Today marks the end of all my extra days off. Though I still have more than a week of vacation racked up, I don't have anything else scheduled for now. Boo. However, we had quite a nice weekend. Let's recap.
- Friday: Met up with some guys from work for happy hour. My favorite bartender made me awesome drinks with vodka, watermelon pucker, vodka, some Sprite, and more vodka. Yum! I won't mention the X-rated name for this drink though.
- Saturday: Headed up to Andy and Jo's house for Andy's 30th birthday party. A few other folks from PNWX went, too, and we met several of Andy and Jo's friends and family. Perfect weather and great BBQ food! That night we stayed with Brian and Kim in the Gig.
- Sunday: Met up with Jess and Craig for drinks and dinner. The place was getting swarmed by yellow jackets, and Craig got stung on his foot. Luckily I didn't get stung, so I'm still alive. Our server was an entertaining Australian girl who's really into martial arts, ghost stories, vegemite, and moving back to Canada for the snowboarding. She was a hoot!
Speaking of Canada... I don't remember now where we were, but we saw a British Columbia license plate on a car the other day that was labeled as a veteran plate. I found this curious. I guess I just don't think of BC--or Canada in general--as being too involved in veteran-earning war experiences. I might have to do some research on this. I wonder how many people are eligible for these types of plates and what they've done for them.
Okay, back to the weekend summary.
- Today: We had an exciting run this morning. It's the first time we had to run for 5 minutes straight, and we had to do that twice in our workout. Sounds pretty dopey, but for two people who were professional couch-sitters a few weeks ago, this was a big deal. We survived, but my knee is starting to hurt now. The whole running thing is interesting. I'm gaining weight from it, but my clothes are getting looser. Whatever works! Then we went shopping for a new computer for Marc's business. I got a monitor for work, too. Why buy a monitor for work, you ask? Well, that's quite a story. Let's just say that even though I got approval and budget for me and my cohorts to get special, bigger monitors about a year ago, we got screwed. I wanted something bigger than the 19" LCDs we ended up with, but I wasn't going to get it unless I bought it myself. Since I spend a lot more time looking at a computer at work and there are times when I really need (want) a bigger viewing area, I splurged on a widescreen 22" LCD for myself. Now I'll have to sweet talk our computer guy into helping me set up dual monitors. He loves me and my special needs. :)
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