best weekend ever?

well. maybe not ever, but yall, it's come pretty damn close.

friday evening.

missy and i had some quality bonding time - you know, because we never see or talk to each other.  since she got herself knocked up, our bonding time can no longer involve this or this, so  we've had to resort other forms of (non-liquid) entertainment.  luckily, we were both obsessed with so you think you can dance this summer.  and luckily, missy thinks ahead and made sure we would get to bask in the amazing talent of season 4 when the tour came to the G-P.  and ohmygoodness was it worth it.  first of all, i am jealous of people who can remember all of the moves to the cotton-eyed joe, so i imagine how amazed i am by those who can dance.  like "4 real."  (just a little sytycd humor for those of us in the know . . . )  to top it off, we had crazy awesome seats.  just to prove it, here are a couple of pictures of the dancers.

mark - ica's favorite

katee and joshua after their "no air" routine.  

joshua was the winner and he is a southwest fort worth kiddo, so the crowd was super pumped to see him.  including missy and me.  katee is just freaking amazing.  

so yeah.  one heck of a start to the weekend.

saturday.

i have a three-day weekend to 'celebrate' the arrival of smallpox in america, AKA christopher columbus day.  this little fall break always falls (coincidence?) on texas and ou weekend in dallas.  and i always leave town.  i hadn't really made any plans for the weekend, so i called my parents on thursday night and said, hey.  i'm coming home.  because if i don't come home this weekend, you won't get to see me until thanksgiving and how sad for you.  (plus, gas was CHEAP this weekend.)

sooooo.  i left early - after a mad search for my cell phone that made me run around my apartment complex thinking it had fallen out of my pocket, when really, i had never unplugged it from the charger.  but whatevs.  i got home just in time to watch a little of the first half of the red river rivalry.  but uncharacteristically, i didn't really feel like watching it, so my mom and i went shopping instead and i somehow forgot about the insanity going on at the cotton bowl.  until i got the following text from rena: congratulations on this a tragic day.  rena is a sooner, so i used my powerful skills of deductive reasoning and realized that the longhorns had just made me a very happy person.  cuz yeah.  i do not like ou.  at all.  ever.  and any day they lose, well, that's a good day for this cowboy fan.  

my excitement was short-lived, though.  i knew that my pokes would be taking on a mizzou team (how i feel about ou?  yeah.  pretty much the same when it comes to mizzou.) that would know that if they beat us then they would be #1.  yikes.  to distract from the stress, the 'rents and i moseyed on over to the most osu friendly establishment we could think of - hideaway!  and proceeded to watch the first half and stuff our faces with the pizza of the gods. (which by the way, if you haven't tried the 'new' 1957 crust at hideaway, DO IT.)

and holy crap.  i just realized how long this post is getting.  so let me fill you in quickly.  those cowboys?  the ones who EVERY SINGLE ANALYST said were going to have a 'wakeup call' in columbia?  the ones who had an "over-rated defense"?  yeah.  those cowboys beat mizzou with no flashy plays or flukes.  not only did they beat mizzou, but NOW they are undefeated and in the AP top 10.

it was a good day to be wearing orange.

sunday.

family time.  ica drove over with ella the puppy.  we had aunt sylva's cherry pie.  the other cowboys are winning.  i've got good music to jam to as i drive home.  the sun is shining - i'm wearing a sweater and flip flops, which is my FAVORITE type of weather.  and i don't have to work tomorrow.

all of this goodness makes it entirely bearable to drive down i-35 here in the next hour or so.

as will my last dr pepper from sonic.