9.8.98

    T. and I got close to nothing done this weekend. Remember that we had intended to go biking and hiking and put our apartment back in order. Didn't happen.

    We did do something really cool on Sunday, though. We bought a bed. I am so excited to finally have a real bed. What we have right now is the saddest, most depressed and ugly mattress there ever was laying on the floor. It doesn't even have box springs because we ditched those in the last move.

    The money for the bed came as a wedding gift from my parents. I haven't been this excited about a thing since I got my car. T. and I went to JCPenny's and found a bed that we liked and we're lucky that it was on sale and we bought it. How grownup of us.

    Neither one of us can wait to sleep.

    Then we checked out our registry at JCPenny to remind us of things we needed to get. We bought a canister set for sugar and whatnot. I also began channeling a Rhode Island housewife and bought napkin rings that were on sale for thirty cents apiece. They really are cute.

    Next, we went to Macy's to check on our registry there. We bought a navy blue, jersey cloth, sheet set for a mere $39. The ones we had put on our registry were $100. I had no idea they were that expensive when we put them on there as Macy's seems incapable of fessing up to their prices. We are having to seriously discipline ourselves and not try them out on the sad mattress. Our new happy one won't be delivered until the 19th of this month and if they don't fit then I want to take them back.

    Sunday evening we went to a friend's for another BBQ. At the BBQ was a couple that we really like. The guy works with T. and he and his wife just got married back in... April, I think. They had a really sweet wedding at her parent's home which, due to rain, was busting at the seams with guests. Anyway, we like them a lot and keep trying to get them to go out and do stuff with us. It seems they have always declined or accepted and then called us later to decline. I was starting to get a complex about it. Why don't they like us? What did we do wrong? It's harder to make friends now that we don't have those built-in social systems like we did in high school and college. I knew it would be like this and I dreaded it.

    To make a short story long they invited us to go golfing on Monday at Scholl's Canyon.

    Scholl's Canyon is a public course out in the Glenoaks area. We had a little trouble finding it. Actually, it was amusing because we were watching for our turnoff and it just didn't come. Then we came across a highway that looked, from where we were looking in the Thomas Guide, to be nowhere near where we were supposed to be. As it turns out the other highway intersected oddly with the one we were on. It was very twilight zonish.

    We got to the course and I bought myself a glove. The other couple showed up and we headed out. I've never been golfing before and I had intended to just tag along and read a book. However, we had to pay for me to be on the course so after a few holes I joined in.

    I really was not all that bad. I have been to the driving range with T. before and while I don't hit it all that far I can hit the ball pretty straight.

    I think I neded up doing about 13 holes and I lost two balls. However, I did get par on two holes and bogeys on two others. Not too bad for my first time out. I don't know if I'm going to become a golfing enthusiast but I did have a lot of fun.

    We've made plans to go dancing with the couple this next Sunday. We'll see if that happens but it would be a lot of fun if it did.