Sheep Guarding Llama

I am in the office every day now as a ton of things have changed at work.  I’m feeling rather depressed these days but everything is fine.  Just not feeling like I’m at the top of my game.  Maybe a lot of it is related to not having the sleep flexibility that I am used to.

Went to the Local Diner with Dan, we just did coffee today and split some onion rings.  Just wasn’t feeling lunch.

Dominica, Morgan, Rachel, Jaiden, Liesl and Luciana all went up to Denton today and hit the Reaper factory (the actual factor, not a store) to seek out cool miniatures for our D&D game.  Then they hit another store to get dice and some random supplies.  So I have new orange D20s and a set of D6s which will make rolling easier.  We all got new, custom miniatures to use now too.  The girls had a great time going to the stores and hanging out with the older girls.  They were exhausted by the time that I got home.

This evening Dominica wanted to the watch The Dictator which was free on Netflix so we watched that and it wasn’t horrible.  Not exactly good, that would be too strong of a term.  But it was not horrible.  Slightly entertaining, I guess.   We did some cleaning tonight too.  We need to get ready for the D&D game that will be here tomorrow and it is really hard for us to clean tomorrow since we both have to be at work all day beforehand.

Dominica baked cookies tonight for tomorrow and made dough so that we will be ready to do home made pizzas for the game too.

Got up before seven, all on my own.  I must be getting back into the groove of having sleep again.

I skipped lunch today.  Don’t even know why, it just happened.  On the way home Dominica had me stop at LA Burger again and pick up take away.  We each got an LA Burger and we split an order of their veggie tacos.

Had a quiet evening, watched the remainder of Rules of Engagement before calling it a night.  We still have a bit of catching up to do from all of the activity last week.

More or less normal day at the office for me.  Had lunch at the Local Diner with the guys.  Pretty uneventful day.

Dominica said that she wanted to go to LA Burger because Jose had recommended it and said that it was really amazing.  So I went home, picked up the family and we drove to LA Burger, which isn’t far away, to check it out.

LA Burger’s tag line is “America’s Favorite Food, with Seoul.”  They are a Korean Fusion restaurant over my the Carrollton Korean district.  Dominica got their veggie tacos and I got a veggie burger and we split an order of their k-fries which are French fries topped with a mound of their in-house kimchi.  The kimchi was amazing.  We love this new place.  This is going to be one of our new haunts for sure.

After dinner we went to Braum’s to get ice cream. They have the best ice cream around.  Liesl and Luciana were really excited to get ice cream.  Braum’s even has soft serve like we get back in New York.  That is the first that we have found that down here.

We got home and pretty soon the girls were off to bed.  Between me getting home an hour later than usual and then going out first to eat and then for ice cream it was after eight when we got home.  So it was basically bed time.

Once the girls were in bed Dominica rented Warm Bodies on the AppleTV because she has really wanted to see it so we watched that.  It wasn’t too bad. Not my favourite movie by any stretch.  Kind of cute, mostly pointless.

Slept in this morning.  While I was asleep Justin ran out and picked up two boxes of donuts for everyone because yesterday I had mentioned how good Texas donuts are.  So he wanted to experience our fine cuisine.  He did a great job of selecting what is good here… glazed old fashioneds, apple fritters and maple toppeds.

Once Zach awoke, which was not until he had had about thirteen hours of sleep, they asked if they could go back to Redneck Heaven this morning as they had had such a good time there yesterday.  Since they open before lunch there would be time to go there before they needed to get on the road back to Georgia so that worked out.  Zach called a friend of his who lives about forty-five minutes away that he has never met in person to come join us for lunch so we made good use of the time.

We got into Redneck around 11:30 which is the earliest that I have ever been there.  Sunday morning is definitely not a hopping time although we were far from the only people there.  It is amazing how many people are there any time day or night.

We hung out for a while and then headed back to the house so that Justin and Zach could load up Nitro and get on the road for their twelve hour drive back to Carrollton, Georgia.

We spent the afternoon at the house.  Got some work done.  Hung out some.

Around eleven Chris texted me that he wanted to hang out at Redneck.  Could there be a more “Redneck” weekend?  But I never get a chance to catch up with him these days so I headed out and met him there and we hung out till they shut the place down at two.  For those keeping track… that was eight visits for me to Redneck in a seven day period.  Plus Dominica went once without me.  Plus I saw some of the folks from Redneck out at the D&D game and at the carwash!

Today, we knew, was going to be pretty much a wasted day without any real way to be productive so, having been pretty tired, we decided to blow the day off and do nothing.  We slept in this morning, which was pretty necessary considering how tired Dominica was after partying all night.

We did some light cleaning but mostly just relaxed this morning.  Justin and his brother Zach were driving through the night and expected to arrive by early afternoon.

Justin pulled in just before one thirty.  He and Zach came in and had their reunion with Nitro who was very happy to see them.  No sooner had they arrived than Justin said that he needed to get his truck washed after it was caked with all of the bugs that they hit during the night driving down the Interstate 20 corridor.

Just twenty minutes before they had arrived Stefany had posted on Facebook that she and Rachel and Morgan were doing a charity carwash up in Little Elm and that people should stop by today.  Then Rachel texted me to get a car wash.  So when Justin said he needed one we knew exactly where to go.

I have never actually been to Little Elm before, even though it is so close to us, and I had no idea that there was actually a peninsula that goes out into Lake Lewisville a bit like an island.  I guess that I need to study the map a little bit more.  The peninsula area is actually a really nice spot.  I wouldn’t mind living up there at all and it can’t be more than a few minutes different to work and way closer to where Liesl and Luciana go for daycare.

The carwash was held at a liquor store raising money for Little Elm Elementary.   We got the truck in line for the girls to wash it and went inside and took the opportunity to do my weekly liquor restocking.  They had a good selection there and I was able to stock back up really effectively without needing to make a special trip anywhere which is good as it is such a pain to get to any liquor store from where we live or from where I work.

We got the truck washed and Stefan was there hanging out.  I haven’t seen him in months, so we got to hang out a little bit.  The girls had gotten quite a line of cars waiting for them by then.  They were supposed to be doing the car wash from one to four today but ended up not quitting until eight and Rachel got the worst sunburn of her life and ended up being sick for days.

From the car wash we drove down to Lewisville where I took our out of town guests to Redneck Heaven.  They loved it and we ended up hanging out there all evening until they were ready to call it a night, which was pretty early – before seven.

We got back to the house and Zach was out in minutes.  We got him set up in the guest bedroom (Luciana’s room) which was cleared out this morning for the first time in months.  Justin and I stayed up for a bit and did some drinking (we have all this new stuff to test out like my makings for ginger martinis!) and Dominica went out shopping once the girls were asleep.  It was an early night for everyone, though.

Luciana slept in Liesl’s room tonight and that went really well.  We can’t believe that it actually worked.  They both enjoyed it and both got sleep too!