The Long Holiday Weekend Disc Golf Travelling Porkchop Consuming Crossword Working Movie Watching Swine-Flu Flirting Show

What a weekend. What a weekend. As the title may suggest, my weekend was filled and completed with BBQs, a trip to the movies, disc golf, an excellent movie on the couch with my wife, two sick cousins and a sick brother-in-law (all around the same age: 7-10), goodbyes, a short-story, and a nearly completed LA Times Sunday crossword puzzle. If the weekend bag were to be any fuller, I probably would've strained my back trying to carry it all.

Saturday I spent most of the day indoors, cleaning up around the house, watching Avatar: The Last Air Bender season one. Keisha had boat loads of homework to do, and that's just after being in class for the second week. I called various family members to see if they'd like to come over to our house for some BBQ, but everyone was sick, sore, and/or tired. So I grilled some porkchops, made some scalloped potatoes, and boiled some corn-on-the-cob. To end the day we watched Little Miss Sunshine, one of my favorite films, as Keisha had never seen it. All in all, a great day with Keisha and Stella.

Sunday we went to Sunday School and church, where the pastor (who's name is James Dean) asked for a volunteer from the congregation. Then he proceeded to open a box of Hostess Ding Dongs. He unwrapped two, and asked the volunteer to unwrap two. Then they had a Ding Dong eating contest in front of everybody, and we all laughed and wondered what the heck was going on. After it was over he held up a mirror for them to inspect themselves, cleaning their faces, etc. Sermon resuming, he talked about a "man looking in the mirror and immediately forgetting what he looks like" (see James 1). A bit unorthodox, but fun and useful. After church we went home to see our family, especially my brother and sister-in-law and their newborn baby Ian. Stopped by the homestead and picked up a few things, then to see the baby, then off to the In-laws, whereupon a BBQ grill was fired up and hamburgers and chicken were cooking. Next stop was to mamaw's to pick up our puppy and head back home. It was a long day, but good seeing nearly everybody.

Monday, Labor Day, we were going to go to some yard sales, but it was stormy in the early hours, so we slept in a bit. My friend that's moving to Chattanooga came over and we went and played disc golf around lunch. Afterwards we went and watched Extract (a so-so movie, that's funny but stupid and probably not worth the $6 matinee ticket, but probably $4) and then back home, where Keisha was making supper. Then I get a call that one of my first cousins, who I did not get to see when we were home, was being treated for swine flu, although she tested negative she was showing all the signs. After supper William left and me and Keisha watched State of Play (a great movie that I'll possibly review for my next post) and went to bed.

Back to work today, and for some reason I'm pretty tired. One cup of coffee, one Golden Delicious, and one Mountain Dew Code Red later and I'm here, typing away, yawning, staring at my workstation and thinking about the next step for the project I'm working on.

The ipod journey is nearing 96% on albums completed, so brace yourself for an onslaught of music posts coming up in the next week or so. I may be able to reveal the Top Ten on Friday, let them sink in over the weekend, and expound on everything next week.