We’re coming up to the big middle of Maribou’s Birthday Week and she told me that she wants one thing: Nothing To Happen On Saturday.
Like “let her sleep in” and “maybe make breakfast but let her sleep in” followed by “it’s your job to not answer the phone and let voice mail get it” with a little side of “maybe we can watch our shows” but mostly “I don’t want to have to do anything.”
“What about the Saturday errands?”
“Do them on Sunday.”
So we’re going to let her sleep in, maybe make her breakfast when I hear her milling about, not answer the phone (and don’t even check the voice mail until SUNDAY), and not have her have to do anything. BEST SATURDAY EVER.
Oh, and Saturday night will have us going over for our regular game night.
And then I’m going to run errands all day Sunday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HONEY!
So… what’s on your docket?
(Photo is “Footrace finish line, 1925” from the Seattle Municipal Archives, used under a creative commons license)
We had a visit from the Development Coordinator. She talks a mile a minute in about fifteen different directions and so it took us a whole hour after she left just to recover.
I finished the taxes and, as previously mentioned, we actually got a bit of a refund. Yay! (My head knows I gave the feds an interest free loan. My heart doesn’t care.)
Trying to train the dog on the invisible fence. A “level two” “static correction” doesn’t seem to have any effect. Going to level three has her yelping and running in circles. Not sure what to do.
We were really hoping to go mattress-shopping this week. Doesn’t look like that’s going to work out.Report
suggest brainwashing.Report
That’s your answer for everything!Report
You’re conditioned to think that.Report
I’m a CBT kid!Report
1) They were due on Wednesday.
2) Considering how low interest rates are, I wouldn’t worry about giving the Feds a short-term loan.Report
1) I finished it on Sunday. Was recapping previous week.
2) Fair point.Report
(My mom does this thing where she calls me at 5:15 AM on my birthday and explains to me that that’s the time that I woke her up lo those many, many years ago. Every year.)Report
Go to Europe for your birthday next year, so she’s calling you at lunchtime.Report
Or you and Maribou can come over to Singapore (if I’m around) and she can call you at tea time.Report
@murali I like this theory.Report
Oh, and Happy BirthdayReport
@murali cheers!Report
My mother in law did that for years on Christmas morning. For some reason, only to my wife, not her brother, despite their sharing I think roughly equal measures in the childhood early wake-ups for which this was retribution.
He however had incredible powers of sleeping in. Mom in law could get the dog riled up and send it in to my wife’s room, and it would romp about and lick faces and make sleep impossible. If she tried it on brother in law, she’d shortly find the dog curled up and dozing at his feet.Report
“I only woke you up that one time, Mom. I think you’ve awakened yourself enough times now to show that you’re perfectly capable of getting up that early when you want it enough.”Report
We have a pre-wedding photo shoot.Report
Mazel tov!Report
So on a scale of 1 to 10, how freaked out are you?Report
The wedding is in November. This is just a photoshoot to take pictures, some of which may be shown as part of a montage during the reception.Report
Sooooo… a 4?Report
maybe a 2. I’m more stressed out about my applications to grad schoolReport
This weekend is bottling the homebrew!Report
What kind?Report
Pear, I think he mentioned before. Kinda curious of his process as I have pressed pear juice before and it was a task.Report
I have too – a long day it was. I’ve found, and brewed to good results, big quantities of apple juice concentrate (meant for some kind of restaurant dispensers I think), but I haven’t found pear juice.Report
Happy Birthday, Maribou!
Going to see Lady Lamb (and the Beekeeper) tonight. Reggae Fest tomorrow. Then lots of housework to do Sunday.Report
Bit of a tangent sparked off the Reggae Fest, but despite considering myself a casual fan of Oasis at best, I will always read a Noel Gallagher interview. That dude is hilarious, and seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders.
Anyway, he gave one to AVClub not too long ago, and in it he was asked about the “Blurred Lines”/Gaye Estate verdict, and he had this to say:
http://www.avclub.com/article/noel-gallagher-liza-minnelli-and-why-running-fucki-216909Report
Hehe… yeah, I get the impression a lot of musicians feel that way. I saw a lot of “this ruling will ruin the music industry” statements in the immediate aftermath.Report
Plus he wrote the greatest song of the last 20 years: Don’t Look Back in Anger.
So he has THAT going for him, which is nice.Report
@chris Thank you!Report
Happy Birthday Maribou.Report
@north Thank you!Report
For Maribou, happy happy joy joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0V4TZAyd8IReport
@zic heee! thank you.Report
@maribou I didn’t want to ask yesterday, being do-nothing day. But I do today — did you manage to do nothing?Report
@zic Yes, I did! And every time I *didn’t* answer the phone, I got a thrill all over. *grins*Report
***grins back***
One of the things we forget about telephones is that it’s okay to ignore them, to turn them off, to leave them home. I hope you pursue birthday bliss more often, and ignore the phone, telling it, “You are not the boss of me,” at least once or twice a month. Or weekend. Or even every day.
