Well, that was suitably pleasant.
Jason and Jessi were kind enough to let me have St. Patrick's dinner with them tonight. So, after my class, I drove across town to Jason's new apartment -- which is really nice looking, from the three rooms I saw. 'Home-y,' too. and it only took, like, 20minutes to get there, as opposed to the 45 the last time I tried to get over that way -- mostly because I didn't get lost. Until I entered the building. Who knew room 117 would be so hard to find. In my defense, all the apartment doors looked like broom closets with numbers next to them, so...
I picked up some beer on the way over there; I wanted to get Guinness, but at 8pm on St. Patrick's day, the closest they had was 'extra stout.' Which I got, because I'd promised myself that I would have a Guinness to celebrate. And I did. Have a Guiness. As in singular. And I liked it, too: it was good to the last drop. But that last drop was *really* bitter! It took me as long to finish that last bit as it did for the whole rest of the beer. But it was good, I think.
Jessi made a wonderful dinner, with real corned beef, and those sorts of half-mashed potatoes, with the, uhm, green things in'em. She didn't know this, but I really *love* those kind of potatoes; extra points. And she had cheese-bread biscuits and buttered corn. And we had beer and cider. And there was joy. Dinner got off on a good foot with Jason's graceful cutting of the cornbeef, followed by Jessi's graceful buttering of her bread, and all mixed in with my graceful, uhm... well, I'm sure I contributed *something*.
Afterward we sat and placed a quick game of 'Scene It', which is a how-much-useless-trivia-about-movies-do-YOU-know game. I answered some question about a computer-based sci-fi movie with Keanu Reeves (anyone else see that one?), but that was about it. Jason *should* have won, I think, cause he knew the most about the movies, but Jessi did in the end, mostly because he missed the one about Nick Cage playing a mopey angel...
We also played a game of "Chez Geek" I think it was (and had ice cream) which was a *really* fun game that I want to get a copy. Each player is some geek or another, presumably sharing an apartment with each other, and the goal is to earn the most slack points. Jessi got really close -- about 16 points of her goal of 18 -- but at the last second Jason killed her dog and I snuck in with a jump from 16 to 19 for the win.
Oh, I even found something green to wear! My ancestors are so proud. It was actually my old YOA shirt, YOA being my youth group in highschool. -grins- Tribe of Judah, and all that, though no one here but my relatives have any idea what that means. I wore it under my grey stafford shirt (which I love very much), mostly because then you couldn't see the large "YOA" logo on the back (which would embarrass me), and partly just because I don't often feel comfortable in just a t-shirt. I unbottoned it while at Jason's, and I have it just so now, and I must say I kinda like it. It's probably some kind of fashion crime (brown cords, grey stafford unbuttoned over a green t-shirt), but I rather like it.
Thank you very much, Jessi and Jason, for having me over. It made my day, and the food really was delicious; just like Aunt Mary-Lou would make it! -laughs-
