So We Lie Here In The Dark

The weather is very tricky lately. Last week, it suddenly became more fall-like than ever and now leaves are falling (CLRG says that that's to do with the huge amounts of snowfall we had in the winter) and temperatures are lower. I am looking forward to autumn, but I will miss the warmth when it's 35 degrees out in a few months. Blah.

The weekend was a good one. CLRG and I went to a delicious pizza place nearby, watched college football at a bar down the street, and napped on Saturday. On Sunday, I worked and then watched the Steelers game. In the evening, Howie (if that is a nickname already, I probably don't have to give him another on the blog, right?) came over and I made spaghetti and then he, CLRG and I walked up to the Regent Square Theatre to see Repo Man. It was crazy and awesome. You should see it sometime.

Tonight, I am meeting K for dinner. Tomorrow, I am going to a movie with A. I'm excited for both things.

Oh! Last night I was telling CLRG about my plans to go to the Italian for Beginners class at the library and he indicated that he would like to go also. I registered us for the class today. It starts next week, I think. I'm very excited. I miss being in a classroom, even though I haven't studied a language in years. Oops.

Starfish and Coffee, Maple Syrup and Jam

The Steelers won the Super Bowl on Sunday night! It was a crazy game. I watched the game at CLRG's house with some of his friends and Elle. I was wearing a Bettis jersey, waving a Terrible Towel, and jumping on the couch. When they won, I could hear fireworks all over the neighborhood. People were screaming, waving Towels from their cars and lighting things on fire in Oakland. Ridiculous. CLRG is still beaming. It makes me really happy when he smiles like that.

In other news, I am so completely psyched to move with Elle to a super cute apartment come August, when this lease is up. We have lots of grand plans are determined to have the cutest apartment ever. I really just want that time to come now. I'm tired of waiting. Haha. Impatient? Oh, probably.

Swallow Words One by One

There has, obviously, been a lot of Steeler-talk around here since Sunday's victory. Yesterday, CLRG sent me this article and I thought it was very interesting.

Read and enjoy, then get all wild with Black and Gold Fever. It seems appropriate.

These Are the Days of Endless Dreaming

The Steelers are going to the Super Bowl! I watched the AFC Championship game with Elle and CLRG and one of his friends last night and it was very exciting. Especially Polamalu's touchdown in the 4th or whatever. I do not yet have the rabid devotion to the Black and Gold that everyone in this city does. I was trying to make myself feel more invested in the game last night by reminding myself that it equated with the ALCS and such. Next: the equivalent of the World Series. It makes more sense to me when I put it in terms of baseball and think about the Tigers. Yep, yep. Elle and I played some Guitar Hero as well last night and that was interesting. We were both playing on medium a couple of times and not doing totally awesome, but okay. I think we'll improve with time. Haha.

Last night, Chuck IMed me for the first time since November. I replied, but heard nothing. Same thing happened this morning and I was getting kind of annoyed. I think I am open for casual IM conversations, but to IM me and then not do anything seemed kind of ridiculous. We're talking right now and it's going okay.

I watched Iron Man this weekend after a dinner at Aladdin's with CLRG. I would say that we watched the movie, but he totally fell asleep. Haha. I really liked it. It seemed to me to be the most realistic superhero movie I've seen. You know? It didn't really strike me as strange or fantastic that Tony Stark would be doing the things he was doing. Everything made sense. It was a quality movie. Maybe someday I will watch it again and CLRG can watch it, too, and stay awake. :oP

I just realized today that Valentine's Day is coming up pretty quickly. I mean, sort of. What do I do for that? Christmas was tricky enough. I had a thought today that involved me making dinner for CLRG and us going to see a movie. I was hoping that there might be an old movie playing at a local theatre and we could go to that. Or we could just watch an old movie here at my house. Or at his. I don't know. We went to a theatre in Regent Square to see a movie from the 70s with his parents a month or so ago and that was nice. Maybe they do that frequently. I will have to research.

Are You Dead, Or Are You Sleeping?

Today has been a lazy sort of day. I went to work at 6am, but was sent home by 10:30 because business was slow and there were four people on the line. Lame. I came home and took a nap until 1, when I would have been out of work anyway. Then I started laundry, did a little reading, made some lunch, watched a little tv. It was actually pretty nice.

Tonight is the AFC championship and the Steelers are playing the Ravens. My presence is requested at CLRG's house, per usual, so I need to get ready to go soon. Watching games with him is always pretty low-key. He'll have some friends over, there'll be beer, I'll play Guitar Hero with Elle. That kind of stuff. Also, I am pretty sure that Elle and I are the only people in the entire city that do not own Steelers apparel. Ridiculous, right? I know. It's practically blasphemy.