What did you do/not do this weekend?

[Braindeer]

I had a brilliant weekend!

On Saturday I cleaned the house, and then had some friends over to play SingStar in the evening, much to my neighbour's dismay...

On Sunday, I had a lie-in to recover from the above, then I went to a photography warehouse to play with shiny toys, and my boyfriend and I decided to buy the Canon 50D, which we have been debating for months. Sadly they didn't have the body in stock so we had to go home empty handed. But to make up for this, in the evening we entered a pub quiz and won first prize, which was £50 in vouchers to spend at the pub! There were five in the team, which is £10 each - enough for a nice meal all together, which we're going to have on Tuesday night. Hooray!

 

[Cakes488]

My weekend was excellent...couldn't of been any better. Friday night I met a friend which was a very productive meeting and continued on my way upstate.
I saw huge bear poo in my back woods. Bears are around but rarely do I get to see the scat actually on my property. I took a picture with a lighter nearby for scale. It was very impressive and almost beautiful really....

Went on a couple of hikes...hung out down by the river and cleaned the garage -- which is a work in progress which seems to never get done! Also I chilled like a muthafucka because I always have to have my weekend down time!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

This weekend, I worked and went out drinking with some friends.

What I wanted to do and didn't? Go out drinking with some co-workers. I couldn't because it conflicted with the drinking with friends.

 

[Holdfast]

Wish I had a picture just so I could prove I went on a date with her, she was a wee bit out of my league.

They're never out of your league; you just move up into the majors for a while.

Flew on a Stinson V-77

Cool.

... did 5 loads of laundry... I didn't finish my laundry

Woman, you have even more clothes than I do!

But to make up for this, in the evening we entered a pub quiz and won first prize, which was £50 in vouchers to spend at the pub! There were five in the team, which is £10 each - enough for a nice meal all together, which we're going to have on Tuesday night. Hooray!

No, no, no! You're meant to spend the money on drink, not food! Today's youth no nothing!

I saw huge bear poo in my back woods.

I hear they do that.




I had a pretty chilled weekend - took some people out for tea on Friday, then spent the weekend doing laundry, going for a couple of nice walks in the sunshine, reading up on some Art History and then watching the Grand Prix. I haven't been working the past week (due back tomorrow; grrrr), so there wasn't a long backlist of errands that needed doing, which was a pleasant change.

 

[ShimmeringFacet]

Hit or miss weekend, mostly miss. A lot of things going on that I just seemed to miss. Puttered around most of Sat, went to check out some bands playing for free near the water, but couldn't find the location until it was about over.

Sat night went to the nearby reperatory theatre( within walking distance) and saw Trainspotting at the midnight showing. Could only understand some of what they were saying.

I'd just missed out on the last Sat. of the month event on the ave. in which they have open shops and bands playing late. The shops are mainly funky/funkyish antique shops with mid-century and art deco era merchandise with some pop culture items and vintage clothing stores. There is a surf shop and a few wine bars thrown in the mix.

Sun morn went to a service-this church is extremely progressive, gay friendly, multi-racial, non-traditional and pretty new-agey. It got really popular after the minister appeared in The Secret. So since I leave late I usually wind up outside watching on a screen. Today they had this touchy feely exercise where you were forced to stare into someone's eyes and tell them you loved them and some other very embarrassing things. Can you imagine the horror! Usually, I enjoy this place but this kind of ruined the rest of my day.

Later Sun went to a Quilt show-but I got there just when it was closing. But I walked through anyway. Mostly contemporary quilts, thankfully, and not too much of the traditional ( read old fashioned) pieces. I was really pissed because I'd wanted to buy some fabric for a non-quilt purpose and they were selling a good amount of it- it was like a candy store.

 

[Cakes488]

I saw huge bear poo in my back woods.

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I hear they do that.

I've long suspected it myself...and now there's actual proof! Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could post a picture of that hot steamy mess right now? LOL,...no....!! I'm not talking about me when I first wake up I'm talking about the bear poo!!!

 

[SeerSGB]

This weekend? Clean, pack, fill out school paperwork, photocopies, clean, cook, pack, pack, pack, cook, shoponline for houses to lease.

 

[An Officer]

It got really popular after the minister appeared in The Secret.

I think I know the guy you mean, sounds like a thoroughly fascinating man.

 

[Warp Coil]

I worked. It's what I do every weekend.

Join the club. I worked Saturday and Sunday (9a-5p) like usual. After work on Saturday, I met up with a friend and played some tennis. Ate dinner and then drove home in the rain. Chilled out the rest of the night.

