The end of the weekend is fast approaching. Last week was the first week in about 4 that I’ve had to work a full 5-day work week. I know, I know, everyone’s feeling oh so sympathetic for me. Still, it is what it is. After five days at work, I was exhausted. I’ve taken on a new project at work recently and adding that to everything else already on my plate is causing my plate to overfloweth. I’ll find a way to deal with it.
This weekend was busy but a lot of fun. Saturday morning, Aimee and Jake’s neighbors got together and held a neighborhood yard sale. Sean and I brought a few things up that we’ve been needing to get out of the house lately. Our old TV, my old desk and our dishwasher were the three big things that went up. A few other items went up as well, including our old PS2. At the end of the morning, when Sean and I had to head home, we had managed to spend five hours catching up with our friends and selling all of our stuff except for the dishwasher. It got loaded back into the truck and donated a few blocks away. Yeah! No more dishwasher in our garage! It’s only been sitting in our garage for about 8 months now. I’m so happy to get it out of there, I can’t even begin to tell you.
Saturday evening, we had friends over to our house for dinner and non-video gaming. We feel so bad that we have all of these wonderful games sitting on a shelf next to our dining table and we rarely bring them out. Sean smoked a beef brisket and I prepped a few tasty side dishes to go along with the main course. It turned into a lot of fun with lots of laughter. Hopefully, we’ll have more friends over soon to play again. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed having friends over just to play games like that.
Today started off pleasantly lazy with a cup of tea and a good book out on our back porch. The weather is the perfect, sunny, cool weather that made me fall in love with living in Phoenix. I’m enjoying it while I can, because I know that all too soon it will get hot and I will only want to spend time inside. We got a few errands run today and I finally got around to staining an old shaving mirror that my parents rescued from my grandfather’s house in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. My parents had to strip it and clean it off with bleach solution. My dad also had to pretty much completely reassemble it since all of the glue had dissolved during the week that the house was underwater. After they were done cleaning it up, my mom asked me if I wanted it and I gladly accepted it. I don’t really have much from my grandfather’s house, so it means a lot for me to get this. They brought it out two Thanksgivings ago and it’s been sitting in my office since then. This morning, I told myself that I would get a replacement mirror for it and restain it today. It’s currently sitting in the garage drying after the first coat of stain. I’ll most likely have to do one more coat of stain and then seal it, but when I’ve got it all done, I’ll post pictures of it. I’m really proud of how it’s turning out. The stain is taking beautifully to the wood. When I’m done, it’ll go into the guest bedroom so that guests finally have a mirror to use in that room.
Tonight, Sean’s sitting downstairs in his office finishing our taxes. I’m working on the rest of our finances upstairs in my office. In a few minutes, we’ll both have to drag ourselves away to get some dinner or we won’t eat today. I’m sad that the weekend’s already almost over, but at least it’s been filled with laughter and friends and fun. I couldn’t have been more fortunate.
