a few days to update...
thursday night...bellydancing class went well. not sore at all.
friday...maia
and i didn't do much of anything most of the morning. this was the
first day in about 2 weeks that i didn't have at least one thing that
was planned and needed to be done. eventually talked to and she
invited us up to her house so the kids could play and in the wading
pool. brought her two children over too. here you can see liam,
persephone and maia jumping into the pool:
unfortunately
i didn't have my real camera with me and only had my cell phone
camera. that's really two bad because i think this would have made a
fantastic picture to have printed and framed.
havoc
and i went and got tristyn and then everyone continued playing.
tristyn got a bit out of hand so we ended our visit a bit early and
came home. poor tristyn. it seems one his friends at school isn't
being much of a friend lately and i *think* this is causing him to act
out. we had a long talk and i think he feels a bit better.
later
that night, (this is missy everyone, she signed up to read my LJ but
doesn't post--help me to get her to post!!!!!) and i went to see a
movie. it was decent but had entirely too many not hot men crying in
it. yes, crying in it...and it was not a chick flick either!!!
saturday:
i took maia to dance and it didn't go smoothly. her shoes are too
tight and she basically flatly refused to dance. since her and i have
the same general foot shape, i knew that when she says 'too tight' she
doesn't just mean in the toe. there was no point in making a big fuss
about it (especially since maia loves attention of any sort, lol) so we
instead watched the class quietly together instead.
afterwards
we drove down to the strip to 'the dancer's pointe' to go pick up some
new shoes. the answering machine said they opened at 10 am when i
called at 10:02. i figured they hadn't turned on their phone lines
yet, but when we got down there turned out they weren't open due to
memorial day weekend. i was mildly annoyed, because she does need
shoes and she has to try them on--meaning i can't order them online. i
learned a new way home from the strip so at least some benefit came of
it.
later that
day, i went to lunch with some friends at mad mex (rating a thumbs
sideways--not a big mexican food eater) but had a good time
nonetheless. and i went shopping for shoes afterwards. really it was
supposed to be HER shopping for shoes, but i picked these up:
they
look way better in person (shoe?) especially since you can see their
color better. my skill at taking pictures is next to nil. anyways, i
wore them with pink blouse of the same color and a pretty brown lace
skirt.
came
home to find rick was still at the park running with the dogs. i
signed online with the intention of updating my LJ, but got caught up
reading other people's updates and never got to mine because rick came
home. we went outside and relaxed on the deck for awhile (a common
thing now that we got the new patio set that does not have a shaky
table) and talked about what we wanted to do later that evening. we
elected to keep it simple, dinner and a movie and went inside to get
ready.
after
getting ready and a lot of ....... we finally made it out of the
house! we went to india garden where i had chicken tikka masala and
rick had some salad with tandoori chicken on it. rick finally found
something he can eat there without it being too hot. he also had these
crab cakes kebob things and he asked me to taste them and tell them how
spicy they were. they were less spicy than what i had ordered at a
five and i told him i dunno..somewhere between mild and medium? like a
3? rick didn't believe me; he thought they were much spicier. i think
his taste buds that handle the spicy stuff are overly sensitive (don't
know and don't care what the proper way to explain what it is, is)
then
we headed to the waterfront to see pirates of the caribbean 3. yawn.
Yawn. YAWN. it was entirely too long. 45 mins could have been cut
from it easily and that would have made it a great deal better. the
fight scenes were just a bit too long, especially the one (i fell
asleep for about 5 mins rick said during the one), and there was a lot
of double dealing going on that sometimes was hard to follow (due to
the one character's accent --and i'm usually quite good at
understanding people through accents! i felt bad for people who
normally have a difficult time understanding people with accents). it
seemed a little more in your face violent too. (such as when they
showed a woman being shot in the head). a great deal of the humour
that was in the first two was missing from this one too. =(
knowing what i know now, i wouldn't have paid to see it at the movie theatre. i would have waited for it to come out on hbo.
sunday: haven't been up very long yet!!! i slept in for the first time in quite a while!!! yay!!!
