Weekend Update… 7 Days Late
November 17th, 2008Zac was here over a week ago, and I finally pulled some of the pictures from his visit of my camera to share with ya’ll. From the moment he arrived until the moment he left, it was an absolute joy to have him around and the party refused to stop. After our his great toilet debacle, we met up with the gang to head downtown for some Thai food on Saturday. I’m still relieved that any of us survived that lunch meal after our orders were all way spicier than normal. Jeff literally was red with sweat dripping down his face while my lips burned uncontrollably. After lunch, we all loaded up and went to see Role Models with Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott. If you get the chance to see it, GO! It’s hilarious! Joe left after the movie, and Jeff, Zac, Cory, Lauren and I headed to Jeff’s place to watch last week’s episode of The Office in HD. Jeff is convinced everything is funnier in HD; the rest of us are not so sure. After we had had our fills of Dwight and Andy (is that even possible?) we headed back to my place for dinner and The Strangers, a horror flick of Zac’s choosing. I’m not a huge horror movie fan, and I definitely am not a fan of my friends whispering and making plans to sneak in and scare me in the middle of the night. Why the heck did I give those guys keys to my apartment?!?!
Sunday morning Lauren, Jeff, Zac, and I headed off to church together and had the experience of a lifetime… “What’s Up With That“. Man, I love when people write their own songs. Jeff, Zac and I headed back to my place to watch the Pack lose to the Vikings and then headed off to play frisbee golf. First of all, Zac and I had never played before and had to have set a record of ‘trees hit with a disc’ in a single day. But despite the cold and wind, we had a killer time and laughed til we cried on more than one occasion. Lucky for us, we were able to finish our 18-hole outing before the FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR happened. After the first few flurries fell the gang with Jeff’s gf, Liz, headed to Galaxy Dinner to grab some food and play ‘telephone’. Yeah, we really are 11 years old. Eventually, our lamer friends headed home and the rest of us headed off to Wal-Mart in search of gloves, snow shovels, and $5 movies.
I ditched out of work most of Monday to spend the day with Zac. After the chiropractor and a quick stop into the office to make sure things were going smoothly, we hit up the DawgHouse, Christmas shopped at the mall, discussed the more serious aspects of life now that we were finally alone, and watched the Cardinals barely beat the 49ers with Joe and Jeff. Since the majority of us are twitter whores and he is clueless, Joe decided to join in on the fun by saying ‘twitter that’ every 96 seconds during the weekend. If only he knew that we were twittering about him or that I may have mixed up his Veteran’s day thank you to J-Lo when I relayed his message of ‘Joe says thank you for servicing him.’ Oops!
Finally on Tuesday morning we all met up at our favorite breakfast spot in Flag, Martanne’s. Chorizo and green chili make this the spot for my favorite meal in town, and there’s nothing like six adults crammed in at a small table to inspire good times and great oldies. Stuffed to the gills, the rest of our Veteran’s Day was spent just enjoying each other’s company and our time off before Zac had to depart for home. In typical sister form, I was a bit teary when we said goodbye, but in typical Laurel-fashion, I blamed it on Zacapalooza exhaustion. (We all know the truth!) Twitter that!
Music is my life. Everything can be expressed, handled or just felt more deeply with the right chord or phrase. I have been blessed with some amazing friends and am still at that point where my life is an open book. If you’d like, stick around for a bit and help me write a few chapters…