9/19-20/20, a weekend of family fun

 It's been a while since I did one of these. Sorry for being gone so long. This was a fun weekend with my family. My aunt, uncle, and PepperBC came down to see me on Saturday. They're into a lot of the nerd stuff I'm into, so I had them down to my condo to enjoy the nerd paradise I've created. We spent probably an hour just giving them the tour. They enjoyed the video store that I live in, and the videogame nerd cave. My aunt took a lot of pictures to send to my other aunts. After the tour we went out to lunch. It was a good lunch at a restaurant I haven't been to before. After lunch I took them on a tour of my city, showing them the river and my work. My uncle really wanted to see the river, and everyone enjoyed seeing the building I work in. After the tour we went back to my place and played ms pacman for an hour or so.

On Sunday my parents came to see me. We went to church first, and then we started to fry things. We fried broccoli, bell peppers, pickles, onions, green beans, cheese, and ice cream. It was quite a day. After frying we watched the Rugrats Movie, since my mom remembers Rugrats from my childhood and she kept getting the Rugrats media mixed up. We watched Rugrats in Paris, select Rugrats episodes, and now the first movie. Before dinner mom and I took a walk to the park by me that has a bunch of pokestops, and we needed the walk after eating all the fried stuff. Since we had a bunch of fried things for lunch, we had burger patties and lettuce for dinner. It was a really fun weekend, and a good last hurrah for my bachelor lifestyle and bachelor pad. Later.

3/27-29/20

I had a 3 day weekend. What did I do on my 3 day weekend? Well because we're all in quarantine not much of anything. On Friday I recorded a podcast with Bio, something I haven't done in a while because we just had a lot of scheduling conflicts, and personal challenges. I played Animal Crossing New Horizons, because I just got it and it's quite fun, though it's not quite as time consuming as previous games, at least at this point. I did some laundry, cleaning all the bedding on my bed. Since it's been so long since I made brownies I decided to get a dozen eggs and make a pan. Because "everything's in high demand" I had to pay more than normal for eggs, but it's OK. The brownies turned out pretty well. I played some videogames and watched some TV, and it's OK. I did some exercise going up and down the steps of my condo in my weight vest. I video called my mom and grandma on Saturday, and called my grandpa on Sunday. I cleaned the long stale and inedible cinnamon sticks from my fridge.

One thing that happened was I got REALLY stir crazy and wanted ice cream, so I walked the the McDonald's that's a block from my house. Of course because COVID I wasn't able to go into the dining area, so I had to use the drive through. They didn't pick-up on me when I walked to the order microphone, so I walked up to the window. The girl at the window started chuckling as I walked up and said "I'll need to get my manager." The manager said "we're not supposed to take walk up...oh I don't care, what was it you wanted?...OK walk up to the next window." As this was happening 2 guys were peaking from behind the corner, because I'm sure they wanted to see "did someone REALLY walk up to the drive through window?" As I pick-up my ice cream the guy at the food window had a big smile on his face and said "here you go, stay safe out there" with some pep. I have a feeling I brightened up everyone's day at that location.

3/1/20

Not much to talk about Saturday, so I'll just talk about Sunday.

I basically spent all Sunday with my parents, doing fun things. They came down to my place around 8:50 and we went to church at my church. After church we played Monopoly Empire. It's a really fun take on monopoly. After monopoly we went to lunch at big boy. Dad and I each had big boy burgers and my mom had chicken tenders. After lunch we decorated a gingerbread house I got on sale months ago. It didn't come with candy, so we raided my stash of expired candy, and it turned out really well. After the gingerbread house we played ms pac man on my arcade machine. It was a really fun day. Later.

1/12/20

Ahhh a relaxing day. I woke up after a long and restful night of sleep. I went to church like normal, though I had to brave the elements since there was a major ice storm before and everything was frozen over. I still managed, and I played DDR as my exercise later in the day. I finished binging 10 Things I Hate About You, and it was a good series. I also watched The Fate of the Furious before it expired. It's a good movie. I resumed my penny sorting, and it's fun. I made beef and vegetable soup, which was good. I might do a little bit of cleaning of my nerd cave later, but we'll see what next. Later.

1/11/20

Today was productive. I mopped my garage, because I haven't done it in half a year and it needed the cleaning. I also got into my nerd cave and the main thing I did was go through my college "things" bag. What did I find? Half a dozen or so plastic twist ties, HDMI caps, an eraser, 3 pairs of sun glasses, an aluminum bar, a brass bar, loser lottery tickets, Toys R Us rewards card (RIP buddy), GameStop rewards card, cards from care packages, candy tins, eye glass cleaning cloths, my impromptu Halloween costume of a normal distribution, a dozen or so safety glasses cleaning wipes, a pair of safety glasses, the screws from the light switch panel I replaced, the pendent for my honors fraternity, and $91. I'm a regular sitcom character. I also baked a pound of bacon. I also started rewatching 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family/FreeForm. I remember watching this 10 years ago as it was airing and loving it so much because it was Moze from Ned's Declassified, and the principal from Max Kebles Big Move, and teenage challenges that, while not directly relatable because I didn't partake in those kinds of shenanigans, I still found the situations understandable and myself in some of the characters seeing that I was the same age as the characters. I also never really finished the series for some reason I don't remember. I think it had something to do with changing the time slots and lack of reruns. I also watched Fant4stick. It's a terrible Fantastic 4 movie, and a terrible super hero movie...but I don't think it's an all out terrible movie. I think it's a passable sci-fi movie that has some super hero elements. There was also some really heavy rain that I used to clean my car (free car wash), and flooded the road trapping me in my condo all day. Later in the evening I was able to go to the bank and deposit the $91. Later.