Weekend Wrap Up

I had a pretty relaxing weekend. The big plans for Christmas shopping unfortunately did not come to pass....

For some reason I just CAN'T get into the spirit this year. I'm not certain as to why, perhaps it's all the hours I've been putting in for this company I have an engagement with - and the recent discovery I won't get paid for all the hours I've worked, maybe it's the distant on/off relationship with me and my family and thier lack to include me and my daughter in the "family" holiday plans or perhaps it's the recent problems with my teenager which has forced me to inflict "tough love" and refrain from purchasing gifts that she doesn't deserve because of her total disregards for my rules and failures in school.

I actually haven't purchased any qifts. I only have a few gifts to buy anyway so, guess I will just wait until the last minute as usual. I went with "C" to the mall Friday night. I noticed that althought there were plenty of people there, none were really buying a lot - most folks didn't have any shopping bags at all. Things were not "picked over" either, I think it's the suckie prices. Perhaps people are just more careful about how they spend their money these days.

Saturday we went to the "rich" folks mall and walked around for a little while. Went in the A.pple S.tore and watched people pick up i.Pods like they were on sale for $1.99 instead of $249.00! I'm trying to decide if I want to cross back into the M.ac world - lovin the i.book. Anyway, I'm just not feeling the i.Pod although very cute, it doesn't fit my lifestyle, I simply don't need access to 3598384848584 songs. I listen to music on my computer and my car stereo - works for me.

We had a nice seafood (my fav) dinner at Rockfish I had seafood gumbo and fried oysters, she had a delicious salmon salad, between the food and the margaritas we rolled out of the place as two very satisfied customers. We had the nerve to leave there and go to S.tarbucks for C.armel M.acchiatos, no foam add whip and extra carmel with desserts. Went home to discover how bored we were and decided to go out to look for some fun. Instead of fun, we sat in a major traffic jam! We finally got to our destination and saw that the crowd had obiviously found somewhere else to go. Since it had been 5 or 6 hours since we last ate, we decided to grab a bite at Cafe Brazil where we had chili which was off the chain, served in a bread bowl and fruit crepes for dessert.

Today, no reason to get up until around 2 p.m. we put ribs and a pork loin on the grill. Boy was it good! Tommorrow starts the grind for me, no one else has to get up - I'm jealous!