Saturday, my dad gifted us with 4 tickets to the Ohio State - Indiana game since he couldn't go, so we invited two great Columbus friends, Catherine and Mamta, to go with us. It was a gorgeous sunny day and the game began at noon, so we parked at Mamta's house in the Victorian village and walked to a pizza place for lunch before the game. On the way we discussed costumes for Mamta's upcoming Halloween party; Catherine and her friend are going as video game characters from Katamari, an obscure Japanese game with rainbows, cows, and a sticky rolling ball. Dorian loves the happy little game, so we might have to join them. Otherwise, we are considering a couple costume, like the Princess Bride, or something from our honeymoon (monkey and tiger?).
Ohio State obviously crushed the Hoosiers, so we all decided to leave at the end of the third quarter, when the score was 40-3, especially since Mamta was planning to drive to Chicago to visit her boyfriend that day. Afterwards, Wombat and I headed to Home Depot to quickly spend one of the gift cards from our wedding on our very needy house. We picked up a rake, a gardening gloves, pruners, and replacement light bulbs. We also stopped by Bed, Bath, and Beyond (with gift cards) to pick up some kitchen supplies and ran into Cousin Jeff and Liz with Justin and Colin. It was Justin's third birthday, so he was very happy, but going through a shy stage. Jeff tried to get him to tell us how old he was, but ended up tickling him instead to get him to make any noise at all haha.
By the time we got home, I was tired, so we made dinner and decided to take it easy and watch more college football. Wombat is such a UW fan that he actually went to BW3's to watch the UW game at 10:30 pm; I went to bed. UW lost. Wombat was sad.
Sunday was gorgeous so we worked outside most of the day; Wombat cleaned the gutters, I weeded the garden, we both pruned and made a brush pile. We also planned an attack on the Elder Box bugs that suddenly appeared on the front of our house (the sunny side) on Friday afternoon. They swarmed our house in the hundreds, trying to find a winter burrow in our shutters, siding, garage door, and front door. Wombat had fun sucking them up with the wet-vac (leftover from the previous week's basement flood) and drowning them by sucking up a gallon of water with them. It was interesting until we realized we could no longer use the front door, as so many would dart in if we opened it to let out Jack, or more importantly, greet the neighbors that we invited to visit for cookies and cider. We planned to call a exterminator Monday morning but then.......they disappeared! I don't want to think about where they might be......we'll just put it on hold for now and buy a new light fixture instead.
Monday, Wombat made a last minute decision, with my encouragement, to drive to NYC after lunch in order to surprise his best friend, and one of his best men, at his hastily scheduled court-house marriage ceremony. This friend was engaged the day returned from our honeymoon after dating his sweetheart for several years, partially because he just obtained a JAG position in Korea and I suspect he really wanted to take his live-in girlfriend with him. Anyway, Wombat made it and successfully surprised them Monday night, which worked out well since he took the groom out for some final bachelor drinks while the bride graded papers. They were hitched on Tuesday morning as planned, and Wombat celebrated with them over lunch before heading to the hospital to visit his grandma, who has not been doing well. She was thrilled to see him, but unfortunately he could not stay long, since it was beginning to be rush hour and he had to make the drive back to Ohio. Since he left during rush hour, the 9 hour drive ended up taking 12 hours, and he came home at 5:15 am, just in time for me to get up and leave for my CLE conference in Columbus.
While he was gone, however, I had very productive evenings and I managed to strip the wallpaper in both the kitchen and the bathroom, huzzah! I also hung the large painting that my step-dad gave us over the stairwell, but got distracted from taping the walls (in preparation for painting) by 4 neighbor children that decided I was the youngest new person in the neighborhood and needed to provide their entertainment for the evening. They were really nice and REALLY talkative, and I enjoyed them until it got dark and felt I should walk them home.
Anyway, now that we have neighbor friends, neighbor bugs, and ugly stripped walls, we are going to spend tonight visiting the County Fair for the Combine Demolition Derby! I can't wait to show Wombat how cool Lancaster is. Til then, cheers!
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