Journal Entry: July 27, 2009

Hah! You just thought I was the perfect husband.* On Saturday N-- orchestrated a surprise party for T--, and I got her just what she wanted (SFW). In your face, Mister Darcy!

Ahem.

Friday
Friday was a long day at work trying to figure out how we're going to handle the crippling documentation we got from Raytheon. Not fun.

Shortly after I got home, we went out to dinner for T--'s birthday. We decided to try somewhere new, and picked a little pizzeria we'd driven past a dozen times up on May. K-- and N-- and D-- joined us, and we each ended up getting our own personal pizza, trying all the house specialties (I think) and a plain ol' boring half-beef half-pepperoni for AB and me. It was delicious.

Afterward D-- came over to introduce me to a hilarious show called Three Sheets while T-- went to see a movie with my little sister. Three Sheets is a travel show about a guy who goes to exotic locations (we watched Brussels, Champagne, Jamaica, and Costa Rica), tries all of the famous regional liquors while participating in the local night life, and then the next morning tests out the indigenous hangover remedies. That last part is made necessary by the sheer, absurd indulgence of the first part. It's fun.

Anyway, T-- got home late, D-- went home, and I think I made it to bed while it was still Friday.

Saturday
Saturday morning I woke up around 9:30, worked out on the elliptical, and then ran up to Taco Bell to grab us some lunch. Then I invested myself in Courtney's novel, and read through to chapter sixteen before AB woke up from her nap and we had to leave.

We had plans to be at K-- and N--'s place by 3:30, so that T-- could go shopping with N-- to help her find a frame for a painting T-- had made her a year or so ago. D-- joined us (because he and I were going to go hang with K-- and probably play some XBox), we drove up there, and then N-- took T-- to get a massage. As a special surprise, several of her friends were there, too.

While she was doing that, K-- got the kitchen decorated and set up for a surprise party, D-- watched AB, and I ran up to Walgreens to get some wrapping paper and wrapped T--'s present. When T-- came back to the house, with Becca and E-- and my little sister in tow, she was surprised again to find an actual party waiting for her. She loved it all.

When the party finally wound down, T-- went with my sister to do some shopping at Hobby Lobby, and B-- gave D-- and me a ride back to our house. I read another two chapters of Triad so I could give some specific feedback, and then contacted D-- to see if he wanted to go out. We ended up heading to Henry Hudson's around nine, and we were there until they turned on the lights and kicked us out. In betwixt, too much alcohol and much talk of relationships and religion.

I got home around 2:30, and made the wise decision to stay up and do some hydrating, and while I was at it I watched Joe vs. the Volcano. Excellent flick. Finally went to bed a little after four.

Sunday
Sunday morning I woke up in time for church, took a Benadryl and two ibuprofen, and then crawled back into bed. T-- called me at 11:45 to ask (doubtfully) if I wanted to join them for lunch, and I said sure. We had Schlotzky's, which really hit the spot.

Then I spent the afternoon playing Fallout, which is an incredibly massive game. I got lost in it, and in no time at all it was after five. T-- called me out for dinner, and afterward I decided I should actually do something useful with my Sunday so I mowed. Then I got a little too ambitious and pulled out the chainsaw to trim some of the trees along our front fence. The end result looks nice, though, and it should make mowing next time a more pleasant experience, though.

After that I came in and helped T-- get her Cricut up and running, and she showed off just how cool it is (which is to say, very), and then we put AB down for a nap, and then we sat side-by-side on the loveseat with our various laptops and read through Digg for an hour (which was a little surreal), and then we went to bed.

Other than that, it's just things and stuff.

* no you didn't