This week began half way through, due to labor day, and ended abruptly as well. Rebecca had Monday off due to a company holiday, which is a good thing because we spent our labor day driving home from the redwoods. We knew she also needed Friday off, so to make up for Friday in advance, we had planned that she would work extra long hours the remaining three days; this plan quickly dissolved when we weren't able to get her into work on Tuesday until noon. Between getting myself moved into my studio on campus and other problems, it turned out to be a long day. But I was going to be in classes until very late, so it turned out to be a normal Tuesday evening with dinner at Boston Market. Or, we'd like to have it not be normal to eat out every Tuesday night, but if she goes in late and I get home late, this often results in neither of us wanting to prepare a meal at 9:30 at night. And not much is open at that time. Ah, long days...
Speaking of long days, most of ours were. Wednesday we played until late with an old roommate of Rebecca's and the miracle of the day was that we finally found some lamps for our house that we agreed on. It's not that we don't agree on lamps, it's that we disagree with lampmakers as a general rule. But we're pleased with our selections and now we don't have pitch black bedrooms and a living room in partial darkness. Thursday was a final push to get our pictures at home hung and the rest of the house decorated and unpacked. It seems like we've been "mostly" unpacked for a long time now, but we're so close now we can taste it. Special thanks to those of you who sent in coupons for Michael's, ironically we weren't able to use them. [you can't talk someone into letting you use a coupon (40% off) instead of the normal sale (35% off) if they don't know how to do anything different than the usual... -beck]
Then the weekend was taken up by wedding things. Rebecca didn't work at all on Friday, due to a "spa date" with the bride (Kate Maslied, an old and dear friend) and thus tried to work some on Saturday to catch up for a missed day. The evening was a rehearsal for the wedding and although we did nothing but stand around, at least we were invited to the dinner afterwards at a nice Croatian restaurant. Who knew that goulash is traditionally croatian? I didn't. But since no one at our table had the goulash, I don't know if it is anything like the way my mother made it. We had the zagrebacki, quite delicious, but I wanted to point out that I had my first calamari. It was fried like onion rings and I had no clue what I was eating until long after the fact, but quite delicious. Not at all what I was expecting from Melissa's explanations.
Saturday, we both worked for a good chunk of the day. Then the rest was wedding. See that here. We had a great time and are really happy for Kate and Robi. Since they're actually moving closer to us, we'll be able to play lots of games with them all the time, now that they are less busy with wedding plans.
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