• moonriver said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Honestly? Not too good. But I keep smiling. That's me... :-)
  
  

• sweet_cookie01 said on Apr 28, 2008....

  hmmm... satisfying and fruitful

• evil_twin said on Apr 28, 2008....

  It was alright :-) We didn't really do anything special, but it was still nice. And at least we weren't at work!
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• skald said on Apr 28, 2008....

  I had a great week end once again Ed. Thanks for asking. 

• biglove said on Apr 28, 2008....

  It was pretty good. My son went out of town with my dad and my husband and I had some much needed alone time. We went shopping and out to dinner, took naps in the afternoon and acted like love sick puppies all weekend.....It was very nice. Beside seperation anxiety from my son, it was good weekend....thanks for asking.

• diabolicdame said on Apr 28, 2008....

  My weekend was pretty good too Ed. It consisted of the usual mall trips and over-sleeping but it was quite relaxing (because I successfully procastinated studying!!).. thanks for asking and I'm glad yours was nice too.. :-)

• Eilan said on Apr 28, 2008....

  My oldest girls were gone for the weekend.  They got to go swimming and tie-dye tank tops.
  
  Saturday morning, my youngest had a soccer game.  At her level, the coaches also serve as referees and watching them try to keep the children on task is like watching someone herd cats.
  
  On Saturday afternoon, my husband and the two little ones and I went to a mall with my mom.  Got a few books at Borders, so it was a successful trip.
  
  On Sunday I just puttered about the house doing laundry and running the dishwasher while my husband did some yard work.
  
  Mostly uneventful but pretty good.
  

• CreativeWoman said on Apr 28, 2008....

  I celebrated my birthday with family.
  
  I'm glad you had a good one.
  
  CW
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on Apr 28, 2008....

  It's been pretty nice so far. :) The weather is all rainy-steamy (it's 80+ again today), but that hasn't gotten in our way. Little one got new sunglasses yesterday and has insisted on wearing them even though it's gray outside. :-D
  
  And we're cleaning a lot, since MIL gets in from Germany on Thursday evening.
  
  ~Infernal
  

• dailyachesandpains said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Hey Ed!
  My weekend consisted of a house full of kids on Saturday and a panic attack (his best friend talks SO loud and I'm sensitive to that more than screaming kids).  Mr. Daily's friends were visiting with their kids.  All wives were out shopping (except me).  Little D. got to stay at my Parent's house Sat. night which left a nice quiet evening for us.  We watched 'American Gangster" with Denzel Washington and it was pretty good!  Sunday, I couldn't bring myself to do a darn thing!  Little Daily was still out with my Sisters.  I wanted to go shopping but you know how I am leaving that door and getting in the car.  All I wanted to do was go shop at CVS, lol!  I didn't though.
   
  Yesterday was Greek Easter and a LOT of my friends happen to be Greek or married/dating Greeks.  Not much time for chatting on the phone with any of them. 
   
  I want to clean today while Little D's in daycare, but it's one of those sleepy rainy days here.  I'm feeling a lot of pain in my back too.  I feel like it's a burnt day of daycare and I'm not going to get anything done.
   
  Daily

• unassuming said on Apr 28, 2008....

  I made a mistake and picked up the book I have been slowly reading just before bed.  5:30 a.m. Sunday morning I finished.  The family got up at 8:30, so I have been wrecked ever since.

• JadeLondon said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Prolific and productive, precisely as I planned. ;)

• JadeLondon said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Prolific and productive, precisely as I planned. ;)

• wombat said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Your museum trip with the Japanese drumming sounds like fun!  My weekend is not worth mentioning---dull, but restful. 

• Thinker89 said on Apr 28, 2008....

  sounds like u had a cool weekend... my weekend was a failed weekend.. me and my frens tried doing so much but everything ended up whack or didn;t fall thru
  hopefully this weekened will be better!

• petitepapillon said on Apr 28, 2008....

  You and your simple questions.
   
  I had my moments of crankiness and depressive states, but I did have a little fun playing video games. Sure, I acted like a little kid, all giddy, but with an adult mouth. Fun times. :)

• Zayda said on Apr 28, 2008....

