Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
celebrations, miscellany

the weekend thus far

I was off work yesterday in order to set up for a garage sale at my parent’s house. Every year, Portage has a town-wide garage sale day (aka “White Trash Day”). Not to imply that all garage sale shoppers are white trash–that certainly isn’t the case. However, I saw a large enough share of that demographic today to justify my alternative title.

The sale went ok. The rain held off until after 1:00, so most of the shopper traffic had dissipated by that point. We made a couple of bucks, but no where near as much as the last garage sale a few years ago when I sold all of Jake’s baby stuff (playpen, high chair, etc.)

While we were gone, Brian had to fix a leaky pipe in the laundry room. Unfortunately for him, it took most of the day. To top things off, his laptop’s hard drive appears to be, for all intents and purposes, dead. So, he was using my pc to check his email and whatnot. While he was on my pc, he found some incriminating evidence as to what his anniversary present might be. Then, I received a package in the mail today that made things look even more incriminating.

Brian is a stickler for giving/receiving presents on their proper day. But, all of this was just too much for him, so I suggested that we exchange anniversary presents today. He agreed. As it turned out, he didn’t quite get what he was hoping for, but was still rather pleased with the results. I got him a print from an artist he really likes, Ric Stultz. He was thinking that he might have been getting a painting from the guy, but given the price of the print, I don’t think we could afford one of his paintings.

I kind of knew what I was getting for my gift, too. Yesterday, he had to run to United Jewelers to get a few pieces of my jewelry fixed. He mentioned to me that our credit card was coming up as expired there even though it isn’t expired. So, I knew he must’ve gotten me a piece of jewelry because they don’t normally charge us for the type of thing they were fixing yesterday. I got a gold box-link bracelet, by the way. Nice!

books

black friday

This is another one from James Patterson. It was originally published as Black Market. You’ll find when his books were originally published as another title, they’re from his early works.

I started this while we were on vacation and read almost all of it. But, for some reason, after we returned home, I never seemed to have the time to read it. Too busy with other things, I guess. So, I made a concerted effort this week to finish it up.

Long story short, this was a book about a government conspiracy that turned on the government. I liked it. It was written in the same style as the majority of his books. I happen to like the majority of his books, so that’s just fine with me.

This concludes my James Patterson marathon.

celebrations

erin’s shower

Today, I went to Brian’s cousin Erin’s bridal shower (which is why my birthday celebration was yesterday). She’s getting married in September. You can read all about it here. The shower was at the Pleasant Valley Country Club in Connellsville. Luckily Brian drove me there (and he and Jake hung out at Erin’s parent’s house during the shower) otherwise I never would’ve arrived. The directions I got off the internet did not seem to be correct (plus I can get lost in my own house. my sense of direction is that bad). Win some, lose some, I guess. Usually the internet does us well, so I won’t complain about this one time.

Anyway, the shower was nice and Erin and Justin sure made a haul. They won’t be wanting for much once they set up a house. Jacob is in their wedding. That should be interesting. This will be his second wedding. The first one was right before his 3rd birthday so he was too young to argue about it. I hope he cooperates. He really likes Erin and Justin, so we can only hope that will help. After this wedding, he will have been in as many weddings as I have been in (not counting my own). Who would’ve thought I’d have such a popular son?

me

i’m too young to be this old***

Today is my 35th birthday. Can you believe that shit? Me, either. This seems like another one of those age milestones (you know like 30, 40, 50, etc.). Though to tell you the truth, every year seems like a milestone anymore.

Here’s one way to tell you’re getting old–buy a car with a sunroof. There’s nothing like the sun shining down on your head to show you just how many gray hairs you have. I knew I had a lot of gray hair, but this is just ridiculous. Some days I think I should bite the bullet and start dyeing my hair (but, it’s kind of hard to justify that since I don’t wear makeup. hell, I don’t even own any makeup. why start caring about my appearance now?). Other days, I wish it would just go all gray and get it over with.

The only good thing about growing old is that I’m taking everyone with me.

Happy Birthday to me.

*** Courtney Love, “I’ll Do Anything”, America’s Sweetheart

celebrations

another birthday celebration

We celebrated my birthday a day early and went to the City View Bar & Grill (I even got to open my presents!). I’ve been wanting to check it out, so the three of us did this evening. The food was good, the view was great, the new decor was awesome. It’s nice to see a restaurant operating there again. Hopefully they will have much success. Brian and I have a soft spot for that location because that’s where we got engaged.

All in all it was a pretty good day. I spent most of it gardening and doing yard work. Brian managed to wash all three vehicles and I cleaned the car and truck on the inside. Today was pretty busy, but in a good way.

Now, I’m going to go downstairs and chill out on the couch for a while before I hit the sack.