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This weekend, I did a ton of work on my Dad’s website, and because of that we had to skip the Fever game on Friday. Saturday I worked on the site more.
Saturday night, Stephanie and I went to Dan and Doug’s 70’s party, which was really fun. We dressed as random hippies, because the theme was “come as your favorite 70’s TV icon.” Dan was a M.A.S.H. character, Doug was from Starsky and Hutch, Troy came as Kojak. Jon was the streaker from the 1976 Superbowl (he wasn’t nude; he had jogging shorts and a 1977 pro-streaking shirt), Kris was Ellie-May Clampett. There were lots of others, those are what I remember off the top of my head.
Sunday I went to Bloomington with Stephanie and watched the Bloomington Feminist Singers sing for the Unitarian Universalist Church service, which was really beautiful. They sing wonderfully. I was also overwhelmed by the service; having really only experienced Catholic and Episcopal services, this was very different for me and much more interesting than any service I’d been to before.
We also caught up on Big Brother and The Amazing Race on Sunday afternoon, and I spent some time reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, for my book club on Wednesday. I finished it up last night. Bad idea, as it gave me the willies, and I walked around double-checking that my doors were locked.

I didn’t get a change to blog about the July 4th weekend, because I was so busy last week working on the Brady Games website. It seems to be up and running well.
Most of the weekend we did stuff around Stephanie’s house; just summer cleaning and organizing. We did go to David and Garrett’s house and enjoyed the Low-Country Boil, and then went to Massachusetts Ave. to watch the fireworks. I have photos; I’ll try to get them up soon.
This weekend, we went to the monthly lesbian pitch-in at Mia and Ria’s house, which was especially fun because Julie brought her Republican friend to the pitch-in. I don’t think the woman knew what hit her when we started to talk politics. It’s nice to know how well-informed other women are about current issues.
Saturday, Stephanie had a skating exhibition to skate in, and I spent time working on my dad’s website. In the evening, we caught up on Big Brother and the Amazing Race, which we hadn’t seen during the week.
Sunday I spent the morning digging out fence posts and working outside, while Stephanie was at a chorus event. And then we went to a Fever game, which we lost. Sad.

Friday, Stephanie and I went to Girl’s Game Night and had fun. It was nice to see Lori, whom I haven’t seen in a while, and her friend Kat was fun.
Saturday was busy because Stephanie had a skating competition downtown, and she had a compulsory event in the morning (she won second place) and a freestyle event in the evening (she won first). I got to meet Stephanie’s coach Tara, who seems really cool, and I got to see her compete, which was exciting. In between the two events, we went to Stephanie’s friend Elizabeth’s house for a cookout, which was really excellent. I got to meet Joe and see Stephanie’s other friends again, and I also got to meet Elizabeth’s family.
Sunday we went to see Fahrenheit 9/11, which was excellent. I’d really like to see it again, although it sort of put me in a blue funk the rest of the afternoon.

On Friday night I grocery shopped and spent the evening at home with Spike. Stephanie went north to visit her parents and friends Friday and Saturday, and I worked on my Dad’s site and did some stuff around the house. I got caught up on laundry, finally did all the dishes, and generally organized stuff. I went through lots of my mp3s and worked on metadata, and caught up on my TV watching. Thank god for DVR/TIVO, because I’d never see stuff otherwise.
Sunday Stephanie came home, driving through part of the storm on the way, and we went out to The Oceanaire for dinner. This was, of course, while tornados were moving through the area. We went anyway. Parking was kind of a pain, since it was Sunday night and the mall was closed. We parked in the mall parking, but ended up walking in the rain for a couple blocks.
Dinner was amazing. We had crab cakes as an appetizer, then had Maine Stuffed Flounder as an entree with green beans almondine (it rhymes!) and new potatoes as side dishes. I tacked the potatoes onto the end of our order, and I really didn’t need to, because the entree and other side dish was huge. We ended up taking home enough of the two sides for two more meals. I wish I were better at describing food for you, because all of the food was delicious. The crab cakes melt in your mouth, and the flounder, stuffed with crab, shrimp and brie, was wonderful.
I would highly recommend going to this restaurant. It was a pricy; an appetizer, entree, two sides and two glasses of wine came to around $75. But it was worth it for the exquisite food. Our server, Mark, was great too. He was funny and polite and keep up with what we needed without being annoying. Yeah, Mark! The atmosphere was great, too — the interior is art deco style, and there was classic jazz playing quietly in the background. We had a nice private booth that was intimate without being closed in. A very stylish, pleasant place.
After dinner we had strawberry shortcake at home and then spent the rest of the evening and Monday at my house.
It was a really wonderful weekend.

Yes, I know it’s Tuesday, and this entry was due yesterday.
Friday night I hosted the monthly lesbian pitch-in and had a nice turn out of 19 people. Mary Byrne and Tamara Tracy came to see my house, which was fun. There was some GREAT food. And I got to show off my girlfriend.
Saturday I had lunch with Stephanie’s friends at Bravo. All very nice people. I hope they like me. Then I went to my Mom’s and she and I and my niece went to the Zionsville Country Market. I bought a small birdbath for my front garden, and some cake candles that smell like sugar cookies.
Sunday I had a book club brunch at my house, which was small but very nice. We discussed In the Bleak Midwinter a murder mysterhy by Julia Spencer-Fleming. It was decent but not earth-shattering. Our next books are A Saving Solace by D.S. Bouden and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford. I need to remember to tell Eugenia that we picked that last one. Later on Sunday Stephanie and I took Spike for a walk around the neighborhood, which was relaxing and fun and really enjoyable. It’s so nice to spend time with her, even when we’re just doing simple things.

I had a wonderful weekend. Didn’t accomplish that much around the house, but spent a lot of time with Stephanie. It was nice; helped us get over the stress of everything that happened earlier in the week.

Friday Night – Kathy’s first softball game, visited the Ten with Chi & friends. Much drinking.
Saturday – hangover. Ouch.
Sunday – much gardening. Pretty. Reading — finished Lost in a Good Book, the sequel to The Eyre Affair. Fantastic read. Please buy both. I also watched Taxi Driver. Interesting movie. Amazing reading the reviews in IMDB. Lots of people who revere this movie and are huge fans clearly don’t have a clue what the movie means. Scary, scary.

Friday night I bought the digital camera that I had been looking at. It kicks ass. Saturday I took Spike up to visit my mom and see my niece. He had fun, and was completely tired out by the experience. Sunday Dan and Doug and Melissa and I went out to lunch and went shopping. Yeah! I got some cool shirts. We were going to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but Doug went home to nap and the rest of us ended up poking around a couple of used furniture/antique malls instead.