Good Times, Good Times

This weekend has been atypical. But awesome. My dear hubby and I usually have a weekend routine, hanging out with our good buds, and it is always wonderful. But this weekend we had a couple differnt events come up, so we broke our habit. Friday night we went to dinner with my boss, Al, and his wife, Sue. We had a delicious meal at Bravo, and enjoyed getting to visit with very nice, generous people. Al has been really good to me, and I'll get to keep working with him through my new job at ORNL, as I will be the liaison to the Neutron Sciences folks. So glad I get to stay involved with the neutron community. :)
Saturday, I got together with 2 lovely lady librarian friends, Anya and Erin. We planned to watch both of the Twilight movies that are on DVD, but due to some technical issues, we only got to watch the first one. Which is fine because now we have an excuse to get together again soon. This was our second movie + delicious food date. The first was when we got together at Erin's for "Gone With the Wind", homemade BBQ, banana pudding, and other goodies. Our Twilight date was equally awesome. Anya hosted us with some delicious homemade lasagna (must get the recipe!), "werewolf kibble" (chocolate and PB chex mix- so good!), garlic bread, and veggies. Everything was awesome. Anya even had a Twilight themed beverage-- Bloody Bellas. It was a juicy punch spiked with ginger ale. I have never read any Twilight books or seen any Twilight movies. To be honest, I was expecting it to be a little lame, but was still excited because of good friends and good food. But I was pleasantly surprised. I can definitely understand how the Twilight universe could generate such fandom. :) Oh, yeah, we also all went on an outing to get gellato. Coconut gellato = the shizzle.
So after that fantastic afternoon, and a promise of reconvening for "New Moon" in the near future, I met up with my hubs and we went to a birthday party for one of his classmates. Played an awesome board game called "Things," and visited with his cohort. There are so really funny people in his school psych program. We got home fairly late, but it was a good day.
I am so thankful to have such an abundance of awesome people to hang out with.
And now I need to wrap this up, as it's time to proof read Charles's NASP proposals. He is making dinner while I proof read. Sweet deal, eh? :)