Jul 13, 2008
a fun weekend - so far.
The unplanned get-togethers are always the best! Yesterday, Dan and I were walking Esa by Dan and Stephanie's house and Dan and their friend Ivan were creating a retaining wall in the backyard. Dan asked what we were doing that evening – of course, nothing planned for us! So he invited us over for a cook-out.
We finished up the walk and got some food together and headed over. What a bunch of fun we had! After dinner, we played Totally 80's trivia pursuit. Boys against girls – 3 vs. 2. Who won? THE GIRLS! WHOO HOO!
Let me just say – no matter what the trivia pursuit game – what a LONG game. We finally decided on "sudden death".
Today is finishing laundry, picking up the vacuum and going to a dog wash charity at Stephanie's work.
(and their human parents)
This blog started as The adventures of a D.I.N.K. family where the two "kids" are four legged and how we are going to retire early. Now it's a 1 income, 1 entrepreneur, and 1 pup getting closer and closer to retirement.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
a good 4th of July
Jul 5, 2008
a good 4th of July
What a unexpected good 4th! The only thing Dan and I had planned was yard work and at least going to Best Buy (24 was on sale for $16.99 each season). Yard work was done by 1 p.m., then Arby's and Best Buy.
The rest of the day's plan was hanging out at home. I ended up watching Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood and around 6 p.m. we took Esa for a walk. Rugby (the neighbor's dog) was out so we went down their street. Their next door neighbor was also out (Shadow is their dog), so all of the girls were playing in the front yards. Esa had the most energy, but the other dogs kept up with her pretty well. Then Shadow's next door neighbor came out with her baby and next thing you know – Esa (leading the pack), Rugby, and Shadow all walk into the neighbor's house! I didn't realize that they also had a dog (Lexy). So then all of the "dads" went running into the house to get the dogs – while the "moms" all stayed outside laughing.
Finally all of them came out. Next thing you know, Esa starts drinking from Shadow's mom's wine glass – which was put down during the commotion of going into the house. We get Esa out of it and Shadow starts drinking it!
After all of that, it was time to continue the walk. When we got back I started playing with the computer – myspace and Twitter. I saw Twitter on Stephanie & Dan's myspace pages and thought I would try it out. Of course they are the only ones that I know who are on it right now! So anyway, I updated that we were just hanging out at home. Next thing you know, Dan imd me about want to get together. So my Dan called Stephanie's Dan and we ended up going out for dinner at Del Ray in Broadlands (the only Mexican place that was open!).
We had a great time – the funniest part was the waitress was just doggin' on my Dan starting with what he ordered. Dan ordered this platter that had 4 different items on it and the waitress kept saying to him – are you sure? It's a lot of food. Of course, then it was a mission for Dan to finish it. Which, he did.
Then we headed over to Ashburn Village to watch fireworks. We got there around 8 p.m. – so of course we had to wait around – but we got an AWESOME parking spot and had fun people watching and the police in action – constantly telling the people to keep it moving, you can't park there, etc.
The show was great and about 30 minutes long. Ashburn Village has a great HOA. Always having some kind of event going on. Getting out of there was a lot easier than I expected. Basically just backed up and we were off with traffic moving.
Today was supposed to be the 4thish of July party at Tom & Kat's. A yearly tradition. Now the official party will be next week due to the rain. We will probably be going over to help eat some food that will go bad if not gone soon.
a good 4th of July
What a unexpected good 4th! The only thing Dan and I had planned was yard work and at least going to Best Buy (24 was on sale for $16.99 each season). Yard work was done by 1 p.m., then Arby's and Best Buy.
The rest of the day's plan was hanging out at home. I ended up watching Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood and around 6 p.m. we took Esa for a walk. Rugby (the neighbor's dog) was out so we went down their street. Their next door neighbor was also out (Shadow is their dog), so all of the girls were playing in the front yards. Esa had the most energy, but the other dogs kept up with her pretty well. Then Shadow's next door neighbor came out with her baby and next thing you know – Esa (leading the pack), Rugby, and Shadow all walk into the neighbor's house! I didn't realize that they also had a dog (Lexy). So then all of the "dads" went running into the house to get the dogs – while the "moms" all stayed outside laughing.
Finally all of them came out. Next thing you know, Esa starts drinking from Shadow's mom's wine glass – which was put down during the commotion of going into the house. We get Esa out of it and Shadow starts drinking it!
After all of that, it was time to continue the walk. When we got back I started playing with the computer – myspace and Twitter. I saw Twitter on Stephanie & Dan's myspace pages and thought I would try it out. Of course they are the only ones that I know who are on it right now! So anyway, I updated that we were just hanging out at home. Next thing you know, Dan imd me about want to get together. So my Dan called Stephanie's Dan and we ended up going out for dinner at Del Ray in Broadlands (the only Mexican place that was open!).
We had a great time – the funniest part was the waitress was just doggin' on my Dan starting with what he ordered. Dan ordered this platter that had 4 different items on it and the waitress kept saying to him – are you sure? It's a lot of food. Of course, then it was a mission for Dan to finish it. Which, he did.
Then we headed over to Ashburn Village to watch fireworks. We got there around 8 p.m. – so of course we had to wait around – but we got an AWESOME parking spot and had fun people watching and the police in action – constantly telling the people to keep it moving, you can't park there, etc.
The show was great and about 30 minutes long. Ashburn Village has a great HOA. Always having some kind of event going on. Getting out of there was a lot easier than I expected. Basically just backed up and we were off with traffic moving.
Today was supposed to be the 4thish of July party at Tom & Kat's. A yearly tradition. Now the official party will be next week due to the rain. We will probably be going over to help eat some food that will go bad if not gone soon.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Cool!
July 2, 2008
cool!
Current mood:geeky
I can blog from my phone 2! After 4 days of carrying 2 phones I'm on the phone 4 good!
cool!
Current mood:geeky
I can blog from my phone 2! After 4 days of carrying 2 phones I'm on the phone 4 good!
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