He actually showed up some time around 9:15 I believe. But he ended up staying until almost noon. It took him forevah to figure out what was wrong, and then he basically had to re-wire the whole house and fix something-or-other up on the utility pole.
I spent much of the time he was here tidying up the house. Just to keep on top of things. Househusband duties. Y'know.
Carrie made two outings, one in the morning to Sonja's (which was actually open this time! Yay!) and Trader Joe's, and the other in the afternoon to Ever After and some other store. Safeway, I presume, but I'm not sure.
When she got back from the 2nd outing we played a bit of Bomberman 64 on Battle mode. It's been a few years (at least four or five, I'd guess) since we'd played. It's still pretty fun, but it seems to have lost something over the years. I just don't think anything can compare to Mario Kart Double Dash or Mario Kart DS. Anyway, Carrie made a snack tray of various meats, meunster cheese, and black olives to eat while we played.
The next couple of hours were spent getting the house ready for company. I put on Hudsucker Proxy in the background while Roomba ran around and Carrie made a chicken tortilla soup and margaritas.
But in order to make margaritas she needed tequila, so she sent me to the liquor store. As I pulled up to the red light at Starbucks I noticed Bead Babe and good friend Laura sitting outside reading a book. I tried to wave to get her attention but she was completely enthralled in that book, so I pulled out my phone and called her and we chatted for a bit while I drove to the liquor store. Oh, it turns out she and Brandy are also going to Snakes on a Plane tonight (Thursday)!
At 8:00 Brandy showed up with Pat to watch the Season Finale of So You Think You Can Dance. The four of us were soon joined by many others:
- Cat
- Heather
- Lawrence
- Melissa
- Travis
- Chris
- Chris
All three Chrisses in one place! We all had a grand old time (except for Pat, who seemed to have a hard time stomaching the show) for the next couple of hours. The two finalists were Travis and Benji, and Brandy especially had a hard time with the fact that they called themselves "Tranji." It sounded too much like "Tranny" to her.
In the end Benji won. He was my favorite, so I'm okay with that.
Everyone pretty much filed out after the show ended. Pat practically could not wait to get out of there when he learned that Project Runway was on next. I cleaned up from the gathering (surprisingly easy to do; the use of paper plates and plastic forks was a godsend, as there were really only dirty soup bowls afterwards) and Carrie & I went to bed.
I had weird dreams during the night, including one almost-lucid dream (I dreamt that I was dreaming) that was just beyond my control, and at one point around 5:00 I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep for some time. So I'm kinda groggy today.
