I love pleasantly sunny weather. All weekend. Perfect. I spent the vast majority of the weekend outside.

I ran my first 10K ever on Saturday morning (I was slow, but I ran the whole thing and I have achy legs to prove it). It might be my last 10K unless I get faster -- its too boring to run for that long.

Then, off to Fred's birthday party with yummy food and Sarah and Buzz with their residual green tints from the alien costumes they ran the 10K in.

Once at home, I pruned my palm trees (I managed to only get slightly scratched up this time from those freakin' sharp branches) -- I took off 48 fronds between the two trees! I mowed and edged my lawn. I finished just as the sun was setting and the mosquitos were coming out.

I had to mow my lawn because next weekend I'm going skiing. Ridiculous. Skiing and lawn mowing should NOT occur during the same season. Dratted Houston! Hurray for skiing!

I rushed in, showered, ordered a pizza, and people arrived to play Settlers for the second night in a row. That game is addictive! The first game was fun, but I was rapidly fading during Game 2. Mostly because it was past 11 p.m., I had been up since 6 a.m., run a 10K, and spent all day working in the yard. If the game had gone on much longer, I probably would've passed out in my chair.

Saturday was a LONG day.

Sunday also got an early start, and Kennda, Nick and I did the roommate bonding thing by taking out my hideous oleanders. Four huge bushes. Bushwhacked! We only managed to get one of the four stumps out though (I'll have to hire someone to finish the job). We did try our engineering skills out by attempting to pull one of the stumps out by tying it up and attaching the rope to the frame of my car. This attracted some spectators, but the only result is that the rope snapped. 250 pound test line obviously wasn't strong enough. But it was amusing though.

You should have seen the amount of yard waste sitting on my curb for the trash pickup! My neighbors assured me that as long as everything was tied in bundles (which it is), they'll take it. But we're talking 6 bundles of palm fronds and four huge oleander bushes!

Then, I took a 4 hour afternoon nap, took the dogs for a walk, and cooked dinner. This is how things work in my house. Kennda gets all inspired to buy four pounds of salmon at the fish market, and then I need to figure out what to do with it before it goes bad. So I poached it in a creamy mushroom sauce. Yum.

Anyway, we had quite a crowd for dinner. Poor Nick dislocated his shoulder (at DANCE, not pulling up my bushes). His morphine-induced short term memory loss made dinner conversation VERY entertaining.

And now, back at work. Its going to be 80 degrees today, and the air handlers in the building are down. So they have an industrial sized fan in the hallway. Its like a wind tunnel. Jo wrote a very amusing entry about it...