Weekend

This weekend was super fun.  I think there's some rule of non-crappy blogs where you're not supposed to talk about your weekend, or something.  But since mostly my mom and my mother-in-law read this, I think they don't mind. 

Friday after work I was going to run but fell asleep (for like 2 hours.  Oops.)  Then Dane and I went to this thing at the Village about Christianity and environmentalism and why God is all about being green.  It was good and I got free shopping bags.  To leave in my car every time I go into the store.  I'm working on that though.  Roy was there and afterwards we went to Chick Fil A and then to this place called the Greenhouse I think and I had a Guinness and Roy is hilarious and it was really fun. 

Saturday I got up and drove to the Colony in the like THIRTY DEGREE WEATHER with ridiculous wind and did this super intense playground workout with my karate class.  Then, when I could barely lift my arms, I picked up Dane, my dad, and Anna Claire and we went to paint for like 4 hours at World Impact.  It was like we were the little Trading Spaces team (ok I don't even think that show is still on and I'm sure there are new ones I would reference if I was like With It, but I'm not) except for they didn't do the time lapse montage with the funky music that makes it look really fast and easy. 

Went and dropped off Dad and picked up Jill and took the girls to Monsters vs. Aliens which was actually hilarious.  I laughed quite loud many more times than I expected to.  Seth Rogen's B.O.B. was the funniest part, I think, but there was a lot of fun stuff.  I recommend seeing it with a 7- and a 12-yr-old, if possible.

Then back to the Beckmans' house to hang out for a couple of hours.  It's kind of weird when you housesit for your good friends a lot, and then when you're over there supposedly as a friend just hanging out you start to want to go over and refill the cat bowl or fold up the blanket on the couch or sweep up the kitchen or pack up the pizza and put it in the fridge.  I told Denise that and she was like "you know what?  Go for it."  That's Refridgerator Rights to A Whole Notha Level.*

Sunday evening we went over to the Swindles' which is always sort of like being at home except 10x better.  Especially when Stella isn't sick any more and is hilarious and fun and dancing around like a ballerina.  I think Dane is like her favorite (non-parent) person in the world.  We had curry chicken and minty-apricot couscous and this really good beer that kind of tasted like blueberries maybe?  And some wine and tons of music talk that may or may not have bored Robin to tears, but was so fun for me.  Oh right, and between the blueberry beer and the music talk was two pounds (POUNDS!) of strawberries, two bananas, and 4 melted Hershey's Special Dark bars that we put away in about 5 minutes.  In all, an EXCELLENT evening.

*This paragraph is not meant to imply that Denise's house is in any NEED of blanket-folding or kitchen-sweeping, but I mean, she has 2 kids and is kind of renovating her kitchen right now.  The work is never done, I'm sure.