Vacation Update

January 6th, 2009 § Leave a Comment

Now that I'm definitely back at work, here's a sort of vacation update.  It's not necessarily in chronological order.

  • Visited with family
  • Attended numerous Christmas parties
  • Ate a bunch of really good food
  • Lead worship at church
  • Shopped for Christmas presents on Christmas Eve
  • Ate a great Christmas Eve dinner cooked by my mother-in-law
  • Got up early on Christmas morning to volunteer for Dinner in the Park but didn't go because of the rain
  • Ate biscuits and gravy for breakfast on Christmas day
  • Ate a delicious Christmas dinner cooked by my mother
  • Opened stockings with my wife (Santa visited our new home for the first time)
  • Watched Will Smith in 7 lbs. and cried like a girl
  • Finally got around to watching the Andromeda Strain mini-series from a year ago
  • Hung curtains in bedroom
  • Checked my work email once
  • Bought a love seat for the office/library
  • Cleaned the house
  • Ate a bunch of candy
  • Rearranged furniture in the office/library
  • Played a lot of Mario Kart and Guitar Hero World Tour
  • Listened to Feist's The Reminder
  • Listened to the Beatles' Revolver
  • Visited the optometrist
  • Ate BBQ at Barn Burner and celebrated a good friend's birthday
  • Played Bunco with friends and family New Year's Eve
  • Got up super early and watched the Rose Parade from Erin's office building
  • Halfway watched the Rose Bowl from bed
  • Watched the Maltese Falcon
  • Mowed the lawn and raked leaves
  • Ate out a bunch

A Relaxing Weekend Update

November 24th, 2008 § Leave a Comment

After an extremely long week I was ready to relax this weekend. While Erin and I kept pretty busy, the entire weekend had an air of relaxation that hasn’t been around for quite a while.

Friday Night
We had a quick dinner at Chevy’s, probably our all-time favorite restaurant, with some friends, and then saw Changeling, which was much darker than expected. I really enjoyed the movie but it was a little too heavy after such an exhausting and taxing week.

Saturday
Erin and I cleaned the house in the morning and had a nice visit with my sister, Traci, in the afternoon. She even stuck around to join us in a matinee showing of Twilight.

After Twilight, which was a surprisingly enjoyable movie, we had some pizza and played a little progressive spades with friends in the comfort of our clean home.

Sunday
Sunday, Erin and I were honored for our service to the youth group at church. We were given a lovely card signed by the group and gift cards for AMC Theaters and Grandville. Looks like a date night is in the cards.

After church we had a quick lunch at Corner Bakery and then headed home to prepare our dishes for the Pumpkin Party later that night. Erin prepared a Pumpkin Risotto with Shrimp and Asparagus, which was amazing. I prepared a Pumpkin Bacon Soup, of my own design, which was surprisingly palatable. Erin’s dish ended up winning the award for best Pumpkin Main Dish. She deserved it.

And that was my weekend. It felt good to have a slightly slower-paced weekend. They are few and far between, but much appreciated.

A Tale of Two Batmans.. err Batmen…?

November 11th, 2008 § 2 Comments

City of Batman to sue Batman Begins director, Christopher Nolan? What?

Doesn’t sound like they have much of a case if you ask me.

Weekend Update

October 21st, 2008 § 2 Comments

Friday Night

Friday night seems so long ago.  I can’t really remember what I did that night.  I think it involved watching Becoming Jane, which may be why I’m blocking that memory.
Saturday
Erin and I began our Saturday morning with a bunch of household chores.  I mowed the lawn, swept the house, and did some dishes while Erin did the laundry.  It was a pretty productive morning so we decided we do a little shopping in the afternoon. 
We set out on a mission to buy curtains for our bedroom, and kitchen. Half a day and 4 stores later, we had two rugs for our living/dining room, curtains for the kitchen and curtains for our bedroom on order with JC Penny’s.
After our exhausting shopping spree we had the pleasure of seeing Phantom at the Glendale Center Theatre.  We were generously given the tickets by my in-laws. 
It was a great show, and the second time I’ve seen the story of the Phantom of the opera performed on stage within the last couple months. I saw Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Phantom of the Opera in Vegas on my most recent trip.
After the show we had a late dinner at Shaker’s and then headed home to watch SNL.  Wasn’t the Sarah Palin action funny?  Regardless of what you think of her as a VP candidate you have to admit she’s made for some great sketch comedy.
Sunday
Sunday was filled with normal church activity in the morning while the afternoon was consumed by lunch, picking up a bookshelf that was being given to us by some friends, laying our new rugs down and situating furniture, and returning the van we borrowed from my in-laws to pick up the bookshelf.
After our eventful afternoon we went to our small group and then headed home for the evening, with a brief stop at McDonald’s to pick up a quick dinner.
Things I Did Not Accomplish This Weekend
In a new category for my weekly Weekend Update I thought I’d jot down a few things I had hoped to take care of this weekend but didn’t have time for.
  • Repair and smog Erin’s Car
  • Chang the oil in my Car
  • Hang curtains
  • Hang stuff on the bare walls of my house

New Bond Theme from White and Keys

October 3rd, 2008 § Leave a Comment

In music news, the new James Bond theme has been released and is all over the web. This time around Jack White, of White Stripes and Raconteurs fame, and Alicia Keys have teamed up to take their crack at the movie theme which has been performed in the past by musicians such as Paul McCartney, Madonna, Chris Cornell, Gladys Knight, Nancy Sinatra, and Tom Jones to name a few.

Their collaboration comes of pretty well, but ends up sounding pretty much as you would expect a Bond theme to sound. You can almost picture the signature title sequences playing while you listen, which is probably both good and bad: good because it doesn’t stand out, and bad for the same reason.

It’s an enjoyable piece of music, but I don’t think it’ll win any awards or be a number one hit on the charts.

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