Weekend highlights

[thenerdygirl]

It's another list post because I did not get enough sleep last night and doubt my ability to write a coherent post.

Gym! - John and I hit the gym twice this weekend, once on Friday and once on Sunday. We’ve been going every second day so far although I think it won’t be long until we start going every day. It’s not nearly as busy as I thought it would be which is really nice as we have no trouble getting the equipment we want to use. Whether or not it will stay that way when the fall semester starts remains to be seen but I’m hopeful. I think a lot of students prefer to use field house or Goodlife over the Aquareana.

Sakura Sushi - Friday night John and I checked out a new local sushi spot called Sakura Sushi. The place is small, a little run down and painted like a Barbie doll box pink but the food was good, easily on par with our current favourite sushi place, Sun Sushi. Afterward we walked around Churchill Square and grabbed ice cream at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for desert.

Avalon Expo -We checked out the latest Con (Comic? Geek? It wasn’t really defined) and got to see a lot of cool costumes and geeky merchandise. It was hard to resist spending and ultimately I didn’t as I picked up three Lego minifigures for my collection but I didn’t spend very much and they were ones I wanted. We didn’t stick around for the panels because none of them really interested us and we had plans.

Agent 47 - Saw that Saturday night and I enjoyed it for the simple action movie that it was. Except for the strobe light scene at the beginning, that one was near headache educing and just poorly done as it made it hard to watch the action which, you know, is the whole point of an action movie. I mean, it’s great if the story is good but action movies are more about visuals and stunt work for me. Thankfully everything else was much better.

Texas Hold ‘Em - The lovely lady_green_bat had a Texas Hold ‘Em fundraiser for her upcoming art show and while I had fun, I also put my ignorance of poker on display. One, I thought we had to cover the monetary value of the chips used. We didn’t, this was covered by the entrance fee which was obvious in retrospect. Two, I accidentally won a couple of games. I literally thought I had nothing in my hand only to have other, more experienced, players point that I actually had winning hands. In my defense it was my first time at Texas Hold ‘Em event. I would certainly play again though.

I have quite a bit of post reading to catch up on it seems but I hope everyone had a good weekend!

Comments

[viciousladybug.livejournal.com]

Good on you for getting to the gym twice in one weekend! Weekends are the worst for me. My husband is a bad influence, so I don't usually work out. :p

[thenerdygirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! So far we've just been doing 30/40 minutes so I think that helps make it easier. Especially since we always went for walks in the evening and now we've just swapped that out for going to the gym.

[lyssa027.livejournal.com]

I like comic like cons :) always great things to see and check out

[thenerdygirl.livejournal.com]

I really liked this recent one because it was in a much bigger, well lit space. So easy to get around. The last Scifi Con I went to was in a much smaller space at a hotel and with all the people it was enochlophobic inducing for me.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

LOL I love that you won a few games of Hold 'Em without even trying. I always wish that would happen to me when we play poker. I'm just awful at those games. :P

[thenerdygirl.livejournal.com]

It was pretty funny and I wish I had done it a few times more, especially when the more hard core poker grannies came to our table. I'm pretty awful at them too. The only card games I can remember how to play are go fish & crazy eights.

[twodottedlines.livejournal.com]

What type of stuff do you do at the gym? Cardio/weights/etc? I still find - after years of having a membership - that it can be so hard to get up and go. But paying for the membership keeps me going. Motivation ;)

[thenerdygirl.livejournal.com]

Mostly cardio, I like the lateral elliptical and rowing machines the best but I have been trying out the weight machines more this week just to get a feel for them. I'm also a big fan of swimming but haven't had the chance to get back at it.

Paying for it was a motivation at first until winter hit but I'm feeling more motivated now that I have someone to go with. It's nice because it gives us something to do rather than the usual movie dates or hanging out. We still do all that of course but now we don't feel so guilty for watching TV after lol