It's officially warm...

Well I'm sitting here on my lunch break and trying to remember any highlights for the past day or two...

I would say the single biggest thing that's changed is that its officially hot now. :-) We've been at, or near, 110 all of this week and they are predicting that the monsoons will be late - so no relief in sight. I heard the first cicadas of the year yesterday though. For those of you who don't know what they are, I think this is an article about them on Wikipedia (click here). The reason I say I think is because Wikipedia seems to be down at the moment and so I can't verify that's right. That is what came up from Google though, and we all know we trust Google. ;-)

I played tennis for the first time in ages last night - so that was good... I think. I'm surprisingly not sore today - but I'm sure that will hit tomorrow. Hopefully, I can play more often - I need it. No, not because I'm putting on weight (in fact I've lost a few pounds this past month - down to about 152 - yikes). Plus, it seemed to help me sleep better.

Oh, and here's a bit of news. I get to go to Orlando in October! I booked tickets from Southwest for a trip out there for the 2nd weekend in October. I fly out Friday and back in on Monday. Its a short and sweet trip but should be fun. I haven't seen my grandmother from out there in quite awhile and I can always use a weekend away from the Valley.

Other than that - nothing new to speak of...

Raw Fish...

Seared Ahi tuna salad... w/ avocado... I'd ask you to wish me luck... but... well you know. At least I have my sake in case I have to *choke it down*... Oh, and the Suns are down three points according to the telly. :*(

Moandays... lovely Moandays

Mondays are always kind of a pain. The week shows back up and, without so much as a hello, plops itself back in your lap. Oh well such is life.

I better finish off my weekend update first, huh? Let's take the tour, shall we?

Suns
Well, as you know (from the posts below) the Suns game was good... but not so good. They lost by 3 points... close enough to make it a good game (my voice took a good 12 hours to recover)... but far enough to make them lose.

And we're walking....

Dinner
We went to Elephant Bar to grab food... in addition to the beer I mentioned we had calamari and I had a smokehouse or stackhouse or something sandwhich. Good stuff... grilled chicken breast covered with ham, and I think bacon, and lots of cheese... and covered in hickory sauce. :-9 (That must be where the stack thing comes in)

Here are some better pictures of the resturant, and click here for their locations in Phoenix, Chandler, and Peoria.







And we're walking....

Sunday
Let's see what happened on Sunday...

I went to Sunday meeting with friends at their hall in Phoenix, instead of my hall's. (I forgot mine was moved to 9am and so when I pulled an hour late, I decided it might as well catch the whole meeting somewhere else). Turned out it was the CO's visit so that made seating fun. :) But I saw some people there from way back... (James Cassell from when we were in Payson - that's because Tiffany and Johnathan are in that hall - and then I saw Barbara... used to be Smith before she got married... can't remember her name now... the one who played paino... not that it makes me partial or anything, lol)

And we're walking...

Lunch
After that we (Jill, Catie, Emily, and I) went to Houston's (in downtown Scottsdale - not the one in the Biltmore dist.) for lunch... good stuff. (to visit their site, pick Houston's on the Hillstone restaurant group's site here, to see locations on Google maps click here) I had some type of breaded chicken/avocado/spinach something salad. Very good.

And that's it... I think... oh wait...

Let's see then I went and did my salsa lesson and dancing on Sunday night and that was it.

And we're walking...

Today... not much happened today... I did get a call from someone who is interested in buying my Acura off of me. So, I'm supposed to meet him tomorrow and he'll take a look at it. Now just to remember to drive the Acura instead of that loverly Mazda.... :-D

Oh, and I might be getting sick. Sore throat when I left work, got worse at meeting, and not so hot now... (Yes, I doped up -- to all of my collective mother's out there) So, let's see how it goes...
Ciao ~