HOOOLLLIDAY!

It’s my birthday week, and with that I feel like not doing anything worth a brass farthing. I grilled dinner Tuesday night (every piece of dinner, actually, going pan-less FTW) and set up the table outside to eat, and we all melted with extreme temperatures. Why does it have to be 97 degrees on July 1? Dude, seriously. I filled the blow up pool too, so the kids swam while I grilled and it was all idyllic except for the crazy humidity and the aforementioned blasted heat.

But then that tropical storm out east broke the temperature by causing crazy downpours and we hung out inside watching tv. I’m trying to start a July arm challenge that may ultimately kill me, so I did my calesthetics (the arm challenge plus crunches that made me want to throw up) and then because I got very little movement through the day I started walking through the house while watching baseball, and jogging in place on commercials. Sometimes I’m certifiable.

Oh! And we managed to not kill the gerbils in over a year, so we decided they were entitled to a larger cage to work off all that slothly fat of theirs (they couldn't fit through their own tubes, honestly). So we got them a topper which is apparently not well made and took C forever to get together, but they seem to like it.

Last night we used a coupon and went to Carrabba’s, which made me obscenely happy – thank you, Chicken Bryan. We’ve started packing dinner for the kids when we go out locally unless there’s a kid meal deal – it costs us $10 less just to bring their food, and then I know they’ll eat it with minimal complaints. Last night they had pb&j, cheez-it mix, blackberries and blueberries, yogurt covered raisins and two marshmallows for dessert. I had a reasonable quiet and happy meal. Wins all around.

We’ve got minimal plans for this weekend. I get off early today because daycare is closing early, and I was toying with driving over to Disney for the evening but a friend of the boys’ is coming over for a few hours instead. So apparently after he leaves we’ll do the usual Friday night dinner of movies and popcorn – the boys have been wanting to see Pirate Fairy since it came out, and it’s finally on Netflix, so that’s the likely plan.

For the Fourth I plan on SLEEPING IN, but then we are headed over to my in-laws to swim and have a cookout and not do any fireworks as per our usual ritual. The lack of fireworks is the ritual – the rest of it is just because it sounds fun. It doesn’t really matter about the fireworks – I’ve been listening to neighbors set them off all damn week. Why, why, why?

The rest of the weekend is up in the air. Disney, maybe? More swimming, maybe? Sangria almost definitely? Possibly using my free Red Robin birthday burger and free scoop of ice cream from Baskin Robbins? It’s a long weekend and I’m going to not think about anything hard for the extent of it.

What are your weekend plans?