Hey there blogger peeps. It has been a nutty, crazy weekend here. It started as soon as I got off of work on Friday and took Ruthie to Austin. I dropped her off with her new dude and then headed over to Snakeman's house so we could hit the town. He seemed a little bummed when I got there and had missed "The Bats". I totally laughed because I had no idea what he was talking about and seeming bummed that we had missed anything having to do with flying rodents and their fangs is just crazy.
He informed me that apparently one of Austin's big huge things is that they have one of the largest bat populations. (Note to self: Reason #1 not to live in Austin.) And apparently when it gets dark you can go stand on this bridge (which should be named The Bridge Of Insanity) and watch something like 1.5 million bats take flight. Yeah, so we missed that because I didn't roll into town until damn near ten.
You can see how bummed I am.
Instead we went to this place called Cool River and did something that Snakeman and I do VERY well together: people watch. And drink.
I had an absolute blast. For a long time I caught a lot of shit for the fact that I am a straight out Starer. When I go places, I spend most of the time I am out watching the other people and trying to figure out who they are and what they are doing and why they are doing it. I used to keep a little notebook with me and when I watched someone interesting enough, I would make notes and see if I could use them as a person in a story I was writing later.
I've dated guys who would be endlessly annoyed that I was more interested in watching or talking about the people two tables than I was in what they were saying. So to have Snakeman tell me the reason we were going to this particular place was because it was the best place for People Watching made me want to do a cartwheel. He assured me that it would be awesome and awesome it was.
I drove back home Saturday morning on next to no sleep and met The Cake Lady and her two older children for school shopping and then some. We left my place around 11:30 and headed to San Antonio. After about a half a dozen stores and a buttload of money, we finally got to sit down. At the Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 movie. Which so kicked ass. It was one of those sequels that you watch and it is as good as the first movie. We thought the kids would be done for after that but they still had it in them to get ice cream.
School starts on Thursday for all three of my girls and we have found and bought EVERYTHING and are now being vegetables :)