First Weekend of October!

Friday

Friday was Teh Bear's first day working 12 hours at the new job, which meant that he got home later than he "normally" did in his training status.  I took the opportunity to lounge on the couch, guilt myself about not taking the dogs on a run/walk, and watched a 1.5 episodes of HIMYM on Netflix since they just added season 8, woot!  After Teh Bear got home, we threw together dinner and watched Breaking Bad.  I really hate when Teh Bear is right about things.  Watching Netflix streaming through the TV is painful compared to streaming through the PlayStation.  Which really means I should learn how to operate the PS3 so I don't have to use TV for Netflix.  Le sighh.

Saturday

Saturday we went to the MD Renn Faire with Teh Singing Family.  Despite the headaches that 3 of the 4 of us had, we carried on for as long as we could.  We caught Cu Dubh (Coo-Doo) and BarleyJuice, both of which were really good acts.  If it wouldn't have been so hot and the majority hadn't had headaches, we might have stayed longer, but we gave up around 4.  Teh Singing Family introduced us to ShopKick, an app where you scan stuff and after you get enough points you can get free stuff, like gift certificates to places like restaurants and Target, etc.  Teh Bear had some technical difficulties, but we fixed it later.  We found a ball chair thingy that Teh Singing Cat Lady purchased for her ball at work that she sits on.  It was only $40 which was 1/2 off the original price.  After we laid hands on it, there were 2 other ladies that came around the corner who had heard us talking about it, and they were going to purchase it if we didn't.  

Cu Dubh

Belly Dancer with Cu Dubh

We didn't get this photo our first time.
I was had sads.

Barleyjuice

Dancin' on the "bar"

Just a dude walking a tight rope.

This guy was on our way out the gate.

After completing our scanning goals in Target and checking out, we headed to Chili's for dinner.  Apparently, Chili's can NOT serve ribs.  Apparently, the smoker was broken, so the boys were disappointed that their menu choice wasn't available.  There were several tables around us that hadn't been cleared off, which was also odd.  After dinner, we headed back to S.MD to be reunited with all the fur babies.  Teh Bear turned on Nightmare Before Christmas, which I mostly ignored since I was really too tired to focus on anything other than how tired I was.  Going to bed was a huge relief.

Sunday

Sunday morning, we woke up with intentions to go to church, but after realizing that I wasn't needed in the sound booth (while Phil simultaneously acquired an almost full loaf of bread for himself), we instead went to the GEGR fun run at Greyhound Central.  It was a bit warm, but the dogs were so tired for the rest of the day!  After coming home from GHC, we ate lunch, then Teh Bear and I headed back out to town to run our errands and get more ShopKick scans.  Teh Bear got all the scans he missed on Saturday, so it worked out nicely.  We went to Walmart to pick up our grocery items since the Commissary is still closed (but I read it is set to open back up on Tuesday).  

Doggies in the water!

Rufadoofs was over near the tree.

Tired puppy!

Peeing and pooping on all the bushes is exhausting for Philbo BaggyPants

This girl looks sooo content!

They were holding paws!  /swoon

The Nussberger Furbabies, including Wookie, who I told you about meeting the first time I went to scope out Greyhounds in Jan 2012!

My phone had been giving me issues the entire time we were trying to do ShopKick scans, so Teh Bear suggested going to the Verizon store where the rep was unable to help me in anyway other than telling me having my data set to "Global" instead of "LTE/CDMA" wasn't the correct setting, which is ironic since another tech had told me to set it to Global to get better coverage.  Whatevs.  I left pissed off, which is my common mental state towards Verizon since getting back to the US and getting a smartphone.  

Teh Bear talked me into calling customer service and explaining that the in store tech wasn't able to help me, but he said I'm the worst customer because I didn't demand a new phone at that point.  He's right, I'm the worst customer.  I was trying to maintain a good attitude so I didn't flip out on the phone tech like I semi-did on the store rep.  I was fine in the store until the guy insinuated that my problem wasn't consistent, at which point I corrected him, with a preface, "I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but if this has been going on for months, I'd say the problem is consistent."  The phone rep directed me to get a new SIM card, so another trip to Verizon is in store and I can't even wait.... ugh.

