Over the weekend I finally, finally! won a few games of table hockey against the boyfriend. So this means that I no longer have to resort to punching him in the kidneys while he's lying in bed in order to feel like I have some power in the relationship.

Lovely girlfriend? Yes. Yes I am.

Also this weekend I got 2/3 of the way through Her Last Death (still not sure how I feel about it), bought a new video game that involves dinosaurs and spears (THIS I feel awesome about), had a girl's lunch out that involved 3 mimosas and about two hours of catty wonderfulness, went for a walk in the rain immediately followed by a bubble bath heated to approximately 150 degrees, contemplated a move out of Long Beach (gasp!), and had a nightmare so bad that I almost called someone to see if I could come over to snuggle. (Yes, I'm in my 20s.)

And I planned like a motherfucker. I made tentative research for a much-needed upcoming vacation (since, you know, I never get a chance to just kick back and have a beer or two), set up a visit to go see my little sweetheart, Zhen Zhen, looked into local kendo classes, and finalized details for this Saturday's Day of Service.

If you live in LA and/or love LA, I'd encourage you to take part in this event (a .pdf flier and Word document with a list of service projects can be found here and here). Activities such as this are the kinds of things I like to see local government involved in: urging citizens to come together of their own free will and do positive things within their own community, with tangible results. (Though if they try to make me paint over graffiti my answer will be along the lines of "fuck no". Beige paint? NOT A BETTER CHOICE, thanks! I'm angling for either a mural painting project or helping out at the library book sale, though I'll probably get stuck weeding the grounds at Stoner Elementary [heh], and am so, so ok with that because I'm all about GIVING BACK! For a day, anyways!)

Hope to see you there.