Girls night out

Last night we went out to Thai food for b.s. to celebrate Joanna's 50th birthday.
Joanna on the left and Lulu on the right.
Kari and I. In addition to our delicious meal I treated myself to a sweet and creamy Thai iced coffee. The best!
After dinner we went back to Kari's for our study and for some birthday cake Lulu brought from Upper Crust. A chocolate truffle cake.
Today at work Joanna's dept decorated her office for birthday and had a luscious spread of delicious treats to snack on.
All over the walls were quotes from co-workers and famous people about aging.
A fun way to end the work week!

Do you have tickets to the gun show?

When we were at ARC the other day dropping off our donations, we picked up a silly little squeezy hand grip for 50 cents. It's just like a Suzanne Somers thigh master, but for your hand/arm. Now Chris is ready to bust out of his kids size baseball tees with his pythons.
He's going to pop those freckles right off with those muscles!

Thanks, but no thanks

As soon as the Canadian hears I'm making the bed he runs in to "help",
which just means jumping on the bed, and in this case, making snow angels. Such good help I don't know why I don't ask for it more often?!

Besides that, we spent our day going to the theater to watch The Losers, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I served dinner at the Salvation Army and we did a tag team effort making dinner at home. A new recipe from the Eating Well website.
Scallops and angel hair pasta in a lemon caper sauce. Good enough, but not so great we'll be making it again. I guess they can't all be winners.

Busy beavers

For some strange reason we had the inclination to actually get something done today. I spent time this morning downtown shopping at Bird in Hand for a birthday gift for Andrew next weekend. I found a backyard bug kit that he'll love. Boys and bugs, the perfect combo. I also swung by Peet's and refilled our french press coffee supply and picked up a sandwich from Upper Crust to share for lunch and snagged the last coconut cream scone for breakfast tomorrow. Score! When I got home I found Chris up on the roof installing new roof vents for the garage/summer sauna.
He's been talking about it for months, but today was the day. After safely descending from the roof, and relocating a ginormous frog out of the garage,
we went in and had the ham and swiss sammie from Upper Crust with a fruit salad.
After lunch the Canadian declared that we were going to make a run to ARC to get rid of some extra stuff around the house, both of our and the 'rents.
After putting away our nice little tax write-off form, we went inside to see if there was any treasures we couldn't live without. I was of course drawn to the tube top that said 'Paradise' on it.
New work uniform perhaps?? I settled on a gray sheath dress and a brown and bronze zip-up short sleeve hoodie. All for a tidy sum of $7.04. If only New York and Company was so cheap...

This is just getting ridiculous

Here's an inventory count: 18 variety pack of Samuel Adams, 3 beers left from a variety pack my mom dropped off and 5 crystal wheat beers. Add to that a new 6 pack and 12 pack from my mom,
And this little (big) treat I found at Safeway today;
Do you think we have enough beer yet?

Celebrating my heritage

With tonight being both my turn to host b.s. and Cinco de Mayo, I decided to throw a little Mexican fare together for dinner to honor Mom's people. When it's my turn for b.s. I always leave about 30 minutes early from work to get a chance to put the meal together before everyone else arrives at 5:30 pm. But today I ended up spending some of my extra time trying to track down our freshly emptied garbage can that had blown to the far reaches of the earth.
Our lid was right in front of the hydrant, but look across the street behind the green recycling can. That's our brown trash can on it's side in somebody else's yard. That's how far it blew away.

For dinner tonight I served fish tacos (baked fish tenders in corn tortillas with cabbage and a taco sour cream sauce), chips and guac, and jicama slaw (cabbage, jicama, mandarin oranges in a creamy, tangy sauce)
And what fiesta is complete without margaritas and a tres leches cake?
Good study and good grub. It was my last evening of freedom as the Canadian came back home tonight around 9:00 pm. He's been in Oregon for poop training for the last couple of days leaving me to enjoy an entire queen bed to myself. It's been glorious! But now the bed crasher is back. Party off.

Here comes the bride

Today was my old friend Dawn's bridal shower conveniently down the street off of Bruce Rd. I haven't seen Dawn since we were all together for Poppy's bridal shower. Apparently bridal showers bring the old group back together. A friend of Dawn's hosted the party at her house with the help of Dawn's youngest sister. It was full of treats, games and gifts. Too much fun!
Dawn opening my gift.
What's a party without see-through chonies from Sarah?
After gifts we played some games including Memory.
Two minutes to remember everything on the tray. Out of 20 some odd items I remembered 16 things which was enough for second place and no winning gift. Bah!
Dawn's sister, Dayna, made the cake which was shaped like a pillow with a tiara on it. There was a princess theme to the party.
Then we spent hours catching up.
Since Poppy, Sarah and I spent another hour standing out by our cars talking after the party we decided we really needed to make a lunch date in the near future. I miss my girls.

This morning after church and before the party, Chris and I spent some time out in the front yard pulling weeds and mowing the lawn.
Our new friend, Mr. Slimy,
As long as he doesn't venture into the walkway we should be fine.