The Deal....

So I bought an Xbox 360 today. I bought it off Craigslist. I didn't really need one, but it was such a good deal I just couldn't resist (I'm bad with that sometimes). It came with 3 controllers and like 8 games for $350!! I've never bought anything from Craigslist....but it was exciting. Kind of what I'd imagine a drug deal would feel like haha. Me and my roommate were driving across town in my Buick Century with $350 of cash in my pocket, meeting up with this tall French guy. I rolled up to the gate and gave him a call "I'm here to make the deal, how can I get in." The French accent returned back "The code is #2715, you'll see me on the inside." Just then my roommate screams "I know this guy!!!!" It took away from some of the excitement, but at least I knew I wasn't gonna get ripped off. He was a pretty cool guy, in a snobby, French type of way haha!!

But this weekend has been pretty solid. No work today since it was memorial day. Yesterday, I hung out with my roommate all day. We went to this party for some people from my Saturday church, which was cool. They like eating vegetarian food and so we had vegetarian ground beef. And to the surprise of both of us, it was actually pretty good! Now, was it really more healthy for us? The world may never know. But after that, we went to church at the Austin Stone where they are still preaching on the 7 sayings of Jesus on the cross. This week's message was on the saying that Jesus cried out "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?" The speaker pretty much focused on the fact that Christ cried that out so that we would know that He was forsaken, so that we would ultimately know that we never have to be, or will be, forsaken by God. Good stuff.

After church, we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3. It was pure entertainment. I will admit, I didn't have a clue what was going on....they make the plot so stinking complex and hard to follow. But the pirate action was good enough where you really didn't have to know what was going on to enjoy the flick. And I don't know how, but Keira Knightely managed to look amazing in every single scene.....even in DLP, which is like high definition for movie theaters. And I guess the girls like Johnny Depp. Which I personally will never understand.....maybe it's the whole bad-boy pirate act haha. He definitely makes those movies what they are, though.

After the movie we went and hung out at the girl's house who is a friend of Ricky's. There was a bunch of folks there and I got to meet some pretty cool people. It was weird (in a good way) b/c I had a lot in common with some of these people. One girl was in engineering at UT and is in Engineers w/o Borders, which I am in as well. Another girl was doing a co-op in Austin and had just moved here from Iowa and is new to the whole Texas thing, like me. We both thought tamales were some kind of pepper, before the locals laughed at us. Apparently they're not :-) This other guy I met knew and went to high school with another of my friends from down here.

So I'm pretty happy because it turned out to be a great weekend. I wasn't sure how it would all go b/c we were originally planning on going to the beach....but it was really cloudy and raining most of the weekend. And now I have a short 4-day work week ahead, which is never a bad thing. I just found out that Nate is coming to San Antonio in a few weeks with his family, which is pretty cool b/c we might get to hang out.

Oh, and for those of you who remember my encounters at the lake with the cactus....I finally went to the doctor to see what I could do about the poison ivy and needles in my foot that have plagued me for the last 3 weeks! He gave me some meds for the poison ivy. For the needles, he told me to go get some duct tape and just keep applying it and peeling it off in hopes to pull them out. Apparently they just have to fall out. Needless to say, I might have 11 needles in my foot the rest of my life!! Oh well, something to remember Texas by!!