Two days ago: Danny and his girlfriend Amanda came and visited me. We went to Cafe Brazil for noms (I had a spinach-feta cheese omelette), the movie theater to see True Grit (good movie), and back to my house where we played Parcheesi with my dad. The game with four players takes quite a while. I should have won, but I managed to blow 12 turns at the end where I simply could not roll a 2 to advance my last pawn home, and my dad brought his last pawn out of the nest, all the way around the board, and home during my stagnation. It's a great game - it can feature very interesting twists, depending on both luck and strategy.
Yesterday: I went to REI and got a pair of Vibram FiveFingers KSO (black/black colourscheme, for the record). I rather like the feel of them, and hope that they will help change my gait to something softer on my feet, as well as encourage me to be more active. Another plus: my friends can't give me grief about my socks when I'm wearing my Vibrams. HA.
Yesterday evening: A group of a dozen or so TAMSters got together for a potluck dinner. There were gyoza, egg drop soup, pork tamales, thai noodles, stuffed mushrooms, cookies, pumpkin bread, and a gingerbread house. I made pineapple bake (recipe posted in this entry) and took my science cookies to share. We ate delicious foods, caught up on the stories of each others' lives, watched random videos, played piano and Go, and had a good time together.
Today: my dear friend Sarah is flying to the area to visit me for a couple days before heading down to central Texas to visit additional friends from A&M! I am very excited to see her in person again. Our lives seem to be unlikely to cross paths unless we make concerted efforts for them to do so, so we live with the expectation that we'll probably never see each other in person again. As a result, when we do, such times are particularly joyful.