In the afternoon I talked with Brandy for quite a while over the phone. She had a really fun weekend with Devon, Mitsumi (who ate her first-ever s'more at our house on the 4th of July 2004), and Erin Miner. Jealous! It's always nice to talk to Brandy. Thanks for talking on the phone with me, Brandy!
After work we went over to the Tarbets' for dinner. They barbequed salmon. It was our first barbeque of the season! And it was really frikkin' good. They put lemon and onion slices on it and then slathered it in garlic butter before wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it on the grill. They also made asparagus and seasoned potatoes. We brought fresh strawberries and blueberries to the table. It was really tasty and a lot of fun. Thanks for dinner, Linnea & Jay!
Before dinner I did my "Dr. Chris" schtick for Lena. She loves that schtuff. Man, Linnea is gonna pop out that kid any day now.
Seeing as how we had walked to their house, we didn't have a car to drive home. So we stole Jay's truck! Just kidding: he let us borrow it so we could drive over to landlady Carol's house (which is seriously only one block south of Chris & Cat's house) to pick up a BRAND NEW DISHWASHER! Well, brand new to us; she had it for a couple of years before she moved into this new house that came with a dishwasher.
While we were at her house, though, I drooled a little bit over the art on the walls. Her husband, Greg, is very artistic. I especially liked the framed painting of three skulls with cartoon hearts in between them.
Thanks for the dishwasher, Carol!
We haven't tried it out yet, but hopefully it'll last longer than our last one did. And hopefully this means we won't have so many piles of dishes stacked on the kitchen counter so often! I'll try to incorporate running the dishwasher into my morning routine... assuming that I have a morning routine, which is still up for debate.
We had a devil of a time loading the dishwasher into the back of the pickup, so on our way home we called Travis and he met us at our house and helped us bring the thing inside. We'll do something nice for him as soon as we can. Honest. Thanks for lifting a dishwasher, Travis!
We then drove the truck back to the Tarbets' house and I wrote down Carol's phone number for Jay (Jay did an estimate on our back deck). Unfortunately I believe I left my wallet at their house. Whoopzeeez!
After Carrie & I walked home I got a call from my brother looking to be hooked up with all of my fonts, as his got wiped when his computer crashed. He also got me to watch the Andy Milonakis Show, which I had never seen before but now really, really like. It's very funny short-sketch comedy. Thanks for being funny, Andy Milonakis!
