1000 Julys
Title courtesy of Third Eye Blind. Whatever happened to them? Their first, self titled album was so damn good. Every song was a classic, if you ask me. Their second album, where this song title is from, was pretty bad ass too, and their third, eh, not so much. According to Wikipedia they have a new album coming out sometime in August of 2009. Hopefully it'll bring them back to the mainstream, because I really enjoyed them, while they were around.
So, July is here and in full force. My Fourth of July weekend was pretty damn good, I must admit. I'll give you a breakdown. I had a meeting in the city on Thursday and once I got home, kind of just relaxed at home with Missy. I had off on Friday, the third, and she was off all week because school had let out the week before. She's teaching summer school, but that didn't start up until yesterday, so she had a week's break. We woke up on Friday and got some breakfast at a local diner, then hit up the DMV to get our addresses changed on our licenses. Fifteen minutes of waiting on line to just get a ticket to wait to be served could have been avoided if I just would've printed out the forms online that the guy at the ticket window gave us anyway. Oh well. After that it was onto Best Buy, my favorite!
Back in December Missy cashed out all of her credit card reward points for Best Buy gift cards, almost $400 worth, or more, I forget. It had to be more, because we bought a GPS, Wii Fit and a bunch of other stuff with it, and still had $240 left over on Friday. Anyway, we used that to get a bunch of Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks animated movies on Blu Ray. Missy's reasoning is that Disney will release one of their flicks for a limited time, and then throw it back in their vault for a decade, never to be seen again. She figured we should pick up as many as we could now, before they went away, in the event that there are children in our house that want to watch them, whether they are our children, or other's. So we picked up Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Cars, A Bug's Life, Ratatouille, Bolt, Madagascar and Madagascar 2. Not bad. We went home and popped on Cars and Ratatouille (which both of us had never seen, we'd seen Cars). A relaxing Friday afternoon. Later that night, Mark, Randy and Beth met us at our house and we went to Cheeburger Cheeburger, a local burger and milkshake spot which has the best, cheap food in the area.
Saturday was the 4th, I woke up and went to my parents for my guitar lesson. After my lesson I got started preparing my Diet Coke and Mentos fireworks display. I did the same thing last year, but last year was sort of just to prove I could do it. This year was all about doing it bigger and better. So I spent way too much time in my parent's garage with a cordless drill, making various size holes in bottle caps and drilling holes in about 60 Mentos, for use in a dozen bottles of Diet Coke. After the holes were drilled I had to thread a needle and string together five Mentos per bottle cap, to make the cartdridges. Once that was done, I could relax for the rest of the day. A bunch on my parent's friends were there, Missy eventually made it out, along with Brett and his wife Eynat. We had a good meal, and before dessert I set off my "fireworks". My younger brother got video of it, and I put it on You Tube. It was pretty cool. At least I think so.
Sunday we kind of loafed around the house, ran some errands, including going to Bed Bath And Beyond and buying a small Dyson Ball vacuum to replace the crappy vacuum we had. The thing was expensive, but we had enough 20% coupons, store credits, gift cards from our wedding and Amex and Visa gift cards from Missy's students so that we ended up paying only $1.23 for it. Not bad. Once we finally got home I put it together and actually used it, and damn, the amount of dust and crap it kicked up was insane. Gross, actually. I couldn't believe that was sitting in our carpets all this time. Nasty. Later that night we went to Missy's brother's house and had dinner with them, since they just got back from their honeymoon. Then, it was homeward bound and time to start a new week.
Hope everyone else had an awesome Fourth of July!