Had a great weekend this past weekend. The main event was the opera, but there were plenty of sideshows to keep life interesting. You never know what you're gonna run into on the Riverwalk! So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!
House and Home:
The big event - San Antonio Opera's performance of Carmen meant that a lot of things needed to happen on Saturday. D had made the call that the babysitters (Noni's daughter and two of her friends) would be coming over to our hurricane wreck of a house instead of us delivering and picking up the children from their house. This meant that we spent the better part of the morning and early afternoon deep cleaning the kitchen and downstairs living room and making the loft at least presentable. The kitchen was particularly disgusting. It never gets cleaned: trash and dirty dishes are always left lying on the floor instead of being disposed of, crumbs and grime left all over the counters and things left sitting out instead of being put back where they belong. It drives me absolutely nuts and usually nothing happens until I blow up and make a big stink about it. Even then, the most it will usually get is Colin running around the floor with a Swiffer. -.-; For the record, the Swiffer is absolutely worthless if you own a pet with any kind of hair, or a home with stone flooring. We have both. Its really simple: clean it if you dirty it, pick it up if you put it down, put it away if you take it out, shut it if you open it and turn it off if you turn it on. Messes happen, just pick up after yourself. I just don't understand how living in that kind of squalor doesn't unnerve anyone else in the house but me...
Anyway, I insisted that all the grime, crumbs, dirty dishes, trash and pet hair get purged from my kitchen. The front room got de-toddlered and the loft was brought to at least a manageable playroom mess level. Somewhere in there we also got a WalMart run in to pick up dinner and the week's supplies. After that we started getting ready, I went and picked up the girls from Noni's house and, after D gave them a quick grilling on the workings of the house, we were on our way.
I decided to try to get us a spot at Cafe Ole on the Riverwalk before the show. What I did not take into consideration was that we were both wearing really nice (read: uncomfortable for walking) shoes and the walk from the parking garage to Cafe Ole was a good quarter mile. x.X As we were descending the steps from the streets to the walkways below, we found ourselves in the middle of a throng of pirates. There must have been a couple dozen of them - they filled 3 tour boats - all "ARRR!"ing and threatening to make the tour boat guide walk the plank. LOL
By the time we got to the restaurant, our feet were very ready for us to sit and have a drink. The pirate boats came by a few times while we were eating, hollering at the landlubbers and splashing water at people who were taunting them from the shore. No sooner had our appetizers come up than a mariachi band came to our table and started a lovely romantic serenade. After a great dinner, we started the trek back to the opera house, cheering the pirates on as we went up to the street level. A short walk, but it felt so long. Poor D had blisters by the time we reached the crosswalk to the auditorium, and decided to walk the rest of the way barefoot.
Carmen was hot. The female lead needs to sing, walk, think, dance and breathe sex the whole time she's on stage to come off as believable, and it was done very well on Saturday. It's one of the opera's I'd suggest anyone who is new to opera to see. There's a lot of music in it that is still in common use in TV and radio, and a lot of themes that are used in TV shows and movies started right there. In fact, most people who've never been to an opera would be very surprised to learn just how much pop culture borrows from this art.
We spent most of the day Sunday relaxing and mentally preparing for the change starting next week. Bed times, sleep schedules, morning routines: all would be changing come Monday with D's new job requiring her to be at work earlier than her previous job, and the job site itself being further away than mine.
In-Game:
We attended what may be one of the last KS99 runs for a while on Friday night. I almost didn't want to go, but they were in desperate need of a WHM and it was the Wyrm battle. I'm glad I did go: I actually got a drop from one of the fights that was worth 90k and sold the same night. With all my alchemy products finally clearing the auction house and that nice little boost to my bank, I was finally able to buy a Serket Ring before they rebounded in price. I also had enough left over to by an Aquilo's Staff, the HQ version of the Ice Staff and my first HQ elemental staff. ^^
Didn't game much Saturday, aside a little bit after we got home from the opera. We goofed off in one campaign battle before acknowledging our mutual exhaustion from the nights' awesomeness. XD.
Sunday morning has become our Nyzul Isle static time. While it's pretty thrown together, we work really well as a team and have made some awesome progress. In only 3 weeks, we've cleared up through floor 30/100 and made several boss attempts. Did the same thing this weekend, but didn't quite make it to the boss during our boss run. The evening was planned for a Dynamis - Xarcabard run, but one of the LS's on Shiva infamous for its asshattery decided they wanted to go and bumped in 15mins before us with only 10 people. We did a Dynamis - Bastok run instead.
I know this is getting posted on the Friday after, but that's just the way my week fell this week... Really rather busy. I'm looking forward to trying to relax this weekend. XD
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