The Last Of January

The year is 1/12th of the way over already.

The last day of January was excellent. It started of with some nicer weather as we got above freezing for the first time in a long time. The sun was shining and some of the snow began melting. The hope for spring is all the more real with Ground Hog's Day tomorrow (even though it doesn't mean anything).

I had a basketball game at noon and we played extremely poorly by dropping passes and not getting rebounds. We were down by seven at half time but we started playing much better defense and we ended up winning by two within the last few second. So we remain undefeated at 3-0. In two weeks we'll have a double header and I already know that I'm going to be dead after that.

Cait and I received a gift card to Chili's for Christmas from my uncle, so we decided to use it up in one shot by taking Mike and Giselle with us. I didn't know Chili's was the hot spot in town because this place was packed with a 40+ minute wait! After about 10 minutes Mike was able to box out everyone out and snag a table in the bar area. We decided to get a bunch of appetizers and share everything rather than entrees and it worked out perfectly.

There is a Half Price Books around the corner from the Chili's and once Mike heard this, we had to go. I'd have to say it's his favorite store, not just because it's a bookstore, but because they are half price too! They have music and movies too and we found out that they have board games as well. We found a glow in the dark Ouija board for only $5.00 and decided to get it. I never had one of these as a kid and I guess none of my friends did either because I never used one and as a result have never had anything eerie or strange happen while using one. After asking several times if a spirit was present, we had no results. I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen, but I was bummed that nothing happened for some reason.

The only logical spot for dessert was to revisit Margie's Candies and get some more outstanding sundaes. It was crowded as usual, but there were some overly annoying people who were obviously not from the area. It was cougar-like moms and their weird tough-guy boyfriends/husbands. They were loud and started getting in the face of one of the people working there because they did not get seated fast enough. After getting the the poor guys face he mocked him by trying to be buddy-buddy with him and giving him a side hug. Kind of put a damper on the experience, but I still enjoyed the banana split, it's beats the milkshake.

After giving up on the Ouija board we watched a couple of episodes of our new favorite show It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and called it a night.

February is here.