Kate was in town this weekend after a long long time for the two of us, apart. That was good. What was bad was when it ended, but let’s cover all the good stuff in between.
Thursday/Friday morning
Ugh. Okay, Kate’s flight was delayed due to a crazy person, and I first had to drive to the airport at 2am in a thunderstorm, then missed a turn on the way home that added 20 minutes to our drive. Upside? SHE GOT HERE!
Friday
I had a whole lot of meetings going on at work, but after that we did some shopping. I picked up a memory card for my new phone, and a small USB hub, since my Dell Tower has run out of ports.
That afternoon we picked up Kaylee, played with the girl, presented some birthday presents, and generally had a grand ol’ time. Kaylee really didn’t want to go to bed at all, but eventually she went down, and we proceeded to unload, rearrange, and reload my office. I really like the new layout a lot better — we reorganized the rat’s nest of cables behind the desk (which moved across the room) and cleaned out all the drawers in the desk and closet, junking some cables and peripherals that haven’t been viable or useful for anywhere from 5 to 10 years. On a surface, this was a pretty subtle change, but a very palpable one for me — and the rearranging also made my wireless signal a lot stronger in the house, so that’s a bonus.
Plus, we watched Mulan. Bonus.
Saturday
Kaylee and I met Jackie at Doctor BoomBoom’s office for her two year checkup. Monkeygirl is very tall for her age (35 inches and change), and is exactly in the middle on weight. If she stays that way, she’ll probably be very happy. The doctor’s questions about her developmental “stuff” was all about three months out of date, from out point of view.
“Has she been doing this?”
“Oh yeah. For months now.”
“How about this?”
“Since she was 18 months, at least. Maybe longer.”
“Oh. Wow. Okay… how about this?”
“Yes… probably in February.”
“Wow.”
He says she’s “perfect.” I like Doctor Boomboom. :)
Speaking of perfect, Kate and I went to see Stardust on Saturday, and it’s also pretty darn perfect, for what it does. I recommend this movie very very much, to everyone. Great flick. If you liked the Princess Bride, or Ella Enchanted, or Labyrinth or…
Just think of every good fairy tale movie you’ve seen, and take the best bits, and that’s Stardust. Yes, really.
But I got ahead of myself — before the movie we did some shopping, and Kate found her shoes for the wedding. She was very pleased. Is very pleased. May, in fact, continue to be pleased for months to come. They’re pretty cool shoes, I have to admit.
(I got some shoes too — which ironically cost a fair amount more than Kate’s fantastic heels — but they aren’t worth a whole post about them. They’re black. The end.)
Saturday evening we went over to the Consortium for some game fun, and that went pretty well, if digressiontastic from all directions, and then it was CRASH into bed.
Sunday
Sunday was more shopping errands for us in the morning. We went looking for a Joann Fabrics in a location we weren’t sure about instead of going to the one we knew, and couldn’t find it. From there, we hit the Shane Company to look at wedding bands, where we learned that Kate’s band will be simple and elegant, and that I (as Margie would say) “have excellent taste.” Oof.
Lunch and Dave and Busters (where Kate invented a new sandwich that they should put on the menu), then we met Jackie and Kaylee for a visit to the nearby Butterfly Pavilion. This was a lot of fun, despite one of the butterflies going right into Kaylee’s face early on and freaking her out a little for the rest of the visit. A little more shopping a local super Target, and then back home.
A quick stop over at the house to charge back up, then we headed to the theatre for Bourne Ultimatum.
I loved the first Bourne movie. I sort of hated the second one, because the shakycam they used made it impossible to see the fights and car chases that I could almost but not quite see were pretty good. I was pretty nervous going into this installment, because I’d heard people bitch about the shakycam again, but in this case they found a level of ‘realistic’ shake that I could live with, and really enjoy the movie.
And enjoy it I did. This is a deep tale with a lot of stuff, even after it ‘concluded’, that I still wanted to learn more about. I will definitely own this one. (Stardust also, but for very different reasons.)
After that, we (mostly Kate — I can’t remember what I was doing but it kept pulling me out of the kitchen) made up some spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread, and watched “For Your Consideration”, which was…
it was…
Well, in terms of movie-watching karma, it balanced us out against Stardust and Bourne Ultimatum for the weekend.
And then to bed, and a work from home Monday morning, and driving to the airport, and goodbyes, and then back to the office for afternoon meetings.
A great weekend, over all too soon.
