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September 12, 2005
A weekend at home
Categories: A Case of the Mondays
First of all, congrats to our friends Tim and Christy on the birth of their son, Finley. w00t! indeed.
This weekend, Sarah and I were glad to be able to stick around Rock Hill by ourselves. It seems we've been gone or had vistors every weekend since we've had the new house. There was one kinda big new thing, though, that made it interesting.
The big new thing is Sarah got a job. She's watching the children of a couple of other Winthrop professors three days a week; that job starts in earnest this week, with one of them back from maternity leave. But she's wanted something else, both to bring in some extra money and so she can meet people and keep busy. She's such an extravert that she needed more than being alone at the house or hanging out with infants wasn't. She found out that her old boss (Bernie) from I Fratelli now was managing Pasta and Provisions,a gormet shop with a large wine selection and homemade, cut to order pasta. She went by to say hello to Bernie and the other manager, Josh, offered her a job. She started training on Saturday. I'll say the shop is very cool and I'm glad Sarah is happy working there. She's now very busy -- watching children three days per week and working at the store three other days. I think it will be good for us both, as it will keep her occupied and get me involved in the household chores more; I was getting lazy.
I also was in Charlotte on Saturday, at a D&D meetup. I found a Charlotte D&D Meetup group which happened to have a "meetup" on Saturday. I went, but only one other person showed up. He was pretty cool, so we exchanged emails and talked about how to find some other people to play D&D with. Hopefully that will pan out, because I'm itching to get playing again.
Sunday we cleaned and did laundry. I came up to the office for a bit, to try and get caught up. Mistake. I didn't really get much done other than bum myself out because I was in the office on Sunday. Sarah and I went to the park and threw the softball in the afternoon, then went to Chilis and ate dinner.
Netflix this weekend: The remainder of "Sex and the City Season 5" for Sarah and "Kinsey". The later was good, with good performances all around. Lots of not-that-arousing bits of sex and sex related bits, which is kinda the point and may not be for everyone, but was expected. I find I'm starting to refer to movies in Netflix speak: "Liked it" "really liked it" "loved it", etc.
Got our Wilco tickets in the mail -- Oct 14th in Asheville. Yeah!
Posted by Nakia at September 12, 2005 03:55 PM