weekend shorts-- short stories, short sentances, short shorts, sammies, sun, sillies...
Starting with Friday-
Who wears short shorts:
I mowed the yard, well, 1/2 the yard as we have a large yard, on Friday after getting home from work. I decided not to wear pants (wha?) and opted for capri/skimmer length pant/shorts. I now know why most opt for pants while mowing- I had so many things fly back at me! We have a rock driveway and shoveling in the winter sometimes gets the rocks in the yard, which get sucked up and hurled out of the mower, right in the middle of my shins. No shorts while mowing.
Scrumptious Sammies and a show :
Some Friday nights we splurge and go out to eat. Others, I try to think of something fun. While Jared finished the mowing, I thought of something fun to eat, and then started cooking while he cleaned up. I made homemade flatbreads on the griddle, and made chicken/bacon/ranch sammies like one of his favorite Quizno's Sammies (the beef and creamy peppercorn sauce is his favorite, but I was already being adventurous making the flatbread, I didn't want to try for too many tricky things) minus the bacon because I thought we had bacony bits but we didn't. They were still tasty, and I think we will certainly make them again on a Friday night. I had fun with the flatbread, but it is timely and messy.
We watched "Valkerie" while eating. Jared always picks movies that get me worked up and nerved up, yet I still watch them, and then when he asks me to pick a video, I'm never in a girly movie mood. So the movie was intense, but my belly was content with the sammies.
Mortifying Petrified Mouse:
Friday morning I had an early meeting in Elkhart- 7 am, which meant leaving the house by 6:30, which is earlier than I wake up most mornings. I was doing fine until I was on my way back to work, and then I was feeling sluggish, so I stopped home on the way to get a drink for the road. While home I spotted a mouse that Oscar was playing with, but I couldn't catch it. I told him to catch the mouse and if we weren't around to put it somewhere we could find it. Although he doesn't always listen to our instructions, he certainly listened to those.
Friday night, as we slept, Oscar got the mouse. He tried to wake us, but he always meows in the night, so we just brushed it off like usually when he's trying to play in the middle of the night. Apparently, which we didn't notice til far into the next morning, he had proudly brought us his catch, and left it for us on the bed!!! ahh!
We both slept in late, and then lazed around in bed for a few more hours making plans for the day. We didn't find the critter until shaking the covers to make the bed. FLING went the dead little fella, across the room, and I screamed like a sissy girl and curled into a ball on the bed, mortified we'd been sleeping and lazying with a dead mouse all morning. I'm normally not scared of mice, but it was a disgusting, disturbing thought thinking we'd been in bed with it for hours! sicka!
Some like it hot:
I like summer, I like nice toasty days with sunshine and a breeze. Jared doesn't like it to be above 65. This makes doing things outside together difficult, but not impossible. Sometimes I can convince him to go outside with me. I will say I wish I could more often, or maybe I guess I wish he enjoyed it when I have him join me outside in the summertime. We went to the Summerfest in Mishawaka Saturday night, and he did enjoy that. We sat outside and watched a few bands play, and hung out with Nick, Katie, Jude, and Katie's parents.
Also on Saturday, speaking of sun and summerfest, while Jared hung out with Nick during the day at Summerfest, I set up a new kiddy-pool. My old one had a leak. : ( The new one is smaller, cheaper, and not as comfortable as the old one, but still does the trick. It was too cold to use yesterday, so, I spent a few hours this afternoon chillin' in the pool with Reader's Digest (thanks grandma Olson). Good thing about the smaller pool is less water means quicker heating time. What was frigid hose water Saturday at 3 was a baby-bath on Sunday. ahh... refreshing!
1/2 Baked:
Relating to some like it hot.... Today we joined some friends for lunch. We got caught up in chit-chatting with people after church, so we were the last ones to arrive to the restaurant, so the seats had already been chosen: west- facing patio seating was selected for 12 noon brunch, in the heat of the day, and we were there a few hours.
Lack of sunscreen during that time in now evident. Jared has a bit of bright pink to his arms and face (which he says will be tan by morning) and I have evidence of being half-baked, which I am curious how Jared is evenly colored and I am not? My right shoulder is pretty red, while the left is just tan with a touch of pink.
I had Jared put sunscreen on me before I went out for pool-time, but my previous sun-exposure was lingering underneath, little did I know. I didn't know I was burned from lunch til after my time in the pool. I came inside post-pool-time to see I had lines from my dress I wore over lunch, a red right shoulder, and a pink nose and top of forehead where I must have applied my foundation too sparingly (it has spf in it). I don't like tanlines, and I know those are pretty much inevitable, but I hate, I hate hate hate sunburns. I feel so stupid having a sunburn because you look silly, and I feel bad for my skin. I want to take care of it well. So much for that today. 1/2 baked.
Silly store:
Believe it or not, I like to be silly ; ) Jared and I like to be silly together, but don't tell him I told you. (wink)
Today he said "You're so full of sillies you could put them in a basket and sell them at the store" what a crazy thought.
I end on that note.
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