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Archive for May 31st, 2008

Our day @ IKEA!

 

So. For a Saturday - today was quite good. We woke up, had breakfast (eggs & crescents!) and then even went and ran approx. 3 miles outside. THEN we took a nap, woke up and made our way to IKEA - which by the way, since I85/75 is practically closed this weekend, took FOREVER - relatively speaking. BUT! Then we got there and everything was awesome. We went to check out the beds (since ours sucks!) but decided that we were hungry (aren’t we always?) and so we went and ate some IKEA Swedish food - well… you know.

We like to park underground because then this thing looks like a big yellow… entrance.

Exactly 15 meatballs just like it says on the sign.

 

 

Yup. Ikea is a boring place and we never have a good time there - right! Actually, we were VERY happy to learn of this IKEA when we moved here from Phoenix - because we always had a great time at the one in Phoenix and well… we’re also always in need of some cheap furniture that can be put together with only a single allen wrench!

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The Weekend in Front of Us

Leah picked up Brandy and two others at the airport last night and then drove them to Decatur for dinner. Our first choice was the Brick Store Pub - but it was Friday night and damn, we just weren’t up for waiting 45 minutes - so… we walked across the square and since they were in the mood for thai food, we stopped at Siam (which is alright Americanized thai food - however, they could at least turn up the heat a few notches - I asked for my red curry chicken to be spicy… I got taco bell mild.)

Still, dinner was good and it’s always nice to talk and have some conversation with visitors from Phoenix.

We did pass by where I think Wordsmith’s Books is moving to (?) on the corner of the square and last night they had a ummm… Harry Potter Gathering… well, actually it was a performance by these two - a Wizard Rock-Super-Group named Accio Bodyguard. Which may reference something HP but having never read ANY of the books - I have no idea - but it was still nice to witness geeky fandom happening.

When I got to my car after dinner - I thought about going back and sitting in on the group - but then I realized… I’m into geeky fandoms - but I’m just not… I’ve never read ANY of the books so I can’t really justify this. Plus - it was close to the end of their show anyways. So I went home and did homework.

AND I talked to some people in China. Thanks to our friend MelissaMaples.com who let us know about LiveMocha.com - a language learning website with the skype/myspace communication component thrown in - we signed up and people from China have been adding us as friends - well last night I ‘typed’ for a while with two guys, one living in Wuxi just north of Shanghai, and the other just north of Hong Kong - I need a headset/mic so that it’s not just typing and I can actually learn how to speak mandarin - of course… I need to go through the actual lessons they have and get some basics brushed up and learned. But still… it sounds promising - like everything else, it’ll just take the time to do the stuff. Obviously, we’ll see.

Leah made an awesome pizza the other night. See?

And now - my newest favorite show is coming back on for the 2nd season on July 10th - Burn Notice.

It’s so awesomely great - like a summer paperback - what other show has spies, guns, spies, and actually TEACHES you stuff - like how to build bombs, tactics, AND it has Bruce Campbell - From Evil Dead I, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness - AND the Adventures of Brisco County Junior! (And also Spiderman I) - And ANY show that has him just has to rock ya know?But I really do learn so much from this show - much more than I ever learned from Sesame Street.

They have answers to questions like:

How do I break out of prison, in say, Turkmenistan?

It’s Saturday and we’re checking out IKEA because there’s never a bad time to check out IKEA.

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