although, maxie eating a doily may actually have been the highlight of friday night..

man, you guys. i am EXHAUSTED. as i told gertrude this morning, i had WAY too much weekend this weekend.

it started off with a bang (and then some) on friday night, when i hung out with a whole lotta fun bloggers, many of whom i was meeting in person for the first time. it involved a "happy hour" that had me returning home at 3am, some highly unstable dancing at heaven (given that walking was a tall order at that point in the evening), a brief foray into a really terrible strip club, and possibly the best tweet i have ever had occasion to write:

pretty sure that's the mark of a good night.

the next day, i had very unfortunately agreed to make an appearance at a soccer tournament as a sub for a friend in the event that not enough girls showed up, so that she could have a break every once in a while. i warned her that i don't exactly "play soccer," and that the most i could promise was running around like a doofus. she claimed that was all that was needed.

so i show up (hungover) to the fields in my little running shorts and sneakers, and discover that these folks aren't "playing some soccer," they are PLAYING some motherfucking SOCCER, with shin guards and cleats and referees and positions and all-stars-when-i-was-in-college players. i do not own shin guards, because the extent of my soccer experience was making an appearance for some half-assed 4 on 4 games during lunches with some coworkers about year ago. happily (?) my friend had a spare set of shin guards, and i gamely ran around like a doofus as promised, doing my best to sweat out the 45 liters of alcohol i had consumed the night before. i didn't screw over their team while i was on the field, which was my only real goal, so.. uh.. yay?

i did, however, pretty much want to die after that was over. especially since i still had to attend a good friend's birthday party that night. i was a trooper and went, but i was possibly the least fun person there as i struggled valiantly to stay away / hold conversations / not suck. i was only mildly successful.

finally, yesterday i got up bright and early to head to solomon's island, md, where some friends and i piled onto a chartered fishing boat for an afternoon on the chesapeake bay and i tried my hand at fishing for the first time. i don't have any pictures yet, since when i got home at 11 last night i pretty much immediately passed out face-first in my bed, but we caught a whole slew of rockfish and i have four very fresh filets in my fridge right now that are going to be in my belly tonight.

after which, hopefully, i will sleep. a lot.