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This weekend was pretty eventful. It all started with Sara's Birthday Party on Friday, right after work. Originally she was going to have a 'Cuddle Party' but then had to back out of it cause each of the 20 girls invited wanted to 'Cuddle' with DanO. (You can read all about her side of the story at her blog) (but its still in dispute whether or not she/they were serious about going). So we/they went for Sushi instead; followed by a lovely gathering at Greenfield. We had Birthday Pie. We played the Wii. We socialized and ate food. It was the usual grand ol time.

One thing about the Wii that I've started NOT liking is that it has this 'Wii Fitness Test' and for some reason Sara and the crew think its the greatest thing to have me do this fitness test where the results will tell me how old I should be. I played it a few days ago and after playing three different Wii sports, it told me that I was 66 years old. Now, thats simply not correct. So on Friday night Sara had me do this again. They had me do it without any warm up time at all either.

So, On Saturday morning (after my pancake breakfast) I get an email from my Credit card company telling me that they suspended my account due to suspicious activity. Well, I was annoyed because of all the weird stuff with my bank as of late. I figured it was another phishing scheme, but I thought I'd still check it out. So I tried to log on to my bank account; but it wouldn't work! Again, another point of frustration. After two more tries, I broke down and just called the company. They immediately told me that my account had been suspended, it was a legitimate email, and there was suspicious activity on my account, namely Someone in Barcelona went on a shopping spree with my Credit Card number. The Indian on the phone read back the last 10 purchased I made with my card, which were all lunch time purchases made here in Westwood Village. So obviously I was unable to make a quick trip to Spain in less than 24 hours myself (the time between lunch-time purchases here in Westwood). It took a few more minutes, but they fixed the whole thing, so now tonight I'll go back through, just to make sure all purchases are legit. A worthwhile hassle. So the Moral of the story is to check your Credit Card Bills, and to be super-extra careful when traveling in Italy or Spain.

I also spent most of the morning Fighting the Battle of my life. Don't worry friends. The world is indeed a safer place now that I have been roaming the countryside with my magical powers and legendary weaponry fighting, talking, hacking, and bulldozing my way to success. I have found a way to barter with local merchants to the point of me trading large amounts of produce and precious stones and quickly earning large amounts of gold. The gold allows me to buy huge fancy expensive weapons that can cut through magical armor of evil-doers very easily. I just bought a sword who's name escapes me at the moment, but Its something like 'Avo's Starscreamer'. Not to be confused with 'Avo's Tear', which is its younger brother. So by Saturday Afternoon I was able to expose the Mayor of Bowerstone as a fraud, set an innocent prisoner free, Defend the village of 'Knothole Glade', and buy two houses in different cities. Its quite an accomplishment.

On Saturday night I was out walking around town and I coincidentally ran into Cheryl. Neither of us were doing anything, so we decided to hang out. But we also hung out with some Married friends of ours. We went to one of the many Thai Food places on Westwood Blvd. for dinner. Later, we played board games with Steve and Britt late into the night. It was fun. One of the games was a 'boys vs. girls' game where it would test our knowledge of the opposite sex. Wow, there's a lot I don't know about both guys and girls stuff. Luckily I was partnered with Steve and he took care of answering most of the questions, as I just sat there looking pretty. But as soon as I get a free minute, I'm going to start brushing up on my sports trivia... (ya, right.)

Then on Sunday night we were able to talk Jeff into making Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. Wow, was it good. Good Job by Master Chef Jeff again. It was a lovely short evening, almost every single girl who came brought their knitting/crocheting/sewing gear with so It was like a girl party, but ESPN was on the TV so we got our testosterone fill from that, so it all balanced out.... for the most part. So the night was short (at Jeff's) because I had promised to pick Kristen up from the airport at 10:30. Then it was Southwest, so there was of course a delay. Then it is LAX, so there were naturally other delays. So I finally picked her up from the terminal by 12am. I was going to give her grief about it (just to be funny) but then I quickly remembered that I owed her numerous Airport favors, something like 20 trips to the airport or so, and a few of which were at painfully early hours, so I had no room to complain, so I did it happily with a smile on my face.

Lunch was sponsored by Jose Bernstein.

I'm listening to The Pointer Sisters right now.