thanks nathan…
(btw – bold means DONE)

meme because i’m NOT bored.

i got a free lottery ticket with a moving package a few weeks back.  yesterday was the lottery date, and i actually remembered to check it.  and i won!  not much, but hey!  the last thing i won ever was free tickets via the radio to a beatles cover band in spokane, washington.  woo hoo!

well, i was finally tempted away from my fast (which was really just that i didn’t like anything here in amsterdam after the weekend’s lovely food) by ethiopian food last night at addis ababa restaurant, then turkish pizza veggie style today for lunch.  getting normal again…

we planned on seeing a movie at OT301 after dinner, but i was too tired, and we were too late anyway. 

well, i am feeling adequately recovered from Girls’ Weekend in Lyon to write a little today.  it might have been a little insane to take a weekend away immediately after returning from the US.  i am exhausted.  yesterday i came home from work and fell asleep in my work clothes while petting my cat.  i woke up a short while later, changed into sweat pants & tshirt, and fell asleep again.  i woke up again around 10:30, was up reading for around an hour, then fell asleep again.  i still LOOK tired, but am slightly less comatose today.

Cut to weekend description

stolen from madhatte , just because:

a meme for the morning

last night was great.  the danger board rocked, and it was great to see so many people.  wow.  and i drank lots and lots of root beer, which i love.  it was even henry weinhard’s (spelling?)  my favorite kind.  yum!!! 

this morning at 10:30 we will be at triple rock.  until we leave, whenever that may be.  i can’t make promises. 

my flight home is at 7:50pm, arriving in amsterdam tomorrow at 11:05am.  home again, home again, jiggety jig!  matt will be staying here in minnesota until tuesday night.

now to pack up!

tonight!  THE DANGER BOARD at kitty kat klub.  🙂 

tomorrow!  BRUNCH at TRIPLE ROCK!!!  time?  um…. suggestions?  maybe we’ll sort out times tonight at DANGER BOARD!

sorry we didn’t make it out last night to chamber, if anyone went there specially to find us… we were really tired.  and grumpy.  and just couldn’t make it out.

this will NOT be a problem tonight.  yay!!!!

well, matt is in menomonie, wisconsin.  his grandma marge died this morning.  (it was expected, and emotionally not so big a shock as usual, thank goodness for something.)  i made a stupid crack when i woke up to his brother, who’s sick, about how he didn’t have to go to menomonie because he’s sick… lucky him.  then i learned that she’d passed away.  oops.  stupid stupid.  they had been planning to go because she was nearing the end.  it was a tasteless crack in both cases, but anyway.  done is done.

today i have been reading and drinking coffee in bed.  i will call corey soon to tell him that i think i’ll skip out on his family’s thanksgiving dinner.  i’m enjoying the alone time, and matt is expected home midday after all, so … i’ll stick around here and wait for him.  maybe clean up the kitchen and run some of the laundry i’ve noticed piling up by the washing machine.

i think we’re going to his mom’s tonight to spend time with his grandma jeanne.  then hopefully to chamber tonight.  depends on energy.  last night we pooped out after a long and wonderful day of seeing people and hanging out at favorite places.

tomorrow we have coffee scheduled with scott and sara, then thanksgiving at matt’s mom’s.  then we will go to kitty kat club for dangerboard.  🙂  at least, i will definitely go.  matt will see.

saturday i am interested in meeting up at triple rock for brunch.  anyone else?  and if so, what time is good for peeps?

matt will be staying longer in minnesota if klm will oblige him to attend his grandma’s funeral.  he’s working on that now.  unfortunately, these cheap fares were due to take-off fares, which are usually not changeable.  we’ll see.

more as i know it.

wow.  i can’t think.  is it monday or tuesday?  i think it’s tuesday, actually.

yesterday we woke up ridiculously early and dined on leftover pie and turkey sandwiches.  then read for a while then dined on turkey sandwiches and pie.

mmmm…. thanksgiving leftovers.  is there anything yummier?

then i left matt and enjoyed a lovely afternoon with mel – hanging out in anodyne coffee shop and chatting.  when i took her back to her car, i went back to bob & ceese’s and… had another turkey sandwich before falling asleep.

then we went out to the saloon, where we ran into alis, which was lovely as usual.  🙂

we got home around 2am, woke up at 7am.  damn jetlag.

we called matt’s mom and had breakfast at the seward.  then… matt went off with his mom and i headed to uptown to wander around.  and then i thought:  hey!  i’ll call alis!  so i did, and we had a lovely afternoon of wandering around after enjoying coffee and lunch at vera’s coffee shop.  many adventures in shopping.  not much purchased, but fun fun looking.

and … then i was tired, so i was going home, but then i thought:  well, i can handle a small jaunt out of my way to see matt and claude who were hanging out in the source, looking at games.  so i went there.  then we were hungry so we went for vietnamese food at … i can’t even pretend to remember how to spell it, so i won’t.  anyway, a former student now teenager was there… weird.  fo rtunately i was not recognized (i didn’t have big fluffy red dreads back when i was teaching at frost lake elementary), but i was still really amazed. 

back at the house now.  tired tired tired.

tomorrow:  try to visit zhac & kel?  dinner/movie/dancing with mel & dwain and perhaps jesse & athenais?  stop in at saracura?

thursday:  not sure, then perhaps waste thanksgiving?  then dancing at chamber?

friday:  coffee with scott & sara, thanksgiving w/ matt’s mom, jarrin & martin’s new band at kitty kat club?

saturday:  i’m thinking brunch at triple rock?

well, let’s see… today mel & i are having a girls’ afternoon.  after that, i don’t know.  but i assume i’m going to need some sleep.  matt and i fell asleep last night around 7:30, and woke up around 5am.  and we’d LIKE to go to the saloon tonight.

so, let’s assume that we manage naps and make it out.  we should hopefully be at the saloon tonight.  monday.  🙂

yesterday was thanksgiving dinner at the feigal-stickles household (that’s matt’s dad & stepmom).  i don’t know what’s going on but i was nauseous with everything i ate.  diarrhea.  ugh.  maybe that parasite i picked up in st. petersburg?  dunno.  anyway.  the evening was mostly fun, but matt’s mom was there and we managed to not get along very well.

i don’t know what i’m going to do later this week.  matt wants to stay at his mom’s a couple of nights, and i don’t want to be anywhere near her.  she just kept making these little snide comments at me.  and matt says i was rude to her in my efforts to not have to go along on their mother-son shopping trip sometime this week.  shopping with matt can be really irritating – not always, just sometimes.  shopping with matt’s mom is even worse.  i can’t imagine shopping with both of them.  a lesson in how stores cater to the compulsive shopping mentality?  argh.  sounded like torture.  how often can i say, "no, i really don’t want/need/like that" or "really, we have plenty of that already"? 

well, anyway.  we’ll see how the week pans out.

by the way, since i think i forgot to mention:  derby was AWESOME!  and it was great to see everyone we saw.  fantastic night!