lots done in seven days.

What an exciting week this has been! Lots of catching up to do it would seem.
Last week was Heather's birthday, so I went down to Pullman to visit for the weekend. We had such a good time! I haven't been down to see her since last summer, so just hanging out in general was good, but then we were invited to help bottle wine at the local winery, Merry Cellars. What an experience! I set up, filled, corked, cleaned, foiled, and boxed bottles of wine. I enjoyed the corking the most, even if my arm and hand were very sore the following day. But this didn't stop me from going back again!
Since I spent most of my time on the corker, I ended up with severely purple hands, because it occurs before the bottles are wiped down. I guess they call it "getting caught purple handed" and are talking about making a T-shirt about it. My hands finally unstained the last little bit yesterday morning, just to demonstrate how purple my hands were. And for every half day shift we got to take home a bottle of wine, so I ended up with almost $70 worth of delicious wine. Plus we were allowed to sample what we were bottling. The owners puppy did a little sampling of his own when we weren't looking. Apparently he was licking wine off the floor and got himself drunk the first night that I was helping. He was obviously not feeling well the next day, and slept all morning in his crate.
On top of the amazing wine experience Heather and I got some of her wedding stuff going. We worked on her playlists (at least got a start on it), had lunch with Molly (a fellow bridesmaid I had not yet met), and talked about bridesmaid dresses. Hopefully we'll get the chance to try some on soon, so we can have an idea what the dresses we're considering will look like on us. Pictures online never quite do it justice. We also played a lot of Lego Harry Potter, like the awesomely cool kids that we are.
I've spent the rest of this last week working on my Father's Day present for John. I told him not to expect another gift after this, because there is no way I could ever top this one. A friend and customer of ours from the Bagelshop used to be a judge, and started the paperwork for me for an adult adoption. That's right, I asked John to adopt me this morning. So now papers are in-motion, and once we get the more formal forms and a court appearance, we will finalize it. Mind you, it's really just making official what already was, but it was still wonderful.