A Typical Weekend

Because all my readers have been asking what I do on a typical weekend (not really), I will go through these last 48 hours or so in detail to try and capture what I do with my time off in Austin, TX.

FRIDAY NIGHT:
Right after work on Friday I went with a couple of friends to a bar down the street from the CPS offices and we had a drink or two. Most of the conversation gravitated toward whether or not we planned on staying in Austin for more than a year or so. We always talk about things like this because virtually everyone I hang out with is not an indigenous Austinite (half the time we came from a few thousand miles away actually). I guess all of us moved here because we wanted something new and exciting but we tend to always talk about moving back to our respective homes for some reason. The jury is still out on this one, however, because it seemed like the consensus of the conversation was: "Who knows?"

After the bar we went to see I Am Legend with Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for those of you who don't know him). I liked it. After that, I went home and went to sleep 'cause I've been sick for much of the last two weeks and didn't want to string myself out any more.

SATURDAY:
I woke up at 7:30am because my friggin' room gets uber-bright in the mornings due to the lack of quality blinds I have on my windows. I ate some breakfast, cleaned up my house, and watched some DVDs (I still don't have cable...although not for a lack of trying. I got the DirectTV people to come out to my house to install satellite TV and they told me that my balcony didn't face the right direction so they left. Oh well). After spending a few hours hanging out with myself, I went back to sleep (I'm sick remember).

SATURDAY NIGHT:
I woke up the second time around 4pm or so. I got showered and dressed and ventured out to go buy a new tire for my bike and a big canvas from Michaels craft store. The canvas is going to be the second piece of home-made paintings for my apartment (the first coming from my lovely sister-in-law Shirin). I think I'm going to paint it all black and just sort of throw white paint at it till it looks like something out of a high class art gallery. We'll see how it goes...

After all my shopping was over I cooked some dinner and then went to meet some friends downtown. I ended up going to a few different bars and meeting up with a few different friends. It wasn't a big night or anything but I still had a good time seeing some people I hadn't seen since before Christmas. I went home around 1am (if you had come this weekend Casey it would have been a longer night than that - I promise).

SUNDAY:
This day I spent working around the house. I sanded and stained a chest of drawers I got from my parent's house in Florida, I painted my big canvas black, I washed all my dishes (in the sink mind you!), and I spent some time outside just hanging out in my apartment complex. This last bit doesn't seem all that fun (and it wasn't for much of the time) but I ended up meeting two of my neighbors who seemed really cool. One of them had kids and when I told her who I worked for she immediately started explaining that the scratch little Mckenzie (her daughter) had on her face was because of their dog (I guess I have to start expecting this reaction from parents sometimes). Overall, it was a pretty cool day though and I now know a few more people in Austin (ya know, in case I need to be taken to the hospital after one of my "home renovations" goes awry or something).

And that's pretty much it. A nice, relaxing weekend. Time to start work again I guess...