Sunday, after work, met up with the family for a pizza dinner (no one felt like going out so we ordered in). After spending an adequate amount of time with them, I went to the gym to try and burn off the pizza! (and in the process I irritated my shoulder... I pulled something a couple of weeks ago and it seems that it hasn't quite healed all the way yet).

 

[SmoothieX]

My plan was to go canoeing and then for a hike neaby afterwards. Between the wife who was tired from the marathon training, and the muggy weather, we steam cleaned our carpets and then started a photo album from our Alaska trip.

 

[Timby]

I did not, in fact, murder a hooker.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Fucked around online. Got offline early and during the day yesterday, to do some catching up on something I am writing.

 

[ShimmeringFacet]

It got really popular after the minister appeared in The Secret.

I think I know the guy you mean, sounds like a thoroughly fascinating man.

Michael Beckwith...it's a wonderful and dynamic place in many ways. He's helped facilitate a very good community spirit there and he seems to walk his talk.

Since I'm on the shy side, the occasional group hand holdy aspects/exercises are one thing I could do without, but usually the rest of the experience makes it worth getting through.

 

[JustKate]

Things accomplished:

1. Canned - yes! like a 1940s farmwife! - 8 pints and 2 quarts of green beans. I've canned before, but always the easy, high-acid or high-sugar kinds of foods (tomatoes, jams, preserves) that you can simply by filling the canning jars correctly and boiling them for a while. But this was with a pressure canner, and with a pressure canner, assuming you don't mess up, you can preserve pretty much anything. So I thought I'd start with green beans because (1) Our garden has been producing green beans like crazy, (2) apparently my garden isn't alone in this since the local farmers seem to have a lot of green beans, too, and they're selling them for cheap, and (3) in order to can green beans, you don't have to peel them or seed them or cook them or anything tedious - just cut off the ends and there you go. It went OK, although the pressure canner is a little more...twitchy than I expected. My next project will be spaghetti sauce, but that'll have to wait until I have a lot more tomatoes.

2. Slept in one day.

3. Though not on Sunday, since I not only went to church but also went to a meeting before church. The church part was fine, and even the meeting was OK, but I am at a loss to figure out why in the world somebody thought 9 a.m. Sunday morning is a good time for a meeting. On the other hand, at least this eliminates one evening meeting...and it also means that meeting cannot last more than one hour. But still...9 a.m.? Euw.

3. Finally managed to watch Warehouse 13 (it was pretty good - not sure if I'm going to watch it all the time, but I enjoyed it) and also Eureka, which I know I enjoy but for some reason or other hardly ever manage to watch.

5. Finished the Rihannsu omnibus. I'm glad I finally read it, but I'm still not sure how I feel about it yet - I had kind of mixed reactions.

6. Went for two walks, the first time 4 miles and the second time 3.5 miles.

Things not accomplished:

1. Laundry. I did some, but not nearly enough.

2. Cleaning the kitchen. I did it once, but then I canned all those green beans, and everything went to hell. That's why cleaning the kitchen is so depressing. It's like Sisyphus rolling that rock up the mountain in Hades - you do it, and almost right away, you have to do it again.

3. See any of the herons that nest in the area. I sometimes see them when I walk through the town park, but not this weekend. I love those things. They're so...big!

 

[Hermiod]

I watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Blu-Ray. I may be in the minority but I still enjoyed it the second time around.

The fridge is dumb, the monkeys are dumb but it's still fun. The Bad Summer Blockbuster Scale has undergone a rather large recalibration lately though.

 

[ShimmeringFacet]

Cleaning the kitchen. I did it once, but then I canned all those green beans, and everything went to hell. That's why cleaning the kitchen is so depressing. It's like Sisyphus rolling that rock up the mountain in Hades - you do it, and almost right away, you have to do it again.

So true!


Every year my mother has boat loads of Meyer lemons from her back yard tree. Next lemon season I'd love to can a years worth of lemon curd!

 

[JustKate]

^ Wow - that would be great. I wonder how hard it would be? The thickeners used in fillings like curd...I don't know how they'd react to canning, but if you could figure it out, that would be FABulous.

 

[sidious618]

I just sobbed.

 

[Timby]

I watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Blu-Ray. I may be in the minority but I still enjoyed it the second time around.

I'm with you ... personally, I have no more trouble accepting the nuclear fridge and aliens than I do the Holy Grail and a heart-eating voodoo shaman.

 

[JustKate]

I just sobbed.

(assuming you meant that as a joke!)

In any case, it doesn't usually make as big of a mess as canning!