or at least kyle beckerman's. i love a guy in dreads.
my friend, bridget, was in town for a xango conference. do you know what xango is? i didn't either. turns out it's this fancy juice from some exotic indonesian fruit that has magical healing powers and the ability to make one eternally youthful and obscenely wealthy. at least that's the impression i got from the people at this conference. i didn't attend the conference, but i did attend the soccer game with the conference goers whose company sponsors the team (or something like that). i've never seen a major league soccer game and this cheapskate is not one to turn down anything that's free, especially something that i'd never pay for.
i was as surprised as the next guy to find out that i had a great time. maybe it was the free xango shots they kept passing around. maybe it was throwing orange crepe paper rolls when the team made a goal. maybe it was the attractive foreigners below us who were cheering as loudly as if it was their own team. maybe it was hearing songs from my best summer ever with my friend from my best summer ever. or maybe, JUST MAYBE, it was actually really fun to watch a good soccer game. boy, those guys know how to kick some balls.
ps. after the game there was a tent set up where you could drink hot chocolate, apple cider, or xango wassail. being the good xango disciples they were, everyone flocked over to the wassail. and in all honesty, it's pretty tasty stuff. so tasty, that i made myself sick from drinking so much. just drinking it won't make you obscenely wealthy, apparently you have to sell it to do that. why didn't somebody tell me that before i overdosed on xango? now i'll only have my eternal youth to keep me happy.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
sometimes there's not much to say
and that's why i don't say anything for nearly a month. it would be so handy if i had kids and i could blog about how i am hand sewing their matching halloween costumes or about their disgusting poop stories, but my arsenal of anecdotes only has stories of me. boring. but that is ok. here are some boring things that have happened since mexifest.
1) ran a 5k. and when i say "ran" i mean "very slowly jogged...in fact it was so slow that i probably could have walked it faster." and i beat my previous time. not by a whole lot, mind you, but 14 seconds is still an improvement. one day i hope to run a 5k in less time than it takes me to watch an episode of the office. i even won a prize. (no, not for slowest runner) everyone won a prize. i won a water bottle and a t-shirt. the t-shirt was a size small and i am not, but i put it on anyway. it fit about as well as a sausage casing fits a sausage: snugly.
2) survived parent teacher conferences. that is a major feat. i hate those things. and to make it worse, i had a cold. i made sure to blow my nose very loudly while conferencing with parents who bugged me. luckily, there were few. the pta made us a nice dinner, which i ate tons of and couldn't taste at all.
3) planned and then cancelled my first trip to new york city. it was everything i hoped it would be.
4) went to our local oktoberfest. turns out not all fests are created equal. it was lame. not enough lederhosen and too much snow. where were all the blond germans and their walking sticks?
5) bought a condo. just yesterday, i signed my life away. totally worth it though: they gave me a gift basket. AND the realtor took me to dinner. AND i got to leave school early. it was a pretty great day for a monday.
1) ran a 5k. and when i say "ran" i mean "very slowly jogged...in fact it was so slow that i probably could have walked it faster." and i beat my previous time. not by a whole lot, mind you, but 14 seconds is still an improvement. one day i hope to run a 5k in less time than it takes me to watch an episode of the office. i even won a prize. (no, not for slowest runner) everyone won a prize. i won a water bottle and a t-shirt. the t-shirt was a size small and i am not, but i put it on anyway. it fit about as well as a sausage casing fits a sausage: snugly.
2) survived parent teacher conferences. that is a major feat. i hate those things. and to make it worse, i had a cold. i made sure to blow my nose very loudly while conferencing with parents who bugged me. luckily, there were few. the pta made us a nice dinner, which i ate tons of and couldn't taste at all.
3) planned and then cancelled my first trip to new york city. it was everything i hoped it would be.
4) went to our local oktoberfest. turns out not all fests are created equal. it was lame. not enough lederhosen and too much snow. where were all the blond germans and their walking sticks?
5) bought a condo. just yesterday, i signed my life away. totally worth it though: they gave me a gift basket. AND the realtor took me to dinner. AND i got to leave school early. it was a pretty great day for a monday.
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