Three shots is what it takes

Had a fun, albeit fast weekend in Minneapolis. I really like it up there, I could live in MN. Not the city proper, but it would be nice to be closer than four hours. Anyway, we left early on Saturday in order to have time to go to Ikea. I really appreciated Mike and his dad agreeing to do that for me, but then they were both grumpy and just followed me around pushing me to hurry the whole time so I started to appreciate them less. I was told I had a little over and hour there and I was going to make the most of it. After all, it's a two story building and I only get there once a year! Mike's dad ended up buying us a new dining room table so that's really cool. I'm hoping to assemble it today. We had one, but it wasn't very user friendly and never intended to be our long term table. I'm hoping that now we will actually eat at the table more than the kitchen counter. I still need to find some benches to go around it though. We got a couple chairs, but what I really want is a collection of benches; they didn't have just the right thing there. So now the problem is that Mike was counting on getting that table for my birthday/Christmas present and now that his dad bought it Mike has to start over from scratch and he's put no thought into it yet. I think he's a bit miffed but I'm kinda pleased because presents mean a lot to me and I want him to have to put a little work into it. I'm really not that hard to buy for and I've given him lots of hints.
Anyway, the other highlight of the weekend for me was getting to meet up with my friend Elyse at the mall Saturday afternoon. It was a very last minute thing as I realized on Friday that she might be living up there now, but she was and we got to catch up a little and it was so fun. She's the type of girl that always leaves you feeling uplifted. I would like to be that kind of person to others too.
On Sunday I got to go to my first pro football game at the stadium formally known as the Metrodome. It was fun although silly the lengths they go to for what is only a game. I was glad that I had chosen to go with the large Mocha that morning because I think it affected my enthusiasm level quite a bit. And I did want to be enthusiastic. It's certainly more fun to watch a game in person than on the tv and I understand enough about football to know what's going on. As strange as it sounds I was most interested in the cheerleaders; wondering what kind of person it takes to be that perky all the time and be ok with having every move you make choreographed. And then thinking for that type of person you couldn't ask for a better job than being an NFL cheerleader. Then there was this greasy little middle aged man sitting below us that was taking zoomed in pictures of them and I really wanted to flick him in his bald head. Sorry, that's mean but he was creepy. Anyway....it was a pretty good time and fun to be there with Mike; a good date activity.
Parker was so good all weekend. Really about as good as you can expect from a 21 month old. He had his moments when he was tired and hungry or just didn't want to leave all of the amazing toys at "Una Dave"'s, but for the most part really well behaved. Did great on both 4 hour drives and shopping and in church (apart from announcing "Hedgehog watch" in the middle of the prayer). It was really fun to have Elyse finally meet him.
And now it's time to catch up on the laundry and exercising. I did ok on my eating this weekend, but doubt I lost anything. :)