Game Night

Last night Mike and I went to his friends Kathy and Joey's house to play game night along with his other friends, Jerry and Stephanie. It was a lot of fun, and I observed Kathy's baby, Gabby, from a distance of two feet or more. I think I would have liked to have gotten closer to her, but she's been feeling poorly lately and I didn't want to upset her if she was sick. Jerry and Stephanie got to play with her a lot, so I think she got her social time in. At the very end of the night she crawled over and touched my toes, which was adorable.

By the end of the night Mike was getting excited about the idea of having a baby. Unfortunately I'd talked to my friend Jen earlier that day about how her pregnancy was going, and she said that she's gotten to a point where the baby is large enough that her organs are all smooshed around and disloacated inside her body. She mentioned that she knows that her intestines are off to her side now instead of front-and-center in her belly because she can feel gas moving around in her side. I had no idea your organs moved. Why didn't they tell us this? In my high school health class they spent two whole days talking about contraception with condoms and sponges and whatnot, but they should have just told you all the stuff Jen was telling me yesterday. I bet that would turn the average teenager off to sexual activity. So while Mike was mentally cradling an infant, my fallopian tubes had pretty much tied themselves in knots to prevent any conception, ever.

We headed home around 11 PM, and got back to our neighborhood around 11:30 or so. Then we started the fun part - finding parking.

In case you didn't know, our apartment is actually the lower level of a house. That means that we do without the luxuries that come with renting, such as snow removal, lawn care, an on-site landlord, and parking spaces. We just parallel park on the street. It's not a big deal Sunday - Thursday since parking is fairly open on our street. However, our apartment is within walking distance of two areas that have lots of bars, so on Friday and Saturday nights parking is impossible. People come from all over to park on our street and walk to the bars, so after about 7 PM the street is all full.

This makes going out on the weekends a real decision. On one hand, we could go out and have some fun...but that would mean driving up and down our block for upwards of fifteen minutes trying to find a spot, only to give up and park a long way away and hike back to our apartment. On the other hand, there's a Law & Order marathon on the USA network. Too often, USA wins out.

I'm glad we went out last night, though. It was a pretty fun night.