Winter

Well folks, it’s kinda looking like every few months is all you’re going to get out of me! I think one of the things that winds up keeping me from updating is because once I get past a certain amount of time, it becomes daunting.  So, rather than try and recap the past two months, I am going to simply start fresh this time.  Not that there aren’t a million wonderful things that have happened or been done, eaten, drank, seen, and enjoyed! But just because it’s better this way

 

One of the things that has come up recently is that I have joined a volleyball league.  Random, I know.  But, my friend Clare invited me to join because their team needed another person to be able to function.  It is an all girls league, and is the least competitive in this organization — right up my ally, especially since I had not seen or touched a volleyball since approximately the ninth grade.  There a few/many organizations in the city that put together leagues for all kinds of sports.  The most well known is called ZogSports and is mostly a social thing.  People join to meet people and make friends and they run games such as kick ball and flag football.  The organization/league that we are in is more for people who enjoy playing the sport and who seem to have some sort of skill, but our team is very relaxed and seems to want to promote being social as well.  I have gone twice now, the first being two weeks ago, and the second was this week.  The first week was great and I felt that even though I had no clue what I was doing, I would be able to pick it up and catch up a little bit.  But, then this week I felt so out of my league and comfort zone and frustrated.  We were playing a more skilled team, so our “good” players were handling most of the hits, which is understandable, but the whole time I just kind of felt in the way and like the worst player — which is something I don’t want to be!  So we’ll see how the next few games go, we meet once a week and the season is 10 weeks.  I guess I could read up on volleyball strategy online or something??

 

Another activity that has come up recently is a monthly supper club that we are doing with our friends Diana and Todd.  They are the friends with whom we had Thanksgiving this year, down in Brooklyn.  They invited the same group over to their apartment that was there for Thanksgiving, which consists of me and Ben, another couple Heather and Christian, and a friend Paul.  We headed down to Bay Ridge on Saturday afternoon for an evening of cooking, eating, drinking, and playing games.  This month’s theme was comfort food, which was completely fitting seeing as how it snowed that morning.  Someone made chili, we had lasagna, carrot salad, fish cakes, meat and cheese plate, and more.  I brought the fixins for a chicken casserole/pot pie thing that street used to make at the Soupbowl, but didn’t even end up making it due to the abundance of food.  We played taboo and drank wine and had quite a fine time!  Next month Heather and Christian are hosting and we are doing breakfast for dinner, I’m excited already!

 

Another fun activity that is yet to happen is a salsa class that Ben and I are attending on Friday evening.  Salsa as in the dance, not the condiment.  We’ll see how that goes….

 

Here are a few pictures from the past few months:

 

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