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How Was Your Fourth!?

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How was your Fourth? Mine was fine and nice and relaxing. We did fireworks, had tacos and tequila, watched a very unscary scary movie, did fireworks. Watched fireworks, went to a Fourth party, I slept in this morning until 10:30! I couldn't believe it! Didn't have to babysit for all three days of the long weekend, so I got to actually play and relax and enjoy my Grandbabies - it was a FANTASTIC weekend!

And I didn't get glutened once! I had that seven layer salad - you know that salad with peas and bacon and lettuce - I don't know what all's in it, but I'm going to learn to make it cuz it tasted wonderful to me. At the party, they had pulled pork and brisket with no sauces on it - and a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's whatever it's called, sitting on the table. The party was at one of my friend from high school's house and I thought that was the sweetest thing EVER that she did that, didn't make no big deal out of it. Sweet.

It was all good until we started singing American the Beautiful along with Bon Jovi and that line, "for amber waves of grain" - got a little queazy at that line LOL.

We just now watched the movie 2012. OMG, I thought that movie would NEVER go off. I thought it was an awful movie. Too much action, no real story line, yuk, it didn't like it. And I've been in love with John Cuscack since "go", but that movie was awful.

Well, it's nice - oh, my computer also broke. I used to work for this place that would throw away random parts of random computers, so I'd bring them home and I ended up building my own computer. Built it myself, like a puzzle. So Saturday, I lost my WINDOWS! That's bad! But I've got it going again, for the most part. What did you all do this weekend? Did you have fun? I just want to say, like Popeye, " I yam what I yam".

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kareng Grand Master
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That sounds like fun. We are about to go have our fifth of July. The boys work at a fireworks stand until about1:30am. The owner then has a picnic, with a big mowed lot to shoot fireworks on. Then at dark there is a professional display. It's great!

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I set off kracklers on the street and sidewalk. A woman stopped with her little girl and watched them pop for a bit so that was cool. In DC most every block has people setting of fireworks that are pretty impressive, almost as big as the commercial ones. People just shoot them off in the middle of the street, usually near an intersection. A cop car drove by with an American flag on the back trunk flying high. Another cop stopped traffic up the street a bit while people were shooting off fireworks, pretty neat.

Also drank some Redbridge and some hard cider, plus ate some buffalo burgers. since it was hot I put a tablespoon of Pernod absinthe on top of some Luigis Mango Italian Ice and got rid of it the best way. I ate it! :D

Almost a 100 F today though and the say hotter tomorrow.

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Nice little parade, lovely swimming with cook-out that I brown bagged it to (pancakes and cheese... way better than hot dogs and packaged cookies), and then, sadly, a trip to the ER w/ grandmother after a child knocked her over pretty badly. But as trips to the ER go, not bad, and no major damage.

And I now have a delicious flourless chocolate cake recipe!

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