I luuuuv my four-day weekend!
Jul. 7th, 2004 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinSince I don't work on Mondays, and this one was a holiday, I get today off with pay. Gotta love that government job.
We roadtripped to Omaha Sat evening, to spend some time with A & K. I think we're jinxed--last time we visited them at home (last year, the day after the 4th) they'd had a major storm come through, and had no power. This year, shortly after we got there, there was no gas to their whole building, so no hot water or stove. Gak. We did get to see the house they're buying--4 bedroom, 2 bath, detached 4-car garage, in a nice neighborhood across from a park. They're very excited. On Sunday, K had to work, so A took us to Ashland, NE, where he was helping with the town's fireworks shoot. I helped tote things out of the trailer, then they let me knit; By got to help wire things up. And we had the best seats in the house, to watch the shoot....almost underneath them, and behind the racks of stuff as they fired, so we couldn't hear the cheesy patriotic music. Much fun. After the shoot we all ended up trooping to another friend's house (after midnight, no less) for showers, since there was still no hot water at A & K's apartment. We all slept in Monday, and walked to a pub a couple blocks away for lunch, and then they took us to a used bookstore (Pageturners), which was very bad of them. A knitting book, three mythology books, and two pottery reference later, we decided to get out before we did any more damage. We left Monday afternoon, so they could get some things done without having to entertain us.
Spent yesterday lounging around....we'd had quite a storm in the wee hours, and the power was off from about 5am until 11am. After the power came back on, we turned the computer on and were lazy online :) Can't spend all day today lounging; we really need to get groceries, and I should make sure I can find all my work clothes before 5am tomorrow.
We roadtripped to Omaha Sat evening, to spend some time with A & K. I think we're jinxed--last time we visited them at home (last year, the day after the 4th) they'd had a major storm come through, and had no power. This year, shortly after we got there, there was no gas to their whole building, so no hot water or stove. Gak. We did get to see the house they're buying--4 bedroom, 2 bath, detached 4-car garage, in a nice neighborhood across from a park. They're very excited. On Sunday, K had to work, so A took us to Ashland, NE, where he was helping with the town's fireworks shoot. I helped tote things out of the trailer, then they let me knit; By got to help wire things up. And we had the best seats in the house, to watch the shoot....almost underneath them, and behind the racks of stuff as they fired, so we couldn't hear the cheesy patriotic music. Much fun. After the shoot we all ended up trooping to another friend's house (after midnight, no less) for showers, since there was still no hot water at A & K's apartment. We all slept in Monday, and walked to a pub a couple blocks away for lunch, and then they took us to a used bookstore (Pageturners), which was very bad of them. A knitting book, three mythology books, and two pottery reference later, we decided to get out before we did any more damage. We left Monday afternoon, so they could get some things done without having to entertain us.
Spent yesterday lounging around....we'd had quite a storm in the wee hours, and the power was off from about 5am until 11am. After the power came back on, we turned the computer on and were lazy online :) Can't spend all day today lounging; we really need to get groceries, and I should make sure I can find all my work clothes before 5am tomorrow.
