Weekend Recap

Hello everyone, I hope the weekend was a good one for you. This weekend started off rough, having to go to the hospital on friday with my kidney stone. I spent most of the day doped up and was grateful that it passed. And yes, it hurt like hell.

Saturday was a pretty low-key day, it was Hockey Day in Canada, so i spent 10 hours watching hockey games between the Canadian teams. with my night ending with a Kings loss to San Jose 3-2. What makes it worse is hearing that damn "BEAT LA!! BEAT LA!!!" chant. Bitter bay area people who are just jealous of SoCal.

Sunday I decided to go to church in the morning, thanking God for the wonderful gifts He has given me in my life, and the good fortune that I'm okay after my friday episode. So, I go to the 11 am Mass, just to hear the church choir, which sounds amazing compared to the singing at other Masses. Now Marie had mentioned that over a month ago, I got a girl's number that I've been trying to get for years now. For the story, we'll call her Church Girl. Church Girl is a girl i went to elementary school with, and have seen on occasion since high school Every time we would see each other, the conversations would be great, but we would lose touch cuz one of us would be in a situation (dating) that wasn't conducive. I'd be seeing someone one time, next time I'd see her, she was seeing someone, etc. This carried on for now 6 years, when I saw her for the first time in 2 years last month at church. To make a long story short (too late) I work up the nerve to ask for her number, and God was with me that day cuz I got it. This girl is awesome, she's beautiful, funny, smart, and, wait for it, A HOCKEY FAN!!!!! Omg, you don't know how hard it is to find one of those girls. Now no one is perfect, and she isn't either, she has to be a fan of my beloved Kings' rival, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! But, beggars can't be choosers, and so I can live with that gripe, plus, give me time, and I'll convert her from the dark side to the light.

So over the past month, we've talked a bit on the phone, the conversations have been fine, generic, but we've never really hit awkward moments of silence. The holidays hit, and I was getting ready to ask her out. Boom, i get sick with the nastiest flu ever. That kills off several days, then I call her up, we talk, and I chicken out of doing it. I do send text messages to her, wishing her Merry X-Mas, Happy New Year. Fast forward to this past week, I get ready to call her on Friday, but boom, kidney stone hit and I was done for the day. So I go to church on Sunday, say a prayer asking God for the strength to do this simple little thing of asking her out. When I see her sitting 4 rows behind me at church!! After mass was over, i walk up to her, hug her, and we start talking like no problem. We're out there for a good 20 minutes, she catches me up on her holiday season, and the drama that ensued, I fill her in on my drama of the weekend, then as she is telling me a story of her cousin moving in to live with her, it hits me. She says, "well, it's a long story about my cousin moving in with me" and I jump into the conversation and say, "that's alright, you can tell me the story over dinner sometime this week" like nothing. OH SNAPZ!!! I did it! Now I wait for her response, and she seemed stunned for a moment. Then she smiled at me and said, alright, that sounds good! So she finishes her story, we both look at the clock and realize we have to go our own way, so i depart by saying that I would call her this week to set up dinner. She says, sounds good, she'll wait for my call.

That wasn't so hard, what the hell was I chicken about, all she coulda said was no, and bummed me out bigtime, but whatever. I just have to think to friday night and remember the pain, and realize that THAT was some pain, the rest is just crap. So now I have to call her up, and figure out a place to go or what to do. I shall keep you updated on the situation. Tonight, I'm going to the Kings-Ducks game in Anaheim, which is so much fun, cuz duck fans don't go to the games, and the Kings fans end up outnumbering ducks fans and make it a home game for the Kings. Duck Roasts are great for that reason. Have a happy Monday, and remember, GO KINGS GO!!