It's Monday again already??

Well friends, a lot has happened since my last post on Thursday (still excited about that hahaha)...

For starters, Nick broke himself.

Well, he didn't actually break himself, but he was playing ultimate frisbee on Wednesday and when he jumped up to catch the disc he landed very very wrong on his right foot. He could wiggle his toes without excruciating pain, so we figured it wasn't broken, but boy was it swollen! He's iced it regularly and done some soaking back and forth between a bucket of ice and one with hot water and epsom salt, so since then the swelling has gone down, but now the bruising is what's bad. His foot has a rainbow of colors on it, and even between his toes is bruised! He's sore, but he's doing better, and of course I'm trying to nurse him back to health as best I can even though I have to leave him while I'm at work all day :( I feel terrible because my house is two stories, so after I get him cereal for breakfast and leave for work (like this morning), I come home to a very hungry boy because he doesn't want to deal with hobbling (or in most cases, crawling) down the stairs to get more food, and I don't blame him! Hopefully he'll be back on his feet soon!

Besides that whole unfortunate event, the past few days have been pretty good. I worked, made tips on Saturday (which are already gone due to late-night Jimmy John's after said serving shift and groceries... why must we eat so much?), sang for Jazz Sunday service at church, and had fun on my first floor set at The Limited. This weekend also brought an unexpected reunion. Friday night I received a call from our good friend, Brian Parrish, and his wife, Ashley. Brian is one of Nick's SAE brothers, and I first met him and Ashley during my visits to Millikin the year I was living in Chicago. Brian has been a great friend to Nick, and Ashley and I hit it off right away, and we always have fun when we're together! Anywho, they were going to be in Springfield from Friday to Saturday and wanted us to meet them for lunch on Saturday. We drove up with our other good friend, Andrew (Brian and Ashley are his "Bigs"), and stumbled upon a great all-you-can-eat sushi place for only $12.95!!! We were a little skeptical at first, but it turned out to be AMAZING. The sushi was so good and the pieces were all a pretty good size! We realized halfway through our meal that the $12.95 also included the Chinese buffet, and even though we were about to burst from the sushi, we of course hit up the buffet as well. It was "All-you-can-eat" after all...

Our meal was fantastic, but as all get-togethers with those two, it seemed to fly by way too fast. Brian and Ashley are two wonderful people who make you so happy just being around them. And when we all get together, there is lots of laughter. Not just any kind of laughter, but full, loud, and heartfelt laughter. It just makes you feel good. We said our goodbyes not knowing when we'd all get together, but knowing that it would always be like that whenever we did! The good thing is that I wasn't expecting to see them at all this weekend, but I did, and that's the best. Dontcha love it when life does that to you?

Now it's Monday, and after a rousing game of chess with Andrew (their new obsession.. it's kind of cute), Nick is read for some ice cream. Ta-ta for now!