horseshoes and hand grenades

The weekend was crazy and I’ve spent the last couple of days recuperating and getting a ton of stuff done around the house.  I cannot fathom anything other than making lists right now.

Fun things I did over the weekend

• Sharon’s bachelorette dinner at Bank (try the crab cakes)
• Followed by alternating glimpses of fun / horror at Mars
• The beach with Matt, although it was too cold to swim and I got some sun
• My long-awaited, very brief return to Macarthur Center to get these
• Partying at Cogan’s (formerly a pretty lame rock venue, now a pizza joint?) for Jameson’s birthday
• Sharon and Keith’s wedding festivities
• Followed by drinks at Empire with a few of my favorite people
• Footloose.  As David says “You don’t really need to see it, because you lived it.”  But I saw it anyway and I’m really, really glad.
• Horseshoes with Matt, Dad, and PawPaw, which saw rapid improvement in my “pitchin’”
• Kindergarten Cop.  Enough said.

Productive things I’ve done over the past couple of days

• Sewing
• Scanned in more pictures
• Called Comcast about our internet constantly going up and down
• Fixed the running toilet (thanks, wikiHow)
• Found my debit card (thanks, Empire)

By the way if you haven’t tried taco night at Empire (3 for $1 on Tuesdays, and yeah, they have beans instead of beef), do it.  It’s a vast improvement over fighting the frat boys at Tiki Bob’s for worse tacos.

Maddie and I are busy getting things together for Kim’s bridal shower on Sunday.  Tonight is softball.  This is what else is up this weekend.

Here are a few links for those of you who are link-hungry:

• A perfect hat, but an expensive one.
• Bizarre that I happened to hear about Dust Comics just before reading the preface to Jane Eyre, which is amazing.  And she even dedicates it to Thackeray!  A girl after my own heart.
• Bedtime stories = neat.
• I still want to go there.
• Because it doesn’t get old.
• Bonnie and Clyde!  An amazing story from StoryCorps.