I believe we have a lay low weekend for a change. Steve is going to be helping a friend on Saturday, so I might take the dogs over to my parents and watch The Adventures of Mark Twain with them. It's a film that my uncle worked on with Will Vinton back in the 1980's. Both of them passed in the last year, so I figure it would be a nice tribute to the both of them.
I discovered it myself in the food court of Seattle's Westlake Center Mall, while vacationing there, and looking for a quick lunch. On a few occasions, I've had cases where either the grillmaster or the sauce attendant disagreed with me on the definition of "mild" (with his or her definition of "mild" coinciding with my definition of "radioactive"), but I usually manage to get what I want. As to the history of the cuisine, Wikipedia has the details.
Combing thrift stores for Comicon costumes. We and the daughter and SIL have tickets for a show Sunday night. Dinner out and all. We don't really get opportunities to do stuff like this with our grownup kids very often.
Steve is driving to Tukwila tonight for an early morning class, and will be home tomorrow afternoon. I am leaving tomorrow afternoon for Long Beach (regardless of what the weather forecasters say) to enjoy a relaxing weekend with my friend, Cheryl, with a whole bunch of wine and movies. Must watch list includes : Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Ralph Wrecks the Internet (if it's delivered before I leave), Little Miss Sunshine, and House with a Clock Within its Walls.
I hope you have a great time! My son bought Ralph Wrecks, but I haven't watched it yet. Little Miss Sunshine is excellent! I wasn't crazy about Clock in the Walls...but maybe I needed a whole bunch of wine.
Just keep driving, just keep driving...………………………….. We got snowed on bringing our granddaughter home from school today. Absolutely Little Miss Sunshine and Tucker and Dale is a must see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything looks just fine for my drive this afternoon to the beach. So stoked to just kick back, drink wine, and watch movies all weekend!! Tucker & Dale is watched after a bottle of wine as a ritual for Cheryl and I. We always laugh so hard we cry.
Busy weekend: it seems that last night's concert had to be postponed until Saturday afternoon at 2:00 PM, meaning I have to leave the Museum early; then there's another concert Sunday evening.
Last night was great; running late, having to bolt our dinner and missing the 1st few minutes of the show, notwithstanding. Coming up next: Wait for it...…………... Emerald City Comicon!!!!!
This weekend I believe we are puppysitting for Chunk (Kricket's first born), and Tristen and I are going to go out to dinner and see the Cirque du Soleil show for our early birthday present.
Last weekend: I had a large tour group at the Museum, and had to interrupt their tour and take them into the 1950s Shop early, in order to get them their souvenir slugs (after already changing into a suit and tie!), but I made it to the Anne-Sophie Mutter recital with time to spare. Getting to Sunday evening's concert was a bit of an adventure: with the Blue LIne closed for rebuilding, south of the Watts Towers, I tried the bus-bridge. No express bus-bridges outside of weekday rush-hours; I had to take the local. Took at least 50 minutes, with traffic (40 minutes coming home after 10 PM), to cover stops that the Blue Line covers in 15 minutes or less. Clearly, for the rest of the Disney Hall season, and the entirety of the Hollywood Bowl season, I'm going to be driving the extra 7 miles to the Harbor Gateway park-and-ride, and taking the Silver Line into LA: otherwise, on Bowl concert nights, I'd be getting back to my car after midnight. The concert itself was rather unusual: the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, with Trio Arabica, in a narrated program, "Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House." Somehow, especially in the first half, it somehow felt longer than it actually was, without being boring. I believe this coming weekend is a Book Arts Patch Day for Girls. Much less stressful than a Boy Scout Merit Badge Day.
Oh, and my granddaughter's 13th birthday on Pi day. The year I have been dreading. (I mean, that makes me really old.) We doubled our grandchildren in 2006 from 3 to 6. This is the year they all turn into, dare I utter the word??!!?? TEENAGERS First time together One year trip to Marine World Four years Seven years. It was spring time on the farm. Lots of baby animals. Sadly, since my son moved his family to Michigan; the three of them have not been together for over 4 years now
Can anyone guess our cosplay? Rod is obvious; mine is a mashup. I got stopped for lots of pictures. (Not as many as Rod though...)
It was Seattle. Pinball Wizard is right. It was so fun to see people's faces when they figured it out. Rod was Arthur, the Tick's sidekick.
This is Saturdayday. Nobody figured it out without some help. I am hoping my Disney fan friends will get it. (It's a pun.) My daughter and granddaughter. There was a Star Wars exhibit. I actually cried when I saw this. (I am so old I saw the original in the theater.
This weekend my daughter has rented a hotel suite for Morgan's 13th birthday party. I am helping out and I think we will have a lot of fun. No wine though. Then on Sunday we head home.
Cute costumes. I'm sorry to say, I need help figuring out the pun. I saw the original in the theater too.
I need help with the pun too. I was a bit young when the first one came out (I'm talking New Hope not the other crud), but I'm sure my dad took me because he took me to all of the other ones. He also took me to all of the Star Trek movies (including the new ones) so I could enjoy both universes. The only thing I'm sure this weekend is holding for me so far is that I'm getting my taxes taken care of on Sunday. I might stop off at my parental units' house when I'm done if I'm needing a glass of wine after my friend tells me how much I might owe.
