Journal Entry

Friday, October 5th
Friday night, I'd agreed to watch AB so that T-- could go do some scrapbooking with her friend. Said friend ended up changing plans a little, but T-- still went out to see a movie, and I had the baby for a few hours.

D-- came over to help out, and brought his new XBox. B-- and E-- came by, and mostly they watched me set up the XBox, because I didn't have the necessary cables in place and my TV is a monster. So, I'm sure that was a lot of fun for them. It was fun having them around, too.

We tried to convince K-- to come join us, but N--'s family was in town, and he chose to be a good husband. Good for him! The bastard....

Anyway, D-- and I played for several hours, which was a lot of fun, then he left to go visit his grandma in...I dunno, starts with "Chick," but I'm not sure how it's spelled after that. Some place boring, anyway.

Saturday, October 6th
Saturday, of course, was the OU/Texas game. N--'s visiting family happened to be from Texas, and big Texas fans, so that added some drama to the day. We went over there to watch the game, and they made a big party of it. K-- cooked up some awesome hamburgers and hotdogs. T-- provided some bacon-wrapped cheese-stuffed jalapenos that, by all accounts, were delicious. Everyone brought something, and everybody had a good time.

Of course, the Sooners trounced. Fun times.

Then we all split up for the evening, and I was doing some work in my office when I got a call from D-- saying that USC had lost its game, and LSU was looking questionable. That was almost as exciting as the OU game, because it put them back into contention for the national title. Whoop! OU is now ranked four spots above USC, if I remember correctly.

Seriously. I hate those guys!

Sunday, October 7th
Sunday afternoon, we met with my high school friends Joe and Liz. I got back in touch with Joe through MySpace, and then learned that Liz was living down here in OKC. Anyway, Joe was down for a birthday party this weekend, so we got together. AB's schedule kept it from being overly long, but it was still nice to get together and get caught up some.

Some of you think I'm lying right now, because I'm not the social guy. Oh, and we met at the park near our house, so that just seals it, because I'm really not the outdoors guy. But it was good. Definitely good.

Anyway, after that we watched the first couple episodes of Chuck (fantastic show, by the way -- you must watch it), and then went over to K-- and N--'s for leftover burgers and hotdogs, and to watch Stargate Atlantis. That was fun. We got home late-ish, and T-- and the baby went to bed. I stayed up late playing Heroes, because Monday was a federal holiday.

Monday, October 8th
Of course, I'd agreed to spend Monday watching AB so T-- could go to Tulsa for work, so I ended up severely regretting that decision.

On the whole, AB was good, but do you remember what I was saying last Friday about turn-based games? Watching a baby is exactly like that. There so many things you have to get done, and their schedule is so rigidly defined, that you're just constantly completing some strategy and making arrangements to complete another one, and before you know it, nine hours have disappeared.

That was basically my day. I did finish a ton of homework for our class, mostly while the baby was crawling around the kitchen floor, and watched Knocked Up, which is an awesome movie. Just incredibly raunchy, but awesome. It's like Keeping the Faith for the married people.

Oh, I also did four loads of laundry.

Then T-- got home around 6:00 and brought a pizza with her, and I spent an hour catching her up on everything AB had done during the day before heading over to K-- and N--'s to watch the Cowboys game. At the last minute, B-- called to invite me to watch it with them, and I so wish I could have, but I felt like I'd already made a commitment.

And, of course, knowing what I know now (sorry, B--), there's no way in hell I would've done that. The game was not at all what we expected, going into it. If you care at all, you've probably already heard, and I'm not going to go into the details here, but it was the most exciting last two minutes I've ever seen in a football game.

B--'s DVR stopped recording with 6 minutes left in the game. Poor guy. I can't even imagine the rage.

Anyway, yeah, awesome game. Unbelievable, and a really good time in spite of all our mistakes. It was fun. I got home around midnight, and crashed.

Tuesday, October 9th
Last night, then, was considerably quieter. After a long day of work, T-- made me a quick sandwich before we headed off to our marriage seminar. Class went pretty well, we had excellent snacks (peanut-butter-infused fudge brownies and home-made vanilla ice cream), and then K-- and N-- came over to watch Heroes with us.

At the house, D--'s mom and grandma were there, visiting. And they were at our house, as you probably know, because D-- was watching the baby. They told us what a doll she'd been and we all visited for a while, then they headed out and we watched that Heroes episode.

That's enough to catch us up to today. Sounds like we'll probably be paying a visit to B-- and E-- tonight, assuming we're invited, but other than that I don't see it being a very dramatic evening. We'll probably watch the third episode of Chuck. I might mow. We'll just have to see where the evening takes us.