Congratulate me please. It’s due. I slept in till 8am!!!!! I mean slept. Soundly. If only I could figure out the secret I could bottle it. At the very least, this day had an awesome start.
Kids are here. Michael and GF Carly. They came in last night. We shared a bottle of champagne, vintage French, as a small celebration of Michael’s new job. That was nice. I don’t get enough champagne. Though I have two more bottles chilled. You never know when your day might go to the moon and champagne will become necessary. Maybe having it ready can make the need to celebrate more likely.
It was 10 when they arrived and by 11 Em and I were in bed. The other two stayed up because when you are in your twenties and have no kids it’s what you do. That is a bonus for being old. Early bedtime.
Of course, no matter how late I sleep, I still have the morning ablutions, loosely defined, feed pets, feed us, poopy patrol, coffee (12 cups today), read the paper, shower, made breakfast for the chitlins too. After all this, I was cleansed.
Emily left for Fall Festival. That’s the annual fund raiser at her school. Lots of activities, each kinda cheap, everyone comes and we hope spends money. Usually that’s what happens.
The rest of us stayed behind. I did some leaf pickup. Kids just showered and sat around.
We did clean all three cars. That was nice. Much faster with three people. Though their attention to detail is not up to my standards. I cleaned on the inside too. They did not. No matter, all of them look fabulous.
After that we drove, in separate cars, to our storage unit in Dixon. Seems junior needs his golf clubs. I assume there must be a course near him in SoCal. He hasn’t been much of an avid golfer in the last 10 years so I find it surprising he needs them.
We drove off from storage in different directions. They went to Davis to visit some brewery or other and eat raw fish. A low form of entertainment I think. I went home. I mowed the lawn and destroyed a pop up sprinkler while doing so. Fuc. So I went to the hardware store and blew 10$ on another. While there I remembered I needed to head to the pharmacy for a prescription and an inoculation. I was at my dr’s earlier in the week. They were out of shingles vaccine. She sent me to a pharmacy to get the shot and called in a prescription. The pharmacist said it wasn’t covered by insurance. So I had to pay $190. I could swear right here. Loudly. But I’m not. I will attempt a reimbursement. One can hope.
Got home and installed the sprinkler. It was quite easy. The only difficult part was cutting the riser. Which is not difficult. Sprinkles like a pro. And it sits lower than the last one. Bodes well for mowing day.
Emily just got home as I was turning on the sprinkler controller. We unloaded her haul from the festival. She netted $270 which is sweet. She also won two gift baskets in the raffle. One has a nice bottle of wine, glasses, opener, and rack. Cool. The other is hair products. She is giving them away.
Emily has fallen asleep in the chair next to me. I guess festivals are exhausting. I won’t say anything. We are going out to dinner later so maybe she needs rest. I feel fine esp considering my great nights sleep.
It is the cocktail hour but it appears no one but me qualifies. Two are out on the town and one is just out. I hate to drink alone but I may be forced to do it.
Kids returned and Emily woke up. And she ordered drinks. So I made cocktails for all. It’s a bourbon Aperol juice drink. I like it. Tasty. We are leaving in about 15 minutes for Sacramento. Which is where Empress Tavern is at. We are leaving somewhat early for a 730 reservation but you can’t be to careful.
Marika is driving to meet us at the restaurant. Driving from Petaluma. She was supposed to meet us at home. But her late exit from work doomed that. I have been communicating with her by text all evening. And she is in a very special mood. I can only say, from the tenor of her texts, she is pissed off at the world. Why, I don’t know. But it was painful texting her. She just wanted to be mad. And unhappy. And she succeeded.
The four of us, sans Marika, arrived at the restaurant almost on time. She arrived about two minutes later. She made good time. She has no reason to be so bitchy.
The dinner at Empress Tavern was outstanding. Probably due in large part to our server. She managed every bit of our meal to the end. I am sure the fantastic food helped but the server managed to make all else work timely and well. She suggested things and cajoled us into better choices and had perfect timing on delivery. She made the evening perfect. All the food was perfect as well. A great evening.
We managed to drive home even though some of us were quite drunk. Marika is planning to head home tonight. Carly fell asleep in the car and again when we got back. She has had plenty to drink today. Whatever. We got home by eleven. Marika got packed and for that matter unpacked and headed off to home. The rest of us went to bed. It is midnight.