Long weekends rock!

We need more of them. Really. And longer. Maybe 4 day weekends and 3 day weeks? please? We had a fairly but not really busy weekend.

Thursday we went to a cocktail hour/party with gorgeous views of the city from the roof and tequila. Which lead to me getting mad at Matty. And lead Matty to stop drinking for awhile.

Friday we walked up to the Festival on the Parkway. I found out that while Dr. Pepper and coffee may be ok for me now, Mountain Dew is not. We got smoothies and sat in Rittenhouse then went home and watched the Twilight Zone marathon, ordered a chicken parm pizza and then watched the John Legend concert and fireworks on TV since it started to rain. Earlier in the day we watched the first disk of Undeclared. It was ok. Not as good as Freaks and Geeks. John Legend was great. I am not really a fan, but he is very talented. We also saw one of the openers, Russell Thompkin Jr and the New Stylistics. They were AWFUL. Simply AWFUL. He, Russell Thompkin, Jr., sings like he is making fun of someone who sings too high. AWFUL. The fireworks were probably pretty good. However the coverage sucked. They had one good camera angle and 4 awful ones and they just kept cycling through them. Sigh.

Saturday we got up early and got a car and went to the Grays Ferry Pathmark. This is totally my favorite supermarket in the city right now. They sell my tomatoes! fairly good selection, good prices, not too super ghetto. So we got food and then went home and prepared for our 5th of July BBQ. We made chipotle barbecue chicken breasts (fantastic!), a toasted walnut tabouli-style quinoa salad (ehh, I wasnt impressed, but others were), vegan red velvet cupcakes with vegan cream cheese frosting and blueberries, burgers, dogs, chorizo, corn on the cob, asparagus, homemade salsa (pretty happy with it) and we debuted our homemade pickles which were a big hit and we will definitely make again. For drinks we had lager, of course and then a variety of fun Goya nectars to mix drinks with. Guanabana, strawberry, apricot, pear and passion fruit. Our favorite drink of the night - Sauza gold, nectar of your choice, Sauza margarita mix, tonic water and a few blueberries. We also had an ambrosia salad contributed that was a big hit as well. It was a nice time, though the grill was really smoky for some reason and it was very hot and humid.

Sunday we went to brunch at Devil's Alley. I had their skillet baked chili and eggs which is awesome, served with tortillas and salsa. And fried green tomatoes. Matty had the barbecue chicken salad sandwich. Then we picked up some groceries and headed home. We watched Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? which is about a lady who may have bought a Jackson Pollock at a thrift store and has to go up against the art community to get it authenticated. It was interesting. We made nachos with the leftover barbecue chicken, corn and salsa. And played Boom Blox. I still love Boom Blox.

So I mentioned earlier how my grandfather was in the hospital because he got sick in Lithuania. Well he has recovered from that and was going to be sent to a rehab facility to get his strength back. The day before he was supposed to head there he started complaining of some leg pains. So they checked for blod clots (there were none) and then did an MRI looking for a pinched nerve. They didnt find anything until they got to his head. Where they found some blood. Not active bleeding. But blood, like he had been in an accident and had a fairly major head injury in the last week. Which he hadnt. He had been in the hospital. So doctors were concerned but not freaked out. This was last Wednesday. Since then he has had developed a headache. And has had 6 MRIs, has seen a dozen different doctors, has had a spinal tap which reveled some blood which worries the docs. He is scheduled for a cerebral and spinal angiogram today. He had some other tests yesterday but he didnt know what for. My grandmother is the bulldog, my grandfather just sort of watches and pays attention. So he didnt ask and they didnt tell him I guess. I dont know. My parents went up there last night (they were away all last week). No one seems to be freaking out, but it seems like A LOT of people are working on him. A LOT of tests are being done. And no one has any ideas. Which of course worries me of all people. I yelled at him last night, told him that I was supposed to be the medical oddity. Not him. Sigh. So that is that.

Bought our flights for our sailing trip in August! Yay! And for our trip down to Miami Labor Day weekend for EJ's first birthday! Yay!

Find a six-digit number in which the first digit is one more than the second digit, the second digit is one more than the third, the third digit is one more than the fourth, the fourth digit is one more than the fifth and the fifth digit is one more than the sixth. The sm of the fifth and sixth digits equals the first.

Martha was buying supplies for a Fourth of July barbecue. She spent half of what she had plus $5 for beef, then half of what was left plus $5 for vegetables to grill and one-third of what was left plus $10 for soda. She had $10 left for plastic utensils. How much did she start out with?

We've removed all the vowels from a well-known proerb. Can you put them back where they belong?
T H B S T T H N G S N L F R F R

What two seven-letter words that are anagrams of each other can be used to complete the sentence below?
The pretty glass _______ fell off the girl's foot, tumbled off the bridge and disappeared under the ________.

Some Body to Love: Each definition below applies to a word that begins with the name of a three-letter body part. Can you find all three words?
1) Military fleet ______ (6 letters)
2) Premature _____ (5 letters)
3) Bawdy in speech ______ (6 letters)