Blowin' in the Wind

It was a busy weekend, full of things that were completely unproductive and glorious!

Here's the rundown:

Friday - Mom's birthday! MC & I took her to a nice lunch at Le Monde(YUM chicken curry soup!!), but her work Christmas party was that evening, so her & Dad went to that. MC & his mom came over for Dinner & A Movie. Officially, we watched no movie. Rather, we played Scattergories, which is always fun. We let the Mom have some answers we wouldn't have given each other, which is how it always goes when Parents Play Board Games... It was a blast, though, and my tacos were delicious. I took no pictures, which bums me out, but it happens.

Saturday - Celebrated Mom's birthday. 1500, went to The Melting Pot, which is always fun, and very expensive. But fun. We were there until a little after 1800, so I'd guess part of the reason they're so expensive is the fact that a full meal takes over 3 hours - that's a long time to have a table tied up for one party. After that we headed over to Music Hall & watched the KC Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. It was pretty awesome - I liked it more than I expected to, and I actually went in with pretty high expectations. The music was wonderful, the dancing was flawless. I didn't get a chance to read the story behind it until afterward, so there were a few points where the plot was pretty much entirely lost on me. I'd decided that it was about one little girl's acid dream, after the tax man drugged her - not quite! :p Once that was over, we went to River Market Brewery for drinks. There was one ridiculously large man there, and his ridiculously drunk friend. They were annoying and we were tired, so we didn't stay but for a couple. They were having a special on their winter bock beer - $1 pints, and it was pretty tasty.







Sunday - Woke up LATE, to Mother Unit telling me it was 8:30. I was supposed to have been at Mike's house before 8 so we could be on our way to Arrowhead by 8:30. SH!T! I got ready in like 5 minutes and headed to his house - stopped for some McD's burritos & we were on our way. When we left his house it was really nice outside, by the time we got to the stadium (about a half hour later) there was freezing rain coming down and the temperature had dropped about 30 degrees!!! I heard on the radio that at KCI it went from 58 to 15 in FIVE minutes. We put our steaks on the grill & huddled in the car drinking the Heine mini-keg. Our seats, in the red zone, kicked total ass save the fact that the wind was blowing directly at us. I didn't mind, in my 4 shirts, 2 coats, scarf/hat/gloves, but Mike was wearing a t-shirt & a peacoat. He ended up buying $120 or so worth of Chiefs warmth, and we ended up moving over by Tina where the wind was less bad but the seats were just about as good. The boys ended up wimping out & Tina and I stayed until just about the end, when it was almost certain we'd win. We left, and by the time we got to the car, it was 2 minute warning. After that the Chargers scored 2 TDs, we missed a FG, and we lost. REALLY disappointing, but it was a good game. And that was about what I expected. After that, went to Tiff's dance recital, and then came home. It was cool to go to it, because I haven't seen her do ballet in a while, and I'm not sure I've ever seen her do en pointe. Tonight I'll go see her do jazz. She is a senior, so this will be the end of the recitals, which makes me sad. Partly because I didn't get to go to enough of them. Good intentions, but you know how that goes!


Considering I took this on my phone, you can tell we were up close & personal! :D


Tiff

christmas songs - Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano

C'mon...in the land of Christmas music, nobody does it better than Jose & his mariachi horns!!