A good weekend.

You know, overall I had a really good weekend. My wife and I have been fighting a lot. She's been real moody and mean and jumping on me for everything. I guess that I shouldn't have knocked her up, huh?

Anyways, out of the blue she does an about face and decides to be irrepressably happy. So happy and helpfull in fact that friends who visited asked me what was going on. They were as confused and startled as I was by the change.

My wife did so much this weekend with the kids, cleaning the house, making food, and other stuff that I was hard pressed to keep up.

WOW!

THANK YOU!!!



So... ya, I got to hang with Dawn and Grant this Saturday. We were originally gonna roleplay and play some Scene It, but things were too hectic. Grant and I did roleplay a bit, but we forgot my character sheet (on the computer at his house) and had to make do off of memory.

I think that Grant's starting to have a tough time running my character. The character that I usually play is the fast talking mercenary thief type. The guy that I'm playing now is a hick woodsman loner with no friends and only one family member who likes him.

My character, whose name escapes me for some reason (I'll call him Bubba), managed to kill a dire bear cub and it's mother in the first session. This session dealt with me saving the meat and skin and transporting the stuff that I didn't want to keep to town for trade.

I traded for everything that I wanted, and more since I was able to talk a guy into selling me a young barely weaned female pig. Yummy.

It turns out that my real father, a minor noble somewhere, had decided to legitimize me. Didn't mean much to my character (who had to have his mother read the letter) which kinda threw a kink into Grant's plans.

I mean honestly, why would my character care if some guy that he's never met or seen decided to call him son? Why would he leave a home that he built for himself to run 12 farms and live in a castle (whatever that is)?

Of course, I'll go along with it eventually, but it's fun making Grant work for a living ;-)



We also got to visit the in-laws for a bit Sunday. My mother in law broke her foot somehow and is stuck at home all day. She biffed it again last night by tryiong to hop over to her wheelchair instead of sliding over to it as she usually does. She didn't hurt herself, but boy did she piss off her husband. Nick chewed her a new hole, but for some reason, Debbie just smiled and shrugged it off. I guess that she got the attention that she was craving...

I like Nick. I like talking to him and I like the funny noises and faces that he makes when we play video games. He sounds like he's lifting weights and about to blow an O-ring when he plays, it's funny as hell. We were playing Burnout Revenge (race car game) and I keep wrecking because I was paying more attention to Nick and the kids than I was to the game!

He showed me how he grills steaks so that I can make my own steaks juicier when I grill.

Yes people, I acknowledge when someone else is better and more experienced than I am and try to get them to teach me so that I can improve my game. I am not perfect, nor do I think that I am. It just seems that way. Haters.

So anyways, back to the steaks....

The only problem that I had with Nick's steaks is that he likes them done Medium AT MOST. I like my food COOKED. His opinion is that if it doesn't moo, than it's done and I have a preference for meat that doesn't bleed when you cut it.

Last night he grilled up two steaks. One was underdone and kinda grossed me out, and I only watched other people eat it. The other steak was pretty damn near perfect and it was only on the grill for another minute or two.

So, to sum up this weekend:

My wife was happy, helpfull, energetic, and hot.

I got to hang with Dawn and Grant, always a privilage.

I got to hang with Nick and eat some pretty friggen good steaks. Yummy.

I had a good weekend.