Sunday morning

Exciting night last night. We managed to set our burglary alarm off twice. We didn't get the basement door completely closed and around 2:00am it came open (I think with the help of a cat - but no one is claiming responsibility). The police were called and they did a check up on the house. This morning, there was a bright green notice on our door that said they visited. I had the phones forwarded to voice mail so we never even got a call. Then I was awakened again at 6:30 with the alarm going off. It sucked. At least now I have the police number on our fridge door so I don't have to go looking it up.

We went to Friendly's this morning for breakfast. As we were leaving I got a call from Sean. He wanted me to see if I could find where his old girlfriend was working. I'm not really sure how I would go about doing that. I can usually find where people are living now, but work is a different story. At any rate, she is married now and has a child. I told him that I didn't think it was a good idea to contact her. She was the one that cut off communications with Sean. I'm sure she had her reasons. It's probably a case that she has a family now and her husband doesn't feel comfortable with her writing to Sean. I can understand that. I just hope I can convince Sean to let it go.

It's a beautiful day today. It's 60 degrees out, and to use that seems like spring! To celebrate, I'm in my short-sleeve Hawaiian shirt. I want to encourage it all I can, and it's my small way of saying "Spring, get here already!!". We are having Brandi, Jeremy, and Nicholas over today around 4:00pm. It will be nice to catch up with them again. We've all been so busy and Kent has been traveling so much that we haven't seen each other in well over a month now. We are going to have filet mignon, bernaise sauce, green salad, green beans... ok ok I'll stop. I know I'm going on now about stuff that no one in their right minds would care about.

We went to see the opera Salome by Richard Strauss last night. Of course, a very bloody and totally gross opera dealing with deception, death, necrophilia, etc... Needless to say, Salome had issues! We went with Greg and Mona. It was nice to see them again. Greg is recovering from knee surgery. After we got home, we had a dessert that Mona prepared, with tea. As background music, we listened to Richard Strauss (Ein Heldenleben)... yes, somewhat heavy for background music. We lightened it up with herb tea though. Finally got to bed around 1:00am.

That's all for now. Let's hope we aren't at war by the time I make my next entry.

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