Another three-day weekend

First order of business: my team may have lost the Super Bowl, but at least I don't live in Pittsburgh. (BURN!)

Yes, I became a fan the minute my boss informed us that we didn't have to go to work on Monday, as he wasn't interested in hearing all the excuses as to why we wouldn't be there. Of course I had to ask if the new policy applied to employees who weren't necessarily planning to watch the game and he just looked at me like I was stupid. Gift horses and all that.

And then I actually ended up watching the game (until the Seattle quarterback made that fumble (which then turned out not to be a fumble) because I CANNOT TAKE THE SUSPENSE OH MY GOD) all afternoon. Phillip went to an actual Super Bowl party, but I watched it with Blondie who was specifically interested in laughing herself sick over commercials. I didn't even see the commercial with the cell phone with "crime deterrent", but it was my favorite just because Blondie's retelling was that hilarious.

It happened to be SUNNY on Sunday, which meant that Blondie was forced to walk around the lake with me (this was before the game, and every third person was wearing a Seahawks jersey.) She arrived late afternoon on Saturday and I pretty much had to stash her at my house with the television remote and head off to the Church Dinner. Then she left Sunday evening. It was a short time, but we packed in as much catching up as possible. I didn't know Blondie at all before I lived with her for 3 weeks in China and I've only seen her once since then, when we were wearing purple dresses at a summer wedding, but I've never had such an easy and comfortable insta-friend and we had such a great time. She'll be living stateside next year and I am SO EXCITED. Do you KNOW how much wine we're going to drink?

I have a couple other posts brewing in the Personal Website Cauldron, but they need to stew a while. I have a lot of thoughts on the Church Dinner, but they need to be drastically edited. (Overall conclusion: it was ten kinds of awesome.) I made 4 pans of eggplant parmesan this weekend- I could write about that. Sooo interesting. I have 400 things to do this week and I might be going to Texas for the weekend, so we'll see what gets posted. (I hear it is dry there? Pray tell, help me remember what it is like to be dry.) Oh, and I have a test- A TEST- on Thursday. Gak.

Comments

[jackie]

Texas? Really?

[lee]

while you are there please do me a favor and mess with it, i'm curious to see what happens.