- Friday: After work, I picked up Mom and Meema and we headed to Michelle's 40th birthday party. Michelle is part of the family that has known my family since our great grandmothers were 19 (or a really long time ago). Michelle's husband, Gary and her parents planned a great party complete with Sangria and food from Cenote Grill which is a hole in the wall Mexican eatery in Escondido. Their food is so good! After dinner and socializing, Michelle's uncle Joe emceed a Name That Tune contest. Joe is really good at devising games...he's known for his great games at their family parties. Guess who won Name That Tune and beat out 21 other contestants?!? None other, than Me! I even won a prize...$25 Visa gift card. I got home around 10:30, just before D and Steve got home from their running around and dinner at Sam Woo. We all hung out for a few moments before crashing.
- Saturday morning, I dropped D off at a signing event in San Marcos and headed to Mom's to hang out. Mom needed to make another trip to Home Depot and needed the 4Runner for that trip. We bought a new mini palm and big pot for her tomato plantings. The backyard has become a big thing for my Mom...she is prepping for a big family party over Labor Day. It's around Meema's birthday and in honor of Baby E's first visit to SD. After leaving Mom, I picked up D and we ran some errands...Nordstrom Rack (Uncle Banking Mogul's Father's Day/birthday gift card), Sprouts (similar to Henry's) for some veggies and fruit (Mom gave D a bowl of fruit the other night and now D has requested us to have some in the fridge...it's been something I've been trying to incorporate into his diet) and then what weekend would be complete without a visit to Costco. We went with a plan to buy Bluetooth headsets for our cell phones and one or two other things...$275 later we walked out! We bought: 2 bluetooth headsets, garlic (yes, we use that much over a period of time), mini tomatoes (so sweet and I'm addicted), mushrooms (for a recipe), ground beef, pork chops, marinated chicken, workout capris and shorts, socks, underwear, chicken wings (they were being sampled and they were really good) and cheese. Costco is a very dangerous place for us! After Costco, we headed home and relaxed for the rest of the evening. We had a snack of chicken wings and never ate dinner.
- Sunday morning, I made us a veggie scramble and Cinnabon french toast. We worked out (yeah) before heading to the Banking Mogul's deluxe apartment in the sky for Father's Day. They had quite the Costco/Whole Foods ready made appetizer set up (sushi, veggies, hummus, brie and crackers, shrimp) for us. We did a shortened video call with Baby E...he had his first set of shots on Thursday and had a very cranky day. His parents looked wiped out, but Baby E is getting so big (12 pounds, 5 ounces at 2 months) and is so alert and cute. After conference call, we had dinner (chicken, salads...green and cabbage, corn and my garlic bread) and dessert (fruit and cookies). We had a nice time hanging out before heading back to our shack. We watched The Next Food Network Star and Ice Road Truckers before I went to bed...apparently, D got sucked into some other History channel offering.
- Vacation: Plans are almost finalized for our vacation in July. I'll be in Scottsdale for about 5 days, then I'll come home and we leave the next day for 10 days. We'll be in Seattle for 4 days and then take the train to Vancouver for 5 days there. We have airfare and accommodations for both places. D is going to book train and Mariners game tickets today. Then, we have packing and planning left. I am so excited to be going on a real vacation!
Well, I better get back to work...it's been an interesting morning already! The other Nice snapped at me this morning, then we had our weekly staff meeting complete with hissy fits (I've done it this way and refuse to change) and snapping. Yikes...if this is what Monday morning looks like, what's this place going to look like by Friday?!? Have a great week!
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