I had very few expectations going into fall break (I’m still not sure if a three-day weekend counts as a “break,” but, hey, I’m not complaining). To tell the truth, by Thursday afternoon I was just happy to be done with major projects and tests for a while.
I’ll skip to Friday evening since that’s the first thing I can remember after the post-mid-term fog. With little else to do I decided to head over to MHA to see how the football team was holding up against Jackson Christian. I arrived at the ticket table sometime after halftime and noticed there were 5 or 9 eighth-grade girls sitting around chatting or doing whatever it is that eighth-grade girls do. All of a sudden a chorus of shrieks broke out. I checked behind me thinking that perhaps Justin Bieber was arriving late as well. I had heard that I was a popular substitute, but the extent of my popularity was unclear until this point. I shook off the temptation to get a big head and continued in to watch what was left of the football game.
Saturday Em and I left for left for Henderson to visit MM and Seth. After a quick tour of their very awesome barn-house-thing and an introduction to the neighbors Seth suggested that we take the four-wheeler out for a spin. To many people riding a four-wheeler probably doesn’t sound very exciting. For me, though, it was like jumping on a speeder and riding through the Forest Moon of Endor. After everyone took a turn or two on the spee—er—four-wheeler we went back inside to carve up pumpkins.
When I was a kid carving pumpkins was a big deal. There was an annual pumpkin carving party where a bunch of people I knew and I bunch of people I didn’t know gathered to celebrate the fall season(Halloween is an entirely separate celebration that was more about bags of candy and less about large squash). It’s been a very long time since I’ve been able to attend the Pumpkin Party so carving pumpkins this year was an absolute treat.
That night included very delicious home-made BBQ chicken pizza, also very delicious gelato, and a movie. A zombie movie. A zombie movie on the biggest t.v. I’ve ever seen.
Zombieland taught me a few things.
- Don’t judge a movie by its subject matter. Yes, the movie was cheesy and goofy, but it’s also a movie I could watch on a semi-regular basis.
- I should really start doing more cardio in case of a zombie apocalypse.
- Bill Murray is a legend.
- Enjoy the little things. Never take a twinkie for granted.
A drive back to Memphis and a very long, rainy drive back to Searcy later and here we are. Thanks for reading.
-pictures will be added just as soon as my charger returns from Memphis-
