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Plants, on either side of me..
Jul. 5th, 2009 07:24 pmor at least on either end of my weekend.
Friday night saw the Paramour and I making the trek out to Fergus to stay at my parents' overnight; Mom and Dad are in England and a) like someone to occasionally stay at the house when they're gone, b) have mail what needs to be picked up, and c) had some newly planted flowers that needed to be watered. Since I'm closer than my sister is, and I don't have a 3 year old to be disturbed by routine change, I was it.
We had pizza, watched TV -- including introducing the Paramour to Treehouse in the form of Dragon and the Backyardigans (which was entertainment in itself) -- and we hit the local Zellers where I scored 30 baby wash cloths for 10 bucks. Saturday morning, while he slept in, I did all the errands around the house that we were there for, and then we headed back to KW in the early afternoon.
On Saturday night we attended an absolutely fantastic party to warm the deck of our friends, who are coincidentally neighbours of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zanate and the lovely quingawaga. The deck was very nice, I met an old university roommate of the Paramours, and was suitably awed by the host's bar setup and his TV-like presentation skills while mixing cocktails.
When I got home that night, I discovered that a landscaping build day had been called for this afternoon. Since I promised Grover that I'd come out to help once they started the landscaping (that is, once they were no longer working with solvents), I talked to the Paramour about the best way to arrange that into my day... we'd had a date arranged for dim sum today and I didn't want to cancel that, however the build day started an hour before dim sum opened. We arranged to go at 11, so I missed the first 2+ hours of the landscaping, but I had tasty tasty dim sum. And, as it turns out, the restaurant is closing tomorrow for their annual holiday, so I wouldn't have been able to go next week.
The afternoon was filled with helping other people pull up grass, scrape up old mulch, and lay down blackout. It was also filled with more sun than my sunscreen was adequate to the task of, and ended when I started to feel like throwing up. So I called for a ride, came home, and showered and slept for 3 hours. I'm still stiff and sunburn-y, but more human feeling. Thanks to everyone at the build day for being understanding of my slower pace and wall-hitting.
Now I'm making rice and reheating the cheesy tuna mixture for on top of it and I suspect I'll round out the evening with some Dr. Who. Or maybe some Gilmore Girls. Or possibly both.
Tomorrow is my monthly family-doctor-prenatal appointment and tomorrow evening I'll be back in Fergus. After last week, I suspect this one is going to drag a bit.
Friday night saw the Paramour and I making the trek out to Fergus to stay at my parents' overnight; Mom and Dad are in England and a) like someone to occasionally stay at the house when they're gone, b) have mail what needs to be picked up, and c) had some newly planted flowers that needed to be watered. Since I'm closer than my sister is, and I don't have a 3 year old to be disturbed by routine change, I was it.
We had pizza, watched TV -- including introducing the Paramour to Treehouse in the form of Dragon and the Backyardigans (which was entertainment in itself) -- and we hit the local Zellers where I scored 30 baby wash cloths for 10 bucks. Saturday morning, while he slept in, I did all the errands around the house that we were there for, and then we headed back to KW in the early afternoon.
On Saturday night we attended an absolutely fantastic party to warm the deck of our friends, who are coincidentally neighbours of
zanate and the lovely quingawaga. The deck was very nice, I met an old university roommate of the Paramours, and was suitably awed by the host's bar setup and his TV-like presentation skills while mixing cocktails. When I got home that night, I discovered that a landscaping build day had been called for this afternoon. Since I promised Grover that I'd come out to help once they started the landscaping (that is, once they were no longer working with solvents), I talked to the Paramour about the best way to arrange that into my day... we'd had a date arranged for dim sum today and I didn't want to cancel that, however the build day started an hour before dim sum opened. We arranged to go at 11, so I missed the first 2+ hours of the landscaping, but I had tasty tasty dim sum. And, as it turns out, the restaurant is closing tomorrow for their annual holiday, so I wouldn't have been able to go next week.
The afternoon was filled with helping other people pull up grass, scrape up old mulch, and lay down blackout. It was also filled with more sun than my sunscreen was adequate to the task of, and ended when I started to feel like throwing up. So I called for a ride, came home, and showered and slept for 3 hours. I'm still stiff and sunburn-y, but more human feeling. Thanks to everyone at the build day for being understanding of my slower pace and wall-hitting.
Now I'm making rice and reheating the cheesy tuna mixture for on top of it and I suspect I'll round out the evening with some Dr. Who. Or maybe some Gilmore Girls. Or possibly both.
Tomorrow is my monthly family-doctor-prenatal appointment and tomorrow evening I'll be back in Fergus. After last week, I suspect this one is going to drag a bit.
