Friends Having Fun. This picture is awesome.
I’m Wearing Erika’s Scarf. And a comfy scarf it was and likely is and will continue to be. Though scarf may not be the right word.
My friends Benjamin and Suzanne from Colorado got married back in October. I’m a bit late with the photos, but there are some fun ones here.
Don’t Lick The Penguin. Unless you’re the groom.
Suzanne, Benjamin, and I
James and I
The Ladies! Some days, I love being a bachelor.
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving week in Nebraska.
I left for Nebraska on Tuesday and arrived in the late afternoon. Jenny met me at the airport. Meanwhile, Phil was finishing his graduate classes for the day, returning home, and cleaning the shower before I arrived.
I enjoyed spending a lot of time with Phil and Jenny while I was there. They’ve been married for 1.5+ years now and I appreciated the opportunity to observe two of my friends and how they treat each other in the context of marriage. I saw a lot of respect, concern, grace, and love between them in their words and deeds. I’m impressed and very grateful to have them as friends.
The Nebraska vs. Colorado football game on Friday was an incredible game to witness. It was high scoring, and ended w/ the right team winning — Go Big Red! My favorite moment was watching Ndamukong Suh (Nebraska #93 Defensive Tackle) put the smackdown on Cody Hawkins (Colorado #7 QB) while returning an interception for a touchdown.
Many games of Carcassonne the board game were played while I was there. Though I was experienced with playing the game, I only won on one occasion and didn’t know a couple rules correctly. However, I felt justified on returning home and realizing that my rules were different due to their being rule changes made over the course of the game’s history. (Source)
My iPod broke. Today, I bought a new one.
Seeing other college friends was fantastic as well. Many people came over on Saturday night, hung out, talked, and ate soup.
Other things: mediocre Mexican food and superb conversation w/ Jesse and Tyler and Nail Bunny, free dinner at Lazlos w/ Phil, Jenny, and Ben when the server lost our order, espresso shots at a new coffee shop, meeting w/ Hank (Aaron) at B&N at closing time to purchase football tickets, chilling w/ Varv and Linda, and brunch w/ Erika and friends.
One of the biggest revelations of the trip was the realization that there are numerous, attractive, single females in the world who notice my existence and appreciate partaking in conversations. I need to do a better job of finding a more local variety.
When talking to my mother yesterday, I said, “I’m going home to Nebraska for Thanksgiving.” My family lives in Colorado, but apparently the years I spent in Lincoln still have me thinking of it as home.
In any case, I’ll be in Lincoln/Omaha from November 25 to November 30. I look forward to seeing my college friends and doing some conversational catch-up on life. Since I was last in Nebraska, I’ve changed jobs twice, gained fifteen pounds, and developed a fondness for Norwegian symphonic metal. Glorious.
If you’re going to be in Nebraska, give me a hollar! I’ll try to setup a get together of some kind for whoever is going to be around and wants to hang out on a day other than Thanksgiving.
Dancing 2008 from Where the Hell Is Matt?
I found this video incredibly inspiring. It’s one further push in the direction I’m leaning.
“Which direction is that?” you ask.
Whichever direction takes me around the world. Seattle is a good center point, but I need to TRAVEL!!! All y’all in Nebraska or Kansas or Illinois or Colorado or wherever who are married or working or in college… well, I’m hoping to take advantage of my singleness and my freeness and do something spectacular with it. Now I’ve just gotta work on my dance moves. Perhaps I should ask Jake for some pointers?