Dried off and ready for the dust

This weekend was great. Although a bit wet. I got to a slow and cranky start on Saturday morning. After spending one full weekend painting upstairs, I didn't want a repeat. I grumbled. Drank a whole pot of coffee by myself. We needed a few supplies, so Sweets ran to the hardware store. I put on the Magic Numbers and by the time he came back I was smiling and grooving to the music. Later we switched to the whole Belle and Sebastian catalog. We ended up with completely painted bookshelves and the doors for the cabinets. Two of the three media cabinets have one coat of paint. Tonight we'll give the bookshelves a coat of polyurethane. I've painted furniture with and without it. I've found the topcoat really is worth the extra step. The tops of my dressers and nightstands are all funky because I left it off. Don't want that to happen to the shelves. It dried out just enough on Sunday afternoon that I was able to tuck a few plants into the garden. A few of the items I got in my plant shipment turned out to be not so hot. I'll have to call customer service again. After all the work, we still managed to find time for some fun. Saturday night we watched Memoirs for a Geisha. It was okay. The book was so wonderful that I was not so impressed with the adaptation. The cinematography was bseautiful, yes, but I can rattle off a long list of Chinese movies I'd prefer to watch. Cyndemouse invited us over for dinner last night. Before dinner we stopped to look at the work she's been doing at her rental property. It's so cute I wish I could move in! The yard there is so gorgeous right now. It's full of forsythias, azaleas, daffodils. A red maple greets you by the front door. A white dogwood beckons you from the bedroom window. Soon the irises will awake and wisteria will cascade from the impossible heights its climbed over the years. After I drooled over the brand new bathroom fixtures and garden. We headed next door to her place for dinner. She made tomato sauce earlier in the day. We all pitched in preparing a rustic Italian meal of a salad, pasta with sauce, turkey sausage, bread. Everything always tastes better when it comes from the Mouse's kitchen. We had sorbet for dessert. Cynde will be my maid of honor for the wedding. She is way more on the ball about it than I am. As we cooked she went over a new list of possible locations. Before we left she gave me an engagement present of pretty pink folders, stationary, an address book and notebook to keep organized. Plus the cutest set of his and hers cups. We set a date to have a little party in June. Sweets parents will be here to visit. We want to have something for the families to meet and mingle. We still haven't set a date. In fact, we haven't looked an any locations yet. As soon as those shelves are done. I'm turning my full attention to bridezilla type affairs. This week will be full of early mornings. Rummage sale season explodes to a start this week. I'm going to cram in two church sales on Thursday and one on Friday before work. Saturday is the Whale of a Sale in Rumson which is a school gymnasium crammed with goodies. Sunday is my favorite temple sale. I can't wait to have the dust up my nose, elbow to elbow with the other rummagers tossing the tables, filling my bag with surprises of all kinds.