After starting the week with a game night with friends (where I not only learned a new game, but I conquered it), I was quickly reminded of my mortality when I was caught the next day with a 102 fever where I thought, literally, I was going to die. With a cure that could have only come from a freshly scooped out bowl of peppermint icecream, my fever eventually broke and I was somewhat back to normal the next day.
I spent the next day with two people who have become very good friends of our family. Bob, who treated Paul and I to a delicious smoked turkey melt with even more tasty conversation, and Victor, who was in town (an hour away) for business meetings. We drove up to meet Victor that evening and spent time chatting, laughing and reminiscing over fire shrimp, bananas fargo and a good ol' steak from the midwest.
You thought the fun of my week stopped there...but it just kept going. Come Thursday, I was able to have brunch with two of the parents from our children's home in India, Hesed Home, who were in town for greencards and visas and all that stuff. We ate at Greenfields and I ate my most favored chicken salad croissant with a side of fresh fruit. Their little girl, Esther, was along with them and is now 18 months old and WHAT A CUTIE she was. It was fun to hold a little one again.
I took photos of elementary kids the entire next day, from academic time to crazy recess time to even a little bit of lunch time. It was a fun time for me to be able to be close enough to the kids to see them interact, play and learn with their friends at school, but far enough away that I wasn't a distraction to them. After school, I took the kids to McDonalds for an icecream cone (which was supposed to be a secret but apparently the boy can't keep his yapper shut). Paul went to pick up Victor and bring him back down so we could hang out and he could watch my stellar volleyball game that night. After an always-heavenly Runza experience and multiple Sporcle quizzes, we took off to the Rec Center to see my team dominate on the court. What better way to end the evening with homemade mochas and adult conversation while the kids slipped away into their own little worlds.
That brings me to the weekend, which sometimes seems to last twice as long as the weekdays for me for some reason....Friday was a fairly good day as I was able to spend some time in the Apple Store, where I always find myself lost in wonder and awe and want and desire. We walked out of there with nothing but a hard core lesson on what I basically already knew, but it's always cool to see the genius employees walking around in their royal blue shirts. (I want one).
We thought a movie night with one of my friends was in order, but when she canceled to travel up to see her family (LAME!), it became a solo movie night, which meant I get to spread out on as much of the couch as I wanted to and should I choose to fall asleep and snore at any given point, I shall. And I did. But not for long, as the movie Inception is rich in logic and that thingy that makes you have to pay attention so you don't miss anything, even though you miss 62% of it anyway. Great movie, but I do need to watch it again.
Saturday I spent some necessary time at a local coffee shop and made my first coffeeshop purchase of 2011. New Year's Resolution was slightly compromised but altogether, not surrendered. The calendar dared tell me there was nothing scheduled for the day, but it turns out, the Saturday calendar is a big fat liar. We ended up going to a very exciting men's basketball game in which the Nebraska men's basketball team ousted Iowa State in a very thrilling win (minus the 20 minutes of un-thrilling time when we were deadlocked in the parking lot afterwards).
Hard to believe this all happened in just seven days. Feels like nothing much happened, but turns out, when I think about it long enough, I'm really not as pathetic as I once thought I was. Well.....at least a little less.
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