Pretty incredible weekend!

Well....where to start?

Friday, I took the day off so I could take care of business and we could leave town in a timely fashion for RDA's graduation from TAMU. Uhhh....best laid plans.....

I had a doctor's appointment set up for 8:30. My GP wanted me to get an echocardiogram because of my family history. They actually brought me in at 9:45, finished the test by 10:45 and had me on my way at 11:00. The good news is that the doctor couldn't understand why I'd wasted the time. He said I have a really good heart and that there are no abnormalitites whatsoever. Woooohhhhh! What a relief! (JK!) I could've told him that before they even broke out the KY!

Anyway, I had to get over to "my" house and get it ready to show. The buyer I had set up wasn't able to get financing that was acceptable to her, so it's back on the market. My agent said that he's had a lady who's been bugging the begebers out of him the whole time it was under contract and he had her set up to view it on Saturday morning, so I had to make sure the place was clean and the yard was cut, etc. I finished with that A/O about 1:00 pm. We were supposed to meet mom for lunch at about that time and I still had to make the 40-minute drive home, get showered and dressed, and drive to mom's to get her. We got to her house at around 2:15 or so, I'd guess. THEN we went to lunch after a detour to the post office. Long story short - we were finished with lunch and on the road to College Station at about 4:00 pm; the VERY WORST time of day to head out 290 from Houston! We wanted to get there at about 6:00 or 6:15 so that we'd get a good seat and would be able to park in the handicapped parking (mom has a real hard time getting around - the diabetes affects the nerves in her legs ["neuropathy" I think they call it], so she's got a hancicapped sticker for her car), but we didn't get there until right at 7:00 and the ceremony was just getting under way. Anyway, I dropped mom and MDB at the curb and parked in regular parking about three zip codes away and then went and found them. They had seats all lined up when I got there, so at least that part of the deal was done! Anyway, the ceremony went pretty quickly and RDA is now a college graduate with a degree in electrical engineering! Woo-hoo!

We got into bed at 2:00 on Saturday morning. I slept in because MDB is awesome and lets me sleep under such circumstances. SHE, on the other hand, got up at 7:00 and started to work on the mother's day dinner we'd planned for our mom's on Saturday. When I got up, I helped as much as I could, but she'd already done most of what needed to be done. I mowed the front and made a trip to the store for her, but that was about it. The dinner went splendidly! All the moms were pleased with the meal and the gift MDB had fixed up for them and a fine time was had by all! Suffering from sleep deprivation, MDB crashed at 9:00!

Yesterday was a "stay in" day. MDB woke up with a terrible headache, so we didn't even go to church. I picked another huge bowlful of yellow squash along with some additional green beans and another zuchini, so MDB did a freezer prep on them and put them away in those vacuum-seal bags for another time. I had picked about a handful of peas before this and I picked about that many more yesterday, so I had fresh peas as well. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Those were the best peas I've ever had! Having fresh produce right from your own garden is THE BOMB!!! It's awesome! All I did yesterday was mow and weed-eat the back yard and change the oil in MDB's truck. The rest of the day was a basketball marathon! The Jazz/Lakers game was pretty good - it went into overtime and now that series is tied at 2 apiece. Frankly, I think the Jazz have the upper hand now. Kobe's getting beat up pretty good and LA just doesn't have the other pieces necessary if Kobe goes down. I guess we'll see how it plays out, but I'd put my money on Utah if I was a betting man.

That's enough for now. MDB is awesome; the sky is blue; water is wet! Those are the incontrovertible facts for the day! - Dan