150.  When I think of a ski jacket, I think of $200-$400.  On these, they were close with $500.  So on that front, I think we are going to wait until a little closer to winter, when maybe some of these other athletic shops will changes from summer sports to winter sports gear.

After the eating and the shopping though, Kim dropped the hammer on her manipulative plan…and said she wanted me to take her home and that I could go watch a movie by myself.  She’s a clever one…

But I went and saw “Traitor.”  It was pretty good.  I’d give it a 4 our of 5.  Maybe 3.75, but more than likely 4.  I wanted to see the “Burn after Reading” movie, but after Kim’s Tom Foolery, I didn’t get a chance too.

We went to Grapefest last night with Kim’s crew.  It was rather uneventful…but Kim did get smashed which is always entertaining.  The only real thing to report is a stupid little joke I said and thought was really funny, and to feed my ego I am going to retell it here.

We were walking out of the place, and a Home Depot guy comes up to us with a bucket and say “Would you like to draw for a prize?” (He probably said what the prize was…I don’t remember).  I said “Oh no thanks, I’m not much of an artist.”

**UPDATE**

I forgot to mention that we bought our first real piece of artwork.  You can go here and see them.  In the top section, scroll (put your mouse on the picture at the far edge) and find the painting that are 4 separate paintings that each have a tree on them.  The painting is called “Four Seasons.”

This weekend I think we officially start Festival Season.  We should be going to the Grapevine Festival on Saturday.  That festival is always like a warmup for the Oktoberfest in Addison.  Don’t worry, I’ll start sending out invites for it.

Anyone that wants to come, just let me know.

I’ve been around.  This weekend we went to Tyler for one of my niece’s birthday parties.  They had it at Jumpin’ Jacks, which was a lot of fun because the adults get to jump in the inflatable-castle-type stuff too.

Then we went and hung out with mother for a few hours before going to eat with Russell and Melanie (well, she was just waiting on us) at Shoguns.  Then we drove home.

Yesterday (Sunday) we went shopping for Cruise stuff (shorts, shirts, banana hammocks).  We tried to go shopping for ski trip stuff too, but that turned out harder than we thought because the sports places don’t generally carry ski clothes.  I’m sure we’ll find it somewhere though.

So we are going to have two fairly close vacations.  The cruise is December 14th for 7 days I think, and then the ski trip is going to be January 15th for about 4 days.