30 MAR 2010

BEST WEEKEND EVER! Well, best weekend in quite some time, at least, sans doute. SO much activity! SO much fun!

On Friday, I worked during the day and then Rita and Ben came into town for the night. They got here a little late, but we still managed to cram in a lot of fun and chatting and beers. Ben bought a case of PBR from the beer distributor on 48th and I bought a bottle of wine from work. Clash of the titans! Really fun!

I had to get up kind of early on SAT to work, but the day went by pretty quickly due to inclement weather. After work, Carrie and I made dinner and had some drinks while getting ready to go to Emily's DJ night at Elena's on Baltimore. Astra stopped by and hung out for a few minutes before well all left together. It was SO STINKIN' COLD on our walk over. Not fun. What was fun, however, was the atmosphere once we got there. It was kind of slow to pick up, but there were eventually really awesome parties both upstairs and down. The bar was mega cheap and we all danced like fools. Yeah! I talked to a bunch of folks I don't see all too often, including Brian and Marty, who I informed that I had stolen their coasters when they last hosted a fete. At one point, I fell hard against a wall and I think I poked my back with a nail or something, because I had a puncture wound the following day. No biggie!

I got to have off on SUN and we went to Emily's birthday brunch. It was the most fun I've had on a SUN in ages! First we biked to the South Philly Tap Room and had the aforementioned brunch. It was great eats! Carrie and I split a beet salad and a breakfast burger, which contained a meat patty, an egg, Hollandaise sauce, bacon, and cheese. YOWZA! I also had a really tasty Bloody Mary. We got to meet some of Emily and Ryan's buddies who all seemed very nice. A few of us headed to Emily's after that and man, we cut loose! We had snacks, drank drinks, and horsed around. Later on in the evening, Chris showed up too and we ate pizza and watched a bunch of videos by the Police, Tom Petty and Zack Galifinakis. Then we finally watched WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER! Carrie and I wanted to get home if at all possible but when we finally decided to roll out, it was pouring like so many cats and dogs so we just crashed there.

MON was basically a non-day. We didn't get home until a little before noon and we had a filthy bike ride back. We got cleaned up and Carrie went to work while I stayed at home and did a very lazy amount of cleaning and played a draft. I made a grocery run to Trader Joe's and then made burritos. We watched the end of PONYO, which we started last week, and most of the end of A SERIOUS MAN, which I grew to enjoy more in it's third act.

Today was TUE and I got up really early to work. The work day was fine but LONG. It was intermittently busy and dead, which made for a rollercoaster of ennui. I just got home not too long ago and I have just been relaxing so far. I am about to make some stir fry dinner and I think we are going to rent something on DVD after Carrie gets home from her swimming lesson at the Y. It will be another low key night, but that's a-okay by me! I need it.