Fun with Photoshop...and a glorious weekend

HAHA! It's Panda KISS! This shit cracks me up! Aren't they just adorable?! Hehehe! No, I didn't do this. It was sent to me in an email of course. I had to share it.

My weekend was spent well. Friday night I went to a surprise party that Lisa threw for her girlfriend, Paulette's big THREE-OH. Lisa had been swamped at work all week so she needed some last minute party prep help. I picked up the cake and showed up at the restaurant a little early to help put things together. It was fun...and good practice for me, too...just in case I ever decide to throw a surprise party. I am not one to throw parties at all and I think it's about time that I do. Not only is it fun, it's very satisfying to do something like that for someone you love. Paulette was very surprised and happy. The party was held at a new bar and grill type of place in town. It's probably been open for quite some time, but this was my first time there. That's not saying a lot since I really don't get out much! The food was delicious. My favorite had to be the spinach artichoke dip, of course!

Saturday Ron and I had a list of things to do. First we were going to take the new truck to the valley to pick up some bike parts that Rons friend had left for him. His friend, another BMX/bike enthusiast, had worked at a well-known bike shop for years. As a result, he had collected many bike parts in his backyard shed. The friend had a few sudden life changes, he'd gotten a better job and had to move from the house he'd been renting because of new ownership. So he offered Ron these parts (tires, hubs, rims, sticker sets), most of which were brand new and had not been used. We had to get out there and get these things before the new owners showed up on Saturday afternoon and managed to do so in the knick of time. Now Ron's got a whole lotta new parts so that he can start building his bikes...and start getting them sold!

After the pickup we were going to eat breakfast, get the truck insurance, get concert tickets (Ron just found out that one of our favorite bands, Peeping Tom, is playing in LA) and then go home and do laundry. We managed to eat breakfast...then we were too tired to do anything else so we went home to rest. It had started to get hot by the time we were done with breakfast and we were drained from getting up early. On the way home we stopped by the Wherehouse to see if we could get tickets, but their ticket service was temporarily out of service. Damnit. Once we got home we both passed out for a long nap. By the time we woke up we weren't in the mood to do anything but sit around and watch movies. We picked up some pizza and beer and spent the evening being as immobile as possible. Why do what you can put off for yet another day? Uh-huh...

Sunday we had plans to take my parents to another car show. This time it was a vintage GMC truck show. It was lots 'o fun. On the way to my parents we tried again to get tickets. Unfortunately the show in LA is sold out. But we're still going to try to get tickets for the shows in either San Diego or San Francisco. That would be great motivation for a little (much needed) road trip for the two of us. Anyway, the truck show was great and afterwards we went to my parents house for a BBQ. Steaks, baked potatoes and salad. One of my very favorite dinners. It was so much fun hanging out with my parents and Ron. My mom had gotten a new board game for us to play, too. It's called "Scene It" and comes with a DVD full of movie clips and lots of questions. We had a blast playing it!

We got home Sunday night, exhausted...but it was a nice exhausted. So now it's Monday again. Bleh. I still have tons of laundry to do, not to mention grocery shopping. Yuck. And Ron works Monday nights now, too. He'd been going to class on Monday nights (third year electrician classes) from 5 - 9 and the semester was over two weeks ago. He works swing shift and since class was at night on Mondays, he couldn't work those nights. And they couldn't switch him to daytime for just one day a week. Now he has to work five days a week at that stupid federal building they've been working on for the past 4 months. Still shitty swing shift from 5 to 1:30 a.m. I was hoping that when they finish this building they'd be able to move to working on a school again. That way, since school is out for the summer, they'd have a day shift. But so far, word is that they'll probably be going to another damn federal building. Commence weekly loneliness.

Okay, that's it for now. I've got some work to do. Later.