Well it's been a while since I have posted and a lot of things have happend. On Friday Kate, Ludwig, Kate's friend Chris(sp?) and I went to Roanoke to shop and catch a movie. I managed to get a tool set for my dad. And we figured out that the Mall didn't have the gift we wanted to get for Julie. And we went to to see a movie called National Treasure. It was an action adventure type of movie that had a healthy dose of quirky humor, supplied mainly by the computer geek. It was severly over the top, which actually helped a good bit with the overall entertainment value. And good fun movie, pretty clean too. Then because we didn't feel like going to bed or home we watched Oscar in the lounge. Always a fun party movie.

On Saturday I slept late and didn't really feel well. I have been slowly getting sick for the past month. I'm afraid that it's really going to kick in at some inoportune moment. But I watched the game in Kate's lounge. Excellent game, I think this team has come together like no other team I have seen. Usually in the NFL when a team clicks like this they will win the superbowl. But we are going to the Peach Bowl, which is waaaay above any expectations that I had for this year. After the game we picked up Julie and went over to Sean and Janna's for a sushi party. All of the usual characters were there. The sushi was good but the party itself was kind of boring. There were usual hijinks of someone getting a leash put on them. And basically everyone just sort of sitting around talking about how edgy they were. We left kind of early to go and went to squires to play some pool. I managed to upset Kate. I didn't do anything really bad, but it did managed to embarass her. She kind of withdrew and went over and sat in the corner when it wasn't her turn to shoot. She kept giving me this look which I thought was "stay away from me" when it was really "why aren't you holding me?". It was a simple mistake that I corrected. Things were better after that. We took Julie home, talked for a while, went to Joe's to get some food, found Joe's really crowded, went home. Things are better with us now. Or will be when she is done with school. She's been hovering somewhere between exhausted/cuddly and stressed. And I've just been bored and understimulated. That combination doesn't make for very exciting dates. But things are getting better.

Sunday practice was a lot of fun. I hadn't been out in a while but picked right back up where I left off. Mom, Daniel and Michael were there for a little while to watch. Dion took me on while they were standing there. He used his cloak against me with my cane, he had no chance. Then as we were fighting Costanca came up and joined him to take me on. I cranked it up a notch and killed them both three times before getting water. I fought for almost three hours straight. I did get a little pissed when Andrea took Ludwig off and started "teaching" him. And when I say teaching him I mean lecturing him on things he already knows and then getting beaten by him. In addition she managed to teach him some bad habits like only attacking by rushing your opponent, and only defending by running away. Things that I'm trying to keep him from getting in the habbit of doing. That's also the kind of mentality that I'm trying to beat out of Thomas. Anyway it was reallly really good to be fighting again. I was in the best mood that I have been in for a long time. I was laughing and joke at dinner like there was no tomorrow. I managed to hurt Kate's and Julie's brain a few times. But they didn't seem to hold it against me. After that we went over to the lounge to have a Riddick marathon. We watched Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. I had a damper put on my mood however. Before the movie started Ludwig told me that there was a chance of VBS making a full time salaried position instead of Jenny coming over. And then he told me that Nancy was pushing for it to be Taikara. That pissed me off for obvious reasons. But we watched the movies and had a good time. David was there for a while but he left when he saw Kate and I kissing. Julie was using Ludwig for a pillow which was interesting. They would make a decent pair, but Julie is obsessed with Aldemere right now. I honestly don't know what she sees in Aldemere, which is why she's obsessed with him and not me I guess. I just want her to be happy.

Monday was an interesting day. I slept really well for some reason. I think my body might be telling me that it's about to do one of it's weekend shut downs where I just haven't slept well for too long. Work was ok, I managed not to get pissed at Nancy. Kate came in to sit on Candle's lap for a while randomly. When I got off we went over to Beanery for some dinner. I was just going to get something cheap to save money but they had half priced appetizers...damn them. We rented Usual Suspects and were going to watch it. But Kate remembered that she had things to do today so she had to go to bed pretty early. Now that I think about it we were teasing each other pretty hard last night. I'll have to make sure she knows it was all in fun. We watched about the first third of the movie before we took her home to bed.

She did make a strange comment last night that I'll have to think about. She said "you need a hobby". I'm not sure what she meant but I will think about it.