December 15, 2016: Playground Day

This afternoon I took the girls out on a trip to go to get frozen yoghurt which I keep promising to get there and to also go to a local playground that is really awesome here in Carrollton.  It was chilly, but not so cold to keep us from a playground.  We did not stay out for a really long time, but it is a truly awesome playground and it is right down the street from our house on Kelly which is incredibly handy.  We need to use this more often.  We had fun checking that out.  They girls have been enjoying trying all of the new frozen yoghurt flavours that are coming out with Trolls theming recently and are hoping to get to try them all, but we missed the blue cookie flavour, they ran out of that 🙁

Carrollton Playground
Liesl and Luciana on the Playground

 

December 14, 2016: Dr Who Season 9

Had a very busy day trying to keep up with MangoLassi that was having a crazy busy day today.

This afternoon, Watson and I met up for happy hour at Quinlan’s down the street. We had some drinks and food there.

Quinlans

Once I was back home we watched some of Dr. Who Season 9.  Overall, it is not a good season.  We are not impressed.

December 13, 2016: Rachel Car Dies

Tuesday.  The morning started off okay but around noon Rachel called with an emergency, her car had died on the side of I35.  Totally dead, in a dangerous spot and waiting on a tow truck.  I was prepared to go and get her but she had to wait for the tow and that took forever.  She was considered a “priority” because she was in a dangerous spot blocking the road and had nowhere to move the car for safety but they “forgot” her there for over an hour, oops.

Chris ended up showing up to get her, so Watson and I who were prepared to get her if necessary didn’t have to go.  She spent much of the day dealing with that and then coming home to figure out what to do.  She was not prepared for the reality that “new” used cars, especially ones that are twenty years old, tend to fall apart pretty quickly after you buy them.

This evening Shawn, Rachel and I went out, and Dominica stayed home with the kids, to go to Red Rock to have drinks and play darts for Shawn’s 28th birthday.  Tim ended up joining us later on in the night.  A weird lady kind of made herself a part of our group at the bar and insisted on playing darts badly with us for quite a while.  She had her own darts that she kept at the bar and talked on and on about how good she was, but she wasn’t even up to my level and I don’t like nor play darts!  After she left I played with Shawn and Rachel and beat them both.  Somehow I am the dart master of the group and I am the only one that doesn’t like darts at all.  Everyone else is really into it, including Dominica.

It was very late when we got back and Rachel ended up falling out of the van and hitting the sidewalk.  We had no idea that she was drunk, she had just been drinking with us which was hardly anything.  So weird.

December 12, 2016: Final Stretch of Updates

Monday.  We are on the home stretch of SGL updates.  I have nearly caught up!  There is a two week gap for me to reconstruct at this point and then basically everything has been up to date for the month following that, just not yet posted!  Here we go.

Had quite a busy day of posting and writing.  Got a lot done, a good jump on the week.

Dominica went out tonight so I was the babysitter.  Daddy – daughter night in!  We always have a lot of fun, they like me being the babysitter nearly as much as they like having a real one.  Ha ha.

Later in the evening we watched more of Coupling.

December 11, 2016: Doctor Who Season Nine

This morning I got up and worked on my DuoLingo right away.  Liesl did as well, she did seven DuoLingo lessons as soon as she got up today!  She is doing awesome at learning Italian.  We are so proud of her.  She just flew through her lessons.

Dominica found that Doctor Who Season Nine was available on Amazon Video on Demand today so we started watching that when we had the chance and got through a few episodes.

AJ got a hold of me today and asked if Caleb could stop by and talk to us about storing some boxes in our house for a while.  So he came by around seven thirty and hung out for probably an hour.  He plans to come by Friday with some of his boxes.  He only has a car so needs to bring things in small loads.