Cinco de Mayo

Saturday I slept in and eventually made myself some brunch. Everyone else was having lunch and I really didn’t feel like pasta so I thawed out a steak, made some potatoes and sat outside and grilled while I enjoyed my coffee. It was a nice enough morning to sit outside and have a brunch.

After that delicious meal, I decided to trim some more branches. I have tree in the back that almost died a few years ago from the extreme heat & drought. It had a lot of dead upper branches that just looked terrible. I had needed to cut them for a few years but I knew it would be a lot of work so I kept putting it off. Well, it was a lot of work. Mainly because they were so damn high. I extended the length of the pole saw to its limit and began going to work. It was mostly a success. I really needed to get on the roof for the remaining branches but I didn’t trust my balance with the saw way up there. Also, the shingles were burning my white ass.

After cleaning up it was off to the movies. Sinners. I heard the movie was good. I knew it was filling movie theater seats. I wasn’t expecting it to wow me as much as it did. I also wasn’t expecting it to be a packed movie so many weeks after first release. That surprised me. The role of the twins by Michael B. Jordan was so good that I could not tell that it wasn’t two separate actors. It was seamless. The sorry was great and the characters well written. I really liked the directing. A couple single take shots here and there. It also had a great deal of original music. Music was very important to the story. It could be called a hybrid horror/musical, for at times there were full on musical numbers. Well done musical numbers that mattered to the plot. A good old fashion vampire drama set in the old south during the times of prohibition, Jim Crow and the KKK. The fact that the “horror” aspect only shows itself halfway through and yet I was still totally engaged was amazing. Honestly, I would have enjoyed the movie had the vampires never showed up. It wasn’t until about the halfway mark that something supernatural even began to unravel.

Sunday morning was for coffee outside. I am loving these cool mornings and will continue to enjoy them as long as I can. In a Texas summer even the mornings are too darn hot to enjoy. My mom invited us to have lunch with her. A late lunch at 1:30. We went to a place that Yvette & I use to frequent with my mom a lot during the early days of our relationship. I had an obligatory tequila shot for good ole times. After lunch, I strolled through downtown in search of my sheep. It was a beautiful afternoon and we wont have many of these left. The river walk was beautiful. I found 17 sheep.

Cinco de Mayo. Monday was so nice and gloomy. We had scattered storms throughout the day and the temperature probably never reached above 70. I was in heaven. For a Monday, for once, I was happy.

After work we went to Yvette’s grandfather 97th birthday. The entire family was there, for the most part. They picked up a large batch of Chinese take-out and we stuffed ourselves. I can’t do Chinese take out because it’s all breaded and sugar. I love it but it wrecks my blood sugar. I went up 300 in less than 30 min. Not at all a cool feeling. I tired to keep the sugars low the remainder of the week.

With the party all done Yvette and I went to go see the little baby Nile’s. He is such a cutie. I’m sure it is just me, but he already looked bigger. Once leaving their house we decided that it was our duty to celebrate a little Cinco de Mayo with tequila, margarita and beer. We went to a little taco shop we sometimes hit up for lunch. It was our first time being there during the evening and it seems the joint is a popular place with the college kids. It makes since. Cheap drinks and tacos, perfect for the broke kids. After drinks we went home and called it a night.

Tuesday morning we had some storms roll through town. I’m pretty sure they woke up just about everyone. They woke me up, and that’s telling. I guess everyone was running behind schedule because the commute to work was busy, and I was running late. We had 3 inches of rain. It made for a good day. I did have a mess that would need to be cleaned up over the weekend, but I suppose the rain is worth it. One of these days I’ll come up with a solution to the water run-off issue that I have. Being at the end of the block and bottom of a hill comes with some consequences.

Seth sure had a nice week to be on the campus. The temperatures were in the 70’s everyday which is almost unheard of in May. Being stuck in the office I was a little jealous. I tried to find a few excuses to get out. Mostly I was tethered to the computer. Nothing makes a week in the office longer than consecutive beautiful days.

Thirsty Thursday! It was another beautiful wet day. We had some sporadic showers here and there with temperatures basically sticking in the 60’s. Very peculiar weather for May, as I have mentioned. What the weather did inspire in me was a desire to make a batch of soup one last time before the summer heat wave hits. Yvette suggested I make the green chili chicken tortilla soup I made a few years back. I guess even her student worker at the time sampled said soup and liked it. I sort of remembered that. Now I just had to remember what the hell that soup was. Lucky for us both, I had the recipe in my cook book. Rather, I had a basic outline for a recipe. We went shopping and I found everything that I needed to make a good soup. The kids don’t eat soup so it was a small batch just for the two of us. The soup was damn good.

After a very loud busy week in the office, Friday was rather quiet and peaceful. My boss was gone, which helped matters greatly. He is a rather loud talkative man. I mean no offence, but DAMN can that guy talk for hours. Often to no one but himself. I was able to get out on the campus a few times. I caught the last day of an art exhibit. They had some really talented women featured. All is all, it was fairly uneventful.