Lights!

Well, if I wasn't in the holiday mood before, then I definitely am after this weekend. It was full of trips to Target, cold weather, strings of lights that didn't work, and a big fat Christmas tree.

But that's the weekend. I'll start with Wednesday night after work. It was great, I finally got to go to the Wednesday night special one of our favorite bars downtown features. I don't know if I was enjoying being there on a weeknight more or whether it was the good beer that was keeping me happy. Either way, it was a smash.

Ok, to the weekend. Friday night after work I came home and just relaxed a bit. I beat A home, and when she got home we decided we were hungry and wanted to go to a favorite steak restaurant of ours. It just happens to be located beside an Italian restaurant we had never tasted, so we decided on it instead. It was one of those places we should have had a reservation for. Anyway, the food was extremely authentic and we enjoyed the new place. We came home and fell asleep on the couch.

Saturday we ended up waking up early - as I can no longer sleep past eight am. It's funny how long I'd been working night shift, and how accustomed to the hours I had become, only to switch it all up and turn into that guy who gets up early in a period of two weeks. At around 10:30 I met up with a friend at work to play this new golf course we'd been wondering about. It is technically a club, but it is only semi-private. It is known for its crazy tight fairways and tough greens. What's more, it's the shortest course I've ever played, but because of its difficulty it plays the same as a really long course. Good times.

Saturday afternoon I ate Chinese food while A took a nap. She had been decorating a bit and cleaning out the big new walk-in closet she says is her favorite room of the house. Before a couple of friends came over we went to Target and bought Christmas lights and a whole mess of other decorations. Then we stopped by this place and bought a Christmas tree on the way home. It was one of those places where a guy from somewhere up north, like Michigan, buys a bunch of fir trees and sells them to us unsuspecting southerners for sixty bucks a pop so we can put little lights and hanging ornaments on them. I tell you though, it is one kick-ass tree. This thing is over eight feet tall. I'm such a Southerner.

And now to today. Again, we woke up way too early. It was good though because we had a lot to do. We went back to Target after realizing the lights we bought for outside didn't work right. Then we came back and had to nail up what seemed like a bajillion nails so we could hang the lights. Then we realized the lights we re-bought didn't fit where we wanted them to. Damn. Trip number three to Target brought home two more extension cords and the right sized icicle lights to hang from the gutter. Our house looks awesome at night all lit up. We are pretty excited about it and especially like the blue and white lights wrapped around our little swirly trees up front. I know I know, I used to get excited about College Gameday - and now its blue and white lights and trips to Target....and then College Gameday.

We ended up eating a late lunch and then came back and finished up the lights. However, the Christmas tree lights are on white strands instead of green - which is moronic - but means they will be going back (trip number four). Then we went to eat dinner at a new Mexican restaurant which was nowhere near as good as the one we used to go to. We got back a few hours ago and piled up on the couch to watch House Of D. I really enjoyed it. I give it a four star rating for it being a peculiarly different type of movie.

Well that's it; that was the weekend. We've got lights, lights, and more lights. We've got cold weather, dirty golf shoes, and an extension cord in a pear tree.