HollyKing's Journal

Friday was spent drinking and dining at The Jones with datavore, beaq, k_crow, walbourn, gfish and the always lovely hollyqueen. Good food, great drinks and some damn fine conversation. Too bad I'll be in Portland finalizing the move for the next two times.

hollyqueen and I started Saturday by signing the lease on our new apartment! Woo hoo! After we measured the rooms we headed out to buy some paint to decorate. We weren't able to find any colors we both liked so we changed plans and instead spent all day visiting furniture stores to look a bedroom sets. I guess viewing all the furniture helped because at the end of the day I was positive that I wanted the first set we picked.

In between furniture stores was some lunch with dustin_00. We went to Frankie's which is a little Italian place in Redmond that tried to kill hollyqueen by using walnut oil in their pesto. They warned us about the oil in the pesto but didn't say that there was pesto in the Italian Wedding soup. This time no one was poisoned.

This weekend was Field Day which is a contest sponsored by the ARRL. The purpose of the contest is to practice emergency operations by moving radios out into the field. So we also stopped by the Ferrel McWhirter park in Redmond. I wanted to visit with the Redmond ARES group to find out when they held meetings and make some introductions. I'm going to get involved as soon as I get my radios moved and setup. (Maybe as soon as next weekend.)

I was very tired from a lack of sleep the night before so we went back home and I took a nap. I was so deep asleep that hollyqueen had to wake me up three times. I never did really wake up the rest of the night and don't really remember what we did. I know we had dinner and that I watched about half of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) on DVD.

Sunday morning we got up and went to the morning service at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church. The subject of the sermon was The Green Man at Midsummer, a topic I know something about. There was a section at the end where folks could ask questions or comment on the message. I did something very unusual for me and actually got up to speak about the Holly King and Oak King. What has come over me? ;)

After church we went and paid a serious chunk of change for a bedroom set. My god! I have a bed frame with a headboard, a dresser and two night stands that all match. What the hell happened to me? One day I'm scrounching for Volkswagon furniture then suddenly I'm almost 40 and buying a matched bedroom set. I don't wanna be a grown up! I wanna play and have fun!

The rest of Sunday was spent driving around to learn more about the area and avoiding the heat. Oh, I can't forget snuggling on the couch watching an episode of <a href='http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/">Numb3rs</a> with <user site="livejournal.com" user="hollyqueen">.</p> <p>All in all, not a bad weekend.</p>