I’ve been all of content and dreaming I have been. That means, yes, that I’ve had a busy weekend. Friday night we (Keisha and myself) headed out on a date, which included a nice dinner at home, a trip to the mall for Halloween nick-knackery, a trip to Coldstone for ice cream, a trip to the Book & Music Exchange for looksies, a trip to Wal*Mart for more Halloween ideas, and finally a trip back home, where, exhausted, I fell into a lengthy bit of slumber while Keisha watched old episodes of The Nanny on Nick. And that’s just Friday.
Saturday we kidnapped Keisha’s 7-almost-8 year old brother and brought him with us as we ran around and painted the town. Actually we met up with some new friends and watched Where the Wild Things Are and then went to Real Mexican Hacienda for some delicioso food. As the evening waned, we all headed o’er to Stewartland and carved pumpkins and other things well into the night. Fun times there.
Sunday was church. As I mentioned a few weeks ago (but never really followed up on), my Sunday School class has been working on a series titled Interrupted. This led us to volunteer at a local homeless shelter, and since then we’ve been hosting a service there on the second and fourth Sunday’s of the month. Yesterday was the fourth Sunday, thus we had a service. Then we went to our church service, followed by an afternoon of Wii (still with my brother-in-law) and sleepiness, followed with an evening church service, followed with me falling, once again, into a lengthy bit of slumber.
On the surface, it may seem like a very busy weekend, and it was. It wasn’t one of those weekends that are too busy to enjoy, as this one had a bit more free time built into it. Plus, I had some amazing finds/buys.
1. The Eye of the World and New Spring, the first novel and prequel novel in The Wheel of Time series. Both of these from the Book & Music Exchange for less than $5.00, which seemed like a steal to me, as I’ve been wanting to get into this series for a while now.
2. I bought an Xbox 360, with a 60GB hard drive and a lot of other features. For a long time I wanted a PS3, but they’re just too expensive, and I found this one for less than half the price of a PS3.
3. The last part of my Halloween costume. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to be Horatio Caine or Dr. Greg House, but in the end I chose House, and that’s that.
So, ‘twas a fun-filled weekend, albeit a busy one. I think I may play a bit more disc golf after work today, and then watch Heroes and Big Bang Theory later on. I’ll probably review Where the Wild Things Are (and possibly a book, too) tomorrow.
“People stare and we just ignore them and they go away.”—Recently, DMB
