a very nice weekend

It was a very nice weekend. We gamed on Friday night for the first time in AGES, and although there was a lot of sleepiness going around, we managed to get through at least part of an adventure (vampires! dynamite! wrecked ships! very exciting!) before we broke early ’cause Jack had to fly away for something or other.

I honestly have no recollection at all of what we did Saturday during the day. I didn’t work at all. I walked the dog, and I … oh yeah. Now I remember. We rented a storage unit and Ted put comics in it while I made a cake and cleaned house a bit so it wouldn’t be too embarrassing when our guests arrived. And I bought the dinky hat. I remember. :)

So Ted made lasagna for dinner and my old friend Calex who I’ve known since 7th grade came over with his girlfriend Kim, who completely rocks, and we ate and hung out and generally just had a really good time for several hours. Lots of fun, and Calex and I managed to not spend the entire evening remember-whening. :) Really nice evening. And then I collapsed into bed, *splat*, because of the enormous sleepies.

Yesterday Ted and I both bought new coats. Mine is a princess-seamed black leather above-the-knee-length trench sort of thing, and Ted’s is a brown sueded fabric midweight thing with approximately five thousand pockets. We’re both very pleased. :) We also went through boxes and determined what we could and could not live without for a year, and put the could-live-without into storage. The living room is considerably emptier now, and good grief, Shaun organized and cleaned the garage, and it looks like people who aren’t us live here. :)

Attempted coffee with Jai yesterday, but was thwarted by Jai completely forgetting (fair dinkum, as I have on at least one occasion completely forgotten about coffee), so I dropped by her house briefly to deliver some lemon cake. She and Tori admired my new coat, which was an added bonus. :)

Ted bought season 4 Smallville and a computer game, and I bought a new pair of tiny hoop earrings so I’d have a tiny hoop (I can’t spell ‘hoop’; I’ve typed ‘hopp’ every time I’ve tried) for my 3rd ear hole, and we came home and had leftover lasagna and watched four episodes of Smallville. *laugh* This season is clearly not going to last very long. Gosh,it’s all about the pretty naked people, though. We started out with Naked Clark and moved on to Half Naked Lex, at which point I said to Ted, “I like this season.” Shortly thereafter we got Silhouetted Naked Lana In The Shower, and after that we started laughing when people started taking their clothes off, because there was so much of it. Somebody’d told me that 4th season was All About The Sex, and I guess it is. :)

*snicker* Ted installed his new computer game after we watched Smallville and as I was getting ready for bed, and so I had to ask him how long I should give him before I came and looked pathetic at him so he’d come to bed and not stay up too late. He said 20 minutes, so after 20 minutes I came and looked pathetic at him (he said, “Uh oh,” when I opened the bedroom door), and when he came to bed a few minutes later he said it was probably good I’d done that, or he’d have probably stayed up way too late playing the game. I told him that after eight and a half years of marriage I thought it was pretty safe to say I had absolutely no doubt he’d have stayed up way too late playing the game, and he thought that was very funny and was glad I loved him warts and all. :)

Back to work now. :)

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