The Weekend Zone

On Saturday my family and I went to an afternoon party at a neighbors' house in the country, for the wife's fiftieth birthday. Well, my sister didn't come. She had a concussion, and already had plans to go to a friend's sleepover party in a hotel. But believe me, had the sleepover been at my house, I would have been the one checking into a hotel.

They invited what seemed like the whole neighborhood. All my old neighborhood chums from elementary and middle school were there with there parents. And if you don't thing the word "chums" is funny, check your watch. there may be a mealworm living inside of it.
That has nothing to do with this blog post, I just felt like saying that.

I ended up spending most of the time there sitting and reading. If I haven't mentioned it earlier, I'm a very avid reader, a bibliophile. I read whenever possible. My love of reading has granted me a very wide vocabulary, a literary talent for writing stories, and half of the stuff I know I learned from books. and I'm not really very good at being social, so, I guess that could have contributed as well. But for four hours...

I was reading an anthology of time-travel stories. I'm very interested in that kind of science fiction. One of my best stories is in that genre. thanks to my avid reading, I've found I can write stories very well. You can read it here: Collision Course. Please do read it, it's really good, at least I think so. I'd post it here as its own blog post, but it's already on the Internet, and besides, I'm making a comic book version exclusively for the site. it's a secret, though, so don't tell anyone!

So anyway, after some H. G. Wells, some Issac Asimov, and a whole lot of party ginger ale, we left the party and embarked on another two-hour drive back home, which I inexplicably spent not reading, but using my plush official Sonic the Hedgehog gloves as pillows. When we got home, it was 8:30, and aware that tomorrow would be a weekend as well, I plopped myself in front of the TV and watched some Big Bang Theory and some Twilight Zone. And by some, I mean I stayed up till four in the morning watching them. I love those two shows, and I know that Twilight Zone is from the fifties, but it's a pretty awesome show. Of course neither of those shows are as great as the original Ben 10. That TV show was by far the greatest TV show to ever hit the planet.
OK, wow, well, that was a tangent the size of North Dakota. Let's get back on track. Except I'm not on a train anyway, so let's just get off this tangent. If you're feeling confused right now, it's probably because cheese makes awesome cacti.

So anyway the next morning my dad took me out to the Original Pancake House, and I got a big breakfast. I don't just mean lots of sides of extra bacon. I mean a full-size chocolate chip Belgian waffle, three sugar-dusted pigs-in-a-blankets, some thick-sliced bacon, and a lemonade. I'm usually pretty full after this meal.

If there's one thing to take away from this, it's this: Read and read often. It's the best thing you can do.

So I'd say it was a pretty good half of a weekend. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some Twilight Zone to watch.