Do I feel bad?
Kind of.
Do I see myself as a giant failure frog?
Maybe a little.
Will I be posting an extra blog post at some random point during the remaining days of this month in hopes of keeping the integrity of BEDA by making sure I have 31 posts by the end of the year.
Most definitely!
Well, now that you're done giving me the guilt trip. Let me tell you about my weirdly surprising and happy weekend!
Friday night I left work thinking I would just pick up some food for Ronni and I and go home, watch some tele, and go to bed early. One of those things happened... Ronni met me for dinner and then we met my parents at Menard's to pick up bricks for the retaining wall my parents purchased and assembled in my backyard for my birthday. Then after unloading the bricks Ronni and I did watch some TV and then it was off to bed... but super late!
Saturday morning came WAY to early as I met Jamie, Cassie, Brooke, Mom, and Dad for breakfast at 9:30 (well I was a little late having misplaced my car keys the night before and not being able to find them for a good 15 minutes. Breakfast was wonderful and then we parted ways from Cassie and Brooke. The rest of us went back to my house where the "back yard project" began. Ronni helped out a bit before ditching us to go out to lunch with Alan, but who could blame her? HA!
Here is the list of things I wanted to do in the backyard:
Build retaining wall
Mow
Weed
Get rid of giant dirt piles along the fence so the dog doesn't jump OVER the fence
Redo the 16'x14' patio brinks
Plant a garden behind the retaining wall
Spread weed & feed through entire back yard
Hang lattice to cover below the deck so the dog stops going under the deck
Cut up the tree branches that had fallen in a storm
Here is the list of things we DID on Saturday:
Mowed the backyard
Built a retaining wall
Planted a garden behind the retaining wall
Removed the patio bricks from their uneven resting place
Spread weed & feed through entire back yard
Cut up NOT ONLY the tree branches that had fallen in a storm but also cut down two more dead branches and cut those as well
Carried giant rocks into my backyard to put into the garden
Killed bees and knocked down their nest
Weeded like a crazy person
Got rid of the dirt by the fence on half the yard.
Things left to do:
Hang lattice
Level patio and place bricks back into place
Get rid of dirt by the fence in the other half of the yard
Overall I would say Saturday was ridiculously productive!
Before on the left/After on the right:
OH! And Sunday morning my mother came over with a butterfly bush she planted in the new garden (with the 3 lilac bushes she planted Sunday) and like 6 or 7 bags of mulch which she spread in the garden for me.
So after all that work on Saturday my thoughts went to relax and sleep, but then the opportunity to go karaoke presented itself... and having not been out to karaoke in almost 2 months I just couldn't pass it up so out I went with my good friend Keri.
Keri and I had sushi for dinner which was absolutely fantastic and then we headed on down to good ol' gay bar to get our karaoke on!
Here's Keri singing her heart out:
Luke was hosting which is always a delight and Pookie came down which was wonderful as well. THEN! Low and behold there was a secret guest! David showed up!
Me and David:
What an absolutely wonderful and welcome surprise! David moved to Minneapolis a little over a year ago which was the saddest of days because he's my duet partner at karaoke. He's also my friend, but you know... priorities and such. Anywho, David just got news that he is moving to Chicago (well right outside of Chicago) which is just the bees knees! Super excited to have him MUCH closer than he has been. Plus running into him Saturday night was just the best thing ever :) We got to sing our "signature" song... if you could call it that, and we tried out a new one. I don't know how he felt about the new one but I absolutely loved it, my part is all harmonies and as a soprano that's a rare thing for me!
So needless to say Saturday was a loooooong but fantastic day!
Then we open on Sunday... Sunday consisted of me sleeping until noon thirty which was just lovely after an an unexpected night out. But then the pain started. You know. The pain. The pain you get the day after you spend 8 hours working in the hot sun on your yard. That pain. The pain that hits every part of your body, every muscle you know you have and every muscle you never knew existed. And that is your reality for the rest of your day. Everything else takes second chair to that. Even now as I'm typing this I can feel my legs just burning! Then you start to realize exactly where you are sunburned. Your scalp. The tops of your ears. The back of your neck right where your hairline hits. Your nose. Your cheeks. Using a blow dryer is OUT OF THE QUESTION!
So I tried my hardest not to do anything all day. Ronni and I went to see Furious 6 which was quite delightful if you like movies with very little plot and SO MUCH STREET RACING. Which I do. So I was happy.
Then it was home for a lot of sitting around. One load of laundry (I really hate laundry) and the latest episode of True Blood.
All in all.
Good weekend.
Much Love
E
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