busy weekend
Or, I got to be very social at least, even if I didn't feel like I actually accomplished anything. I'd planned to do some catching up yesterday after being so busy but, well, that didn't really happen. Oops.
Friday night I went to see a concert at the local outdoor music venue with my family. We saw The Killdares, a localish celtic rock band with a bagpipe player, a fiddle player, and a lead singer who is also their drummer. They're one of my favorite bands! They play at the State Fair of Texas, which we always go to, and they play this venue at least every few years, so I get to see them in concert fairly often. It's really nice :) Here is the sibling and me, and some not-very-good-quality pics of the band:
Saturday we went to the annual EcoFest event. It's basically vendors from eco and animal rights companies/organizations, food, and activities like planting a flower or whatever. It was fairly interesting the first year, but it's been pretty much the same since then so it's kind of lost its appeal. The best part is the little petting zoo they have set up. It has pigs! I love pigs! Getting to pet the pigglets at least made me happy! :)
After that we stopped at a garage sale and I got some pretty good stuff. Cute dress that actually fits really well (and is unfortunately dry clean only...), a necklace, and a basket that will probably be used for my crafty business.
And then game night with the friends as usual. Though not so usual bc we now have two people regularly ditching out on us instead of just one :/ It caused quite a bit of drama, unfortunately. But we got to play Love Letter and Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It, both of which I really love, so it was fun for a bit.
Sunday (or, well, all weekend really) was the biannual library book sale. At the end of the sale on Sunday they always let teachers come and take as many books as they want (they actually encourage them to take more no matter how many boxes they have lol) for a small donation. My dad is a teacher, so we always end up with tons of books basically for free. Our goal was no more than six boxes and we ended up with five, so we did pretty well lol I personally ended up with about 65 books (and a set of VHSs)! They have been put away on my already overflowing shelves... Someday I'll stop getting so many books, but that time is obviously not now.
Friday night I went to see a concert at the local outdoor music venue with my family. We saw The Killdares, a localish celtic rock band with a bagpipe player, a fiddle player, and a lead singer who is also their drummer. They're one of my favorite bands! They play at the State Fair of Texas, which we always go to, and they play this venue at least every few years, so I get to see them in concert fairly often. It's really nice :) Here is the sibling and me, and some not-very-good-quality pics of the band:
Saturday we went to the annual EcoFest event. It's basically vendors from eco and animal rights companies/organizations, food, and activities like planting a flower or whatever. It was fairly interesting the first year, but it's been pretty much the same since then so it's kind of lost its appeal. The best part is the little petting zoo they have set up. It has pigs! I love pigs! Getting to pet the pigglets at least made me happy! :)
After that we stopped at a garage sale and I got some pretty good stuff. Cute dress that actually fits really well (and is unfortunately dry clean only...), a necklace, and a basket that will probably be used for my crafty business.
And then game night with the friends as usual. Though not so usual bc we now have two people regularly ditching out on us instead of just one :/ It caused quite a bit of drama, unfortunately. But we got to play Love Letter and Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It, both of which I really love, so it was fun for a bit.
Sunday (or, well, all weekend really) was the biannual library book sale. At the end of the sale on Sunday they always let teachers come and take as many books as they want (they actually encourage them to take more no matter how many boxes they have lol) for a small donation. My dad is a teacher, so we always end up with tons of books basically for free. Our goal was no more than six boxes and we ended up with five, so we did pretty well lol I personally ended up with about 65 books (and a set of VHSs)! They have been put away on my already overflowing shelves... Someday I'll stop getting so many books, but that time is obviously not now.
Nice haul, wow, wish I had space for that many books xD;;
I really really don't have the space XD I'm constantly afraid that the books that are stacked about 3 feet high on top of one of the bookshelves is going to fall on me...
8D; I live in a one room flat, so space is always an issue xD;;;;;
I love pigs too! I used to have a pretty substantial pig collection. I should dig out those boxes.
We play a lot of board games too (as well as DnD). I haven't heard of Love Letter before.
Yes books! Looks like quite a success.
Whoo pigs! I've been cutting down on my pig collection, but I still have a ton...
I haven't played DnD in ages since most of my friends aren't quite that geeky and the one who would prob run our game has been ditching lately. Maybe I can get her to play in the spring once she's graduated. Love Letter is really fun! Basically you have cards for different people in the palace and the higher the card, the more likely it is that that person would be able to take your "love letter" to the princess. You're trying to get the highest card by the end of the round, which means your love letter got to the princess, and the first person to four wins since the princess fell in love with them through the letters. It's a pretty simple and quick game but you have to do some strategizing.
It is fun! Quick card games are a lot of fun, especially since I get easily bored lol The only other one we usually play is Coup. What's Splendor?
Coup is a game where you play nobles trying to stage a coup. You get two cards that represent your influence in the court and each of the cards does something different. Basically you go around trying to collect money and assassinate or coup the other players and the last person with a card left wins. It was one of my faves until we got Love Letter lol
And I definitely think splendor is worth it, we've played it a bunch.
Edited at 2015-09-27 06:45 pm (UTC)