The Weekend

Chris and I had a relaxing and fun weekend. I love having him around all the time. I don't know how we survived dating long distance for so long. It's so awesome to have him here.

Friday night we took the dogs to the dog park. It was the first time since Mac's fight. A few weeks ago, Chris's black lab, Mac, got in a fight at the dog park. Of course, he didn't start the fight (I feel like a parent whose child can do no wrong), but he did get roughed up a bit. Luckily nothing serious and he healed just fine. His return to the dog park was completely normal as if he never remembered it.

After the park, we cooked a dinner of steak and veggies. (Chris is such an excellent grill cook!) Then we watched 25th Hour. While 25th Hour was a pretty good movie, (who doesn't like Edward Norton?) I've decided that I really don't like Spike Lee films. A few weeks ago we watched Summer of Sam, another Spike Lee film that was completely horrible. I anticipated a spooky movie set in the time of a serial killer in New York City. Instead, I got gross sex scene after sex scene with John Leguizamo. It was bad. Now that I've watched a couple Spike Lee films, I've realized there's always something weird sexually and there's always a big rant about people which somehow brings in race. He's definitely not my favorite director.

In fact, I just remembered that while I was in college, I saw Spike Lee speak at Texas Tech University. I don't remember too much what he spoke about, but I do remember feeling like he hated (or at least strongly resented) white people. An instructor of mine, a 30-something PhD student, asked a question about teaching about race and Spike Lee basically told him he couldn't do it justice because he is white. I can remember being completely turned off.

Anyway, Chris and I have vowed to stop seeing Spike Lee films. In order to redeem our belief in Edward Norton, we watched Fight Club and all was well.

Saturday we spent the day around the house. I did some cooking for the week and Chris worked in the wood shop. Saturday night we went to an informal car show that happens every Saturday night in Scottsdale. We had a lot of fun taking the convertible out (since it had cooled off to a comfortable 99 degrees) and looking at other cars. We ran into Karl, a co-worker from my previous company. It was fun to finally get to introduce him to Chris and catch up on things that are going on at that company. While there are a few things that I miss, I can honestly say that I'm very happy with my decision to move on.

After the show, we cooked some dinner (sweet and spicy shrimp) and spent the rest of the night at the dinner table drinking wine and talking. It was the simplest yet the best night I've had in a very long time. I'm so happy just sitting around with Chris. I never imagined I would be this happy but am so thankful for it.

Sunday we cleaned house, worked on Jennifer's computer, and played video games. Correction, I played video games while Chris worked on Jennifer's computer. (He's so handy with a soldering iron!) And Paper Mario for the GameCube is a ton of fun! In the evening we watched Apocalypto, which was pretty much a waste of time. Mel, what were you thinking? Did you really need to spend $40 million on a storyline that is essentially one long chase through a jungle? I should have kept playing Paper Mario.

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