how i do LOVE the long weekends. well, i love any weekend i don't have to work. but a long one? bonus! i didn't do anything super fantabulously interesting, but it was great. went to see angels & demons on friday night with my friend jamie. mediocre at best. even though i preferred the book over the da vinci code, the movies suffered a reversal in favor.
saturday i spent a good portion of the day cleaning, and more specifically cleaning the patio furniture we've inherited. i don't know why, but spider webs are like a virus where we are, and even though i'm constantly wiping them off, i thought maybe a good scrub down might keep them at bay longer. they were back by sunday night. :(
after getting a lovely little burn (now tan, because that's just how my body is) i headed to chino hills to meet melissa and joan for dinner. joan's in town from phoenix for a dog show, and brought along her sister and brother-in-law. marti, the sister, and i met in december at the akc dog show, so it was a fun reunion. worth noting is that chino hills has been the epicenter for the two recent earthquakes here (one of which i mentioned having felt during long beach pride), so we hoped that things would remain quiet. by that standard, they did, but our nonstop laughter made up for the lack of earthly rumbles. my jaw seriously hurt by the time dinner was done.
on sunday, jesse came down from santa barbara to hang out for the remainder of the holiday. we saw star trek (just as good, if not better, the second time), ghosts of girlfriends past (ugh. i am officially bored with matthew mcconaughey), visited rei (aka 'boy heaven') and ikea. i was particularly excited about being pushed around on one of those 'big stuff'/furnture carts at ikea. smooth ride, and after already having been at the store for some three odd hours, jesse kinda owed me ;) okay really he didn't. if there's one thing that i am constantly appreciative of and confused by it's that jesse is a consummate gentleman, and rarely (and usually only if i'm super sneaky fast) let's me pay for things, i.e. meals, movies, etc. i'm always a little torn because it's such a nice thing to do, but at the same time, i hate the idea of being 'expensive' to spend time with. plus i'm just not really used to it. even my former boyfriends went dutch more often than not, and yes, i realize what that says about my former boyfriends. tangent aside, he always takes good care of me, and we always have a good time.
if you can believe it (that might be my new favorite phrase), i did not take one single picture this weekend. so perhaps now is a good opportunity to remind you that there are loads and loads of pics that never see the light of the blog, but are instead housed at my photo site: tva.smugmug.com, and to assure you that there will probably be more pictures than you would ever care to see after next weekend!
hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday, and took just a moment at least, to remember and thank those who have fought died defending the freedoms we enjoy today.
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