Wednesday July 26 2006
Got up early and walked Posh, and Leslie had been working for 3 days straight, so she slept in. Came home and went back to bed for a little while. Got up and did the bills and Comcast was back up to $100 again. They said they put us on “promotional” for 6 months, but it doesn’t really make that much difference. $13 or something. Took my check to the bank to deposit and mailed the bills. Leslie had the idea to take my grandma out to lunch so we picked her up and went to Olive Garden, and I just remembered that Jon Wright maybe used to be a chef there? Or maybe he just waited tables. Anyway, I had soup and salad and so did Leslie and my grandma had pasta with tomato sauce. She was cute and she wanted me to cut the pasta for her. She had a glass of Chardonnay. She paid for lunch and we took her back home. It’s a little bit far to go for lunch, but when you want Olive Garden, that’s the only one there is. Went home and watched some of Bridget Jones and it’s pretty funny when he stops her after they have a fight and says “Bridget!” and she turns around at the door, and he says: “That’s not your coat.” and you see, and she has this hilarious huge coat on (laughs). Woke up about 5 to go to the library and we dropped off Posh to play, and I got some videos by Warren Bernhardt about jazz, and a couple Alexander McCall Smith books and one by Mark Halprin and he looks interesting. Also got that movie “Mediterraneo” and it won an Academy Award. Checked email and we sold some Starry Gazey Pies, which we just got in, and somebody wrote that they got it because they wanted to see how the Bees were influenced by the book by Brenda Wooton and I don’t know anything about it. Which came first? Leslie and I went to Kroger and she was getting mad at me for getting in people’s way at the grocery. “You see someone coming and you don’t even attempt to get out of the way!” She was saying, and she has a point. But why doesn’t anyone see ME coming?
Why do I always have to see them? I think she’s embarrassed by me sometimes. But i’m embarrassed when she’s always taking stuff back. But I took something back yesterday to Davis Kidd, and I didn’t have a reciept and it was like a 20 minute ordeal, and I felt so cheap, it was only a $5 item. Got the stuff at Krogers ($39) for Chilli and Gazpacho, which I plan to make from the New York Times Magazine Cooked for a while and had some beer and watched Mediterraneo with Leslie and I forgot what a good movie that is. She liked it too. Oh, and I forgot- Leslie told this great story about a baby she delivered, and the family said they wanted to give her an American name, and she gave them all these ideas, but in the end they named her Leslie! How cool!