Picture Challenge - January 17

My friend Samantha arrives today from California. She is coming in town to participate in Sara's Weekend in Fredericksburg. I have 5 bottles of bubbly chilling in the fridge in honor of Sam's arrival...hopefully that'll last the two nights that she is staying at my place...

My Weekend

This past weekend was a pretty good one.

Saturday I got up and around and went and visited my friend Angie and her family. She and I went to a "Craft Fair" at one of the local high schools and then wandered around Garden Ridge and DSW. I really, really wanted to buy a couple of different pairs of shoes that I tried on, but told myself that I had to wait until the right time (and shutting up the voice in my head that was screaming "WHEN ISN'T IT THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY SHOES!!!").

Saturday evening I went to Bass Performance Hall with my sister and saw the Von Trapp Children sing with the Fort Worth Symphony. It was really a great show, even though Marti and I started out in the wrong seats. One of the things that cracked me up was the audience...they were quite the geriatric set. A couple of times when the singers would announce what they were going to perform next, especially when it was one of the songs from the movie, the audience would make quiet exclamation sounds and murmur approval. I would look at Marti and we would giggle because we had the joint thought of "Hello, people, it is all written in the program that was handed out as you walked to your seat...." Ah, well... All in all, it was a beautiful program and the kids were great performers.

Sunday morning I woke up at my sisters and she made fresh cinnamon rolls (you know the kind from the can with the frosting...yum) and scrambled eggs and then I hit the road heading back to the palace. As I was settling in for a relaxing afternoon of reading, I get a BBM from The Queen stating that Tarzan and Jane are coming over for Sunday night football and dinner...yippee!! The Queen and I did some minor straightening, although I think she did more because she was getting distracted by cleaning out her closet, ran to the store for beer, and prepared the puppies for company. Unfortunately, I managed to drop a full jar of terryaki bar-b-que sauce on the kitchen floor, which shattered and splattered orangish-red goo all of The Queen's jeans and got glass all over the kitchen. Not a fun thing to clean up, but we got it done.

Tarzan and Jane showed up. Tarzan gravitated to the television for football, where The King joined him as soon as he got home, and the three HCBCs present popped the cork on a couple of bottles of wine and visited. Next thing you know, it is going on 11:00 and we all need to get to bed seeing as how it is a school night and we all have to work in the morning. Tarzan and Jane headed out and the castle settled into sleep mode.

All in all, it was a really great weekend....

Saturday Movie Night

No, I didn't go see Twilight or any other movie at a theatre. I did go see a movie, actually a double feature. 

My friend/boss, Terri invited me to come over to her house on Saturday as they were having drive-in movie night in their driveway. They put up a sheet over the garage door and rigged a projector and speakers up to their DVD player and showed Kung-Fu Panda and WALL-E. 

All the neighborhood kids and their parents came over and we all sat outside eating popcorn and drinking wine (well the kids drank water) and watched movies. It got pretty cold sitting out there and eventually all the kids ended up in a big pile on the driveway with blankets and pillows and all the adults were in their lawn chairs wrapped up as well. But it was really a great thing, inexpensive, and entertaining. 

I recommend everybody do this with their friends and neighbors at some time. To me, it was great to see a neighborhood gather together and just hang out like that. I remember growing up in smaller towns and all the neighborhood kids and parents getting together for things like the Fourth of July or something, but I didn't know that people still visited and shared with their neighbors in that manner. Maybe I've just been living the single life so long and going from one apartment to another, that I don't see these displays of Americana anymore. I don't know how to describe it, I guess, but it just gave me a warm fuzzy inside seeing all these kids piled up together to stay warm and all the parents gathered together to have some good, clean fun. 

Oh and Kung-Fu Panda was really good. WALL-E, I could have passed on. And I'm down one more bottle of wine.