Ah, the joys of three-day weekends!

I took Friday off to accompany takaza for his Unpleasant Medical Procedure (UMP). Going into such things, you’re always of two minds: you’re doing it for a reason, to find out why something is going on; you want News, you just don’t want Bad News. Well, in this case, it seems like everything pretty much normal, so we’ll see that the doctor’s follow-up will be. The UMP included light sedation, so Dan was understandably sleepy for the rest of the day. I was going to be all productive, but I was pretty tired too so I elected to nap with my sweetie instead 🙂 We ordered pizza and had a quiet evening at home.

On Saturday, the original plan was to get together with roho for some brewing of beer. However, apathy was running rampant and instead we just stayed around the house and worked on clearing stuff off the Tivo. Eventually, we got motivated to brave the crappy traffic (it’s a Saturday, people!) and head out to Bolingbrook, where we had dinner with Roho, genet, and feren. Dinner was a hoot! As we were leaving, I was shocked yet amused and somewhat flattered when a couple of passing teenage girls gave me a pinch on the ass on their way by. I should have been indignant, I suppose, but I was laughing too hard. Back at Feren’s, we gathered ’round and watched four episodes of Firefly. Yep, all the folks there, in addition to linnaeus, posicat, and datahawk will be going with us on Thursday night to see the sneak preview of Serenity and we thought it would be good to catch them up on the show. As always, the scene at the end of “The Train Job” cracked me the hell up (“Here’s the money back. Tell your boss -” “No problem, buddy. I totally understand!”). We left Feren’s at about 12:45 AM (probably unwisely given how tired we were) and headed home. What can I say? There’s something about sleeping in you own bed, y’know? We got home at a little before 2 AM.

Sunday I slept in. Shocker! We spent the afternoon hanging out, and Dan got to watch his programs (Enterprise and ER, neither of which interest me in the least). After a run to the grocery store, I started work on a nice batch of chicken and dumplings. Just as I was getting started, siriuswolfstar called to see if we wanted to join him for dinner. We invited him over and spent a pleasant evening chatting and devouring a large amount of chicken and dumplings. Lots of fun.

So now it’s Monday. Work is reasonably busy, which is cool. I’ve got a few things I need to take care of for Anthrocon this week, and some MFF e-mails to send as well. The sneak preview means it’ll be a late night on Thursday, and Friday is going to really, really suck. Ah well – it’ll be worth it!