The weekend was good. Saturday morning I got up and hit the dojo- sweep the leg!- for two hours. It was good although joshu kind reprimanded me for not wearing head gear during the ground fighting. I told him at my age I was not worried about cauliflower ear and I had wrestled for six years and the only time I wore headgear was at matches. He replied it was his school and he makes everyone else wear them. Point to joshu.
I got home and got he boys as we had to go back to their mom's house. Friday night when I picked them up my oldest son's bag was rather heavy. He had decided to bring his XBox with him for the weekend but he forgot to bring the controllers. So, we went to his mom's house and got the controllers and then went to BBY to pick up a new copy of Mass Effect 2. While we were driving there we ended up getting into a political discourse over the differences between liberals and conservatives. I waxed poetically about how I believe in the legalization of drugs- not conservative, that we need a better system of checking backgrounds for gun buyers- not conservative, clearly same sex marriage- so not conservative, drug testing for welfare recipients- not liberal, pro-choice- not conservative, etc. The boys were not shocked by any of my stances and said they made sense and my youngest said I should run for Congress- not!
Saturday night I made pizza- both the regular kind and the gluten-free kind. As we were eating dinner I noticed and said out loud it looks like you'll have to start shaving soon to my oldest. The husband blurts out no, don't shave, grow the 'stache- it advertises to the girls you have pubes. Seriously though- WTF is up with that? My oldest starting to shave? Next thing I know he'll be driving and wanting to go to college...
This week has already been quite the roller coaster ride. I will reiterate Greece will default. It will not be controlled. It will not be fun. To that point today the EU finance ministers asked the bank regulators to run yet another "stress test." Even though they claim their banks are sound, they want to see what would happen if Greece defaulted- just in case apparently. If the test does not go with a scenario of 60-70% losses, it is useless.
Sunday the husband and I hit the fireplace project again. He too off the mantle and we then framed out from the top of the brick to the ceiling. We used the usual glue and nails and we did not have any major disagreements on how to build the framing. Yesterday the husband hung the dry wall and it came out well and he got to use a masonry bit drilling into the brick.
Last night was the dojo- Cobra Kai never die!- again for two hours. I am recovering a bit quicker from the pain but I did get my ass kicked by someone who is two full belts below me, lol. He had about three inches in height, six inches in reach and at least 20 years on me- not that I am making excuses.
This coming weekend is a long weekend for us. We had plans to go out to Colorado and go to a dude ranch to celebrate a friend's 40th birthday. Unfortunately said friend's mother is gravely ill and he cancelled the festivities. I told the husband I am keeping the days off and making a long weekend. He was all excited saying he has work for me to do. I told him to go shit in his hand and make a fist. I have not had a vacation at all this weekend and I am taking a four day weekend to relax. I will however chop more wood as it is relaxing in a Zen-like way.
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