the less said about curling the better
curling has started and for i think the first time ever my team lost in a shutout. we called it early because after a while that's just embarrassing. my team is a guy i know because i've curled with him before and two new curlers who... play like new curlers. one of them reminds me of someone but i have no idea who. she looks familiar in a "i know someone who looks like you" kind of way. i fell twice and did not play fabulously well but to be fair it's been a while and if i'm stiff tomorrow i am going to be so annoyed.
last night i went out for dinner for friend r's birthday at a restaurant down the street from where i work. i've even been there before. (their tacos are yummy.) i got shrimp ceviche because i was really feeling it for some shrimp, and it was like gazpacho with shrimp. (friend r's husband referred to it as "aggressively soupy".) which is... not what i thought ceviche was. tasted good but if i wanted gazpacho i would've ordered gazpacho.
(we also got hot queso dip and street corn dip for the table and they were both fabulous so the ceviche might've just been a misstep.)
it was fun and seeing people in person still hasn't gotten old but the thing is sometimes i feel like a fifth wheel with these folks. don't get me wrong - they're my friends and i like spending time with them and (i assume) they like spending time with me and if friend r didn't want me there she wouldn't have invited me and it's not like everyone was having private conversations without me - there were only six of us - but at the same time i felt kind of like the extra random friend. and i have no idea why! it was really frustrating.
in unrelated news i committed to nano and have no idea what to write. >.< i have two ideas - one's a combination of two unused bigbang ideas and one is kind of a sequel to a previous nano focusing on some supporting characters - but i don't think i like either of them. i have a month, so we'll see.
last night i went out for dinner for friend r's birthday at a restaurant down the street from where i work. i've even been there before. (their tacos are yummy.) i got shrimp ceviche because i was really feeling it for some shrimp, and it was like gazpacho with shrimp. (friend r's husband referred to it as "aggressively soupy".) which is... not what i thought ceviche was. tasted good but if i wanted gazpacho i would've ordered gazpacho.
(we also got hot queso dip and street corn dip for the table and they were both fabulous so the ceviche might've just been a misstep.)
it was fun and seeing people in person still hasn't gotten old but the thing is sometimes i feel like a fifth wheel with these folks. don't get me wrong - they're my friends and i like spending time with them and (i assume) they like spending time with me and if friend r didn't want me there she wouldn't have invited me and it's not like everyone was having private conversations without me - there were only six of us - but at the same time i felt kind of like the extra random friend. and i have no idea why! it was really frustrating.
in unrelated news i committed to nano and have no idea what to write. >.< i have two ideas - one's a combination of two unused bigbang ideas and one is kind of a sequel to a previous nano focusing on some supporting characters - but i don't think i like either of them. i have a month, so we'll see.