Personal day off

Here it is Thursday and the week is almost over. Best of all, i took the day off today to go to the ENT. Just needed my ears professionally cleaned. Ha ha, that sounds like when you go to the dentist for a professional cleaning.

Getting ready for the family to visit this weekend. Alyssa's graduating from the internship she took this summer at LABI. Mary and family will be here and so will mom and dad. since friday is her birthday, we'll be celebrating that too. saved me a trip to the valley.

Last Friday we headed over to Italia's house for dinner. It was a good night, with good friends and good food. She gave me a present, my own bottle of wine, w/a personalized label. That was pretty nice of her.

Last night was the monthly Dr Who appreciation night at the Alamo Drafthouse. They could only get one theatre for the night, instead of the usual two so we were packed in there, totally "sold out" and i say that because it is a free event. they even had to turn people away, which totally sucks, but they should have been there earlier. we got there at 6:30 even though it starts at 7:30 and got a good spot.

Here's me with my Dr who shirt. Brought to you by: Fans of Dr Who Unite. Whoo Hoo!! http://doctorwhofansunite.com. My favorite doctor so far has been David Tennant. I am such a geek, aren't I? Love it!

A recent picture of me w/the girls. Aren't they just the cutest? Of course they are. Tonght is the last Concert under the stars at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. http://sabot.org. The last one was cancelled because of the rain. Even though it's kinda cloudy out there and a few sprinkles here and there, it hasn't really rained, so i hope we get to go. It's nice to get out and listen to some cool jams "under the stars".

Will probably take loads of pictures this weekend, so i'll be posting them pretty soon.

Friday

Yay! Finally Friday, where have you been, i missed you so much.....anyways...LOL...even though this was a short week, we didn't work on Monday, it was a long week because works sucks. Enough said. I'll try not to think about it too much right now so that I'll be able to enjoy the weekend.

We spent the fourth of july relaxing at home. Went to the Witte Museum and checked out the dinosaur exhibit. It was pretty good, really enjoyed ourselves.

The rest of the week was uneventful because the weather turned rainy again. There was another tropical storm that hit Brownsville yesterday. Luckily it wasn't too bad but we, of course, got rain here again. because of that, the concert under the stars at the botanical gardens was cancelled. that totally sucked because i was looking forward to some music under the stars. oh, well, the next one is in two weeks.

New pictures

Was checking the "crops" i planted a few weeks ago and i finally saw some progress.

These are my cucumber plants. There are several growing already, but this is the biggest one of the bunch. Ya see it?

These are the yellow sweet banana peppers. That's more like it...

And the bell peppers, i think they're supposed to be yellow...or red....once they mature.

And this is the cactus plant we had to grow because the original that was on the ground died....aw...during this very, very cold winter we had. we had to get rid of the dried up stump that was left. as with the lemon trees that we had that were also ruined by the cold weather, we had to start from scratch. but that's okay. won't have any key limes for my key lime pies this year......

Just finished reading another book "Capital Crimes" by Jonathan & Faye Kellerman, huband and wife writers. http://jonathankellerman.com/ they collaborated on this collection, it's two books in one. actually, two different stories in one. whatever...anyways, it took me a little longer than usual to finish it, but i finally got it done.

Went to see "The Last Airbender" hesitanlty, but i went, because i had heard atrocious commentaries/reviews about it but it turned out not to be too bad, for a kids movie. yeah, the acting was so-so, the dialogue a bit childish, but, like i said, it's based on a cartoon, so you can't really expect too much. the original concept of the elements, and caring for the earth, and buddism were there. have to admit, i'm not too familiar w/the original cartoon, but i guess that's a good thing.

Long weekend

We finally get another holiday off from work. sunday is the 4th of July but we get Monday off. Plus, i called in today,so....i get a 4 day weeekend. Who Hoo!!

The news headline of the week was hurricane Alex that was bound for south texas/northern Mexico. It made landfall about 100 miles south of brownsville and thankfully didn't cause much damage there. We did get some residual wind and rain here, yesterday it was all wet and overcast and today too, but at least i see the sun starting to peek out. and it's only the start of the hurricane season. but at least we haven't gotten really hot temps like last year, the hotttest it's been so far is 95, compared to last year, when we were on our 2nd week of 100 plus temperatures, this is heaven.

On June 24th we went to the Botanical Gardnes again for the 2nd concert under the stars event. http://sabot.org/. Their featured artist was The Sisters Morales http://sistersmorales.com/.

It wasn't too bad, the day was pleasant, not too hot and the music was soothing. they play mostly mexican urban folk music. they sang one or two songs that i remember from my childhood. that was kinda weird, but it was a good evening.

That's us enjoy the nice weather for a change.

Last Saturday i went to my first professional, although Minor League, baseball game ever. Normally, i wouldn't even think about it, but they gave Joel 4 tickets to the Missions game in town. I jumped at the chance, since one of my new year's resolutions was to try new things. I couldn't find anyone else who was interested, so it was just the two of us. Which, it turned out, was the best thing to do because the seats were so close together. We ended up taking the two seats in the middle, w/one empty seat at each side. that was the best thing about it, we weren't

crowded in or anything.

Even though they ended up losing, it was nice to be outdoors for the evening, since i work 8 hours stuck in a cubicle. They even had a fireworks show afterwards.