Working on the Weekend

Hooray for the second trimester! I have energy again, and though I am not known for being "active", I have never been as lethargic as I was these past three months. I was in a cycle for a few weeks of napping almost daily, or at least going to bed 2 hours early. And it was tiring to walk, like, up a flight of stairs. But, yippee, all that is behind me. I had energy this weekend and so I proceeded to move as much as possible and make my soft, feeble body incredibly tired.

Saturday was gorgeous (I was just tempted to type gorge, like some sort of sassy, New York Jewish woman - yuck!) Larry and I decided to do some work outside, so Larry re-leveled the area were the pool lives in the summer and I scrubbed the vinyl fence with a small scrub brush to get off all of the nasty algae that had grown there over the past year. Larry suggested using the huge pool brush, but NOOO!, that won't work! I needed to destroy my hands to prove that my far inferior tool can make the job take twice as long and allow me to complain about being sore for the next three days.

Once that was done, I set up the carpeting that goes around the pool and then we set the pool up. This week of 65 degree weather is proving that that was a little eager on our part, but hey, its done. Anyone up for a swim? Feel free to stop by. And bring your parka, it will help us bring your core temperature back up once we scoop you from the bottom of the pool.

Sunday I went on a cleaning rampage, vacuuming every surface that I could find. I actually considered vacuuming the dog, if only she wasn't such a wimp. I swept, mopped, blah, blah, cleaning, blah, for about 5 hours. Then Larry and I went to the grocery store to amass the wares needed to create our own My Girlfriends Kitchen style assembly line of dinners. We planned and executed five meals, getting them to the stage that made the most sense to freeze them. I chopped easily a small farms worth of vegetables and Larry prepared and cooked what seemed like 50 pounds of meat. At 10 PM we had these dinners finished in the freezer:

French Onion Salisbury Steak
Beef Burgandy
Osso Bucco - an Italian veal dish
Chicken and Sausage Manicotti
Chicken Divan

The house smelled amazing and we had a great time. I think that, if it had not already been confirmed before, we are officially old, white people. And I didn't even mention that we went out to dinner on Saturday night at 5:30. While at the restaurant, I was certain that we had found an elderly-rich area of town, but then realized that everyone was just there early to make sure that they could get home in time to watch 48 Hours:Mystery. Old whities love them some murder mysteries.