I’m off all this week, so I decided I’d meet Carolyn after her work and take her out to dinner [licks finger and crosses off mucho brownie points in air].

We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant and had some good food. Carolyn got a coffee with alcohol in it, I decided to foreo my usual margarita and try their mojito. I asked for one and noticed the waiter staring intently at me.

“You’re going to card me aren’t you?”

He said yes, so I pulled out my Moleskine wallet doohickey and showed him my ID, I punched the air, “YES!”

“He didn’t card me,” Carolyn said, “You’re married to an old woman!”

I, of course said NOTHING.

I am off this week, continuing to empty the storage of all the boxes and get stuffed packed away in our new house. Looking at the walls in the office over my desk, mmm, I have some Houdini posters, but maybe something different.

How about: Hattori Hanzo BRIDE & BILL Sword Set w/ Stand

or some movie and TV show related props: TV & movie Replicas

maybe

But I’m sure once Carolyn hears my ideas it will be: Wall Decoration probably the “Man’s Mind Sign!”

I want this though, after getting run down on a crosswalk by a driver who didn’t see me!

I guess I should pull out the Houdini posters!

By the way all this stuff is available from King of Sword at swords, a crap load of awesome stuff for every need, needs stun guns? They got ‘em, check them out.

If you blog about them you get free stuff too: blog contest.

Carolyn and I got up early today and took off on the bus, a local mall had a new section open up and they added a huge multiplex cinema. The cinema still had construction going on but they opened some of their screens.

We saw Batman The Dark Knight, enjoyed it a lot, I like these darker versions of Batman rather than the earlier films. We also saw the trailer for James Bond, Quantum of Solace due out in November.

The cinema was plush and every seat was a large comfy love seat. What got me was all the people enthusing about the restrooms, some even dragged their friends in to see.

The hand driers in the restrooms are the new Dyson Airblades,you slide you hand in between the two sides and a stream of air blows the water off your hands, works great too. 

So what with automatic flushing, soap dispensing, water and hand drying you never need touch anything in the restrooms, handy if you’re sharing popcorn.

We are at the state in the new place where we are putting up pictures, shadow boxes and other wall doodads. Carolyn pointed to the space behind the large sectional couch we have, “How about an artificial fern behind there?”

“Good idea, or a fake palm tree?”

“Yes,” she replies.

“With a monkey sitting up the tree.”

“We could do that.”

“Really? Mmmm,” I see her eyes start to roll, “A talking monkey,” she looks at me.

“A monkey that shits on the heads of unwanted guests?”

I get the full look and know what it means,

Dern spoilsport! 

We have barely moved into our new place and already we are both looking for stuff to spruce it up. Our mismatched old stuff just doesn’t cut it anymore. We are looking at coordinated furniture, new curtains, mats, some nice bookcases.

We even have space now for outside patio furniture for when we use the barbecue.

Next thing you know we’ll have real plants too instead of plastic ones

But I must admit everything does look good, being new.

We are both loving having a new washer and dryer, we can get stuff washed as and when we like at anytime. Although I think I need more clothes hangers than the wife, I have 35 - 40 short-sleeved shirts.

I’ve been searching the Shirley of Hollywood site as one does er, um well. I suggested to Carolyn that I wanted to buy her something and after some thought she directed me to the above site to check out the lingerie. Dang I love that woman!

I was looking at the school girl costumes, but I don’t think the wife would appreciate those and I have to admit they don’t do as much for me as some of the other items.

Maybe a French maid. He he decisions decisions, this might take a while. Maybe I’ll get something for me too (from the men’s section!)

As we pack more boxes and move them to the storage lockers while we wait for the new place to get finished, I am surprised how much stuff we have stashed away in closets and on shelves.

I have books in every nook and cranny and Carolyn has tons of jewelry boxes that contain rings, earrings, gold chains and all manner of trinkets. I am surprised she can find any piece of jewelry what with so many boxes to hunt through.

We have a few unopened boxes from several moves ago! Time to throw some stuff out methinks.

Next week we should be moved and in our new place and I am looking forward to getting it set-up and how we want it. The office will be a lot more efficient and spacious than what we have now.

Yesterday I was working on the computer here at home, Carolyn had gone with her friend after work to pick up some stuff from the store. I was thinking about my wife and decided to send her a text message. If her phone isn’t in the pouch on her belt she tucks it in her bra and has it on vibrate so I like to buzz her with a message.

We text each other a lot and send little love notes and other stuff all throughout the day.

Anyway I wrote a very strong text message, I’m talking leave nothing to the imagination very naughty message that I was sure would color her face and make her flustered.

I didn’t get any response and wondered if she had the phone in her purse and didn’t feel it vibrate.

Tangent: My phone is a flip phone and I have it set so after flipping it open I can see who is calling before answering. Carolyn has a slider phone and hers is set to answer a call or open a text message when she slides it open.

off-tangent.

She came home with her friend and her friend was smiling, when she left I asked Carolyn if she got the message. She smiled and told me that she had just handed her phone to her friend to use just as my message came in. I could feel my face color when she told me that!

Her friend said “This message is from your husband, I stopped reading it,” as she handed her the phone.

Dang, I felt like booking a royal caribbean cruise and going to bury my heads in the sand on some beach somewhere.

Carolyn’s friend who is in the process of divorcing the dingbat of a husband she has said that she wished her husband would send her messages and treated her like I treat my wife.

Still, I am glad it wasn’t the mother-in-law or one of the kids who saw the message!