Good weekend even though I missed NIN/Bauhaus

I had a good weekend. Doc and I went out on a “real date” on Friday night (very important for married couples to do this regularly). We got dressed up and went out for Italian food, and saw a late movie (“Art School Confidential,” very enjoyable). I think we need to do something like that at least twice a month. I had such a great time.

On Saturday morning I went to Kathryn’s office so that she could practice her massage techniques on me (she’s close to getting her certificate). The backs of my legs are usually really sensitive, but she did a fantastic job and it didn’t tickle at all. I think next time I’ll trust her with the bottoms of my feet! She did this really great thing that stretched out a very sore muscle in the back of my legs (probably sore from so much running).

After lunch, I bought myself a new pair of running shoes that have “motion control” for overpronators. Translation: I tend to walk/run more towards the insides of my feet instead of straight down the middle. These shoes are not exactly fashion statements, but they are supposed to support feet like mine much better than regular shoes. We’ll see, though; I also have extremely high arches, which (together with overpronation) is apparently a rare and strange combination. I may need to get some arch support insoles as well. I took the shoes out for a spin on Saturday afternoon and ran approximately 2 miles in the 95 degree heat, and walked one mile.

Saturday night Doc and Rich ordered pizza and watched movies on the Man TV, while I went out for margaritas with Yvonne and her sister-in-law Heather. Our original destination was Times Ten Cellars (a wine bar in Lakewood) but they were closed for a private party, so the valets handed out coupons for a free drink next time we were there (sweet!). We wandered over to Matt’s Rancho Martinez instead for margaritas. We had a lot of fun and some really great conversation, ranging from work to race to politics to last names and more.

Afterwards, we went back to Yvonne’s for more drinks (I just had a diet coke though; had to drive home) and a bit later Nate and his older brother Chris (Heather’s husband) and younger brother Travis came home from the Bauhaus/Nine Inch Nails concert they’d been to. Had I known Bauhaus was playing, I might have gone. This is the first NIN show that I’ve ever missed and I feel kinda sad about that. However, it is June in Texas and the concert was outdoors and my poor 30-something ears just can’t take the absurd volumes that live music is always played at. Nate said that Bauhaus did not play “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” but they almost made up for that by doing “Ziggy Stardust.” NIN opened with “Terrible Lie” and closed with “Head Like a Hole.” Aaargh! I cannot believe that I missed Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor on the same night.

Come to think of it, though, I’m not sure that anything could possibly eclipse the double bill of David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails from 1995. That was simply an amazing show. (Except maybe the very first time I saw NIN, in 1990 or 1991, at tiny little Deep Ellum Live.)

I did get to see a photo of Nate from high school, wearing a leather hand-painted Bauhaus jacket.

On the way to dinner on Friday night, we stopped at a nearby mattress store so that I could try out a TempurPedic bed (that squishy foam stuff). Doc has a “memory foam” pillow and he wanted to eventually get a whole bed because he thinks it’s extremely comfortable. I was under the impression that sleeping on a big chunk of foam would be hot and disagreeable. I laid on a couple of the beds and quickly changed my mind. The beds were on sale (which is apparently rare for that brand) so we took the plunge and bought one, which I feel pretty good about since our current bed is 12 years old and sagging in the middle. I’ve had more back problems than usual lately and I usually wake up stiff and sore in the mornings, and I think it may be partially due to the sagginess (of the mattress, not of me!). Mom and Dad bought me that mattress after I graduated from college and moved into my first apartment, so it’s been around a while.

The guy at the mattress store told us that a regular mattress will double in weight every ten years due to dust and mites and skin cells and other bodily cast-offs. I don’t know if that’s true or not but I’ve been enjoying telling everybody I can about that fun little fact. 🙂

They delivered the bed this morning, and we realized that since it’s a size up from our previous bed, we didn’t have any sheets that would fit. We had to go sheet shopping today, and I had no idea that sheets are so expensive. I’m thinking that we’re going to make due with one set for now.

After I’m done writing I am going to brush my teeth, get into my jammies, and take that brand new bed for a test drive.