Wonderful weekend...

My weekend was wonderful. Joe said that it was probably his best birthday ever. Saturday morning, Jon and Aileen called him from Korea. He was so excited. He kept telling everyone about it. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. Philip was the only person to arrive on time. Everyone else arrived at about 4:00.

We went to play Ultimate Frisbee at the park in the cold. It was only about 40 degrees. It burned our lungs, but once we started running around, our bodies didn't feel quite so cold. Joe had a great time.

Then we came home and hung out. Philip got Joe a Wii game where you fight people with light sabers, so they did that while I finished dinner. They played Epic Duels as well. I made vegetarian lasagna and my ravioli from scratch. It was really good.

Then we played Mario Kart for a while (Joe loves doing Mario Kart competitions) and those of us who weren't a part of the current race, smoked the hookah. It was fantastic. We had banana split shishah first and then we did mint chocolate (my favorite). Dan and I won the Mario Kart competition despite it being Dan's first time playing. :) Later on, we played Cranium Wow. It was girl's versus boys (Kelli and I versus Joe, Nate, and Philip). Later, Haney joined the girls team. lol :) The girls won. As usual.

At 8:30, pizzas arrived from Papa John’s. They were Jon & Aileen’s present to Joe. So, pizzas from South Korea. ;) Joe was thrilled about that as well. Late that night (or early the next morning) we went to Denny’s. Haney started getting sick despite the fact that he hadn't drank anything. We went to bed about 3:30. I woke to the sounds of vomiting not much later. Poor Haney. We got up at 11:00ish the next day. Then we played more Mario Kart and goofed off some more. They were getting ready to go when I realized that we hadn't touched either of the 2 cakes I made. (haha... only us). So, they ate some cake and then went on their merry way. They left about 4:30. I spent Sunday doing some cleaning. The house was a disaster! Lol

Then, last night, Joe and I watched Closer and ate black bean soup. And I didn’t want to get up this morning even though we went to bed at a decent hour. I couldn’t fall asleep.

Joe loved his presents. He got a harmonica, a lap harp, wooden spoons, a guitar (from me), the Wii game and the light sabers, and a bunch of guitar picks and other accessories. And he is awaiting his musical presents from my mom: a tambourine and maracas. If you can't tell, we went with a musical theme. Joe has a "Music Room" in our new house. However, we didn't have anything musical to put in it. So, now he has plenty of stuff to put in it! :)

The Weekend + My super powers

Well, my weekend wasn't that thrilling. But, I did get to hang out with some very cool people. :)

I watched The Dark Knight for the third time. I think that will be the last time I go to see it in the theaters. We played Ultimate Frisbee. I actually had a great time. People weren't douche-bags about me not being a perfect player. :) We ate at Cartucci's. It used to be my favorite restaurant and Joe and I used to go every weekend. It seems that the magic is gone. Our favorite waitress, Claudia, is no longer working there. The food was good, but not as magical as I remember. I guess all good things come to an end.

Someone got stung by a bee on Saturday. They had to stop playing afterwards. I do not have serious reactions to bee stings. It's just a simple "ouch!" and then some stinging for a few seconds and then I move on. I forget all about it. The past few people that I've seen get stung have been in pain after it, so I wonder if I just don't get hurt as much by it as other people. It's the same for mosquito bites. I itch right after the bite, but then I forget about it after a few seconds and the bump is gone within a few minutes. I know that is unusual, but I'm not sure about the bee stings. Am I super-immune to insects, or are people just wimpy??

I've tested out another thing in the past few weeks. When I was younger, I could not get poison ivy/oak no matter what I did. I could roll around in it and not have any reaction. I had heard that this could change as people get older. It hasn't for me yet. I still don't react to it. :)

So, apparently the only thing that can hurt me is the sun (damn evil thing) and spider bites. I've had a few spider bites that have made me pretty ill. Maybe I'm actually not as sensitive to those either... maybe those bites would have killed a normal human being. lol... Okay. So I'm probably not super-human, but it's still kinda fun to think about. :)