I spent most of the day cleaning my house, running the dishwasher, doing laundry and generally picking up. I keep my place very neat and tidy but when I know someone’s coming over, I do an extra good job of getting the dust off the furniture. I have dark furniture and the dust always shows. I can dust my house at 10:00 in the morning and by 2:00 I can see dust again. Must be the dark furniture. Before cleaning the house I went ot Giant to get all the items I needed to create my usual pasta dinner. I got everything done and had time to take a little nap before the guests showed up.

Brad and I had Sam and Mark over for dinner. They decided to get their passports validated and come out to the suburbs. I cooked my usual pasta dinner with bread and salad. I had way too much salad. I made Brad take it home because he knows I won’t eat it since I don’t eat fruits or veggies. We had a nice dinner and some great conversation. Sam and Mark told us about their trip to Puerto Rico. They brought a CD full of pictures they had taken. I, of course, got out my 17″ PowerBook and quickly created a slide show for us to watch. In a matter of minutes, iPhoto was showing us the dazzling pictures of their trip. I was trying to convince Mark how great Apple is. After the slide show, I opened Safari and brought up my web page to show Mark the wireless ability of my laptop. I’m not sure it amazed him but I loved it. While watching the slideshow, I realized Puerto Rico is beautiful. I’ll have to make a mental note to go there sometime. After watching the slide show, we had Mark’s delicious pineapple upside down cake for dessert. We talked about movies. We shared what our favorites are and which oscar nominees we’ve seen. Then Brad shared an article from The Economist about the gay marriage debate. Sam and Mark told us they would be flying out to San Francisco next week to get married. I told them they’d have to take lots of pictures and tell us all about it when they get back. After more conversation, Sam and Mark decided it was time to go. Brad took them back to the Metro. We had a very nice visit. Sam and Mark are great guys and they are good friends to Brad. He’s a lucky guy to have them as friends.

Then Brad came back and stayed over with me. He was so tired. Poor thing has had a tough week at work and hasn’t been sleeping well. He probably should have gone home and tried to get a good night sleep at his place but he stayed and I enjoyed having him next to me while I slept.