June 20, 2005

my god it was a busy day

Wow! I had no idea I had such great Internet shopping advisors! You guys rock! I’ll let you know what I find.

First, though, I’ll tell you why I’m shopping (no, it’s not JUST because I really REALLY deserve something nice, although I do)–Wade and I are going to Santa Fe in July, for a little Romantic Getaway. We did this last summer, for our tenth anniversary, and it was GREAT–we wandered around the plaza and looked at impossibly expensive art and jewelery, and spent a couple of hours at the Georgia O’Keefe Museum, and then, at two in the afternoon, Wade said, ‘So, wanna go to Coyote Cafe and have a drink?’ Three drinks later, and I was announcing to anyone who asked, ‘Hey! I’m on vacation! Without my kids! And I’m drunk! In the middle of the day! Whoo hoo!’ It was fantastic.

It was so fanstastic, in fact, that Wade has mandated that we do it EVERY YEAR. So for two days in July, we will be ditching the boys with my parents and heading off to debauchery. But THIS YEAR, to up the ante, Wade has proposed that we go to the opera. I don’t know anything about opera per se, but I do know that The Santa Fe Opera is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Wade actually KNOWS opera (have I mentioned what a geek he is? I’m pretty sure his ENTIRE IPod playlist is classical music. Geek) and he was able to tell me all sorts of smart things about the opera we are hoping to see (was I listening? No. I was thinking, Oooh, what will I WEAR? And thus the skirt.)

So you are helping me shop for a sexy getaway with my hot husband. Have I said thank you?

In other news . . . .

Here is how much I love my children: tonight I gave up thirty precious minutes of my life to watch a special prime-time episode of JoJo’s Circus. I just hate this show. In the first place, it’s about CLOWNS, and I have an UNRELENTING fear of clowns (I’m serious–we went to a Clown Birthday Party recently, and I tried to hide in the kitchen. When that didn’t work, I sat off in a corner and hid my eyes. The clown was named Hillbilly Willy. He looked like a pedophile. I’m not exaggerating). Jojo is also annoying because the songs are inane and the singing is charmingly off-key, which just grates on my nerves. Finally, to add insult to injury, the lessons are so damn nice and so damn relevant that it makes me hate the show even more. How dare off-key CLOWNS teach my kids about kindness and really GOOD family values? (I swear one of the characters has two dads, which we are all in favor of at our house.) It was a hellish twenty seven minutes. BUT–I do love those kids!

And finally, this . . .

Remember how I’ve been whining about my porch? (It IS really really horrible, you can ask my friend Leslie, who I’m sure thinks she is going to pass out every time she comes to play–it’s like a greenhouse, it just traps ALL the heat and humidity for the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD right outside my back door. On top of that, two of the roof panels are missing, and two others were damaged in a hail storm last spring and leak. Oh, and the wood frame is water damaged AND splintering. AND the concrete is cracked. Let’s see, did I miss anything? No, that’s pretty much it.)

I have been wanting to completely remodel it, and while Wade is not OPPOSED, he is hesitant about my elaborate plans (new frame! new rook! screens! CEILING FANS! TOTALLY NEW FURNITURE! OUTDOOR RUGS! AND A DIAMOND RING FOR ME TO WEAR WHILE I BOSS THE CONTRACTOR AROUND!) Well, this weekend I had a great (read: virtually free) idea. Why not take our existing table and chairs out to the far end of the yard and PUT THEM IN THE SHADE? Where it’s NOT SO HOT? We tried it, and it’s AWESOME. We have a nice, shaded patch of fescue grass, and room to plant more fescue, and it’s cool and shady and quiet. The down side? Since the whole area is SHADED, it is also home to various birds, and our table is now a nice big poop target. Which is just yucky.

But today I had a great solution–I think I’m going to buy this fabulous canopy (complete with mosquito netting!) and turn our otherwise rather icky fescue patch into a Serene Retreat (or at least a less expensive alternative to remodeling the horrible porch). I’m so excited! I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Whew. It was a big day here, for a Monday! I need to put my feet up and drink some wine now.

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2 Responses to “my god it was a busy day”

1. June 21st, 2005 at 9:51 am, M&Co. Says:

   You remember that W-M is the anti-christ of retail? Besides your link didn’t work.

2. June 21st, 2005 at 10:21 am, Anonymous Says:

   m&co is right about W-M being the anti-Christ. However, your link worked last night. All you will need is a cute cabana boy to bring you your drinks!

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