The Streetcar Chronicles

It was a three day weekend for us since S and I took Friday off. Both of us have a lot of vacation days left that we should use before the end of the year; this weekend was the first in a few long weekends we’ve created for ourselves.

We didn’t have much planned for the day off, or for the weekend for that matter. We were having two of S’s friends over for lunch on Sunday. Estelle and Sandra are two older Jewish ladies that S met at one of her first (professional) jobs. Over the years, they’ve kept in touch by getting together for dinner every so often. The ladies hadn’t yet seen the house so it was decided that the next get together would be at our place. That was on the agenda for Sunday.

Since we hadn’t gotten in to see the Ten Commandments exhibit at the museum a few weeks ago, we decided we’d buy tickets online ahead of time to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. We got the tickets for Friday afternoon since we figured it’d be a quiet day at the museum. The only question mark was whether there would be groups of children there on a school trip. S doesn’t particularly enjoy children, especially when they are in large groups. Before we left the house, I gave her full permission to have the rage if she became annoyed by children. If nothing else, it would make for an interesting blog post.

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We had our lesbian neighbours over for wine and appetizers last night. I think the night went well but S thinks we won’t be seeing them again. Its’ not that things went horribly wrong, quite the opposite. Upon their arrival, S gave them a tour of the house upon their arrival while I put the warm appetizers in the oven.

With the tour over, we chatted about the similarities and differences between our two houses. While the warm appetizers were baking, we brought out the cheese, crackers, shrimp and wine. We chatted about the neighbourhood, our jobs and families and all of the other stuff that people usually talk about when getting to know each other.

Around nine, they said they should be going since they had a friend coming in from out of town who would be staying with them for the weekend. We walked them out and said good-night. As soon as they were out of earshot, S turned to me and said, “Well, we won’t be seeing them again any time soon.”

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This weekend was a busy one for S and I; but not nearly as fun as last weekend. It started off on a bit of a sour note for me. After lunch on Friday, I felt like a bag of ass. By the time the work day was over, I was dizzy, nauseous and fighting off a headache.

When I got home, I opened a can of ginger ale and let it go flat. I didn’t feel like eating or making dinner so I took my glass of pop downstairs and watched some TV. S munched on some snacks and when I felt a bit better, we had a nice dinner made up of cereal.

Around 8, S decided that she was going to read a book on the couch. She never got to page one; as soon as she lay down, she was out cold. I spent the next couple of hours surfing online and checking out different tutorials, mostly for using PHP for contact forms. I want to get out of the habit of displaying e-mail addresses as the method of contact on the web sites I work on. I’m beginning to put together my own web site and I think a contact form would definitely look better than an e-mail address.

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S and I hosted our first poker night last night. It wasn’t a game for serious players though, as we wanted to have a casual, social evening mixed in with some poker fun. We also wanted it to be ladies only. The idea came about the last time Christine and T were over for dinner. We somehow got to talking about poker and I (or S) mentioned that we’d love to host a night and now that we have the space, we think we can do it.

A few weeks ago, T e-mailed asking if we were still interested in hosting a game. We said that we were and that got the ball rolling. After all of the invites had gone out, we found ourselves with 11 players ready to come out for some poker fun. I guessed that our dining room table could seat 10 people around it (snuggly, that is) so making room for one more person wouldn’t be too hard to do.

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Phew, what a whirlwind weekend. We knew it’d be a busy one since we were hosting P’s birthday get together on Saturday and then spending our Sunday doing the Mother’s day thing. Knowing that you’ll be busy and then actually being busy are two different things.

Things got started on Friday night when S and I went to Costco to pick up some steaks and salmon to grill on the BBQ. We took our empty propane tank with us and hoped we’d find somewhere to fill it. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that there was a refill station at the Costco. S is not a fan of propane tanks; she never goes near the BBQ when it’s on and didn’t want anything to do with removing the tank. The entire time it was in the car, S kept glancing back at in the space behind my seat. “Maybe we should have read the instructions before putting in the car,” she said. “It’s not going to blow up, is it?” she asked a few minutes later. She’s so cute.

After Costco, we hit the supermarket to pick up some remaining items and then rushed home before the skies opened up. We got home just as it started to rain and I quickly set up the propane tank before going into the house. It was after nine by the time we had everything put away and we still hadn’t had dinner. I figured we’d just have cereal but when we were putting things away in the freezer, S had caught sight of leftover pasta that was in there. “I kinda want that pasta for dinner,” she said.

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