But not a real green dress, that's cruel

I am so happy Cas and I had a very good weekend.  The Monday I am having at work is a little more tolerable because of the very excellent weekend we had.

On Friday, I went out for a little bit after work with some other teachers.  I didn't stay long, though.  Cas and I had a nice, quiet evening at home.  Earlier in the day, a friend of mine mentioned that the Barenaked Ladies were playing Saturday at a place in Carrollton called The Switchyard.  Evidently, Carrollton does an outdoor festival there every year, and this year, the headliners were a band I love.  When I mentioned this to Cas, we immediately made plans to go.

Of course, we heard the classics.  We heard If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd buy you a green dress
But not a real green dress, that's cruel.

I kept inviting people to come with us, but as it turns out, nobody wanted to go.  It was for the best, anyhow.  We had a really great date night.  And the show was amazing.  Cas and I had seen the Barenaked Ladies a few years ago- the same week as Dan and Laurie's wedding, in fact.  The overwhelming feeling we both had was that it was really great to watch a band who is having a lot of fun playing music.  They have more fun than any band I know.  They have a great time.

It was a beautiful night and the weather was perfect.  The show was great, and as a bonus, it was really easy to get in and out of the venue.  We just took a train to the park, then we took a train back to the car . Perfect.  

I am holding on to a lovely weekend today as I teach classes in the library.  My classroom was flooded again.  I don't even understand how this is happening.  They supposedly fixed the roof.  Who lets a roof leak recur with that frequency over the top of a computer lab?  I mean, honestly?  Not only is that careless, but it's stupid.  I spent the first 30 minutes of my day today trying not to cry.  

Okay- that's it.  I am good, now.  I have officially gotten it all off my chest.  

Back to work.  I'm doing a lesson about job interviews and first impressions today.  Blegh.  It wasn't my first choice, but then again, it's really hard to teach kids to make vector graphics with no technology...

The first 100 days

I had this little countdown app on my phone that would tell me before July 27th how many days until my wedding.  I even put the little picture of a bride, a groom and a palm tree on the app so it would be all cute.  Cas liked it so much that he had me send him the image for the last few days before our wedding so he could include it in his photo album.  It was pretty cute.  

Turns out, when you pass the date you were counting down to, the app starts counting up.  That's how I know I have been Mrs. Dunlap for 99 days.  We are also staring down the barrel of a presidential election, and a lot of candidates like to make promises about what they would do with the first 100 days.  I thought this was a good opportunity to recap.  Cas and I have nearly had our first 100 days.  So far, so good.

We came home. 

We had the world's most unique reception weekend.  

We spend the last weekend before school floating down a river on an inner tube.

We went to a wedding in Duluth

We had birthdays.  One each.  

We learned a lot of Spanish

We went on a sky coaster

We beat an escape room

We did some rather dull, adult-y things, too.  We've compared medical insurance policies and I have gone through about a half dozen name change procedures with different organizations and state agencies.  

But, as far as the first 100 days ago, I think we are doing pretty well.

Much ado

Whew.  Last time I got on here and wrote anything, it was the day Cas and I went to the fair.  That's been a minute.  Since then, I had three evaluations at work, held a DTR application writing session at my house, put a newspaper to bed, went to a party at Laura's house, had dinner with Cas Sr. and Anne and handed out some candy on Halloween.  I have either got to get back into writing this blog or abandon it entirely.  To be determined...

But no matter, things are going swimmingly.  Cas and I went to an escape room on Saturday.  Actually, we had kind of a huge day Saturday.  We got up and put on our very most American T shirts.  His had Mount Rushmore on it, and mine was from The Smithsonian.  We went to our local public library and voted a week and a half early, then we went out for a very American meal- a hamburger.  We even went to a very patriotic restaurant- Liberty Burger.  After that, we had to go get oil changes.  Kind of a let down from the excitement of the morning, but we do it right.  We drop off our cars at the place, cross the street and sit on a patio drinking margaritas until the vehicles are ready.  It's really the best method I have found for waiting out service on the car.

After such a big morning (and some margaritas...) we took a nap and got up just in time to make our appointed time at the escape room.  I had never been to one before, and neither had Cas.  You have to solve clues and open locks to uncover an answer to a mystery, which, when solved, will allow you to escape the room.  Ours was a medical mystery.  We had to discover patient zero in a deadly pathogen outbreak and figure out where he got it.  From that, we could decide which of the possible antidotes would work, then we could rejoin (and presumably cure) the world outside.

It was pretty fun, and they had a photo op at the end.  Of course.

Today, Cas and I have something decidedly less fun- his cousin passed away last week, and there is a viewing at the funeral home this evening.  I already wrote to our Spanish teacher and let her know we would be missing class today, so everything is all set.  I just have to get home and change clothes really quickly after work.  Not fun, but I want to go for Cas.  He probably doesn't need me there, but I am pretty sure he wants me there.