Great Success!

That is my summation of my week and particularly Thursday night Bean Bags and Rhubarb.

My week started with the Fleishkuechle feed and late night trip home. Monday Karen called and we went to Ivanna Cone for ice cream. Tuesday Karen and Wendy and Michael and Buffy came over and played Phase 10.

Wednesday was the Fourth and was everything I'd hoped it to be. I started my day making rhubarb crisp and steamed squash with coconut custard. Then Wendy, Karen, and I went to Seward, NE for their Grand Parade. I saw Marsha and Tomas Bartulec and also Michelle Wehling. The parade wasn't that grand but entertaining enough. It helped that we were at the corner where the parade turned, so you got the drama of the different floats having to navigate the maneuver. After the parade, we came back to Lincoln and went to the fireworks at Oak Lake Park where we were joined by Michael, Buffy, Travis, Deidra, Randy, and Becca.

Thursday, as I said before, was great. Michael, Kyle, Scott, Tanya, Ben Yancer, Katie Carlson, Leslie de Flutier, Karen, Pauline Deeb, Wendy, Buffy, and Deidra all came over. I don't know if I forgot anyone; I really hope I didn't. We all played bean bags and ate the crisp and squash with custard that I'd prepared the day before. There was plenty of after party too: hanging out, talking, laughing.

Friday Wendy, Karen, and I went to Yia Yia's for pizza and such (I had a Left Hand Brewery [out of Longmont, CO] Black Jack Porter that was fine, but not close to Free State's Blackjack Porter). Then we came back to my place an played Phase 10, which Wendy won, and Monopoly, of which I was the victor.

Saturday I got some rhubarb from the farmer's market. But I was kinda worried because I only saw one booth selling it. Rhubarb might be going out of season, which changes the dynamics of my Thursday Night Rhubarb and Bean Bags. At the very least, it changes the dynamics of the recipes. Then Karen and I went to Something Else Sabbath School, Michel's Ville Grille (because Alladin's was closed for carpet renovations), the Something Else Sabbath School picnic in Pioneer's Park, and finished our day at Becca and Randy's with Buffy, Michael, Casey, Deidra, and Chris with some singing, talking, and munching of popcorn, fruit and ice cream.

So this week was brought to you by the letters K, W, B, and M, and the number 4.

Let It Linger

Today I stayed when I planned to go. It was good.

I started the day attending first service at College View Church because Mark Robison was giving the sermon for first service and the Baccalaureate address for second service, and I didn't want to fight for a seat then. So I enjoyed his message and chatted with Terri Krovoza after the service before Sabbath School. I stayed for SS for some reason. Then after Sabbath School I had a good seat with plenty of room. I was curious about the page Mark cut out of his first service message because of time constraints and there was going to be more music for second service. So when I went to get a drink after SS I saw Klaralyn and invited her to join me in my prime real estate. So I stayed from 9:15 to 1:30 when I planned to stay only til 10:30. This helped me to synthesize more of Mark's message and spend some time with Klara.

Then after some Sabbath afternoon "lay activities" (napping), I joined the others at Ivanna Cone. I had Maple Grapenut, Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookie, and the much anticipated Honey Sesame. They also had a Lychee Mandarin that was popular with others but not myself as much. After enjoying ice cream, I was invited to Bashley's for games and said yes.

I got there at 9:45. We played Catchphrase for a good while. After the sensible folk called it a night Ben and Ben and Tyler and I played a Cheapass Game called U.S. Patent Number 1. It was a fun game that took 90 minutes to play both times we partook. Then we convinced Tyler to stay a while longer and play Kill Dr. Lucky, another Cheapass Game. Tyler left at 3 AM and we called Justin to join us (He lied and said he'd be over). We played some more Dr. Lucky to varying rules and at 4:45 I left. So I probably planned to leave around midnight and stayed almost another five hours. Good times, good water, and good cookies from Ashley.

I'm now going to sleep for like five hours and then go to Jeremy's Open House after Graduation, hopefully to play some bean bags.