Sunday afternoon

My eyes are so sleepy, and it's the middle of the day. It's so silly.

We went to Papaw Brack's today, but got there and left earlier than normal. It was a quietish day.. Angie and her kids and the parents and Whitley and us.. that's all. We had good hamburgers and hotdogs, though, and the kids got to hunt for easter eggs outside, since it was actually pretty today and it rained last week. They seemed to have fun.

After we got home, we sat on the porch for a little while. Magnus was gluing his mandolin.. he'd cut some more today, without breaking a blade, even. At least that he mentioned. :) Anyway, we decided that we would paint the door facing and stomp cans. So I did the painting and he did the stomping, and generally had a kind of nice time outside. Only have one coat on the door because it wasn't drying enough for a second. Who knows when that'll get done. It's taken us six months to do the first coat. (Though that was sort of because it turned into winter.)

A particular cousin, to whom I used to be good friends with, showed up at Papaw's today quite unexpectedly. I heard him saying that he'd moved back for a while to work with his brother. I really didn't stay to hear more, though, and didn't really participate in the conversation, either. I know it's been a long time, but I still can't forget or forgive him for not being there when he should have. It just didn't leave me in the mood for small talk. We were close, or at least I thought we were, and he chose not to be any longer. Actually, the longer it's been since then, the more it annoys me. :)

Oh well. No big deal, just irritating.

Magnus is playing this game that I don't like. I mean, obviously I can't tell him to stop because I don't like it. *giggle* But I can certainly complain.. I'm pretty good at that. :)

Sunday night

I'm actually working with Visual Basic again. I haven't done much of anything with it since spring of 99, when I took the class and all. I just never had a use for it. And, subsequently, I've forgotten almost everything. But! I'm learning again! I've had to look a LOT of stuff up, and remember the syntax and stuff, but it's been lots of fun. Except I keep wanting to put semicolons everywhere. It all looks so incomplete. ;) I'm making an all-purpose converter for my foreign husband. :) We're always trying to figure out one conversion or another.. temperature, weight, volume, etc. I've seen similar things before, but the one we have is somewhat broken. Not quite accurate. And missing volume. Anyway. This is fun, it gives me a nice project, and it refreshes my skills. I've gotten the weight section done already. Ounces, pounds and grams. That was what he requested. :)

We've had a nice evening. We played Chinese checkers and watched Gilligan's Island together. We had fettucini-ish alfredo for dinner. Mostly spaghetti noodles, with some fettucini thrown in (you know, the "last of" pasta box dinner). And a jar sauce, which was much much better than we expected it to be. It was actually *good*, and we were sort of thinking it wouldn't be. Ragu, if you were wondering. Magnus had inordinate amounts of fun watching Behind the Music: Garbage, and then we've been doing computery things together this evening. We did the dishes together. We're considering making that a nightly thing. There's not much room to have two people doing dishes, and it's always been his job, so we just haven't. But now I've been doing them during the day some, since he works and stuff. So we were thinking that we might do them together, as it'll be quicker and easier (as they get done every night) and more importantly, it'll be a little quality time of talking and stuff. Doesn't that sound nice and domestic? *hsigh*

The schedule says that he gets off at 5 tomorrow. It's weird, because it says that he works 8:30 - 5, but all the other days are 8:30 - 6. So.. Something is either weird or wrong. I'm hoping for weird, of course. :)

My baby is going to tighten the screws in my glasses. If I start typoing a lot, that's because I really can't see the screen. I'm going to attempt writing anyway.

I suppose I'll have to go to the grocery tomorrow, or figure out what to do with chicken and defrost it. I'm getting so tired of chicken. :)

Yay! Freshly tightened glasses! They were beginning to get really loose, and I was afraid they were going to fall apart when Magnus wasn't here to put them back together. Can't fully convey the importance of having him around for that. I really am blind as a bat. It makes finding and replacing tiny screws nearly impossible. :)

Oh, a dilemma. It seems that as soon as I get done writing this, it'll be bedtime. On one hand, I'm really kind of done with my entry for the day. On the other hand.. I'm not sleepy! Should I ramble on incoherently for another twenty minutes in the hopes that eventually I'll get tired, or should I give up and go on to bed, since I'll probably fall asleep quickly enough anyway? I'm so indecisive...