I had done a long walk on Friday midday (see my fifty walks posts) so I was content to crash and watch some television that evening.

But the weekend got a bit busier. 

The Kid and I followed Karin over to South Common. She was doing a fitness class over in that part of town, so we killed an hour checking out some of the shopping nearby, wandering through the bookstore and Best Buy before landing at Bulk Barn to buy some baking supplies.

I spent a chunk of time in the afternoon noodling on the keyboard trying to learn a particular song—it’s going pretty well, but slow for a new learner—while the Kid baked.

We took the dog for a long walk, too. She needed it. We needed it. It’s been rainy a lot recently.

That evening Karin and I were out at the symphony. For Christmas (yeah, like six months ago) she had got me tix to the Music of Final Fantasy. The full Symphony Orchestra had brought it to life to a crowd of folks who were probably more comfortable at a comic convention than a concert hall, but it was interesting and complex music and well done.

Sunday morning, in mixed weather, I started my climb up towards a half marathon. We made the small jump up to a twelve klick run. It rained and it shone and we got some clouds and sun and a rainbow to boot. Twelve feels hard right now tho, so ten weeks until a half marathon is starting to feel the pinch. A few years ago I was running halves for funzies, but it’s been a few, ugh.

That afternoon I had to finish my potluck contribution. I had hoped just to buy a dip for my bread but that didn’t pan out so I was ingredient shopping instead and then later doing some rushed prep to get a dip made that should have rightly stood overnight. Again, ugh.

The dish was for our orchestra potluck. One of our members has a huge country barn made up for big events so about thirty of us trekked forty-five minutes out of the city for a quiet party and dinner. We chatted, ate, even played a game, and did the one thing we don’t get to do much while were sitting in our chairs playing instruments every Monday evening: mingle and talk.