saturday

this post about saturday begins where friday's left off - at the stroke of midnight, i was playing ice hockey at the cooler. the game went until about 1:30am and then there was some drinking & grilling. i am very excited about my team this season, mainly because our jerseys are black, which is really kick-ass. i am also pumped because some people told me i have improved about 100% from last season. i also like the fact that there are four girls on the team.

saturday afternoon andy went with me to target to exchange some shoes. immediately we noticed that it was "bring your baby to target day." ugh. there were babies everywhere. babies in carriers, babies in the shopping carts, babies strapped to their parents' chests...you seriously could not escape them. one of them looked at me and i got nervous. anyway, once we got out of baby-fest 2008 we went to tjmaxx. navigating through the parking lot was a complete disaster. we ended up parking on the side of some building waaaay far away, due to the chaos. there was a big q100 banner and then i remembered what the madness was about - q100 was sponsoring free self defense seminars for women all over the metro area as a response to the situation with meredith emerson, the lone north georgia hiker who went missing and was found dead three days later. anyway, i think these seminars are a pretty good idea, because like, even people that have martial arts training don't know what techniques to use when someone is actually trying to hurt them. i mean, a spin-stomp-kick wheel-kick combo might look pretty cool, but you're better off just kicking the guy in the balls.

and of course, i must mention the events of saturday evening - kristen's bachelorette party. met some new people, chatted with some old georgia tech band acquaintances, ate lots of gluten-free food, and talked about girl stuff. i was definitely the drunkest one there, which was the role i had planned on assuming. anyway, it was not your typical penis-themed party, which i was thankful for.