I don’t wanna waste your time
So it’s time to tell you about the weekend – which was a ton of fun, depite the busy-ness of it all 
~ Both cookouts were a lot of fun (the food was a hit too, which makes me feel so much better), good times to hang out with people I like spending time with (mostly ), and I finally got to see/hold my classmate Jerry’s baby girl – his wife is looking great after just 3 weeks, and they’re both really happy, if extremely tired! It’s always a little wierd to sit around with people who are essentially superiors and watch them drink beer and hang out with friends like they’re, gasp, normal people! Wierd, but fun.
~ The wedding shower on Sunday went really well, bride and groom seemed very happy and it was again nice to see old friends again (plus some serious face time with baby Aria, who loves balloons and all animals, both of which were in abundance at the shower!). We had plenty of food, the house was beautiful, and most of the games were pretty fun – everybody kinda knew most everybody else, so we didn’t really need many ‘get to know people’ games, which was great – got to focus more on the bride and groom, and those games were more fun! Once I retrieve my camera from the bride’s mom (it got passed around between guests who took pics, I don’t think I took more than two or three pictures), I’ll try to post a couple.
~ Back to Winston Sunday evening so I could work most of the day Monday – got to play cards and hang out with friends Sunday night when I got back though, which was nice and relaxing after a hectic weekend – plus Becky and I are UNSTOPPABLE at spades!!!! (well, until we play Rich and Charles in the future…)
~ Concert time! I met Mike and Kari in Archdale (check that off my list of places I’ve now been in NC) and we drove down to Charlotte to meet up with Sarah and Brandon, Sarah’s friend Rachel, Geof and Daniel at The Penguin, a little hole-in-the-wall kinda place that served fried pickles (FRIED PICKLES, Kari!) along with other culinary delights – good times were had by all, despite some mishaps involving the men’s bathroom and yours truly… anyway, moving on… the concert was great, really awesome seeing Over the Rhine live (Karin’s voice is WAY more powerful/emotional live than recorded) – they didn’t sing my absolute favorite songs from their existing albums, but my 3 or 4 favorites from the show are all new and going to be on their upcoming album – score! The band that played after OtR (HEM) was good, but way too mellow to listen to for long at that time of night (about 11/11:15pm), so we left a little early and headed back up to Winston – thanks to Mike for driving us (Kari slept a little on the way back) – they’re now one of my favorite couples
So I’m now mostly caught up – various other things have been going on – I met with the guy who leads my Bible study and we got to talk about some stuff that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, specifically stuff about women in the church… I’m in the middle of reading a book compiled by John Piper and Wayne Grudem about it, so maybe I’ll post more once I sort out what I think about it all…
Don’t let her fool you, she knew which restroom she was going in.
It was good to see all you NC people, albeit briefly…
so she was following daniel into the guys’ restroom? why andrea? why???
whoa now Scott – don’t go making me look bad on my own blog!
(for those of you playing along at home, Daniel and I were NOT in the bathroom at the same time, EVER!)
[...] I’m home for the weekend, and thanks to great friends, I get to stay home the whole weekend, rather than rushing back late tonight to be at early service church for nursery duty (though I do miss my babies when I’m gone). But it’s nice to be at home and not feel the pressure to get back so early. We did a walk for the Parkinson’s Association this morning as a family, and got to have spur-of-the-moment lunch with a good friend in downtown Charlotte at Dish (right across the street from The Penguin for those of you who care, infamous .net meeting place before the OtR concert in May – and Matthew and I tried to get Mom to go for the fried pickles, but no dice ). I also got a new cell phone – my calling plan was up, and although I actually renewed it in May, I used my discount to get a new Razr phone, which is quite different than my tiny little silver Samsung, but still nice – very thin, and I really like the Bluetooth ability, though I’m not used to the little earpiece (mine’s pink ). And I just got back from seeing my brother on stage for the first time in a while – he was a pirate in ‘Peter Pan’ (the musical), but he also designed the lighting and helped out with a bunch of other stuff – good to see him back doing something he’s so freaking good at! My knee is doing much better – after a slight relapse at the beginning of this week, it’s feeling pretty good now, I’m hoping I can get on a bike sometime soon, especially now that the weather is finally fall-like. Oh, and after the let-down of last year, the Mozart Club of Winston Salem will be presenting Handel’s masterpiece ‘Messiah’ on Sunday December 3rd at 3pm in Reynolds Auditorium – rehearsals start on Nov. 5th, and I can’t wait!!!! [...]