Blogger at it Again

I am not getting email notifications when someone has commented -again.
I went in and did the same thing to the settings as last time but it is not working.
Aargh! If anyone has an answer I would appreciate it if you can share.

I had a wonderful weekend.
Saturday we brought the dog to daycare and little did she know she was spending the night. yippee for the humans!

We went to see Keb Mo in concert. It was a wonderful show. 
Just the man on a stool singing and playing his guitar. It was great!
The venue opens at 5pm. We got there at 4:45pm. 
The line was very long. They let us in at precisely 5pm
You go to the box office and get a number just like at the deli.

Then you go into a huge room of tables and a bar along with a store to buy the goodies from the show. T-shirts and the like.
Rick went to stand in line to get us a bottle of red. 
A glass is $9 or a bottle at $29. 
2 glasses a piece is more than a bottle so what the hell.

I went to a bar table and asked the man if anyone was sitting there.
Apparently, he was blind and told me I could sit there because it was saved for pretty women. Oh please.
The old coot had a book so you'd have thought he'd open it.
But he talked my ear off the moment my butt hit the chair.
Even after Rick came and sat down with the bottle and glasses he just kept talking. Rick kicked me under the table.
I dared not look at him or I'd laugh I just knew it. 

I didn't want to be rude but he wouldn't stop talking. He's an economist you know. He told me that several times.  Finally, his friends arrived. Whew. He got up and left the table. I do seem to attract these goofy people. Rick says I have a sign over me that says I am friendly and that I'll be nice to everybody. But what the hell was I to do? Tell him to shut up? I couldn't do that. But I didn't encourage conversation either. I just nodded a lot. When Rick was ribbing me about this later I said, "you know he could live alone and this was a conversation he needed to have. He may not have had human contact all week."  He did tell me he lived alone without me asking. Rick just shakes his head at me. But ya'll would have done the same, wouldn't you? He seemed to be a harmless old man.

They began to call the numbers at 5:45p. We got up to the gentleman and Rick gave him our number and I showed him our tickets on my phone. Then we go inside and find a table. This is dinner and drinks. 
We ate before we left because I know there is nothing at this kind of place that I can eat. So while those at our table ate things that smelled so yummy, we drank our wine. Then the show starts at 7:30p.

It was perfection. 
After the show, we left Alexandria and headed back out to our place.
We stopped at our favorite neighborhood haunt and bellied up to the bar. 
We had a cappuccino and dessert. This little Italian joint has the best cappuccinos I have ever had. The machine takes up 1/4 of the bar and I bet it is quite expensive. But I'd make room for it if I could afford such a luxury and have one of these cappuccinos every day. Mmm.....
They also have a flourless chocolate cake and a rum cake that Rick loves. So we enjoyed our late night dessert and coffee.
They close at 11pm and we left at 10:58 along with all the diners in the restaurant. Perfect end to a perfect evening.

We knew that we couldn't leave Izzy for that long. Nor did we wish to hurry back. But the best part was that we could sleep in past 5am. 
Or so we thought. 
At exactly 5AM I was awake. I looked at the clock and thought NOooo.  
Rick rolled over and said, "you too?" 
I mumbled I am making myself go back to sleep. And we did for 1 hour.
Then we rolled over and were looking at one another and burst out laughing.
So it's time to get up. But I am not walking & I don't have to look good for public consumption. That is a vacation right there.

We made coffee and went out on our patio and sat on the sofa and enjoyed the morning.  It was so nice to be lazy. It was a beautiful morning as well. Look I love that fur baby but I admit not being up at 5am with someone who is so damn happy and excited to see the world was rather nice. I'll get there but for the love of God, not at 5am.

We got to wake up slowly. We sat on that outdoor sofa and just had a mellow morning. I didn't even mind those annoying birds chirping. 
At 8:30am I made a quick breakfast outside on the grill. We sat outside and ate our breakfast with another cup of coffee when the young neighbor on the left came outside - I heard his door open and I looked over. 
He yelled to his wife so we could hear him -
"don't come out here they are doing it again!"    
We laughed. He said good morning and said, "I'm heading to McDonald's for breakfast and I walk out to this wonderful smelling bacon and breakfast again You guys kill me". 
Rick told them they need to get up earlier and join us. They normally sleep in until 11am and stay up way past the hour we old folks go to bed. 
He said the dog got him up this morning and they couldn't go back to sleep. We knew when we got home they had company on the deck. We heard them laughing from our bedroom. So they were up far later than we old coots.

Then last night I broke this tool thingy of Rick's that was in the kitchen.
Oops. I showed him what I did. Oh, he was not happy. He was grumbling.
I know how he is about his tools. He was muttering and trying to put this back together. Then he looked up and said, "Oh Honestly Margaret!" with such frustration.
I said, "I know, I know, why do you even put up with me?"
"Because you make me laugh."

Good answer, good answer buddy.