rainy Friday

so i'm at work in body and that's about it.  it's rainy and my house is dirty.  granted, the dog doesnt mind, and she's the one who's there most out of the 3 of us, but i do.  my bathroom and the kitchen are in desperate need of attention, so much so that i might actually not put it off this weekend and scrub that toilet and shower.  boo.
we have become quite the social butterflies, carlitos and i.  tonight we have been invited to a friend's 30th bday bbq.  guests were asked to bring side dishes or desserts.  if i can find room on the counters amidst the dirty dishes (and if it hasn't gone bad already), i think i will cut up the pinapple i bought at sam's last week and take it.  it is well below my usual dish-bringing show off standards, but it's also something that does not require me to go to the store after work and i'm sure it will be well-recieved.  if not, i'll just bring it back home and eat it myself.  tomorrow we will be doing a crab boil.  our new friends, jeremy and kelly, are from upper new york and have introduced us to fun new food.  jeremy and charles did well at a poker game last weekend and decided to spend their winnings on snow crab that was on sale at dillons.  so now i have 10 pounds of pinky crab legs in my big freezer in the garage.  being inexperienced in the fine art of crab anything, i asked jeremy what one would typically pair with crab to make a meal.  "butter, lots of butter.  and maybe a little salt.  but mostly butter." was his reply.  i pressed further and he started naming off fancy things like seafood stuffed mushroom caps and many other things that sound fancy and involve more seafood but i can't remember any of them.  anyway, the overall theme was more seafood (and butter).  so i found a couple of interesting recipes that i will try, one being lobster cakes.  and i like bacon-wrapped bbq shrimp, so i'm going to do that too.  or perhaps just ax the lobster cakes and save money and just do the shrimp and some potatos or something.  who knows.  sunday i'm just planning to lay around having gas after eating all the craziness today and tomorrow.  should be fun.
i have the dog a bath yesterday, well, actually a shower.  she was not a fan - but she smells better at least. 
charles will leave for school in a week and a half.  i'm not looking forward to it but plan to try to keep pretty busy.  i will be starting a fairly large landscaping project hopefully this weekend.  once that is complete i will look inside the house and see what sort of mischief i can handle in there. 
it is generally acknowledged in our house that we can assume that charles will be leaving for deployment towards the end of the summer, by choice.  he will make sandcastles for 1 year.  it's lame, but it is what it is.  mostly i'm not really dealing with it yet.  i will be sad, he will leave, i will be much more sad, then i will go through the usual stages of the separation process and will eventually settle into my new routine.  mostly i just want to be pregnant before he leaves.  even knowing that i could go through it 99% alone and 100% without my husband, i know that i will be 1,000,000 times more upset about him leaving if i am not pregnant when he does.  but alas, i am not the puppet master in this show, and here i sit.  so hopefully my sonograms and various associated proddings will get me all fixed up before he gets back from school.