1 Hobby, 2 Hobby, 3 Hobby, 4...

Monday was a great day for hubby: he went fishing with a few of his (new) med school friends. They left around 7am and returned home around lunchtime. Jordan didn't have any luck, but a friend of his caught five large-mouth bass, which made the trip worth it for everyone. Jordan and another friend went to the Boulevard Brewery tour (again) in the afternoon and then the same group went fishing again that evening. It was a man day, to be sure. One of the guys he fished with is also the first in his family to be going beyond a college education and they had a few other similarities that they bonded over. Jordan really enjoyed himself, and I'm thankful for the friends that God is already bringing into our lives.


Monday for me meant applying for jobs (about 10 - and now the waiting game begins) and buying a suit. Alas, my beloved (and spendy) The Limited suit from 2007 didn't fit anymore...too many $1 bags of iced animal crackers for this girl (that's this week's poison, folks). I've stepped into new shoes...cheaper ones...and bought a suit from JC Penney. And I'm actually super happy about it - $22 for the pants and $35 for the coat (plus 20% off of those prices) is a far cry from The Limited's prices of ... well, we won't go there. Older and wiser, as they say. When I (finally?) get my 1st interview (1st interview now that I'm actually a KC "resident"....and 5th interview when it comes to KC job searching...) I'll post a pic of me in my new duds. Many thanks to my fab momma for the past use of her suit for those other interviews. Now, I'm glad I don't have that wonderful gray wool suit...it's hotter than the blazes down here, and I'd have certainly perished in it between the heat and my nerves if I wore that to an interview now.


My other "find" at JCP's was a cute little red/rust/rose-colored dress (I know that color makes no sense...this is like me calling the new accent wall in our dinner area purple and Jordan calling it blue...maybe the man's colorblind, I have no idea, lol) for $15. Like I said, it's hotter than the blazes down here and my wardrobe was not prepared for that. (Up in SD I could wear jeans all summer if I felt like it; if I did that here...yeah, the perish thing again.) So I was pretty excited about that. I wore it today, but since we didn't go anywhere, I plan to wear it again tomorrow. Nobody saw me in it, so it's fine. (Well, Jord did, but he doesn't count.) Now all of you just keep it a secret and no one will be the wiser. 


Tuesday we ventured to downtown KC for FanFest. It's a baseball thing, which neither of us are too interested in, but someone had given Jordan free tickets and we figured we might as well use them. First, we found our way to Kobe's sushi buffet (yes, sushi-eating is a hobby of ours), which was surprisingly good. I am not a fan of sushi buffet...I prefer my raw fish to be made for me and only me. Not for it to be laid out for hours for other people to breath on. Luckily, we were the first people at the 11am - 1pm buffet, so I could eat it. I wouldn't mind if I never ate a sushi buffet again though. Jordan, on the other hand, loved it. Variety, as much as you want, all for one price. He was a happy, happy man. (and I was a happy woman, b/c my man was happy...and b/c I was the first - and not the fiftieth - to eat off the sushi buffet).

This is but a small glimpse of all the blue we
saw at FanFest. Now multiply that by...100s. Seriously.

Back to FanFest. We learned the tickets are normally $30 each. Wow. People pay that much to go to this?? It was a huge room (okay, a room sounds too small...it was HUGE. It was the KC convention center. This isn't like the SF convention center....maybe 3 of those all together. This place was BIG.) teaming with Royals fans. Blue everywhere. (a few other fans sporting their team's duds, but mostly all Royals' fans.) We walked around for a while (I'm not even sure how to describe it - it was all these different booths and activities sponsored by different companies...baseball hall of fame things, a PS3 baseball game area with tons of PS3s, 2 full size fields for hitting balls...tons of stuff) and we did one activity where you try to pitch the ball threw different tires. I decided to show hubby my skills and made three of my pitches into the tire. He was even more impressed b/c he didn't make any. Girl power! (or pure luck. We're going to say I'm just that good.)

In the infamous words of Porky Pig....th-th-th-that's all folks!