Weekend 7.28.07

First...Happy 5th Birthday Jack! I can't believe my nephew is five already. He's getting so big!!

This weekend I went out with the Barcelona group (plus some) on Friday to the Continental. I've never been there, but it was really fun! We took over the outside space, grabbed some food from Feast and had a good time. It was nice to see Rose and Matthew again.

Saturday my mom picked me up to go out to the suburbs for IKEA and scrapbooking...yay! IKEA! We didn't buy much, but I found a dresser that I really like. Hurrah! Now I just need a big car to transport it--$150 to ship? Yeah, not so much.

Scrapbooking was fun too. I'm so far behind (June 2003!) and desperately want to catch up. Maybe I can convince people to do the 12-hour class with me in August? Maybe? Takers? (oh, and I can't remember where this mosaic is in Philadelphia? Anyone know? It's so pretty and in the lobby of a building...somewhere...)

Edit: the Mosaic (the right side in the picture below) is the Dream Garden by Maxfield Parrish and Tiffany


Sunday morning bright at early (6am), Mom and I left to go back to the city for the Teb's Troops Walk. It was a 5K race (well, walk for us) for Melanoma. What a beautiful day. While everyone else ran and competed and raced, Mom, Liz, and I strolled along the lakefront. I'm pretty sure we were the last ones to finish (behind baby carriages and a girl that was about 9, but we enjoyed ourselves.


After the walk, we went to brunch (Toast!) and I crashed out for a 4 hour nap. Lucky for me, Sadie was so tired from playing with my mom's dog, Dakota, that she took a 4 hour nap as well.

The rest of the day consisted of 90210 reruns and Dead Like Me Season 1 (yay Netflix!).

I need another day in my weekend.

Harry Potter Update

So, I've decided not to write anything about the Harry Potter book on this blog--I don't want to be anything like my annoying roommate.

But I CAN say...it was a fabulous book and will make an amazing movie. And while I'm sad that it's over, JKR wrote a spectacular series that will be given and read to my children (nephews, maybe?).

Loved it. And I'll be reading the whole series again sometime soon.

Reason 812 on Why My Roommate Needs to Move Out

I found a note this morning on the coffee table:

I've blurred it out because I'm NOT an ass. It's the "ending" of the new Harry Potter book. The note on the left is my response. It says:

"If you were trying to ruin the ending for me, it didn't work. #1: I finished the book. #2: This [the note] is wrong."

WHY would you do that to someone. And if you WERE going to do that, at least check your facts.

Dumbass.

Testing...

A friend from work has asked that I post my mini-recaps online so I'm going to test the "white text" thing-a-majig to see if it works...

This currently says nothing because I'm just testing...duh.

So my question is...who of you out there will FREAK OUT if I do this? There are only about 2 of you reading, but if I put my thoughts and mini-recaps online, will you be able to handle it? I know I have a problem not reading stuff that's whited out, but that could just be me...

I'll wait until tomorrow until I post anything at all. Hopefully I'll be done with the book by then. :)

Squee!

I got the book yesterday and am currently about half-way through. This morning I SERIOUSLY considered calling into work today to finish it. I'm a little obsessed at the moment.

But it's REALLY good so far. I'll post (non-spoilering) thoughts about it once I'm done.

Smoke the Bone Mystery 2007

Yesterday was the annual "Smoke the Bone" rib cook off at Lemmings and it was a lot of fun, as usual. There were 17 entries this year and tons of additional pot luck items to nosh on while the ribs were cooking.

As usual, unless you cooked ribs you probably weren't going to get to taste any, but lucky for me, Chris brought in a sample for those of us non-grillers.

(Hee. Chris looks silly here)

And now the mystery...because of a disqualification (don't tell the judges what's in your sauce, silly!) the numbers were all moved up one, so if you were #8 before, now you're #7. The problem? Well, after sitting at a bar and cooking ribs and drinking beers for 7 hours, some people didn't quite get the memo about the number adjustment. So the winner was either this guy (Josh):

Or this guy (Paul):
My money's on Paul.

The judges:

The grillers/smokers/rib cookers in action:

Jeff announcing the winner with Cox presenting the trophy:

It was a fun day and for the first time in 3 years, my food was all eaten! Hurrah! Thanks to mom and Gramma for the Lonnie's Blintzes recipe.

The rest of my weekend consisted of wine and Harry Potter (#1) on Friday and a fun party at The Spot with Jamie and the POC (totally a new rap group) on Saturday. Photos of that are on Facebook. Be my friend and maybe you can see them! :)

Sigh

Slurpee > Stupid People

I feel better.

Well, betterish. I AM at work still.