Grills just wanna have fun...

Just received word that my oh-so-very-when-are-you-gonna-go pregnant friend is feeling weird. I've gotta man the phones, in case she doesn't have anyone to watch her three year old if she goes into labor. We went to the outlets today to peruse whatever "Memorial Day sale specials" there were to be had before the crowds got there. Nada. My guess is her little girl-to-be thought, "Okay. Done with shopping. I can come out now..." I think my friend is ready. She's tired of the waddle.

Speaking of Memorial Day sales, we're going to finally go shopping for an outdoor grill! We must be the last people in Southern CA who don't own a grill. We have this wonderful backyard, we *do* enjoy the occasional hot dog and burger (and I like them ribs!!!), and we have beautiful weather. You would think that we'd have a grill by now. Evan claims that we won't use it. Well, it's kind of hard not to use if you don't have it to ignore in the first place. But he finally relented, deciding that this was going to be our Mother's/Father's day gift. Yay! I'm going to throw a teach-us-how-to-use-this-thing party for my BBQ-guru friends. I'll provide the raw meats and marinades, they show me how to not burn my eyebrows off.

We're probably going shopping for this thing on either the best or the worst time to go too...I mean, there's all these "Memorial Day specials," but if everyone else is in the market for a grill, wouldn't they get marked up more than usual? shrug...

I'll keep you posted if we actually make this purchase. I'll also keep you posted if we do the natural gas hookup wrong and our house blows up.