A full Saturday.
First off, we had the cousins here after a sugared-up breakfast at Eros. While that was going on, Team One from Sears showed up with the new fridge and range. (Proving that nothing really goes as planned, I need to have the gas line moved so I can slide the range back to the wall– it’s sticking out about 8 inches right now. I gotta tell ya, though– it’s a good lookin’ range.) A couple hours later, Alan The Australian Sears Guy showed up with the new dishwasher and some pretty good stories.
So now that I’ve got these cool new appliances, I guess I’d better start cooking a little more seriously.
Emma spent the night at a friend’s house, so Becky and I headed over to the mall– she has birthday money yet to spend, and I wanted to get to the Apple Store for another iPod cable.
On the way there, I had the overwhelming pleasure of seeing flashing red, white, and blue lights in my rear view mirror. Evidently, Northwest Highway through Palatine is a 30 MPH zone, and I was a little above that. Argh. The interesting thing is that they make this whole thing really easy now — you can pay your ticket through the mail, agree to attend traffic class (even over the internet– imagine, CBT driving class) and the violation doesn’t appear on your record. Well, at least the County got something out of this.
I picked up the soundtrack to Lost in Translation, which playing now. Border’s is open until 11 on Saturdays, so we goofed around in there for a while.
There’s some new modern art on my walls– actually, there are seven very strategically placed 3′ x 3′ squares of two different colors on the walls in my living and dining rooms. I got a quart of each of the two different colors that Designer Guy recommended to me, and I put ’em up on the walls to see how they play out. I’ll post some photos tomorrow.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back 23 hours before going to bed tonight. Or is it turning them ahead 25 hours and sleeping through Monday?