"Matty Mattster" Weekend

Matt came to see me this weekend! As for the title of this entry, two of my roommates, Jessica and Kirby, like to come up with different names for Matt when he's not here. "Matty McMatterson" was a popular one, but I think in the end "Matty Mattster" was the most popular. :) Anyway, we had a good time getting to hang out and tour good ‘ol Edmond, OK. When he got here on Friday I was pretty worn out. I had just gotten back from my first softball practice and I was pooped! I’ll tell a little bit about that first.

We only practiced for about two hours but it seemed like a lifetime. I am so severely out of shape! If I imagine myself in the shape that I was in during high school, it would’ve been an easy practice. But of course, I am far from being in as good of shape as I was in high school! I had been really nervous about practice because I haven’t played in such a long time. I was pleasantly surprised that, when I’m not huffing and puffing for air, I can still throw, catch and field a softball! We didn’t practice any hitting so I’m not sure how that will go, but I did okay! I am VERY sore, and I’m not sure that I’ll be in much condition to practice tomorrow afternoon but I guess I’ll have to try!

So anyway, after I got cleaned up I took Matt to Moe’s. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love Moe’s. We hung out there for a while then came back to the apartment to hang out. We watched TV for a little while then decided to go drive around. I took him to a park in Edmond that has a neat little pond and gazebo and cute little ducks. J It was already pretty dark outside and we were walking out on the deck area by the pond when I saw something on the ground. I just thought it was a wad of trash or something and I almost stepped on it! I have a little light on my keychain so I put the light on the ground to see what it was. All I saw were eyes staring back at me! It kind of took me a minute of looking into its eyes before it hit me that this thing was alive. When it did hit me I jumped and possibly screamed like a little girl. After I scared myself and Matt with my screaming I couldn’t help but crack up laughing. It was just a silly frog! In my defense it was a HUGE frog! I think I also scared the frog a little bit because it took off for the water!

After that we went and saw a movie called Superbad. It was funny at times but mainly it was just very filthy. I wouldn’t recommend it. That’s all I have to say about that.

Matt stayed with a couple of guys here at OC that were in his youth group in high school, Jordan and Ryan. They are both a year younger than we are and they just transfered to OC. I got the chance to go to camp with both of them this summer and they are really fun guys! At first I had planned on Matt staying with someone at the apartments, but I think he felt more comfortable staying with people he knew! :)

The next morning I went and picked up Krispy Kreme donuts! They were sooo yummy. So after we stuffed our faces with donuts and strawberry milk we went over to Quail Springs mall to look around for a little while. We didn’t really find anything there that interested us much so we decided to leave. By this time it was almost lunch time (keep in mind we didn’t even wake up until around 10:30 or 11:00 or so!). I took Matt to a place called Café de Taipei. Mom, dad, Jason, and Summer have all been there with me before. My favorite thing to get there is a Thai Tea with cream smoothie! I couldn’t wait to get it in my hands and I couldn’t wait for Matt to taste its greatness. Turns out, they were out of thai tea! I was so disappointed. So instead I got a Black Tea with cream smoothie. It was pretty good, but nothing compared to the other!

We went back to the apartment and got a few things, and let Matt submit an assignment for one of his online classes then we took off for our next adventure! We went out to Lake Arcadia. I had never been there before but I had been told it was nice. We walked around the edge of the lake for a little while then found a bench shaped rock in the shade! It was very hot, so finding a place to sit in the shade was very refreshing. It felt kind of like a chick flick to me… you know, holding hands walking along the rocks at the lake with the water washing over our feet while looking at the cloudless sky and abundance of green trees? I’m sure Matt was thinking, “How much longer are we going to be here?” :) Haha! No, we had a good time just hanging out together at the lake. We had been told that there was a restaurant on the lake that had an outdoor patio seating. We were planning on going there but it turns out that the closest thing to a restaurant that they had there was a concession stand that had hot dogs and cokes. We decided to go somewhere else.

Well, where else but Texas Roadhouse! The food was, of course, wonderful. I suppose the only downside was all of the ou fans that were sitting at the bar watching the football game. When we first got there the game hadn’t been on long and ou was beating UNT by two touchdowns. I knew it wasn’t real likely that UNT would win but I was sure pulling for an upset. So I decided to make it known to the entire restaurant that I was pulling for UNT. So I sat up straight in our booth and shouted, “WOO! GO MEAN GREEN!” Everyone started looking at me and I had a few rolls thrown at my head, which I wasn’t complaining about because… well, have you had their rolls?! Ok, ok… maybe it didn’t QUITE happen that way. But I did say in a slightly louder than normal voice, “Go Mean Green!” After only a few minutes ou had extended their lead by about four touchdowns. I did get a little excited when ou fumbled the ball and UNT recovered. I only got one look from a lady nearby for my excitement about the play. It could’ve been a lot worse… those of you who know me know how much I love my college football! My dad would’ve been proud of me and found it slightly amusing and my mother would've been hiding her face behind a menu. Oh the joys of growing up with two older brothers…

After dinner we went and saw the movie Bourne Ultimatum. It was much better than the movie we saw the night before! I was worried that I would just be confused through the whole thing since I couldn’t clearly remember all that happened in the first two. It wasn’t too bad though! I thought it was a very good movie. We were pretty worn out after that so we just hung out at the apartment for a little while then went to bed.

This morning we went to a church that neither of us had been to before. It is called Church of the Harvest. It is a non-denominational church. It was different from what both of us regularly attend but it was pretty nice. The people there were very friendly and made us feel very welcome. Matt analyzed each member of the band then told me how “stinkin’ good” some of them were on certain parts. You can’t just listen to a song with Matt… he has to pick it apart. :) I usually don’t know what in the world he is talking about when he talks about certain progressions or diminished chords or whatever it is, haha! I just smile and nod… smile and nod. :)

We went to TGIF for lunch. I had never been there before, so Matt insisted that we go. It was very good! We both got the Jack Daniels chicken. I’m not sure that Matt even looked at the menu! He just kept saying, “This is one of my favorite meals ever!” It was, indeed, a very good meal.

This afternoon we just sat around the apartment. Matt just wrote a new song so he played that for me as well as a few other requests that I had. Then we played a few songs together. If it is a fairly simple song I can play the basic chords then Matt throws in all sorts of cool things with it. We did a few Colbie Caillat and Jason Reeves songs. They are some of my more recent favorite artists! They sound amazing when they sing together and they have awesome songs! We did a couple of those, then a song that Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood sing together! It was a lot of fun, but I got a little frustrated at times when I couldn’t figure out how to keep up on guitar! :) You can check out Colbie Caillat if you want… one of the songs on her list that Matt and I sang together is called Realize. www.myspace.com/colbiecaillat and you can hear Jason Reeves at www.myspace.com/jasonreeves

Then Matt had to leave. :( He had to drive back to Sherman this afternoon so he needed to get on the road. I was really sad at first but I think we might get to see each other again next weekend if things work out so that helped a little. I also ate a miniature pecan pie that my mom sent to me… that helped a lot too. :)

So the weekend is basically over for me! Back to a busy week of classes and meetings and practices! Oh man, that makes me tired just thinking about it! I’m sure it will be long, stressful, busy, and painful if my muscles don’t start feeling better!

Well that just about wraps up my weekend! We have a lot going on this week here at OC so I’m sure I’ll have more to post soon!

P.S. Here is a video of Colbie and Jason singing a song called Droplets. This is one of our favorites to sing together! We sang this one together at mom's birthday party!)