  In a word, busy. I wrote a blog about my entire week. You can get the details there. Ahh, you have already I see. :)

• LtCmdrWorf1 said on Apr 28, 2008....

  Hey Ed,
  
  I have to say my weekend was good.  I got to sit outside on Saturday, and read.  Sunday, after the rain let up I got sit in the church yard and enjoy the green, and yellow ,and pink.  Yes, the weekend was good.  How was yours? sounds like you fun too.  Peace and Long Life
  
  Love Worf
  

• queenparanoia said on Apr 29, 2008....

  well i blog about it... read it here...

• autoprocanada said on Apr 29, 2008....

  
  Had a great weekend. Sold many vehicles and made allot of clients happy.

• scipio said on Apr 29, 2008....

  Weekends - as usual. More busy than work days !

   

• Trinov said on Apr 29, 2008....

  Hi, Saturday was the last day of Passover here in Israel and we stayed home and enjoyed the rest.
  
  On Sunday, kids "practicing" for the holiday of L'ag B'Omer, which here is a school children's holiday besides being a religious holiday -school children get the day off to set the country on fire--set a bonfire too near our house and set fire to the dry weeds and then two apartments.
  
  We had called the police and the fire department, the police came immediately but the fire truck took twenty minutes, and after we closed all the windows to prevent the smoke from coming in, the police banged on the doors to tell everyone to get out for the building was on fire. We thought we knew where the cat was hiding but she had moved, so until we found her we were the last ones out.
  
  We were able to return to our apartment after an hour (these are concrete buildings so the fire does not touch the infrustructure), all three of us not in the best mood. We want to get a big fire hose for the kids will do this again on L'ag B'Omer, when some days we had to call the fire department three times for three different fires.( It's really a very deep religious holiday but for most children it is a chance to play with fire.)

• uniquely-ironic said on Apr 29, 2008....

  I would rather have skipped it.

• MissMimi said on May 01, 2008....

  Ditto what unique said.

• silverwhisper said on May 02, 2008....

  egads, how'd i miss responding to the comments here?!
  
  
  
  moon: sorry the weekend was sucky, but i suppose i sorta knew that, huh?
  
  sweet cookie: awesome! :D
  
  kyle: that's the great thing about being in love, though--even when you aren't doing anything special, you're with someone special. :>
  
  skald: i'm glad--and you're welcome, of course! you know, i sometimes envy your ability always to be so positive. :>
  
  biglove: woo-hoo, time alone! :D
  
  diabolic: ah, the life of the student... :D
  
  eilan: how am i just now realizing that i can call you a soccer mom? :D oo, bookshopping excurion--what'd you score?
  
  CW: sometimes, a sentence devoid of adjectives or adverbs says so much in its spartan simplicity. [hug]
  
  infernal: what is it w/ kids and shades?! my niece & nephews all have a pair (when they remember which is whose) and they refuse to take the things off! i guess you must be done w/ cleaning--hope your MIL's stay goes smoothly!
  
  daily: that's a pretty full weekend! yeesh...i hope you're doing better now? :>
  
  unassuming: hey! long time, no see! how's the game going? last book i did that with was deathly hallows so i know your pain. :>
  
  jade: hey there, missy! so how was it prolific?
  
  wombat: it really was a lot of fun, thanks! restful = good, wombie, don't lose sight of that! :>
  
  thinker: man, that sucks! so how's this weekend shaping up to look, though?
  
  pp: :D it's kinda fun to do that stuff and use your grown up mouth sometimes, isn't it? i hope you're doing OK. :>
  
  super z: i did indeed. i hope that you get some sleep really damned soon, my friend. :>
  
  worf: that sounds great! you always impress me as someone who knows how to have a good time--it's an important trait, if you ask me. :>
  
  sis: i did, like five minutes after i posted this! :>
  
  autopro: hey, welcome to my blog & thanks for visiting! so you sell cars? for how long have you been doing that?
  
  scipio: i see you've come out of your period of lurking/not being on SC, good to see you again! why so busy on the weekends?
  
  trinov: ah right, as a goy, i tend not to notice jewish holidays but i did know last week was passover. i didn't realize however that the last day fell on shabbos this year! i wasn't familiar with l'ag b'omer--what's the association with fire about? i trust nobody was hurt or that there wasn't much damage from the fire?
  
  u-i: ugh, sorry to hear that. ?
  
  mimi: :< [hug]
  
  ed

• Trinov said on May 02, 2008....

