I got my ass kicked by swing dancing!

So, I am still recovering from the weekend Tuesday morning, and this might take til Thanksgiving break to get back to good. The weekend was fantastic! Friday started out good cause I was treated to seeing my brother when I got back from work Thursday night/Friday morning. Then I caught some Z's, hung out til Liz picked me up, and off to Columbus! I got to see Riley and Amanda, who are both doing well. We went to the Rock Climbing Gym at OSU. They took there belay tests, and off we went. I reached the top of the wall twice, which I haven't really done before on a 30+ foot wall. Other then that it was a good activity to start my 'mini vacation' on. Meet up with the Aspiring lawyer, Aaron after that. Ate at this great pizza place, which the name eludes me, but has Dog in it. It comes highly recommended from me! Then played some pool and crashed at Aaron's. It was a good catch-up! Bummed around until swing dancing started, and then it was ALL OVER. It was cool because they were teaching Lindy, as I am well versed in East Coast (jitterbug?? maybe) this was new to me. I did all right, but i need a lot of work. The hardest part was, it was 8 hours of full on concentration. Trying to remember the moves they taught, and then trying to perfect them and get the timing right. Needless to say, I remember very little, but I have a decent intro to Lindy. I also get rather frustrated because there is no way to keep up with what they are teaching, so really you need to write stuff down, or have an excellent memory. I had neither pen or paper or that memory. Had a quick dinner break at a Chinese buffet, ehhhhhhhh, it was food. Then continued to dance the night way. There was definitely a high level of dancing going on. I felt a little out of place because of my limited skills and exposure to the true swing scene. The dance was better because I could pull out my patented moves and shake a little. The few times I ventured into Lindy I quickly lost the beat, or lost my partner, OOPS! And then after the dance, back to Charlie's place to play board games and eat. Except no one ate!
I didn't sleep well, I seem to have lost the ability to sleep long hours of time. So I was up early morning while everyone else slept in. I occupied my time by a) playing with the dog b) reading the Columbus newspaper c) sitting outside in the relatively warm weather d) I almost resorted to solitaire, but people got up by then. Played Mad Gab(s) which was a fun fun game. I had played the cards before, but not really with any rules. It was an interesting game and a good change of pace from Cranium and Apples to Apples. I am a game board fiend at times, sorry, part of my family tradition. Just steer clear of Scrabble at family functions, you'll get whooped. (not by me) Then we grabbed lunch at Quaker Steak and Lube!!! I love Louisiana Lickers!! Delicious! Then went for more swing dancing.
This was bad. Bad bad bad! I was not doing well, not picking up on the moves, and kind of beat up on myself because whoever happen to be my partner that rotation got stuck with SUCKINESS! But some of the moves we learned were pretty cool, if only I could put them into practice on the dance floor. I think I can add two of the movies for sure! But we'll see.
So after that I swore of sing dancing for atleast 24 hours, but it looks like it might be a little longer than that, but just because a lack of opportunities.
anyway, this isn't really where I wanted to go with the blog because overall I thought the weekend was super duper. Just a little rough, and this makes it sound like Hell! I would say it was somewhere in between Heaven and Purgatory.
That's all I got! I'll be doing lots of homework the next two weeks, so don't expect too many blogs. Maybe you make a specific request for a subject, I might humor you. Other than that, i'll see you when I see you!