Three days until NY. Today is Moura’s first appointment witht he vet. She gets to travel in a car for the first time since we brought her home from the furniture store parking lot. Then tomorrow, after the excitement of today, I am bringing Po over to my house due to an annual maintenance check by the village. So that will be fun. The two cats get to spend their first time together, again, since the night we brought Moura home from the furniture store parking lot. Let’s see how much work I get done that day.

Moura today:

See pictures of Moura from when we found her.

Yesterday was my birthday. It was a lovely day. It started off with finally buying my tickets to NY. The good thing about waiting until last minute is it makes the wait until the trip shorter. Only 11 days left until we leave. Sweet. So after I got our tickets, we were all starving, so we headed to IHOP for breakfast where we waited for 45 minutes before they told us, “We called you 1/2 hour ago.” WHAT! We were sitting in their waiting area the whole time and not once hear them call anything that sounded like “Holly, party of 3”. I explained them to the teenager who obviously didn’t want to be there working. Then 2 minutes later I explained it to the person who was in charge of the teenager that didn’t want to be working. She seated us right away. He he. Anyway, we ate a lovely breakfast. Yummy avacado and bacon omelette for me and a “Happy Face” pandcake for Gavin. Mmmm. Yum yum. After breakfast, we wandered over to Pier 1 to look around, and then it was across to Target for some small odds and ends. By the time we got home it was early afternoon and Holly started putting together my birthday cake. By this time, I had also recieved phone calls from my mom and dad as well as tried the new Miller Chill (Miller’s version of the margarita). It wasn’t bad. It’s a refreshing summer drink. Most of the afternoon was spent relaxing and watching tv, nitting, baking and playing cars. As it got closer to dinner time, the cake was done (and looked very promising), I recieved another call from a good friend, Gavin had a small nap, and we were again getting hungry. So we started to get ready to head to Lengthwise for dinner. It wasn’t long before we discovered that Lengthwise closed at 5. 🙁 So we headed out to find another place to eat. On the way to Roadhouse Grill I changed course and headed for Olive Garden instead. I am so glad I did. We haven’t been there in about 10 years and we were not disappointed by anything. Gavin’s spaghettin and meatballs were awesome. I ordered a Beef madalion gorgenzola and spinich alfredo dish. OMG it was so good. Holly watched my eyes roll back in my head as I took a bite. And the soup was delicious. It was what I have been unknowingly craving. And of course who can resist the unlimited bread sticks? lol. And on top of that, they gave us a free desert because we had to wait a little longer than usual because they sent my dish to another table on accident. It was just really good. Anyway, after Olive Garden, we headed home and sat stuffed to watche some Iron Chef America until bed time. It was really nice. I had a good birthday. So now I’m 28. Still in my 20’s and doing well.

Finally another night of open mic night. It’s been over a month now. And a lot has happened I suppose. I’ve had a few good weekends with work in between. Fourth of July was good. We went grocery shopping and also bought about $15 worth of fireworks. When it started to get dark we shot off what few fireworks we had. It wasn’t much, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Anyway, tonight I went to open mic night, which I haven’t been to in over a month. At first it was a little wierd, because I haven’t been there in so long. But I chatted with the bartender, who, with the help of a friend, bought the bar recetntly. He’s fun to chat with. Anyway, as the night went on, I chatted with a few more people, until it was my turn to play (not until around 1.30am). So I played a few songs. That is when someone handed me a Guiness and told me they enjoyed the songs I was playing. After a few more songs, someone came up to ask if they could play a few songs. Just so happened it was Paul. I met him a few months ago here. He plays violin for Bear McCreary, who is the composer for Battlestar Galcactica. So I chatted with him a bit and let him play a few songs. It was fun. I had a good time. Although I think I could have played better, I enjoyed talking to the few people I chatted with. So here I am at home, ready for bed. I had a good night and hope I can do it again next Wed. Yay Open mic night. See you next week.

I can’t use this for anything, but I didn’t want it to go unnoticed. Lol. I stumbled upon this while working on another project. Haha. I like it. Just thought it was cool.

As we sat around waiting to pick up Holly from work, Gavin discovered cover flow on iTunes. As he flipped through the covers, he learned he can click on them and hear what the song is. Take a look as he comes across a song he likes.