Weekend Recap

I got a lot of items on my "things to do list" crossed-off this weekend - but not nearly as much as I had hoped. But all in all, it was a very good weekend.

I sacrificed the most beautiful day in about a year in order to get mucho paperwork done on Saturday. Yes, it would have been a better "life list" call to say f-it and just gallivant outside in the crisp fall weather, but the catching-up on filing, balancing of books and organization of tax materials (all for my husband's business) had been weighing heavily on me. So I sucked it up and hit the ground running. I got about 8/10s of the way through everything I wanted to accomplish - not bad? I kept the Red River Shootout on the TV in the background so that I "felt" like I was participating...but with a sad ending for UT, it didn't help much.

We had agreed to dog-sit our friends' older Chiuaua while they were out of town with their two younger dogs (the older dog has a hard time keeping up with the younguns') and WOW - Jack's reaction had me in stitches most of the weekend.

If you ever need something to do, I suggest you sit with a beer and watch two dogs duke it out over who gets to hump whom. And if there is a disproportionate difference in size of the two participants in Humpfestival 2010? All the better. I honestly laughed until I was crying - our once gentle Jack was just swiping his poor horny friend with one paw, sending him skidding across the room. Or, he would gently place Horny's small back leg in his mouth, drag him across the room and then Jack would return to a safe-haven, such as under my husband's desk, to get some peace.  It was truly hysterical.

Saturday night we watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - a movie we've both been meaning to see but it wasn't number one so it kept falling to the bottom of the Netflix list. Anyway, I was uncontrollably giggling through the whole move because early on - probably in the first or second scene - I determined that this was a complete cop-off of Forrest Gump. Also, I felt the need to explaing these similarities to my husband during each scene. So the conversation on our couch went something like this:

When they introduce the character of Daisy

Me: (whispering because my husband hates it when I talk during movies) That's Jenny (said in my best Forrest Gump-like accent)
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When a hummingbird flits around symbolically in many of the scenes

Me:  (still trying to whisper) That's the feather.

(NB: I actually thought that it was a dragonfly until about five minutes ago when I was corrected. Whatevs - you say hummingbird, I say dragonfly).
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When Captain Mike is introduced into the story

Me: (yelling - but for effect since Forrest always yelled this name) THAT'S LIEUTENANT DAN!!
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When Benjamin is introduced to his family's business of buttons

Me: (whispering a bit louder)  Those are shrimp.
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When the characters are discussing the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Me: That's the Vietnam War.

Him:  You're not ever trying anymore.
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And then finally, when Daisy breaks her leg -

Me: (not whispering as effectively anymore since I've now had 4 Fireman's 4)  That's AIDS.

Him:  OKAY - I get it - it's Forrest Gump except for the whole aging backwards thing.

We both enjoyed the movie - especially the scenes where Brad Pitt is young and gorgeous (and by "we" I mean "me").

My husband always makes me laugh when he's exasperated with me. 

Sunday marked what most have been a cold day in hell because....my husband went furniture shopping with me. WILLINGLY.  Granted he hated the chair that I promised was the perfect combination of my desire for overstuffedness and his desire for uncomfortable wingback. He hated it.

But we bought him a desk. And a table for the hall. And a workbench for the garage. So, all in all a good day. Hope you had a good weekend.