And now it’s time for yet another weekend update! There are a few things I need to post about and I am not entirely sure where to start (of course). First let me go with: Don’t go see Man of the Year! I love Robin Williams, I have always been a HUGE fan of his work. I remember the days when he was on Happy Days and Mork and Mindy! I have seen him Live and own a good portion of his movies. If you were to dice up this movie to just the parts where he was in it, it would have been a decent movie. They tried too hard to throw in lots of political intrigue and mystery and it just distracted from the whole point of the movie! So my suggestion to you, rent it, and then if you don’t see Robin Williams on screen, fast forward till you do. Nuff said.
Next, this Sunday we were all kinds of busy! We started out with a trip down to see Jody. Jody is the girl who cuts my hair. Ever since I separated from the military, I have decided to not get any more “barber” style haircuts. I have a decent enough job to afford me this small luxury. I have been seeing Jody for just over 2 years now so we sat and chatted it up for about 1 ½ hours while she cut mine and Andrews’s hair. (wow, that didn’t sound as gay in my head.) After receiving my extremely manly haircut, we headed down to pick up the weekly run of comics. (I should note that Jody works up in Great falls, and the comic book store is the south part of Fairfax so that’s about 14 miles)
After the Comics trip (which usually involves me BSing with the comic guys for a while on the finer parts of the DC universe) we saw a little garden place attached to the university mall parking lot. The just so happened to have a lot of the decorations we were planning on picking up to do up the front patio. So I figured, why not get it now! We picked up 2 bushels of corn stalks, 2 bails of hay, about 1 lb of miscellaneous gourds, 2 regular pumpkins for carving and one gianormous pumpkin! When we got everything home, we set about the decorating. This took up the rest of the evening. One of the bails of hay gave up it’s life for the sake of our new scare crow (or scare Emperor). Don, the upstairs neighbor got into the act too and we did up his patio to match. We even got a visit from another of our neighbors, or more importantly, his father. My other upstairs neighbor has his parents visiting from India and the father came out to help up with the decorations. He was extremely happy to see all the stuff going up because, as we learned, they have a very similar festival in India! It was very cool to have him there and hear about some of the traditions.
Lastly, there is something I think I need to clear up. There has been a little confusion as to a particular relationship I am having. It would appear that I am in a very abusive relationship with Maya. You see, she continues to make me do many things that end up causing me pain. Yet, I always go back to her. She yells at me sometimes too. Of course, I tend to yell back and sometimes it upsets me because Andrew can hear this. I really think things are going to get better so I keep seeing her.
Ok, if you haven’t guessed yet, Maya is my virtual Personal Trainer. She is a part of a program called “Yourself Fitness” for the X-box. I picked up this program a long while back and, like I posted earlier, I recently started up again. Apparently, not everyone realized who exactly Maya is. Sorry Dad, but I have to call you out on this one. I got an e-mail the other day from my father that had me (and the rest of my office, again, sorry dad) rolling. I won’t quote the whole thing, but here is a snippet:
“Your comments about Maya show you need help in interpersonal relationships. You goal is should not be what makes you happy, but what makes the other person happy. I have not met her, but she is a human being.”
Once I regained my composure, I sent out a little e-mail reminder to him that She, in fact, was not “a human being.” Now my office mates tease me about abusing Maya and hurting her feelings all the time. My Dad did write back to let me know that my Mom explained that the joke was on him and she told him who Maya was. So thanks, Dad, that really was one of the highlights of the week!
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