Life in Beta

Mike playing at the Casting Shadows concert, 4/24/2010.

(More Wordless Wednesday posts)

I’ve been so busy over the last week. With Mike in town, life is go-go-go.

We toured the capitol building, went to the Tennessee State Museum, wandered through Printer’s Alley, saw the Parthenon, went out downtown (there’s a strong possibility I may have bought him a body-shot off the Coyote Ugly girls, heh), visited the National Corvette Museum, saw some amazing exhibits at the Frist, and I know I’m forgetting things.

I needed another weekend to recover from this past weekend.

Mike picked up where mom left off, helping me clean and fix things around the house. He got my car out of the yard, where it was stuck with a dead battery (and in the process, taught me how to jump a car) and is rebuilding a section of my fence that was damaged.

He’s been cooking too and makes an especially wicked breakfast. Tonight when I get home from work, he’s cooking me his “family secret” recipe for fish. I’m eager to try that.

Last night, we began what is sure to be an epic battle

… of Scrabble and 500 Rummy.

The compettition began with a friendly match of Scrabble, in which I lost miserably. Mike helped me use up the last few tiles and score 30 points with a 3-letter word (my best word-score of the night), and I still lost. He seriously rocks the Scrabble board.

We were going to go for Scrabble round 2, but instead we wound up opting for 500 Rummy. Mike warned me that his Rummy skills even outweighed his superior Scrabble skills, so I was in trouble.

I was pretty smug after winning the first two hands and securing a pretty big lead. However, in the third hand, Mike went out early and I made the mistake of having an ace in my hand and very little on the table. I wound up winning the fourth hand but not by enough to win the game overall.

I think he must have been cheating. (Hehe.) REMATCH!