Well... a pretty good weekend, a nice mix of home-life and socialness. A good, reconnecting date with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tenacious_snail Friday, and I was introduced to Barney's. By a vegetarian, ironically.
Sleeping in late was a luxury Saturday -- 3am to 10am -- because there was neither skating or Little League. Pat went to the church to arrange flowers withfrankenboob. I went gift-shopping and picked up Pat's birthday cake. That afternoon, we took the kids over to deedeebythebay and coyote3502's wedding renewal ceremony and reception. They were *so* happy! It was lovely to watch them together, as well as the reinforcing effects on other SO-pairings in the vicinity.
The pagan ceremony itself seemed kind of weird and a bit like they were making it up as they went along... and there were these directional wind-guardians invoked. I kept wondering why the southern one controlled heat and fire... after all, if we'd been in Australia, south would be the *colder* direction... or if the eastern one lived in, say, Reno... nevertheless, whatever works faith-wise for the others there. My role was to smile and be polite... although I nearly lost it giggling once, early on when I inadvertently stepped backward on to the tail of an orange cat, who then broke the solemnity and yowled loudly right as Darla was singing to Mark. Ulp. Then we had brake problems with the van, on the way home.
Saturday night, I shifted into birthday-mode for Pat... took her out for dinner and to see "The Parrots of Telegraph Hill", a sweet documentary. After church today (Pat read), the five of us all had brunch at Hobee's, then Pat napped while I finished shopping, bought ice cream and candles and cleaned the house in preparation. Tonight she ordered her favorite dinner (thin-crust pizza with pancetta), we opened a 1999 Obester sangiovese, and sang "happy birthday" with lots of candles on the cake ;-). She liked the Rocky and Bullwinkle DVD box sets...
Tomorrow, back to work after dropping off the van to be serviced and a stop at Fry's for wireless access-point gear forsarahh. Then to DC for air traffic middleware, then to NYC to drill in frozen regolith simulant , then back home Friday.
tenacious_snail Friday, and I was introduced to Barney's. By a vegetarian, ironically. Sleeping in late was a luxury Saturday -- 3am to 10am -- because there was neither skating or Little League. Pat went to the church to arrange flowers with
frankenboob. I went gift-shopping and picked up Pat's birthday cake. That afternoon, we took the kids over to deedeebythebay and coyote3502's wedding renewal ceremony and reception. They were *so* happy! It was lovely to watch them together, as well as the reinforcing effects on other SO-pairings in the vicinity. The pagan ceremony itself seemed kind of weird and a bit like they were making it up as they went along... and there were these directional wind-guardians invoked. I kept wondering why the southern one controlled heat and fire... after all, if we'd been in Australia, south would be the *colder* direction... or if the eastern one lived in, say, Reno... nevertheless, whatever works faith-wise for the others there. My role was to smile and be polite... although I nearly lost it giggling once, early on when I inadvertently stepped backward on to the tail of an orange cat, who then broke the solemnity and yowled loudly right as Darla was singing to Mark. Ulp. Then we had brake problems with the van, on the way home.
Saturday night, I shifted into birthday-mode for Pat... took her out for dinner and to see "The Parrots of Telegraph Hill", a sweet documentary. After church today (Pat read), the five of us all had brunch at Hobee's, then Pat napped while I finished shopping, bought ice cream and candles and cleaned the house in preparation. Tonight she ordered her favorite dinner (thin-crust pizza with pancetta), we opened a 1999 Obester sangiovese, and sang "happy birthday" with lots of candles on the cake ;-). She liked the Rocky and Bullwinkle DVD box sets...
Tomorrow, back to work after dropping off the van to be serviced and a stop at Fry's for wireless access-point gear for
sarahh. Then to DC for air traffic middleware, then to NYC to drill in frozen regolith simulant , then back home Friday.
