Jeff Billimek’s Journal

Jen and I spent the first part of the day today painting. She bought some paint last weekend to use in the dining room. Today it was time to paint the dining room. I helped out a little but I think it was more than last time.

We had a pretty good time together painting. She did pretty much everything except for moving the ladder and the rolling. She got really good at painting around the trim by the time we were finished.

At first I wasn’t sure what to expect with the color. The color is ‘Fossil Butte’ from Behr. It turned out to be a fantastic fit for the room. Jen and I were both very happy with how the color looks on the wall with the furniture and other things.

Painting took most of the day. During the time that I wasn’t helping Jen, I was sitting at the dining-room table using my laptop and keeping her company. I also logged into work to take care of some things that I wasn’t able to finish on Friday. This took a lot longer than I thought it would but I was happy to get a little caught up.

I also made us some lunch which consisted of a turkey sandwich for Jen and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for myself.

Once the painting was done, we took a shower and got cleaned up and dressed for the party tonight. Before we left the house we also sat down together at the computer and came up with a pretty comprehensive 80’s music playlist to take on Jen’s iPod to the party.

Katie is having a birthday party at her place and it has an ‘80’s‘ theme, so naturally we have to dress up for it. Jen went to a thrift store yesterday and bought me an outfit to wear.

We got dressed and fixed-up to look like a couple from the 80’s and headed out. I was pretty hungry so we stopped at Willy’s on the way in Vinings to have a quick bite to eat.

(This was my outfit for the 80’s party)

When Jen and I arrived at Katie’s house around 7:45pm, Tom and Terry were already there. Tom looked great. He was wearing a Poison concert t-shirt, a head-band, and ripped jeans. Chris was waring a Miami Vice getup which looked great. I think that Katie looked the best though. She looked like one of the ladies straight out of ‘The Running Man‘ which was an excellent movie by the way. She had a pink 80’s looking dress, teased hair, and long black dangling earrings.

(Katie and Chris looking totally 80’s)

Katie had her brand new Canon Powershot camera and took some pictures. I took some pictures with my camera as well. Katie’s camera came with the default 16MB Secure Digital card which only held about ten shots. I used my laptop (which I brought along in my backpack in case I got paged for work) to download the pictures for her so she could take more.

(Lynne sporting slap bracelets)

(Jen and I)

The party was pretty fun. Jen and I brought along some 80’s music on her iPod and hooked it up to the stereo. The music was great. A lot of people showed up, including Jen’s parents.

(A lot of people were at this party)

Jen and I drank mostly sparkling water, but we did eventually turn to some red wine. Dan was drinking some so we had some with him. I spent a little time talking with Scott and Dan outside where it was cooler.

(Katie blowing out the candles on her birthday cake)

Brad showed up sporting a new haircut (which looks much better than before) as well as a girlfriend? None of us could figure out who she was, I don’t think anyone asked Brad.

It got pretty late but I wasn’t tired at all - that surprised me. Usually I’m tired by midnight unless I’m using the computer (somehow I don’t get tired when doing that).

Jen and I left the party around 1am and went home. Jen was tired and went to bed right away. I was still strangely awake and stayed up for a while.