The Aerie
For the first time in a month I did not work over the weekend. Oh, I worked, but I didn't work on work-work, billing work. I just didn't have time.
Friday night we went bowling with our friend Terry and his two sons, and one son's charming and outgoing girlfriend. It was my delight to bowl a 134 on the second game (after not having bowled for a zillion years). This was using a nicked up house bowling ball, so it was quite an accomplishment for me.
At first I ran around in an annoying fashion trying to give my family members bowling tips. My spouse was challenged by the weight of the ball (you don't want to stand too close behind her) and my younger son has a remarkable delivery that involves a series of breakdance moves. My older boy got quite exasperated with my advice very quickly. So I stopped giving him any advice and he bowled a bunch of gutterballs, Now, I'm not one to indulge in schadenfreude, but he wins at everything. Halo, Fluxx, Elixir, all sorts of games, we play, he wins... so it was fun for his old man to thoroughly out-bowl him.
Not that I'd ever SAY that out loud... :-)
Saturday was spent cleaning house for Easter, since my wife was having her family over - well some of it. Only her parents, her sister's family, and her sister's father-in-law attended, but given the size of our house that was just fine. Anyway Saturday was spent cleaning, and then dyeing eggs. Afterwards I did my monthly business expenses and went through some financial and other documents related to my small company.
By the time that finished it was about 7:00 p.m., so I spent some time watching my copy of "Enchanted" that I picked up after work on Friday. The scene where Giselle leans out the window of the Manhattan apartment building in order to sing up the wildlife to help her clean house always makes me laugh.
The next morning was a nice relaxing combination of egg-hunting and breakfast, marred only by the destruction of my eyeglasses. The Boy was not well pleased when I snapped a photograph of him lying on the floor in his sleepwear, and wrestled the camera away from me quite vigorously. After the issue was resolved I realized that I had no glasses on. After a brief search (during which we discovered some lost eggs from last year) the glasses were found in the couch cushions - in two pieces. Somehow the left stem of my glasses had been torn completely off! I hadn't even realized they weren't on my face!
Easter went well, the smaller crowd of guests made the experience much more tolerable than some past family gatherings. After everyone left we watched the rest of 'Enchanted' that we had started the night before, then watched all the extras. After that break my wife and I washed the fine china (not leaving THAT to the teenagers!) and then it was time for bed...
This morning I phoned the Vision World near work, and got prompt service, including an eye exam. They had a cheap pair of plastic tortoiseshell frames that fit my existing lenses, which I can wear until my new glasses come in. They had a "any pair of frames for $59" sale, so I got a $250 set of frames for $59.
And, thinking ahead, I got a pair of twisty, flexible frames that can be wrapped around a stick and spring back into place. So next time The Boy decides to take on his old man in wrestling, all I have to worry about is having him pull my arms out of their sockets...
Posted by Albatross at March 24, 2008 4:38 PM | TrackBack