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Friday morning I woke up thinking I was going to go to some boring sexual harassment training at work in the morning and then I'd try to find something to do for the afternoon by myself. I did go to the boring training, but it was actually more fun because most of our office sat together and cracked jokes the whole time - appropriate jokes, of course! And after our yummy free lunch at the cafe, I got invited to join a group of work friends to go hiking in Laguna. We drove down to Laguna Coast Wilderness Park and took a trail into Little Sycamore Canyon. It was a pretty easy hike, but there was a lake and some nice views and a cool bird (hawk or falcon), and good friends too. Here's one picture, but more can be found at Ruth's Picasa:

We spent the afternoon there and then headed to Michael and Abby's parents-away-from-home's house in Fountain Valley, where they fed us well, we played piano together, and had plenty of conversation.

Saturday morning I had promised Ric I would go on a hike with him, so we went back to the preserve in Whittier. I think we're going to start making this part of the routine, so I'm planning to start posting information about the trails we visit for any of you who might not know about all the resources we have in this area. In the afternoon, I went to see Sunshine Cleaning with my sister at the cheap theater (it's there this week - two bucks for an indie movie!). I came home and relaxed and then headed right back out with Ric for some Flame Broiler and to see Up. Afterward, we drove to Fullerton, bought some cloves for Ric, and went out to the train station to watch some trains.

Sunday we went to church and finally got to see Liz for the first time in a long time, and we all went out to eat at Ruby's for lunch. We spent the afternoon relaxing and then I went to work entering finances on Quicken. We had to do over a lot of stuff because Washington Mutual changed to Chase, which meant we needed to create new usernames, and Quicken wouldn't allow for that, and when all was said and done, we had to re-enter all of our expenses from March to June. Yay. We ended the night on a higher note with The Soup and Rotten Tomatoes (two of shows that inform me while making me laugh a lot). We tried watching the Mental pilot and gave up about 15 minutes in - it feels so dated! Then I watched Kings and the last episode of Pushing Daisies (talk about a packed last 30 seconds), both of which the networks, thankfully, decided to finish airing for those of us who actually followed them.

Oh yeah. Updates on things at home: the new kitten's name is Ellie. She has a black patch over her eye, and Darryl Hannah plays the chick with an eye patch in Kill Bill named Elle. We also love Elliott from Scrubs, so we thought the name could refer to both of them - more Elliott than Elle, probably. Also, I got my results from my neck and shoulder MRI, which showed nothing special. I get to keep working on physical therapy, and when I'm done with that if the pain is still bad, they'll try cortisone. Same old story, unfortunately!

Up this week: Sound of Music musical on Wednesday (for me), Brendan's birthday on Thursday, a possible trip to Disneyland with Liz, and on Saturday I take off for a week in the Pacific Northwest with Erika. Wohoo! Summer is in full swing.