Okay, yes, we are officially slackers. Sorry to the two people who read this and check it religiously on Sunday nights, but we weren't home Sunday night to give you the "exciting" update.
First off, I got the tires replaced, no charge or anything as expected. Did have alignment issues and had to bring the car back (which was annoying), but all seems to be fine now. Have I mentioned that I hate cars?
As for our comings and goings, last weekend was pretty relaxing. Friday evening we went to the mall so I could use my 10% Gap coupon, then we came home and watched Six Feet Under. Saturday we went to the Cumberland County Fair which was a lot of fun as usual. I believe it's smaller than the Durham Fair (for you Connectishits), but they have farm animals, so I am happy :-) I made Erik go into "Old McDonald's Farm" twice so I could pet the animals. It's a petting zoo meant for kids, so just call me a big kid! Of course I didn't try to actually go into it. I just like leaning against the fencing around the play pen and pet the animals when the kids happen to scare them in my direction :-)
Saturday evening we sat around and I watched "Pollack" on IFC (Independent Film Channel). I have two words to sum up the movie - raging alcoholic. I had NO idea Jackson Pollack was such a boozer! I guess it makes sense since he was an artist and all artists are messed up. However, his famous paintings, the ones that everyone knows (the paint splatters) were actually done during the two years he was completely sober. Yet another reason to lay off the sauce! He of course died by being drunk behind the wheel. Sort of a depressing movie, but it was very, very good and I highly recommend it. Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar for her performance as Pollack's wife.
Sunday Dos and I hit a yard sale, the flea market, and an estate sale. I ended up buying a frame and a foot stool. The estate sale was kind of lame I have to admit. It was in Cape Elizabeth, so we were both hoping it would be a lot of expensive antiques at bargain prices. Far from it. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schmo use to live there, and apparently Mr. Schmo loved to make cribbage boards and collect old tools. There were piles upon piles of cribbage boards and enough drills to build 20 bookshelves all at the same time.
Sunday evening was the Nickel Creek concert. Here's an interesting (and annoying) story. Erik and I had bought tickets a couple of months ago. Last week Erik decides to put his name in to win a private concert with Nickel Creek before the actual concert. Well, he won! I was of course VERY excited! No longer than two hours after the radio station sponsoring the private concert called to tell Erik he was winner, they called back to say the private concert was cancelled. Huh?!??! They said it was due to sickness, but that the regular concert was still on. Even though we didn't get to go to the private concert, we still got two tickets to the regular show. So yep, we had 4 tickets to the show, two free ones and two that we paid for. So we dragged Dos along. The concert was VERY good, but you could tell that they were all suffering from some illness (hence the reason the private concert was cancelled.) Erik and I were 5 rows from the stage, so I was happy about that at least. And those were the tickets we paid for! The free tickets were further back which we found surprising. But all in all, a good concert.
Okay, we have seriously taken this slacker thing to a whole new level. Ugh. Well, in all honesty, not much has really happened that has been THAT exciting. The highlight of the past few weeks was that I FINALLY got to see my parents after months, and Erik, despite the fact that he STILL does not have a schedule, is officially in the Coast Guard Reserves. He got his ID this past Friday, so it's pretty much a done deal.