And I recently discovered Mr. Bliss. I’m uncertain how I feel about it; I didn’t love it nearly as much as I’d hoped; thought the illustrations far better than the narrative. It wasn’t quite silly enough to suspend judgement of the characters, not sympatico.Report
You can leave the telephone at home. Sadly, the busybody cameras are rather harder to turn off. And then employers kvetch because they saw you “outside, having fun” (yes, employees who sign up for 24/7 contracts have themselves to blame. You’d think the employers understood that constant monitoring ought to account for sleep).Report
I’m perfecting my Gajar ka Halwa making skills, among other things….Report
When done, post recipe please?!Report
Happy Birthday Maribou!
Busy weekend for me. We have a Kenny Chesney concert tonight (yes, I know this is probably hopelessly pedestrian to the music lovers of the OT – but I still love mainstream country music). Tomorrow is probably my favorite opening day of the year. Spring turkey season starts and so I will be up at a painful hour and should be sitting under a tree by 6:30am waiting for some big tom to come visit.
UFC on FOX tomorrow night. Good card for anyone that wants to catch some quality free fights.
Off to the airport on Sunday for my last trip to CT for quite a while. I’m handing the project off to someone else so I can transition to the NH side of things. Should be a productive week.Report
@mike-schilling Thank you! And good luck with your turkey waiting :D.Report
Happy birthday full of as little as possible, Maribou!
Personally I’m spending what’s looking like to be a beautiful spring weekend mostly in the basement, where the horrible awful no good very bad carpet is going to come out, and probably a few truckloads of stuff will go to goodwill, the eco-station, or the dump. Unfortunately we didn’t get a chance to buy the new flooring before Fledermaus went out of town for the weekend, but honestly it’s unlikely we’d have had much time to install it anyway.Report
@dragonfrog thank you! and huzzah for getting rid of horrible carpet, i still have the occasional nightmare about bad carpets past.Report
Happy birthday Maribou!Report
@joe-sal Thank you!Report
Happy Birthday Maribou!
My wife’s birthday is middle next week, so she will be gardening this weekend and I will be building garden structures per her directions.
There might be a birthday dinner, or that might be next weekend.Report
@aaron-david Thank you, and happy birthday to your wife as well!Report
Happy Birthday, Maribou! I will raise a glass of an as-of-yet undetermined spirited beverage in your name this weekend.Report
Oh, I forgot: This is the last weekend me and the youngest are bach-ing it, and so tomorrow night will be yet another evening of Chinese takeout and bad kung fu movies. (We deviated from the formula and watch Snowpiercer last weekend, and it was something of a disappointment — so back to the kung-fu genre we go. Maybe Stephen Chow’s Jounrey to the West… has anyone seen it? Is it as fun as Kung Fu Hustle was?)
Otherwise I intend to do some outdoor activities because it is going to be severity-freaking-seven degrees and sunny this weekend. There will be hiking. There will be yard work. There will be one-on-one basketball. At some point, dead animal flesh will no doubt be placed on the BBQ.Report
It’s good that you will no longer be bach-ing it. Too much of that can send you into a Fugue state.Report
Ah, bach.Report
Unfortunately, not Barbara or Catherine.Report
Fortunately, not Sebastian.Report
Snowpiercer was a cool concept but I thought it faded toward the end.Report
I thought it was visually gorgeous, and I liked the concept a lot, but somehow for me it never quite added up to the sum of its parts.
I also agree that it faded in the end, to the point of lacking self-awareness.
V tngurerq ng guvaarq V jnf fhccbfrq gb guvax, “n arj ortvaavat va n arj jbeyq!”
Ohg vafgrnq nyy V pbhyq guvax jnf, “Bu qrne, gurl nera’g tbvat gb fgnir gb qrngu orpnhfr gung orne vf tbvat gb rng gurz abj.”Report
V nterr gur raqvat fgenvarq oryvrinovyvgl. Vg jnf fgvyy cerggl qnearq pbyq bhg gurer.Report
@tod-kelly If you lived in New Zealand, you could bach it IN a bach.Report
@tod-kelly Thank you! I have not ruled out some glass raising of my own.Report
Happy Birthday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIln7Z1iInAReport
@kolohe hehehehe. i have a fondness for that movie. (and thank you!)Report
For once, I have nothing to add to Jay’s description of our weekend. 😀Report
Happy birthday Maribou. Do you plan to have the traditional Canadian birthday caribou?Report
@leeesq Thank you! Sadly, it would be prohibitively expensive to fly caribou down here for the eatin’. I’ve had it a time or two in my life, though, and it was deeeeeeelicious.Report
Happry Birthday @maribouReport
Thanks, @james-k !Report
(a) I will offer my standard “congrats on surviving another round-trip of star Sol on spaceship Terra!”
(b) I envy your Saturday
(c) Plans for this weekend:
i. Tonight is Poker Night! Yay!
ii. Tomorrow is kiddos Baseball Games and then a swing-by an old roomie’s place for his B-day party, coincidinkily.
iii. Sunday is spending the morning up in the crawlspace with a respirator on measuring for insulation and also using the shop vac to clean up all the crap that’s up there from when we had the roof redone and debris rained down inside the crawlspace (also, there’s some other unpleasantness up there I need to get cleaned out prior to re-insulating the attic) The girl kiddo will be in Orange County with Kitty doing things with the Cousins. Then I have a community politics event in the park in the afternoon, I’m taking the drinks.Report
@patrick Thank you! It was a near thing at times, but I look forward to attempting the next revolution.
I anti-envy your Sunday. Good luck.Report