For the rest of Sunday evening, Teh Bear and I watched football recaps/games and watched the final episode of Sherlock on Netflix and accomplished the laundry.

Why does it have to be Monday already??

Linking up with all these ladies:

Five on Friday #7

UNO

Teh Bear finally started his real work schedule today!  This is good and bad, but this means he has more potential of actually getting to do his job.

DOS

97.1% for my final grade in my very first graduate course.  Granted, it was online, which seems to make things infinitely easier for me and my instructor seemed to be more of the use-praise-not-criticism type, but whatevs.  It's an A.  Actually, that's the highest final score I've ever made since high school.  Maybe in all my education, but certainly since I started "secondary education".

Let's just say that Teh Bear went out last night for dinner to "celebrate" rather than "Well, I didn't really want leftovers and I didn't want to cook."

TRES

Tomorrow we're going back to the MD Renn Faire with Teh Singing Family.  I'm pretty hyped.  Teh Singing Cat Lady actually has shows that she wants to see, which makes me excited because I really want to see some good shows... and get a soup bowl.. but that’s neither here nor there.  Teh Philbo and Teh Roofadoofs are going to go hang out with Teh Greyhound Neighbors for the day (mostly so I don't feel an exuberant amount of guilt for arriving home more than an hour after their dinner time).

QUATRO (btw I realized I misspelled this until the last Friday post I did, when I corrected it.  I'd rather be wrong than right.  Judge me, its fine.)

Sometimes, a little manual labor soothes the soul.  I spent over an hour this morning cleaning the stairwell outside our office.  It was DISGUSTING.  I was even swept the dust off the walls (what I could reach with the broom), wiped off the handrails with the (at the time) clean mop, mopped the soda/coffee stains off the walls from ancient spills, mopped the kick marks off the bottoms of the walls and doors, and then did the necessary sweeping/mopping.  Not only did I break a sweat, my hair even got curly despite being pulled back.  Afterwards, I came in and changed all the shred bags and left the vacuuming for someone else to do, feeling like I'd definitely contributed my fair share for the day.

Having done all that, I feel... satisfied?  Yes, there are more things to do, but I did the manual labor (which I might even have a blister to prove), so I definitely contributed.  I also did these things unasked, which sometimes makes all the difference, in my opinion.  Putting forth that initiative to do something makes people appreciate it that much more.  Too bad I know there will be another spill stain all the way down the stairs within the next 2 weeks.

CINCO

My Strategic Intelligence (woot first real intel class!) and Human Resources Management (woot first 600 level course!) courses start on the 7th.  I'm anxious/excited.  I didn't really accomplish much "pre-reading" of my materials like I said I was going to, but I did at least bring the books to work so I could try and accomplish some reading in my free time.  Both books were at least opened and the introductions were read, so I consider that counting for something more than if I had left the books at home on the table all week long.  I considered telling myself I could read something this weekend, but since Teh Bear will be off, that is a laughable statement.


YAYYYY WEEEEEEKKKEEEENNNNDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Linking up with these ladies since it's FRRRIIIIIDAY:

Fashion doesn't agree with me... #25

 A competition between:

 Teh Megan, Teh Bear, and Teh Sister...

#1:

#2:

Annapolis Part 1...

Teh Bear and I were determined to actually go somewhere for the long weekend we got for Labor Day since we were both off.  We decided to go to Annapolis since neither of us had actually been there before.  We weren't really sure what we were going to do besides have lunch and walk around taking photos, but we would at least be in Annapolis.

Anyways, I talked about the trip here, this post is about the photos.

There are never enough flower photos.  Or macro shots of insects.  I'm not captioning these photos so you can click through them.  But seriously, check out the freakin' Praying Mantis.  Talk about a sweet find!  That's what makes being addicted to flower photography totally worth it.

There will be a part 2, where I show you the Naval Academy, stay tuned.