Refreshed and Rejuvenated

Well I had an excellent Memorial three day weekend. I hope you all did as well. There is so much I want to share that I don’t know where to begin.

I had plans lined up for all three days, a jam-packed weekend full of adventures and hanging out with both family and friends. While my plans did not go as I expected, I did enjoy myself.

Saturday, I took a trip out to Pasadena, by way of NoHo with Meesh and Ms. S. We headed over to the LUSH store. I actually did not purchase anything. Hard to believe, I know. We ate dinner there and also went and saw the movie, “Thank you for Smoking.” I liked it. When Ms. S and I had done our Academy nominated movie watching sprint, we saw the trailer several times. I was not disappointed. I really liked the cast. If you get the chance, check this little gem out.

Oh and that morning, I passed my weight watcher’s monthly weigh in for the first time in three months. Go me!

After dropping off Meesh, Ms. S and I hit Borders back in town before going our separate ways. I ended up missing the big family BBQ that day since I had scheduled this trip first and they switched the BBQ from Sunday to Saturday at the last moment. Hey, sometimes these things happen. I actually beat my parents home from Pasadena. The family BBQ’s tend to go on for hours.

Sunday is when my plans went majorly astray. Ms. S and I were originally going to get together, do some experimental cooking for our cocktail party in June and then head over to the Cajun-Creole Festival which was down the street from Ms. S’s place so we could walk to it. Well, these plans fell through.

I woke up not feeling well. I had a lot of pain in my right eye that kept coming and going. So when Ms. S called me and said we could cancel our plans since I was feeling under the weather and she was not in the best of moods, I took her up on it. With the exception of one short run to the market in the evening, I pretty much did not leave the couch that day. Sometimes, I just need a day of doing nothing. I didn’t call the doctor about my eye since I am seeing him today (Tuesday) and I figured I would call on Sunday of I was still in pain. Good news, I am fine. I occasionally get some pain today and I plan on asking the doc about it today. I figure that all is okay. I mean, my eye is still healing. I have stitches in my eye still and while there is less of it, part of my eye is still red.

I do regret canceling my Sunday plans a little. I actually enjoy cooking but since I get home after 6 everyday, I don’t have a lot of time to cook any more. Plus, even though I don’t listen to Cajun-Creole music on a regular basis, I enjoyed my first visit to the festival last year. It is interesting to see what food is served at these festivals. And I feel bad on flaking on Ms. S, as it turns out it was a little miscommunication between us as well. We should have hung out that night at least. Sorry chica.

Last night, Sunday, I went over to my cousin Sandra’s house for dinner. She has twin girls who just turned 7. The girls are sweethearts, with a little bit of attitude. I love them, the funniest things come out of their mouths. One of the girls asked me how boast float when we were on vacation in Venice, Italy. Let me ask you this, how do you explain physics to a seven year old when they don’t know what molecules are. I think I did a decent job explaining it but who knows. Here is a picture from the train ride to Venice.

That's Sophia on the left, Sarah in the middle and James with his pacifer. Thomas wasn't born yet.

I digress. It was a mini BBQ, with the Best family and the Staubs and me. (the twins, Sandra and her husband Malcolm are the Bests). Malcolm cooked while I played Twister with the girls. There is nothing like a game of Twister with kids who don’t know their left from their right. And as many of you know, I have a block with that as well so it was crazy. Plus, I couldn’t tell the girls apart last night most of the time. Calling the girls “Sweetie” will only get you so far.

I used the spinner and called out to the girls the next move. The girls don’t understand the rules about not lifting your hand or foot from a place and having only one appendage on a circle at a time… Every time I looked over, they were both on different sets of circles, not matching. It is really hard to have a winner when neither one is following the rules. After a while, I stopped using the spinner and would call out any combination I wanted. The girls couldn’t tell I wasn’t using the spinner and it amused me to see how the girls would twist and move around. Fantastic.

I fed my nephew Thomas so mom could actually eat with the rest of the family last night. James, who we all know I just adore to pieces, was being a PILL. He had been napping when I got there and he was whiny and cranky for the rest of the night. Ah well, All kids have off days. He still came over and gave me a hug when they left.

Earlier that day, Ms. S and I went to see “The DaVinci Code.” I hadn’t read the book and wanted to see if I could follow the story without having read the book.
I had a good time, Ms. S is always good company and we got Icees at the theatre. I liked the movie. Ms. S lent me the book after we left the theatre since she just happened to have it in her trunk, so I am interested to see how the two differ. I was glad to see Alfred Molina working. I like him as an actor. There is a French actor who played the main police inspector who I recognized but can’t remember his name. I liked him too.

So that is the shortened version of my weekend. I had a good time and also rested up. I hope you all had fun adventures and restful weekends as well. Ciao!