love

The kids went with my parents to COSI this morning, and Scott and I set out for a long walk. We went to the park, the park of roses where we got married, and then sat outside along with other folks waiting for the library to open. Picked up a few books, a cd, and came home for lunch. It was really nice, because I felt like Scott and I connected, and spent quality time we haven't spent together in a while.

The rest of my day I plan to attack paperwork and email and get caught up.

Plus a family meeting tonight.

Last night a few of our good friends met Scott and I at Bucca di Beppo and we had a lovely Italian dinner. It was fantastic. I think I hurt Michael's ear (who was sitting next to me) with all of my shouting down the table.

So much fun.

Then we went on to Bob's Bar and had even more fun. I love my friends.

I was feeling much better when Scott came to pick me up for my date. We went to the Surly Girl, ate some good food and had some good beers and talked. I was really glad to have a good date to put me in a better mood.

After spending some wonderful hours with Peas, Karen, Patti, Deneese, and Reba, I headed home to go out with Scott for the evening. We were thinking of Skully's or the Surly Girl.

I wasn't feeling much like going out anyway so Scott suggested just going to our favorite bar instead. Inside, it was so busy that it was standing room only. Scott's a good husband. He knows me. He suggested picking up a few beers and coming home instead.

A quick stop at the best little carryout for wine and beer and we were home snuggling on the couch, watching The Fountain. I liked it. Scott was disappointed because Netflix billed it as a movie with astronauts in it, but to his dismay there were none.

Last night Scott and I stayed up way to late playing around with the karaoke machine he bought me for my birthday last year. We had been talking about having a karaoke party at out place for a little while because we have that thing, and because the only place we like to go sing karaoke is always super busy and expensive. Why not use the money we'd normally spend at that place, and get some music and do it at home?

So I sank $40 in a 26 disk set through Amazon's used shop, and it arrived a few days ago. I spent a little research time and work grabbing the track names and artists off the internet and making a mini karaoke book, and last night we went through it and sang along with songs and had a blast.

The kids did a little singing before going to bed, Tayler becoming frustrated and running to her room to throw herself dramatically on her bed and cry that she couldn't sing. After a little coaxing we were able to convince her that you just need to know the songs, and singing without the lead vocal to help you is hard, and she sang one last song for good measure.

Then I printed up the mini karaoke book and Scott and I went through it and played different discs to see what was there. We had a ball singing AC/DC, Kiss and Black Sabbath. My falsetto rock voice is nothing compared to his.