Muggy

7-20-15

I do not care for this muggy weather.

That being said, it was amazing to have all this awesome rain over the weekend. It came down quite hard, and it is a shame that the thunder woke up Ken and Bobby on Saturday morning. We also got to swim in the rain, which was really fun and it tickled the boys. It looks like it is supposed to be crazy warm and humid the rest of this week, which truly sucks. Sleep is next to impossible.

Aside from the exciting weather, it was an eventful couple of days. I hung out in Ken’s class Friday afternoon. He had suggested I come out that way in order for us to go to Big Wok, which I was certainly not going to refuse. I helped out a bit in terms of clean up. I also got to chit chat with Marcus, who is one of Ken’s helpers that is like a kindred spirit to me. He is 17, but is quite mature for his age. I also got to marvel at the maturity of my own children. They are surrounded by young teen boys, who when they get together all seem to regress to much younger antics. It was all very typical, but it was cool to see my boys managing just fine with some conversations with boys 5 years older than them. I was proud!

Saturday morning was to be chore time since game night was taking place that evening. Luckily I had already accomplished a lot through the week so it wasn’t too bad. This was also good since Ken ended up having to go to coach training until 2 at the last minute. Anything to get out of chores, right? One nice thing about the coach training was that Big Lou was taking the U12 training which means he is planning on coaching this next year. He hadn’t planned on it, but Becky is doing well enough that he feels he can handle the time spent away from her. This is very cool! Perhaps Bobby can end up on his team again, which would be happy making.

I had finished most of my chores and knew Sarah was coming over with some kind of surprise. I had an inkling, but it was still awesome when I opened the door to find Sarah and Alyssa, and Sarah was holding this beautiful cake she had made me. She was sad that I didn’t have a cake for my birthday party (I was a little sad, too) so she wanted to make me one. It was so cool!! I was able to then visit with them for some time, which was wonderful! I enjoyed that a great deal.

Ken got home just as my girls were heading out. It’s funny that it already felt like a full day by this point, but we had people coming over in a few hours.

We had half our normal crowd, but it was still awesome fun. We BBQed hamburgers and hot dogs and played several games. We started with a new game called Guns and Cash. Even Bobby joined on that one. It was cute! We played a dice game, some poker and ended the night with Cards Against Humanity. I really enjoy these evenings and I am thinking we need to do them way more often. There was a suggestion for the next evening to be a bowling night, which I think would be a blast!

Sunday morning we got to go see Ant Man! YAY! It was fantastic. I knew it would be great, but it truly was even better than expected. Paul Rudd has been a long time favorite of mine, anyway. It was funny that I thought the woman playing Hope was Patricia Arquette but it was actually Evangeline Lily. The short bob made her look like Arquette. Michael Douglas is freaking awesome. You forget what an amazing actor he is sometimes.

After the movie, we stopped by my folks since Grammie was staying with them for a couple of days due to the nightmare of escrow on both the house she is selling and the one she is buying. My mom had water balloons ready for the boys and they ended up playing outside with Super Soakers and balloons and had an epic time. I suppose we should have stayed longer, but the boys had expressed interest in going into the pool.

We hung out at home the rest of the day. We passively watched Clueless what with it being the 20^th anniversary of the flick, and hey, more Paul Rudd!! The rain hit in the early evening, which had us all in the pool swimming in the rain. It was really warm and a fun novelty of swimming with rain falling. I enjoyed it a great deal. I wish it would have cooled us off more, but whatcha gonna do, right?

Today I have to go back to the dentist. I have a tiny cavity and I wonder if it is near the old filings he wants to replace. Either way, it should be a quick and relatively painless outing. I go right after work and will most likely be home before the boys and Ken are.

The week looks mostly quiet. The boys go to my folks for an overnight Potter-fest on Friday since we have registration Saturday morning. Ken and I are still on the fence on attempting a date night or possible outing with friends or just using the time to just rest before the long day.

We need to start the process of what will need to be packed since we leave next week. We leave much earlier on Thursday than I thought, which is a good thing. I am glad we are not getting in as late as I had feared. We get in around 6 pm, which is perfect since then we can go get some dinner and get over to the hotel room and not feel rushed and tired. This week I need to look into the best approach to getting to the airport. We are considering getting an Uber ride so we don’t need to leave our car there. We can then schedule either that or the shuttle for when we get home the following Friday morning.

I suppose I should make some arrangements for the animals, too. I am sure I have people who will be more than willing to help out and come feed the dogs once a day. I just need to put everything out so that it is easy for the kind soul who does it.

I will miss my critters. I realize I also need to make some arrangements soon for the kittens since they will also need to be fed and cared for. I posted some video of the babies but sadly no one has indicated they would take them. Hopefully soon.

I was looking at some old newspapers this morning (like I do) and came across this article in 1955 about this 15 year old girl who gave birth to twin daughters. Her husband (yes, you read that correct) was 24. Holy crap! They were living in Lomita with her parents. According to the article, she was the youngest in California history to have twins. I tried to follow up on the story, only finding that her story was one of the top 10 stories of the year with a slight footnote of one of the twins had died towards the end of the year. I couldn’t find anything else, and the people moved out of that house since I found information about other people living at that address in 1960. I love these mysteries, but I wish I had more resources. I don’t intend on letting this one go easily. It is too intriguing. At least I no longer worry about not having enough hobbies. Of course, this one is certainly strange!!

http://www.torranceca.gov/archivednewspapers/Press/1955%20Jan%20-%20Dec/PDF/00000249.pdf

Bleah, people are making their way into the office so I suppose I will sign off.