What a weekend

I didn't want to blog about this before I did my Tour De Fat piece, but I still can't find the pages I had written earlier [I have an actual journal now for rough blog content] and I don't want to give up on that yet. So we'll cover that later, for now I need to chat with you about this last weekend. One of the things that struck me is how good it felt to be wearing my new skinny jeans, made me feel rad to be wearing something I couldn't pull off a few months earlier and be able to get away with it. [I hope] I feel like my fitness goals are moving forward and it's a real validation for me!

True serendipity. The kind that leaves you feeling like whatever it was just had to happen that way. Pretty much sums up the weekend I just had. On Friday I spent some fun time out at the birthday shindig of a friend-of-a-friend. I was able to cut loose, enjoy my time, make some bad decisions and get some qual time in with friends and the opposite gender.

Saturday I got my nerd on... like full scale on. I purchased some used books from my local store on 50th and Penn, normally not too nerdy. However, when you purchase books at a 60% Tolkien ratio you really show your true colors. Then I got some nerdy shirts from Ragstock at the MOA and met my sister and her husband for some shopping and eats in Dinkytown. [I'm glad they have a bike rack in their trunk just for me!] We played D&D and then headed back to their place because I agreed to help them with some household improvements again.

Sunday was the best ever! I helped my sister Theresa and her husband, Sam with their home improvement efforts. We hauled their enormous old entertainment center up a huge flight of stairs, I got to show a feat of strength by keeping the whole thing up on the steps while the doors were prepped, we got that out to the garage and they have a new, non-1990's tv stand. Then I got to help take down some way overgrown bushes with a sawz all. [Relax eco nerds, between the two households in attendance there are between 200 and 1.7 Million plants and trees still. They had to go.]

Mission accomplished right? End of story? Nope, after I got the bicycle out and ran a 30 mile ride from St. Paul Park to Rosemount, MN. [Map] That was sweet, especially with all those hills, dirt road hills and construction site hills, but my bike [Gertrude] and I were totally up to it. I made it to my cousin's wedding shower. [That is a separate, smaller post.]