Memorial Day Weekend 2008.

So, Memorial Day Weekend just passed and a lot of things happened. I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I got to play cards with Colin Timmins, we took Hazel to her first San Jose Giants Game with the Family(minus German), I broke the sink and we all got sick. Okay, so let's start.
On Saturday night I went with Lib and John to see the new Indiana Jones. I went with them to the 10:50pm showing and met them there. I came way early, with Brain Age in hand and grabbed a vegan cookie and a diet soda. It was nice. Then Lib and John came and we saw the movie. The trailers were all ones that I have seen, but they had a long one for Kung-Fu Panda which made John Cranston laugh out loud. The part that made him laugh was when a Snow Leopard slams into the panda's belly and as the impact happens the panda, voiced by Jack Black says, "Ske-dooch," then the leopard flies off in the air. John could not stop laughing. He was still laughing into the start of the movie. Well, the movie got into gear and right when Indy puts on his hat the reel busted and the movie stopped. I laughed out loud. In fact, I think it made the experience better. So, that being said, Indiana Jones was pretty weird. It had a lot of potential, but also seemed like Harrison Ford was trying to prove himself...the whole time. He was not as mean and 'tough-love' as he was in the previous films. It was like he pretended he wasn't 62, which really took away from it all. Also...I think that Spielberg needs to let go of aliens. This is his fourth alien film, he did E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and War of the Worlds. Now with Indy, I get that time passed and yes, I missed Connery and Marcus Brody, but seeing Indy and Marien was pretty great but forced and a little contrived.
Okay, happy place. We also took Hazel to her first baseball game this weekend. Well, not her first, but her first with good players. (I have taken her to two Junior High Baseball Games at Pinewood and she had a great time). But this time there was a huge crowd, well, huge for San Jose Giants. Lib, John, Meg and us were all there and if it weren't for Hazel growing her third tooth, yes, she has two already on the bottom center, and now she has her first top tooth growing in, and let me tell you, it has not been an easy process. So yeah, we stayed until the top of the ninth and left. Hazel had had it with the game. She was not a fan at all. After the game went home and I dealt with my new favorite headache. Gerber daisies.
So, prior to the game I told Heather I would clean the kitchen and living room and she would clean the bedroom and the bathroom. So, I thought, I will clean the kitchen first, and in doing that I got the dishes ready on the counter and cleared some space in the sink and got every thing ready for the dishwasher, but before really anything, I decided, on a stupid level, to cut up some dead flowers into small pieces and put them in the disposal. For a bit it sounded okay, a little rocky whirring, but nothing I hadn't heard before. Then....something gross happened. Everything started happening in reverse. The water was coming back up through the drain and it was brown with green gerber daisy stems and then the water created a reverse whirlpool that was actually shooting the water up at me. It was nasty. I called Crockett and he walked me through was was wrong. First he said to get a plunger. That didn't help. Then he told me how to clean the pea-trap. That was my headache. I am actually getting a headache right now just thinking about it. To be continued.