Didn't Quite Get Things Finished, but Had Fun Anyway

After setting up the modem and such on Friday night, I found out that my DirecTV receiver had already been delivered (three days before that). So I set it up in my room, but apparently the installer guy who did the first receiver didn't hook up the satellite to the whole house--just that one receiver. So, they're sending another installer guy to hook up the satellite to my room and Stacie's room on Wednesday.

Because I didn't know the receiver had been delivered (and didn't know the cable hook-up on my wall wasn't connected to the satellite yet), I missed both Psych and Smallville. There was no episode for Numb3rs last week.

Saturday, I did my financial figuring, paid the bills, got groceries and gas, then packed up to go to Mom & Dad's house. I've decided that I'll probably end up spending at least Saturday nights there every week, now that Kayla's moved out of the townhouse.

I got to Mom & Dad's around 4pm with all the stuff I'd brought: clothes for Sunday, the novel I'm reading, my Astronomy spiral and various accoutrements so that I could do homework, my flashlight, my glasses case, my vitamins, half-a-case of Lipton Green Tea with Citrus (to share with Anna) and six games.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the board game
• Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit
• Aggravation
• Skip Bo
• Harry Potter Uno
• Phase 10

I put my stuff up in Anna's room, and we played the Buffy game with Kayla and Jason. I was Willow and Xander, Kayla was Buffy, Jason was Oz, and Anna played the evil side. We played two games--one with Adam as the villain, and one with the Judge--and Evil won both times. Then I watched last week's Psych episode. It was fun (of course), and I like the fact that Chief Vic is no longer just the interim chief anymore.

By that time, it was around 7 or so, and we were all deciding what to have for dinner. It took us about an hour to decide where to go (Arby's), then Dad, Jason and I played Skip Bo while we waited for Anna, Kimba and Kayla to get the food. After dinner, Anna played with us and Jason went to bed.

About 10, Kimba, Anna, Kayla and I went to the house of one of Kimba's friends and hung out. The only other people I really knew there were Amber and her boyfriend Chris (one of three guys by that name in the house that night).

We got back to Mom & Dad's around 1:30 or so in the morning, and then Anna and Kayla and I played some more Skip Bo on Anna's bed. Then we played Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit. Kayla won, and none of us could really remember anything all that well since we hadn't watched the movies in a while. Throughout the game, Kayla kept saying that if it was Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, we wouldn't have been having so much trouble remembering things about it. Anna and I agreed, even though I had had slightly less trouble than they had--I still remembered some of the more obscure character and place names. We watched the first half of Comedy Central's Roast of Jeff Foxworthy before we fell asleep.

Yesterday, I finally woke up all the way about noon (the dogs were crawling on me long before that), went downstairs, got some breakfast, and then waited for everybody else to get up while I called Stacie so that we could order a DirecTV receiver for her--I used Mom's computer to login to my account to do that. A little while later, Kayla, Anna, Jason and I were playing Phase 10 on Anna's floor when Kimba came in to tell us that one of her clients, his mother and his sister were coming over in about an hour. We were all like, "Okay, we'll finish this game and then get dressed."

That lasted about five minutes, when her client's mother called again to ask for directions--they were already on their way! So we had about 10-20 minutes to get dressed and such before they got there. I still needed a shower, so I took my clothes down to the bathroom and got one.

That was the fastest shower I've even been able to take in over a year! Seriously. I mean, the water pressure in my house sucks, so it takes so long to rinse all the soap/shampoo/conditioner/whatever off. The shower at Mom & Dad's was so much faster than that, it was awesomely refreshing.

The people came and left, and then it was almost dinner time. The five of us "kids" played Phase 10 until dinner. Since it was such a hit last week (and there were still plenty of ingredients leftover), Dad had decided to make pizza again--yum! Camille and Betsy came over too, and they both loved Dad's original pizza--the ballpark.

Seriously, that is the best special-topping pizza I have ever had, including the ones we get at work from Vocelli's. It's basically what you'd get at a ballpark, only on a pizza: hot dog, mustard, ketchup (well, it's pizza sauce in this case), and a bun (crust). Dad also made a hawaiian and a meat lover's (plus ¼ cheese only) pizza. The hawaiian was completely gone by the time everyone was full, there were only two slices of ballpark left, and about 3/4 of the meat lovers.

Camille and Betsy stayed to play Imaginiff. There was one extra name space on the board, so we put in Darth Vader, which was kind of funny, because one of the cards which he got picked for said, "Imagine if Darth Vader was a 70's movie. Which would he be?" and then one of the six choices was Star Wars. After the game, Camille and Betsy left.

Dad, Anna, Jason, Kayla, Kimba and I played 90's Trivial Pursuit (three teams of two--Kayla & Jason, Me & Anna, and Kimba & Dad) before Jason had to go to bed, and then when he and Kayla won we all kind of broke up to go separate ways: Dad to the living room; Kimba to her room; and Anna, Kayla and I to Anna's room.

I asked Anna if we could watch the Smallville episode from last week, but she wanted to play Buffy instead. This was around 10:30, and I was thinking I'd have to go home within the next hour and a half so that I could sleep before work this morning, but either Anna or Kayla lent me some clean pajama pants, Kimba lent me her MNDC tee shirt to wear today, and Anna asked Dad to copy the Smallville episode onto a DVD so that I could watch it at home today instead.

The three of us did play Buffy one more time then, this time with me playing evil, Kayla playing Oz and Willow, and Anna playing Xander and Buffy. The villain was the Mayor, and good won. We had a snackage break in the middle, during which I ate the last slice of ballpark pizza (someone else had eaten the other one earlier).

We decided then (about midnight) to watch the rest of the Jeff Foxworthy roast to go to sleep by. I turned off my cell phone for the night, since my charger was at home and I didn't want to be stuck with a dead battery at work. The show was finished around 1:30 am, but none of us were quite ready to sleep yet, so Anna started this other Comedy Central special by Mike Burbiglia called What I Should Have Said Was Nothing. Anna and Kayla fell asleep in the middle at about 2, so I paused it, turned off the TV, and went to sleep myself.

The alarm went off at 7:30, I got dressed, had breakfast, turned the cell phone back on, picked up the DVD Dad had made for me from the dining room table, and asked Jason to help me put everything I'd brought (minus 4 out of 6 bottles of Green Tea with Citrus) back into the Bug. I left the house at 8:05, and I've been at work since about 8:15.

We didn't play Uno or Aggravation the whole weekend, and I didn't do any homework or reading either. I've been procrastinating the Astronomy for too long, which surprises me because I actually want to do it. I should know better than to bring books and homework to Mom & Dad's house on the weekends, I guess.