At last! I know. It's a big adjustment, going from a chilly Memorial Day to a hot, sunny, in-the-90s weekend...but I say, yay!
Friday night: utter exhaustion. On Thursday night I'd gone out with an old friend I hadn't seen in ages, and we'd gone to see the new Star Trek movie (Good! But not as good as the first one. And I'm never doing IMAX 3-D again because it was too loud and explode-y.) and with the movie and the catching-up I was up way past my bedtime. And I am a delicate flower so of course that made me a zombie all day on Friday. Still: powered through the day, drove home. Basically I got into jammies, heated up leftover pizza, and started watching Behind the Candelabra off the DVR (last day of free HBO!). It's a two-hour movie that I started at 6:30ish, so when it was over by 8:30ish, I was DONE. I had trouble staying awake through the end. I fed the cats and went the heck to bed.
Where I slept for like eleven hours. It was amazing! Saturday was a beautiful sunny day. It was going to be a hot one. I had plans to go to this mini-food-truck-rally down Oakland Mills Road a way, and I thought about walking (about 4 miles), but decided I'd probably fry in the sun. So I took a walk to the bank for cash, then walked home, had breakfast and showered and stuff. Then I put on sunscreen and went to the rally. Well it was about 4 trucks and one stall, and the lines were nuts, and there were no tents. I really wish they'd supplied some shade, it would have made a big difference. I met up with Katherine, Kerry, and Kenneth there and we had some yummy Caribbean food. (We found a patch of shade to sit in.) My curry chicken salad wrap was so huge that I took half of it home for dinner. I didn't want to stand in line for waffles, and the waffle truck is at HCC most of the time, so I will try them on another day. I bid adieu to the Ks and zipped home - I'd forgotten something, and had to stick the food in the fridge. Then I headed up to Ellicott City because the hot day left me really wanting ice cream! Yum! And I went to the Wind River outlet, which is like my favorite place to shop because they have cute stuff sometimes very cheap. For instance, I got a totally gorgeous dress (seriously I should not say such vain things about myself but HOLY CRAP this dress, yow) for $10. Excellent. Then I went to DSW because I realized I didn't have any "dressy" sandals that fit (which for me means "comfy, but I can wear them to work."). I'd dug out leather sandals I didn't wear last season and realized they really didn't fit. (Before the other year's revelation that my shoes were almost all too big for me.) Anyway I found a pair on good clearance, hurrah! Then I went to Wegman's for some food and then took the groceries home. I put stuff away and had a relaxing few hours to watch TV and read. (My summer project is Infinite Jest which I will never ever finish if I just try to read it at bedtimes.) Then I headed over to Lars and Pam's, where we watched the fine RiffTrax of Dr. Who vs. the Daleks, which is a non-canon movie made in 1965 with Peter Cushing as the Doctor, who in this version is just an eccentric Earth scientist who happens to build a TARDIS. Yeah, it was weird. But pretty hilarious! When that was over I went home, fed the cats, and went to bed.
Up on Sunday morning by about 8 a.m. I was not late for church! Amazing! You could tell it was the summer season, it was not very crowded even with only one service. It was nice, and I met up with friends there and chatted, then headed out. I got some lunch at Potbelly then ran to Target for a few things then finished up the week's groceries at Trader Joe's. I went home, put stuff away, roasted almonds for almond butter, started laundry, cleaned the apartment, did more laundry, actually made apple butter...then collapsed. Oh wait, no, then I went out to the annual meeting at church!
It's kind of funny. I've never been Protestant before, and this whole idea of running a church democratically is actually an entirely new thing to me. So the meeting isn't the most exciting thing but I was interested in learning about (and participating in) the process. I sat with some friends and heard the report and voted on the board and stuff. And it only took about 2 hours which really wasn't bad. And that's that until next June! Then I came home and fed the cats and went the heck to bed.
That's pretty much the weekend!
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