Poor Nick!! I went over to Becca’s last night after soccer to have salmon (mmm), only to find the poor boy bandaged and drugged. He dislocated his shoulder for the third time.
Other than finding Nick all laid up, it was a great weekend. The nasty weather of last week finally cleared, and it was absolutely beautiful outside, sunny and in the upper 70s. March is definitely my favorite month in Houston.
Friday night I went over to Becca’s to watch “The Apprentice” that she’d TiVoed for me since I missed it on Thursday. Omorosa got fired! Yeah! She was really annoying, it was about time. Though to her credit, this week she actually did a decent job, I mean, she was the only one that got any of the freaky art sold…she needed to be fired, but it’s ironic that she was fired in the week that she actually did ok. After the show, Gavin, Jen, Becca and I played a game of Settlers that I won by sneak attack when I went from 7 points to 10 in one turn by building a city and taking largest army (in addition to my other two cities and longest road).
Saturday morning, Buzz, Ron, Gavin, Jess, Mitzi and I headed downtown to run in the Bayou City Classic 10K as a centipede. Becca also ran the race, her first 10K ever (hooray Becca!). It was great fun, and we won an award for being the loudest centipede. The only lesson learned was that it’s hard to run with green makeup on if you are me, and sweat like a man. I couldn’t wipe my face, so the sweat ran into my eyes, so I had to dab my eyes, which left me with racoon-like circles of non-green skin around my eyes. It was sort of funny. The pictures are posted here.
We came home from the race, Buzz and I washed off as much green makeup as we could, and then we all went to Cafe Express to celebrate Fred’s birthday (which was actually last Tuesday). There were at least 20 people there–who knew Fred was so popular!?
I spent Saturday afternoon lazing around my apartment. I was sleepy from getting up so early for the race, but I generally hate taking naps because they only make me feel worse when I wake up. So I watched TV, and messed around until 8:00, when I went back over to Becca’s for more Settlers (we didn’t get our fix with just one game the night before). Chris joined us so we had a five-person game. I don’t remember who won…I think Jen took one game, and Becca the other, but I’m not sure.
Yesterday I went for a 15-mile bike ride and decided that I’m definitely going to have to get a more comfortable seat before I do the MS150! When I got home, the day was so lovely that I decided to go for a swim, so I went over to the pool…but unfortunately the water was still frigid. So I just sat in the sun and read instead. I had a soccer game last night, where we (and I) played like absolute crap (even worse than usual), and yet ironically, we won. Though the other team was two men down, so it would have been pathetic if we hadn’t emerged victorious…
From there, I went over to Becca’s again to enjoy some salmon for dinner. I have probably saved a ton in groceries over the past year simply by getting to mooch off the Becca/Kennda/Cari/Nick household when they cook a big dinner. Ah, life is good.