Yes I am alive. Don't worry here's your update. <----That's me pretending like I have tons of readers, it's fun.

This past weekend was an interesting one. We didn't get to go to an event because of the hurricane which sucked. But Kate and I got to spend the weekend at Jen and Julies, which was cool. Big Kate came in for the weekend also. She is getting settled in her new job in Kentucky. Kate got sick on Saturday, which sucked. But she's feeling better which is cool. On Saturday I took Kate to the used book store in Roanoke and Julie tagged along. Kate got tons of books, a whole series books by her favorite childrens author, some random fantasy novels, and a Garfield book. Which she read incredibly fast in the car on the way home. We stopped at Best Buy on the way home, but that's not as much fun when you're the only geek there. We also went to the mall to get Dippin Dots and hit Bath and Body Works. Soooo yeah at that point I was really feeling the need for some guy friends to do guy things with. Kate and Julie are wonderful to be around. But they take a lot of delight in teasing me and sometimes it borders on antagonism. Now don't get me wrong it's not a big problem by any means. But sometimes it actually supersedes the friendship aspects of our relationship. And it kind of came to a head while we were walking out to the car and Julie was teasing me about something. I can't even remember what it was, but I teased her back a little bit. And she, knowing that I wouldn't do anything to her, grabbed me around the neck in a sleeper hold type of position. Well when she put her weight on that arm it really hurt my neck. Not bad, just enough for me to feel like she had taken advantage of the fact that even though I didn't have to let her touch me at all(I have wrestled multiple siblings, that are bigger than her, simultaneously). It kinda put me in a bad mood for a little bit. Kate knew something was wrong though. I really couldn't put into words what I was feeling at the time so she just hugged me until I felt better.

After the mall we went to a birthday party at Jess and Brian's house. I still wasn't in a good mood, but that was ok because we sat around for a while waiting for people to finish their game of life. After that we watched Maverick, one of my all time favorites. So I was in a better mood. Unfortunatley Kate started to feel sick at this point. We went back to Jen and Julies house after the movie and she took a hot shower and drank some hot tea before going to bed. I stayed up a little longer and messed around on the computer and watching the end of Peter Pan before joining her. We were in Julie's bed which is a nice bed when it's not falling apart. Only problemm was I couldn't get much sleep. Kate was on my right side, the opposite of where she normally sleeps. And Julie was on my left side because she came in later. I sleep much better on my left side than my right. But I wanted to hug on Kate(we sort of fit together) who was on my right. So I don't remember how much sleep I got, I just remember spending most of the night trying to fall asleep.

Sunday we slept until about 11:30 and slowly got up and got ready to go to practice. Jen and Andrea had already left by the time we were rousing. It was really hard to get up because about 8 in the morning something clicked and I was able to go to sleep. But we got up and gathered all our things and headed for campus. I stopped by 7/11 to get an energy drink and then Kate took me to a dining hall to get some 'breakfast'. Did I mention I love her? No? Well I love her.....very much! Practice was very cool, we had the heavies out there working and I was doing my beginner rapier deal. David is coming along great and will be a very good fencer soon. We had some excellent fights. Some of the others still need to work on a lot of things. But I am encouraging them to fight everyone who comes to practice so that they can learn things for themselves. I need to talk to some more people and get some more drills for them to do. Jen isn't practicing very much which concerns me but I'm not sure what is going on there. Ludwig showed up about an hour before we were done. Ludwig could be really good if gets into it. He's done a good amount of martial arts and has the coordination needed to be good. Unfortunatly Antonio had to leave early so we didn't get to put him in loaner gear and let him spare any. We'll do that this week and I hope that he will come to Crusades. After practice we all went out to eat at Rivermill, their hambergers are actually ok if you remember to tell them not to put onions on them. While we were eating I started coming down off of my fencing high and started to get tired. After dinner we went over to Squires to play pool for a while. I was to tired to play and just kind of watched. We were going to go to a movie that night but Kate made me go back to her room and take a nap. I am very thankful she did this because I really needed it. After I woke up it was kinda to late to go to a movie. And we called Julie and she was still sleeping anyway.

On Monday Kate brought me food at work. A kick-ass philly cheesestake sandwich. Did I mention I love her? Well I love her.....very much. We went and played pool at BW3's after I got off work. We played three games and I know we each won one but I can't remember who won the third one. We watched MNF as my fantasy football team completly choked. After I left her I went to Wal-Mart and bought the new Star Wars DVD's. Oh yeah Star Wars Rules!!!!! Ahem. Anyway I watched part of Empire and it looks soooo good with the restore job to the colors and the crispness it's drool worthy. We are getting together to watch them on Friday evening with Jen and Julie.

Tuesday was nice, I had lunch with Mom and endured her weird questions without much trouble. I went to work and Kate brought me some food. I love her a lot. After work we watched the rest of the rest of Sex And The City. That is a truly funny show, but it is totally geared towards women. I can see why Jessi liked it though, she wanted nothing more than to be one of those girls. Anyway after the movie we kinda just layed there and talked. It was a lot of fun, something I think that I've missed from our relationship amid all the teasing and siliness(from both parties). I'm glad it happend and I hope it will happen more.

This weekend we are getting a hotel room and are going to spend the day...and night together just hanging out...and other stuff. It should be a wonderful time I can't wait.