soooooooooooo the long weekend. we started off with a garage sale in Killarney, which would've been a lot nicer if there hadn't been any wind, but me and phil defied it by going for a bike "ride" - read: tried to stay vertical whilst pedalling a bicycle. phil's step-grandpa is starting to have alzheimers so there were a few tense moments when he found stuff she was trying to sell that he wanted to keep (even though he can't really use them). yikes. it's just not like my family get-togethers. there's not a lot of organization, mostly people just sit around and make small talk, eat everything but fruits and vegetables, and waaaaaaaait for time to pass. but i made 2 breakthroughs: they ate all the muffins i brought (usually they don't really touch my efforts), and i got an email from phil's grandma saying she was blessed by myself and phil's help this weekend (verrrrry out of character, i was pretty shocked).

next we rented "i'm not there" which i thought was a biography on bob dylan, and i was really excited to see Cate Blanchett take on the role, but it turned out to be 7 depictions of his personality or something played by 7 different people with 7 different names - one of them being a 10-year old black kid (!?!?!?). luckily, eric and autumn called and wanted to bring over "reign over me" to watch instead, which we gladly accepted, cuz we LOVE that movie.

on sunday we lazed about (ok i lazed about and phil helped his parents with stuff at their house), until the evening when we went to the triple ("21", "88 minutes", "vantage point"). we tried to drag dan and rhonda with us, but they opted out (smart, in hindsight). instead we snagged matt and tammy. i loved "21", but "88 minutes" was awful. waaaaaay to gory and disturbing for my mind. i watched 2 episodes of friends before i felt comfortable enough to go to sleep, making it about 3 a.m.

yesterday was a bike jam at our house complete with b.y.o.m. barbeque. me and tammy played wii for a while but ended up sitting outside from 3 til probably 8:30. the guys from wpg showed up with vegie burgers (!) and hilarious personalities so we were pretty entertained. me and autumn went for ice cream at the iceburg later in the evening, and although i had planned to finally make up some sleep, we only drifted off around 11:30pm. and now i'm exhausted and back at work. funnnn times.