Weekend Update.

Par for the course, this weekend was excellent.

Friday night, I joined Katherine and her friends for dinner. Now, Katherine had said to me, "My friend Joseph and his roommates are going to cook dinner for us Friday night." So I'm expecting Joseph, his fiance Abby, and two to three other guys plus Katherine and me. So imagine my surprise when I walked into a house of 20+ people... People I didn't know. Katherine rivals my own nature as a social butterfly, so she pretty much dropped me like a bad habit once we crossed the threshold. Left to my own devices, I floundered a bit before I settled in and made new friends. It's kind of like teaching someone to ride a bike or swim: every now and then you have to let them go, and it's shocking to them when they realize they're doing it all by themselves. After dinner, Katherine and I went back to my apartment with Abby to get ready to go out. Sometimes the getting ready part is just as fun or more so than the actual going out-- we listened to music and danced around and pulled every article of clothing out of my closet and tried on each other's make-up... All things girly. We met everyone in downtown Tuscaloosa later that night and danced the night way. We capped off the night/morning with a trip to Waffle House, which to me is how to judge whether or not a night out was successful.

Saturday, Kat and I spent the morning making treats for the A-day tailgate. We headed to the Quad just in time for lunch. The wind was pretty chilly, but the sunshine made it the perfect day for tailgating. Okay, I nearly froze, but it was worth it... and really, I'm always almost freezing. During the actual A-day game, we headed to Abby's apartment where we watched Lord of the Rings and napped. Eventually we ended up back on the Quad for victory tailgating (that's a pretty solid bet after an A-day game) and then dinner at an Irish pub, although there was nothing particularly Irish about it besides the name and the wide selection of beer. I was looking for cabbage and soda bread, but I ended up with a chicken parmesan sandwich. We ended the night with a group watching Love and Other Drugs on my couch-- it was far more serious than I expected, but I didn't hate it.

Sunday, Katherine (yes, it was a marathon weekend with Katherine) and our friend Laura joined me on a trip to Guntersville. Laura's from Washington State, so I felt like she needed a solid dose of Southern Small Town. We met my parents for lunch-- along with a dosing of Small Town, USA, everyone needs to experience Tim Hays-- and then went to Art on the Lake, Guntersville's annual art festival. It's one of my favorite community activities, and I was kind of thrilled to share it with my friends.

So it was just another weekend in the life... just another beautiful, jam-packed, extremely blessed, Spring weekends.