Obviously, I have NOT been updating my blog. My goodness, what HAVE I been doing that would keep me away from my very important updates? Hmmmm... no clue, really. Let's see if I can back track and figure this all out. My last post was Wednesday, so we just have to go back in time and determine what happened from then to now. Everyone, load up in the Way Back Machine and awaaaaayyyyy we go!
Oh, now I remember. On Wednesday, we spent the afternoon with my brother and sister-in-law and I killed many brain cells by watching and exceptionally bad movie adaptation of The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones. While watching the movie, their kitten, Mingus - evil jazz kitty- tried to sit on my head. Oh, the movie was bad and the allergies were, too. I took 180 mg of Allegra so that I didn't die the evil kitty allergy death, so I managed to make it out alive, but oh... the movie was terrible.
Next day, I forgot to eat a decent breakfast before going to the pool and I crashed and burned oh so hard about 1/3 of the way into my workout. oops! I will not do that again. I really don't remember much of that day, so I'll bet that nothing much happened other than a huge lunch and a hike.
Friday was our water aerobics pot luck xmas party at the pool. It was fun. I met a lovely, silly lady named Viv Hall who told us about her xmas joke of "Decking the Halls", where her family pretends to hit each other in a photo every year. She was super goofy and loads of fun. That was the highlight on Friday, since my hair appointment was moved to Saturday.
I found a really good hair gal at the mall, quite by accident, while getting my car fixed a few months ago. For some reason, my appointment was moved from Friday at 11:30 am to Saturday at 5:30 pm (two Saturdays before xmas). It was crowded, but highly entertaining. I saw one man completely melt down. (We're leaving NOW. I am DONE with this HELL HOLE. NO, I don't want to sit somewhere and wait for you to finish. WE ARE FINISHED NOW and WE ARE LEAVING.) Hmmmmm... he seemed to have misplaced his xmas spirit.
I had plenty of spirit, after watching the Tuba Christmas Spectacular earlier in the day. We were at the Courthouse Square in downtown Portland and there were more than 270 tubas and euphoniums there, playing anything from Greensleeves to Carol of the Bells. It was great and not even too cold. The weather was quite friendly to us that day.
Let's see. What else happened? Yesterday was my first attempt at making beer cheese soup. Lesson learned: get a malty beer, not a hoppy beer. Hoppy beers are really, really, really, really bitter. Did I mention how bitter they are? They are ultra bitter. Brian, of course, has a thing for hoppy beer. ICK. So, even with some sugar added to the mix (which toned down the bitterness to a nice burnt cheese flavor) it was still not exactly what I was looking for. Next time I'll use Bass or something like that.
Peter O'Toole died yesterday. We didn't know that when we selected an old Peter O'Toole movie to watch last night. I don't remember the name of it, but it was with Audrey Hepburn about an art heist. Oh, he was so smooth and charming. What a cutie. If I remember, he is the person who said he wasn't an actor, he was a movie star! I think he may have been a bit of both.
Guitar practice is coming along, slowly. The chords are starting to sound more like music and less like dying plunks. My poor fingertips are still a mess between water aerobics, cold weather, guitar and dry skin. Ah well, I suppose I could say that I'm suffering for my art. I'm not, of course, but I could say it.
So that gets everyone caught up with the last 5 days. Sorry for missing so long.
Be happy and healthy!
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