Ok. I’m going to try really hard not to beat myself up about missing weeks. Not the point of this exercise.

The week kicked off with Callum’s (much belated) 17th birthday party. He had 20+ kids. It was supposed to be a pool party, but it was thundering and pretty chilly. I still cleaned the pool. But really it was the thundering that was the problem. The kids talked and played jackbox on the playstation and ate cupcakes and chips. Stella was home for dinner of Smoked Salmon and Potato Soup and then back to UT.

We picked up our groceries in the middle of this nonsense because it’s Sunday.

On Tuesday Julie went out with friends and I decided to make Callum some pork. But we got what the kids call Baba pork chops. They’re the super thin pork chops. You remember the “pork, the other white meat” chops. It was those. They were a substitution from HEB. I was supposed to have nice thick pork chops.

I marinated it with black garlic (which Julie also can’t have) and ginger beer. The marinade was great. But even with the marinade they became indistinguishable from the styrofoam tray they came in.

Wednesday was tax day and I realized I hadn’t checked up with Stella about taxes. She hadn’t done hers yet and I felt really bad I hadn’t mentioned it while we were hanging around on Sunday with time to do things like taxes.

On Thursday I biked over to hang out at PFLAG. It was a good time and a good bike ride.

Friday night we had dinner and watched Tron: Ares. Which was a soundtrack that apparently had some visual attached to it. My affection for the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack really helped buoy the film’s watchability. All the actors and dialog were pretty good as well. I’m really not sure why the movie was so glacial.

Saturday I roped Julie into pool help. The waterfall in our pool had slowed to a trickle which seemed to be an issue with intake. Now that we’re done with catkin-pocalypse from the oak trees I put Julie on cleaning pollen out of the pool filters. Everything I read said the waterfall issue was probably a clog and suggested plumber’s bladders for shooting high pressure through the pipes. Whelp. I blew up 2 of them. Blew them up real good. So I ended up heading to big box hardware for a plumber’s snake. I really didn’t think it was going to work, but it managed to pull out one little stick that appeared to be the problem.

I did a bit of weeding and mowing in prep for a lot more rain this week. Then we went to Walmart and the mall to try to find Julie a bathing suit top. At Walmart there was the cutest mustard colored pitbull wearing a purple raincoat. Adorable.

At some point during the day Godilla’s arm broke.

Then we had a game night. The game of choice was Trivial Pursuit 80s Edition. Our latest find we picked up from the vintage store Room Service.

So that was the week.