Almost Saturday night again

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:37 pm

Well, here we go again. Wot is on the agenda for you all this weekend?

I've just come back from The White Horse in the village of Old and I feel quite pissed (as in drunk). Had shellfish risotto which, was very nice, and a few pints of good ale. The kids are now in bed and I'm considering trying to make a move on the wife (who is watching gardening programmes on the TV). I might want to plant a little bulb of my own

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:46 pm

A big nothing. I've been working like a madman since the New Year and need a quiet weekend. Just the kids' swimming lessons in the morning, then I'll probably make dinner tomorrow night (any good wintery recipes anyone?). Chinese takeout tonight and one of the movies we Tivo'd recently.

If I get some time to myself on Sunday I may watch the Chelsea-Barca match again.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:59 pm

tonight, I'll spend an hour on the freaking telephone trying to figure out when and where austin will be playing soccer -- inside or out? and it just started SNOWING so they better get a dayglo ball. Then, well actually, while I'm on the telephone, I'll consume a few Southpaws. I'll migrate to the couch with a Southpaw and open my $3 copy of According to the Rolling Stones, pretend to read a page or two and fall asleep. Hopefully, my mouth will be closed.

saturday will be spent soccering and shopping (not fun shopping, just the grocery kind). Hopefully season 1 of King of the Hill will arrive in the mail from Netflix and the kids will watch tv and let me pretend to read. I might play Kumbaya on my guitar ad nauseum because it's the only thing I know how to play right now.

sunday. now there's a day rife with possibilities. to launder or not to launder? should I color my hair? I really need to do something about hair on my upper lip too.

is that too much information?

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:22 pm

Going to see the musical Wicked, which just opened here in Toronto.

As for tonight, Red and I are going back to that English pub that had supposedly been shipped over from the UK.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:25 pm

A little wiped out tonight - my flight home last night got canceled - so I took an early flight home today - our houseguests returned from Birmingham - grilled some steaks on the Weber - tomorrow up to London for the Portabello Market - Soane Museum and Tower of London - Sunday's up to the guests - the only thing on the agenda is lunch with the Lacklustre's in Dogmersfield -

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:57 pm

Tonight - don't know yet. I've put on a new red sweater and washed my hair. We'll see if that gets Doc's attention.

Tomorrow will find us at a soccer game by 8:30 am for the two 13 year olds. Then lunch somewhere. Then the youngest will proudly display his Pinewood Derby car at the district competition. He placed for best looking car. He decorated it like spongebob.

Tomorrow night finds us with tickets to Oklahoma, and then going to the cast party at a local club.

Sunday - I don't know. We're having to re-do the fish pond from the giant dead fish disaster back at Christmas, so if it's not cold, I'm probably sorting through pond scum.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:23 pm

tonight - leave work at 6:30pm on the dot. 'cause i'm chained to the desk until then.

go home. might get takeout, but probably not 'cause it's snowy out and that would force me back outside again.

eat leftovers. drink red wine. wrap self in blankets. sleep

tomorrow - clean house. YAY!!! (i punted a house guest earlier this week, and i do mean punted, as in kicked outta the house likely never to return) i am so looking forward to having a day at home by myself.

sunday - errands, meeting friends, potluck dinner maybe.

very exciting chez poppet. wheeeee!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:16 am

no soccer today!!!

when I went to bed, it was cold and snowing.

this morning, it's sunny, windy and warm.

springtime in east tn.

LittleFoole · Post by **LittleFoole** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:47 am

mood swung wrote: this morning, it's sunny, windy and warm.

springtime in east tn.

Yupper - dunno where the 3" of snow we were supposed to get went, but it's sunny and a-gonna be 61* here south of K-Town

Probably gonna take kids to library, thento the park with the dog today, maybe pizza and rent a few dvd's tonight....dunno

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:04 pm

Well, went to the soccer game. Windy, windy, but kind of warm. Left in the middle of the game to go home and get on the net to buy Joe Jackson/Todd Rundgren tickets for the Ryman in May. I did good, Cosmos - we're on the front row this time! See you then!

Taking the kids to a new german resturant in town for lunch. Thought they might like to have some german food again after being in Munich last fall. The lady who runs the place is native german and has a reputation for fabulous desserts.

cosmos · Post by **cosmos** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:08 pm

WOO HOO!!! Nice job Spooky!!!

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:34 pm

Is it just me, or are there a lot of soccer moms on this forum?

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:39 pm

For the first time in months, my weekend is finally my own! No going out drinking, no working afternoon hours on Saturday at my tutoring gig, no shuttling back and forth between friends' houses and socializing. This weekend is for cleaning and eating and long baths and Guinness and Bass black and tans. Yay weekends without obligations!

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:04 pm

lots of snow here. staying inside. watching tv.

cleaning is problematic because it makes me curse my 'friend' for making the mess.

still, must be done.

sick of snow.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:43 pm

Well, I guess I'm more of a sloth mom than a soccer mom.

The boy and I are watching ICE AGE, fresh off of seeing ROBOTS earlier today; see more in films thread.

Poppet is under-selling the sheer crapitude of the weather here. Basically it has alternated all day between freezing rain, snow so heavy it looks like someone's throwing rocks off the roof, and sheer clods of slush just falling from the sky, feeling as if they're all going down your back.

March is DISGUSTING in Boston.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:46 pm

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:55 pm

BlueChair wrote:Going to see the musical Wicked, which just opened here in Toronto.

Just got back from this. Has anyone else seen it?

I was a bit let down I guess. Maybe I just expected too much - Blue's sister had seen it in NYC and *RAVED* about it. While the story was interesting and the performances were really great, the songs seemed kind of awkward and didn't quite work. I might have to read the book now.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:31 am

RedShoes wrote:
BlueChair wrote:I might have to read the book now.

You mean the original "Wizard of Oz" story, or the book of the musical? Funnily enough, I was just reading Robert Sabuda's incredible pop-up version of "Oz" with my daughter yesterday. His "Alice in Wonderland" is incredible too.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:27 am

She means Wicked, the book the musical is based on.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:42 am

Ms. Mug, can I be a Sloth Mom and a Soccer Mom? I have a Gemini rising.

Spring is definitely in the air here (but we will have Dogwood Winter, Blackberry Winter and some other freaking kind of winter before it really is spring, which of course is actually summer here). I'm thinking shoe shopping! Sandals! Sandals! Sandals!

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:26 pm

After years of watching Spykids, Nemo, The Kid, and Matilda etc, Mrs Doofster and I managed to get to the flicks last night.

We went to see The Boogieman cos it looked scary and good for a laugh. It wasn't either.

Next week I'll stick to Racing Stripes.

Ps. Why can't teenagers sit still and quiet in the cinema? Is there a worm that leaves their arses on their 20th birthdays?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:20 am

Boogeyman gets my vote for Worst Scary Movie Ever - Mr. Swung thought it was awful and he likes those kinds of movies. I spent 2 hours with my hands over my eyes, crouched in a fetal position.

and I could have seen Million Dollar Baby....