i had a very unexpected, but very pleasant visit from jenny over the weekend. she was in town for a wedding and an interview and we had lunch to catch up. i had been giving her a hard time for avoiding me whenever she was in town, so i guess all of the guilting finally worked (after years!) and we had lunch and pearl tea.

we don’t really get to see each other often and our lives have been busy with much change recently so it was good to catch up. it’s nice to know that though we haven’t kept in regular contact that we’re still able to pick things up as if a day had never passed away.

it makes me wonder what kind of a friendship do you need to have where that is the case. with some friends that i haven’t talked to in a while, the lack of communication makes me feel like there’s a distance between our friendship. with others, it doesn’t seem to matter.

i hosted a mini-team dinner for my thursday night volleyball team. our team name? We’ll Hit On You. it’s true. we will. beware. it’s ok, at least we’re not ugly.

so, anyway, it was a three course fondue dinner, starting with a cheese fondue appetizer, a red wine-based broth and an oil-based broth main course fondue with meats, fish, and veggies, and a decadent chocolate fondue to finish things off.

dinner and the company was great and we all got to know each other a little bit better. a couple of team members were unable to make it last night, so it was a trial run, we’ll have to do it again with the full team some time.

after dinner we played a great team-building game called compatibility. it’s always fun to play this game because you get to see how other people think. the game is basically where each person has the same deck of cards. each card has either a picture or a word. a certain topic is brought up and each person is supposed to pick the top 5 cards that they most closely associate with the topic. we then compare our results.

anyhow, it was a fun night and a great way to get over the hump.

i used to never drink diet coke. i used to hate any kind of diet drink. i thought that they didn’t taste right and the artificial sweetness that they had was just disgusting. and so if you asked me about a year ago how i felt about diet coke, that’s exactly what i would have told you.

last night, i had some friends over and they were commenting that i had a lot of diet coke. it’s true, target currently has them on sale, 2-12 packs for $6. cheap! so i got a small stockpile of them in my refrigerator and kitchen floor. see, the thing about diet coke is that i used to hate it, but now normal coke tastes weird to me. it’s sad, but true.

whenever i was at christi’s place, she’d always only have diet coke available because that’s all she drinks. i really wanted some soda and that’s all she had, so i sucked it up and hated it. this pattern kept repeating itself until i slowly started to tolerate diet coke. now, it has become my preference. sad, but true.