  Hi, nobody was hurt but two apartments were damaged, we got sore throats from the smoke, and probably others did too.
  
  L'Ag B'Omer is the 33rd day from the first day of Passover, and the counting goes on until the holiday of Shevuot,which is the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai and also the first fruits of the new harvest, including the wheat harvest, which were taken to the Temple in Jerusalem and brought to the Priests or Cohanim there and before that the fruits were forbidden to eat.
  
  The symbols of the holiday are complicated During the Roman occupation, after the Second Temple fell, there was a revolt led by Bar Cochba (Son of a Star) who had troops from all the Jewish diasporas (some say 8 million!) but even though he might have been from the Davidic line, and was considered the potential Messianic King by Rabbi Akiva, he was basically non-religious and arrogant and trusted in his own strength and strategies and the Romans prevailed.
  
  The bonfires and the bows and arrows of the children may represent this revolt (about 120 or so of the Common Era, as we call it), or it may represent the stopping of the plague that was killing the students of Rabbi Akiva (which some historians said could have been their death in that revolt ). The bows and arrows could also represent the rainbow, (which is a sign of G-d's anger but forgiveness at the same time).
  
  Another aspect of the holiday is that it is the birthday and deathday of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, one of the four greatest students of Rabbi Akiva, who at the time of his death dictated very deep Kabbalistic secrets to his students. He is the author of the Holy Zohar. People from all over Isreal (estimates from a hundred thousand to a million over a few days) go to his grave site in Har Miron on this day, and many people camp out there, and it is a big party atmosphere, where people take their three year olds to have their first hair-cut. He had to hide out from the Romans for 20 years after criticising their rule, and he and his son hid out in a cave and kept alive by eating carobs. (when he came out, his father in law paid for him to heal in the hot springs of Tiberias).
  
  Hope you're not sorry you asked! :)

• scipio said on May 03, 2008....

  Thanks, SW. Being alone for the time being keeps me quite occupied as I have to clean the house and do all the cooking for the week etc. That's why - more busier on the weekends. Am always reading the SC - but offer to comment when I feel like. It takes quite sometime to go through all the posts on a daily basis.

• silverwhisper said on May 03, 2008....

  trinov: no, not at all sorry! i'm glad there was no significant damage--whew! and i always find that i learn something from these exchanges--my thanks. :>
  
  scipio: see, i never know if you're reading or not so i don't want to assume. but yeah, it does take time, doesn't it? :>
  
  ed

• moonriver said on May 03, 2008....

  ed -- Thanks. This weekend's a bit better. I still feel like I'm swimming against the flow, but hey, if I get tired, it's so easy to just float on my back and crack a few juicy mussels (like a river otter), ya know? :-)
  
  

• silverwhisper said on May 03, 2008....

  that's the spirit, moon! be at peace with your inner otter, i say! :>
  
  ed

• Eilan said on May 03, 2008....

  ed, I picked up another Tom Perrotta novel, The Wishbones, and a book about Henry VIII's six wives, aptly titled The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

• silverwhisper said on May 04, 2008....

  interesting, i'm unfamiliar with tom perrotta. ? i should bone up some day on british history, as while i know henry VIII had 6 wives, i know precious little of them--i don't even think i know all of their names!
  
  ed

• Zayda said on May 04, 2008....

  So, how did the work on the database go?

• silverwhisper said on May 04, 2008....

  super z: to be honest, it didn't. i'm gonna work on it in the evening the next day or two b/c frankly, i need to clear my head a bit about the damned thing.
  
  ed

• Eilan said on May 06, 2008....

  ed: When it comes to Henry VIII's six wives, there aren't many names to remember: Katherine, Anne, and Jane.  :D
  
  Tom Perrotta writes suburban satire.  It's not particularly heavy stuff, but it's a decent enough read.
  

• silverwhisper said on May 07, 2008....

  heh...it makes one wonder if he couldn't be bothered to find women with different names. :D
  
  i might need to investigate perrotta's work some time. :>
  
  ed

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