Weekend fun

On Friday, my boss let me off work at 12:15, which was awesome. I went over to Jeff and Daniel's house and played Settlers of Catan for awhile before switching to Phase 10. I did very well at Settlers, but not so much in Phase 10, which usually ends with me throwing my cards at the winner. :)

Saturday started with a lot of lazing around the house. Lately, I have been reading a lot. Some of the books I have read include Last Night at Chateau Marmont, Breathless, Buried Prey, Robopacalypse, most recently, a nonfiction book about the 1999 tragedy Columbine. That's what I was reading most of the day Saturday. Then, at 4, I left and went to Concord for the baptism of my 'nephew' Dalton Balmori. Rarely have I felt so loved, as when he walked into the room and his face lit up; "AUNTIE KATY!!!" I am really grateful to Heidi and Ramon for making me an honorary aunt; AnaSophia, Dalton, and Abigail are all unique and special people, and I love them. The baptism was marvelous.

After that, I hit up the Nordstrom in Broadway Plaza and got myself a pair of Cole Haan flats on sale. Thanks to my boss for the giftcard! Then, it was off to home. Lisa got home around 9, and I looked at her and said, "You wanna go to the 9:30 Monte Carlo?" Of course she wanted to go with me; it was a cute movie. Totally predictable but in the good, funny way.


Sunday I headed to the Pleasant Hill second ward for Dalton's confirmation; it's been awhile since I've seen a lot of the old Mtz 2nd people, and I really enjoyed it. Everyone from the Bergs to the Echols and even Mary Bell, whom I adore, was there.

Monday of course was the 4th of July; I started off by going to the gym and getting on the treadmill for half an hour. After that it was reading (Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub). I headed over to the 'rents house; my mom and I went to the grocery store to buy some stuff, and Guy went to pick up a 15 foot ladder. About an hour later, I was asked to help on the ladder; my parents were applying some sort of crazy stained glass looking thing to the window above the stairwell. We also ended up mounting a 4 foot tall print of the Boston Temple.

Shortly after that was swimming; not gonna lie though, I only got in the water for about 5 minutes.The rest of the time was spent reading in the shade or laying out in the sun. Swimming was followed by a quick rinse, and then cooking. I made an apricot, blueberry, and strawberry crisp with my gluten free flour. Mom made fruit salad, I made corn on the cob, Guy cooked the steak. We also had macaroni, green, AND potato salad as well as chips and baked beans. Yeah, we ate.

After dinner was a boys vs. girls game of trivial pursuit. I am sad to say that the boys beat us....twice. Then I skipped the fireworks and came home - if you know me, you'll know that I need decompression time, and was utterly lacking that by Monday night. No fireworks, but a great weekend nonetheless.