Weekend Report
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lydamorehouse It was a fairly busy weekend as such things go.
I worked at Roseville on Saturday for 5 hours. That went surprisingly slow at times, though possibly my best interaction was with a patron who wanted to tell me all about the memoir he was going to write about how the Pope got assassinated by the cocaine cartels... a MEMOIR. I live for moments like that, honestly.
I came home to a house full of teenagers. Mason had gone to SpringCon with his girlfriend and their mutual friend, Dalton. Dalton had to head out, but we ended up hosting Rosemary for dinner and a seriously rousing game of Trivial Pursuit. There were several points when I laughed so hard I nearly peed. (We have a policy of random guesses when you don't know an answer.) I was very sleepy by the end of the evening, however.
Sunday, Mason really, really wanted me to see SpringCon (aka MPS Comic Con.) Plus, he'd reported that our friend Theo was there selling art. So, we hopped in the car and stopped by for an hour or so.
If you've never gone and are curious, SpringCon is basically a gigantic dealer's room held in the Grandstand of the State Fair. There are lots of racks of comics, boxes of comics, and artists showing off their work. We said hello to Theo and their partner, Pip, as well as to my friends Barb Shultz and Christopher Jones. There are also people showing off fan related things as well as fan merchandise.
Someone had made a LEGO model of the battle at the end of "Last Jedi."
I took Mason out to lunch (Wing Stop), but we got it to go and sat in the grass at Como Lake and ate. It was a lovely day out and a ton of people were out walking dogs and enjoying the sun.
I only felt bad that I had to cut our picnic short in order for me to book it out to Chaska to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, where I TRIED to connect with some friends who were doing a flower-viewing party (in the style of a Japanese hanami). I was supposed to meet them "under the crab apple blossoms about a mile in on Three Mile Drive," but it was a comedy of errors. For one, even though Three Mile Drive was obviously drivable, I had no idea if there would be parking anywhere near my friends were camped out at. I guess I sort of imagined that the drive would be like Custer State Park, where you can't really pull over anywhere, except in the case of a buffalo emergency. I really don't know why I got that in my head, but i did, and so I parked in the main lot and proceeded to start to WALK.
I ended up walking around the parking lot for a stupid amount of time because I was following signs that said "Three Mile Drive." I also have no sense of how far a mile is. Also, when I came to this set of trees, I thought that somehow this was the meet-up spot and they had moved from there to somewhere else.
Thus, I figured I missed them and so decided, instead, to check out the Japanese garden and head home.
The Japanese garden was lovely.
But the trip felt sort of wasted, you know. I sunburnt my nose and wasn't able to off-load ANY of my Japanese candies that I hauled around.
Ah, well. I did get to discover the MN Landscape Arboretum AND had a lovely time exploring the Japanese Gardens there.
Weirdly, I ran into Rosemary's mom, Lisa, on my way out. Like, I could NOT find my friends, whom I'd planned to spend time with, but randomly in this HUGE PLACE, I run into Lisa, who was there with a friend to see the tulip display. She offered to let me tag along, but I was feeling pretty done (see: sunburned nose). I offered them a bit of my Japanese candy and then headed for home.
Luckily, it's an easy drive home, despite the distance... or would have been if 35W wasn't under heavy construction. But, I got home and we had a lovely dinner (I made kielbasa and a potato hash) and I slept like a LOG.
Today I worked at White Bear Lake and I could not have felt more tired and exhausted. But, hey, I'm working a lot now because after Mason is off school, I'm pretty much taking the month of June off. (Bearskin here we come!)
I worked at Roseville on Saturday for 5 hours. That went surprisingly slow at times, though possibly my best interaction was with a patron who wanted to tell me all about the memoir he was going to write about how the Pope got assassinated by the cocaine cartels... a MEMOIR. I live for moments like that, honestly.
I came home to a house full of teenagers. Mason had gone to SpringCon with his girlfriend and their mutual friend, Dalton. Dalton had to head out, but we ended up hosting Rosemary for dinner and a seriously rousing game of Trivial Pursuit. There were several points when I laughed so hard I nearly peed. (We have a policy of random guesses when you don't know an answer.) I was very sleepy by the end of the evening, however.
Sunday, Mason really, really wanted me to see SpringCon (aka MPS Comic Con.) Plus, he'd reported that our friend Theo was there selling art. So, we hopped in the car and stopped by for an hour or so.
If you've never gone and are curious, SpringCon is basically a gigantic dealer's room held in the Grandstand of the State Fair. There are lots of racks of comics, boxes of comics, and artists showing off their work. We said hello to Theo and their partner, Pip, as well as to my friends Barb Shultz and Christopher Jones. There are also people showing off fan related things as well as fan merchandise.
Someone had made a LEGO model of the battle at the end of "Last Jedi."
I took Mason out to lunch (Wing Stop), but we got it to go and sat in the grass at Como Lake and ate. It was a lovely day out and a ton of people were out walking dogs and enjoying the sun.
I only felt bad that I had to cut our picnic short in order for me to book it out to Chaska to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, where I TRIED to connect with some friends who were doing a flower-viewing party (in the style of a Japanese hanami). I was supposed to meet them "under the crab apple blossoms about a mile in on Three Mile Drive," but it was a comedy of errors. For one, even though Three Mile Drive was obviously drivable, I had no idea if there would be parking anywhere near my friends were camped out at. I guess I sort of imagined that the drive would be like Custer State Park, where you can't really pull over anywhere, except in the case of a buffalo emergency. I really don't know why I got that in my head, but i did, and so I parked in the main lot and proceeded to start to WALK.
I ended up walking around the parking lot for a stupid amount of time because I was following signs that said "Three Mile Drive." I also have no sense of how far a mile is. Also, when I came to this set of trees, I thought that somehow this was the meet-up spot and they had moved from there to somewhere else.
Thus, I figured I missed them and so decided, instead, to check out the Japanese garden and head home.
The Japanese garden was lovely.
But the trip felt sort of wasted, you know. I sunburnt my nose and wasn't able to off-load ANY of my Japanese candies that I hauled around.
Ah, well. I did get to discover the MN Landscape Arboretum AND had a lovely time exploring the Japanese Gardens there.
Weirdly, I ran into Rosemary's mom, Lisa, on my way out. Like, I could NOT find my friends, whom I'd planned to spend time with, but randomly in this HUGE PLACE, I run into Lisa, who was there with a friend to see the tulip display. She offered to let me tag along, but I was feeling pretty done (see: sunburned nose). I offered them a bit of my Japanese candy and then headed for home.
Luckily, it's an easy drive home, despite the distance... or would have been if 35W wasn't under heavy construction. But, I got home and we had a lovely dinner (I made kielbasa and a potato hash) and I slept like a LOG.
Today I worked at White Bear Lake and I could not have felt more tired and exhausted. But, hey, I'm working a lot now because after Mason is off school, I'm pretty much taking the month of June off. (Bearskin here we come!)