Random Weekend Adventures

I am writing to you this evening in hopes of dispelling this rather annoying headache I managed to contract about three hours ago and not get rid of...perhaps a replay of my weekend will do the trick?

After leaving you with a remarkably dull post last week, I had a unique and therefore exciting weekend despite it being my weekend to work. I kicked it off on Friday night with a whole lot of indecisiveness. Friday morning I had planned to take a friend up on her offer to go to her hometown with her that evening to watch her little brother play football. Later in the afternoon, I decided that was a big stretch of time I didn't know if I could afford to give up beings I had to work from 9-5 on Saturday. So, instead I opted to join a few other friends in making a taco supper. On my way over to the cooking locale, I ran into Jordan and Joey, yet another couple of MMC kids. The two of them informed me they were going to tackle a run, so of course I changed plans on the spot to join them. After running somewhere around three miles give or take a bit of distance, we returned feeling accomplished and full of energy from released endorphins, to eat the tacos I was supposed to let cook. :) I then attended the MMC volleyball game versus Buena Vista which turned out to be a 5 set thriller, with the Lancers pulling out the victory, before retreating to my room with no further plans. Those "non-plans" turned into a night of super nintendo. I hadn't played that thing since I was in like 8th grade or something and one of the cool freshman kids happened to have one and even had the Lion King game, the one that used to be my favorite!! It took me a while to get going, but then I found I was a natural. Nintendo dominated, we then finished the evening with a star gazing adventure at the damn. It was the most random group of people, which made for a very memorable experience. Oh, and the stars were abundant and beautiful!!

Saturday was a very lucky day for me. I was supposed to work from 9-5, but it turned out that the afternoon was looking to be very slow, so the pharmacist on with me allowed me to leave at 2:00 so that I could travel home to Elgin, NE and watch my little brother play his homecoming football game. His team (the Crusaders) won 22-20...it was another thriller. My brother is quite the studly little receiver as well!! He made me proud, but I opted not to hug him afterwards because he was disgustingly smelly and sweaty. :P It turned out that my best friend from high school was also back home to watch her brother in the game. I hadn't seen her since somewhere around Thanksgiving last year because she goes to school in Kearney and our work schedules and everything else just seem to always clash. It was sooo incredibly refreshing and wonderful to see her and catch up. We even went out to supper at the steakhouse we used to waitress at together after the game. My only regret from the evening was not being able to spend more time with my parents. I came back to Yankton after supper because I had to be back for work on Sunday. In fact, I came back in time to head downtown and check out the masses of people and excitement of Ribfest!

And now I'm back in the swing of another week of studies and I must leave this message here before I am late for a choir fundraising team meeting!! Have a great week!