It’s Sunday, time to relax and watch some football and eat a chicken Lauren is roasting!

Saturday was quite the busy day for me.  I was up early at 6:13 to go to work for the annual inventory count.  18 people showed up and we counted $10M + worth of inventory over three hours.  This consisted of me and my partner Pete going through sheets of serial numbers and reading off actual product serial numbers to check off the list.  We also counted 4,341 non-serialized “starter kits” amongst other things.

I was finishing up around 10:05 and rushed home to pick up Lauren and race up to Plymouth to see another wedding venue, The Reserve.  If you recall, I actually DJ’d a dance there this summer.  We had a 10:30 appointment, but I didn’t even arrive home to pick up Lauren until 10:38.  We were very late for our appointment, but it didn’t seem to be a problem and we were shown the facility.  So far, best we’ve seen.

After that, we ate lunch at Quang’s, a popular neighborhood Vietnamese place.  Even though it’s just two blocks from us, it was the first time we’ve tried it.  Maybe that has something to do with the fact that there are probably a dozen Vietnamese restaurants in a two-block radius?  We were very impressed and left satisfied, then crossed the street to the ethnic grocery store where they proudly display dead animals with heads still in tact in the windows.  They sell every part of the animal.  There were even displays of beef hooves and pork hearts.

We stopped at home for no more than ten minutes, and were back out the door to the Northrup King Building to visit distant relatives Craig Bell and his daughter Meghan, who are both local artists.  It was a huge open-house at this studio which is home to several hundred artists.  We spent an hour walking around just the third floor.  I thought Craig’s work was among the best and most interesting I saw.  Craig and Meghan (and family) were glad to see us and sent their regards to the family back home.

Next we went to Target to buy a baster and finish our gift registry.  We got a little scanner-happy in the kitchen appliance department.  So if anyone wants to follow in the footsteps of Lauren’s Texas uncle and get us an engagement present, the registry is live on target.com!  On the way home from Target we swung off at The Bulldog for a couple pints of Belgian lager.  We had a merry time chatting and killing another hour before finally heading home.

At night, we invited Tim and Kate over to watch the Timberwolves and Wild games on TV.  I fell asleep on the couch around 11 while entertaining guests, dead tired after my long day.  Bad day for Minnesota sports… the Wolves lost in Portland, the Wild lost in Vancouver, and the Gophers lost at home to Michigan.  I’m not holding out a ton of hope for the Vikings to end that streak today vs. the Packers.

Be on the lookout for a new Mom Column, which I hope to have posted on RyanGlanzer.com tonight, in which she tells us about annoying local radio programs in South Dakota.