It’s July already! Can you believe that? Only two months of summer left. How did June go by so quickly? I wait all year for summer and it goes by in the flash of a lightning bug!
Our three-day-weekend has arrived and we are going to OWN it. I am so pumped for a relaxing 4th of July weekend! I cannot wait for Coney Island and movies and wii games and tasty desserts and lawn games and cookouts and fireworks and the family that’s coming in town to share it all with us. Tomorrow morning I’m excited to hit up the farmer’s market I’ve been anxious to visit and then play in the hose water wash my car. I anticipate a weekend of pure loveliness!
On Tuesday night we received free tickets to the Cincinnati Opera’s newest production of “A Flowering Tree” with live music from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. I also wouldn’t be surprised if one of the primary Cincinnati dance companies had something to do with it too, though don’t quote me on it because I don’t really know for sure. Have I ever mentioned how much I like free performance art? It pretty much rocks.
This opera was unique because it was a contemporary opera – sung mostly in English with some Spanish mixed in as well. Furthermore, it was a translated Indian folk tale, composed in 2006, with a contemporary set design and India-inspired costumes to go with the English and Spanish lyrics. The story was sweet and uncomplicated, without countless details to keep track of, graphic plot twists, or grandiose themes. It was as accessible as it was beautiful, something that everyone could appreciate.
On Wednesday Ted switched it up for the hot summer months with a stylin’ new haircut. This was before…
…and this is him now!
I’ve always loved his hair long and the guy has killer thick, shiny hair that any girl would love to have, but he’s very handsome with short hair too. All the while I’ve know him he’s switched back and forth between long and short hair, and like the Wife of the Year that I am (he’s laughing himself silly right now), I love him either way. Bonus points because now he looks just like the sweet dude I married.
This week we were also graced with the presence of this little one in our neighbor’s yard for several early morning hours. Ted calls her Jo. She looked lonely without her mamma, but she was so adorable strolling around the yard, taking a bath, and laying down for a nap. I’m convinced our neighbor spayed “Baby Deer Away” on her landscaping because Jo hasn’t been back to visit since.
Today we discovered more new plants in our yard! As the seasons change new flowers keep cropping up that we never knew were planted in our yard. In the early spring it was the daffodils, then the rose bushes, and now these beautiful pink and purple blossoms. The longer we live here, the more we discover. Maybe there’s a secret pumpkin patch waiting to sprout up in October!
And because it is, indeed, Epic Fail Friday, I won’t disappoint, though my fails are pretty lame this week, so be prepared to be unimpressed. I have nothing witty to offer. Today’s Epic Fail Friday is brought to you by stale fortune cookies and the Red Hat Society. Its been a pretty tame week so I don’t have much to rag on. I’ve been reduced to labeling a stale fortune cookie at our Chinese eatery of choice as an epic fail. Maybe that in itself is an epic fail? Regardless, it was a fail because the fortune cookie is such a looked forward to tradition that I was pretty aghast at the lack of a fresh fortune cookie. Monday as a whole was pretty much a day of complete epic fail on the job front. We dealt with so many stupid questions, rude people and door alarms that we started keeping tally but eventually lost track. Needless to say, it was a painful day. That day my co-worker Sara and I had to deal with the most scatterbrained, confused, and frankly, obnoxious, group of red hat society women to ever set foot into a public institution. I have absolutely nothing against the red hat-ers or their color coordinated rhinestones and sequins, bejeweled shirts, net and feather hats, red pants, and purple sweater-sets. Most of them are very nice people who really just enjoy the group outings and one-another’s company, and if they want to enjoy it in head-to-toe red and purple, well then more power to them. That being said, this particular group of individuals was a serious test to our sanity and kind of made us want to drink beer at 11 a.m., under a people-free rock. We explained no less than 7 times the direction in which the line formed. Eventually, when words apparently failed, we physically showed them. When that too failed and we continued to battle question after question after question and the “group leader” insisted on organizing micro-managing each lady’s line placement (totally incorrectly, might I add), we just gave up, totally overwhelmed by the chaos of it all. That entire day was basically one giant epic fail. So for the sake of keeping up with tradition, there’s this week’s Epic Fail Friday. Oh, but wait! I do have just one more epic fail to offer! Please excuse the horrible cell-phone pic, but is that a noodle in Ted’s blueberry breakfast crepes from Bob Evans? Yes. Yes, it is. I guess it beats the dead rat someone found in the Kroger salad bag this week in Cincy.
I’ll be on a brief blogging hiatus to enjoy the 4th of July weekend with my family, but with any luck I’ll be back on Tuesday to fill you in.
Have a safe, happy and fun-filled weekend!
