I had a great weekend! I swapped out my workout routine Friday night. Getting up early to work out (as opposed to biking) has just not been working for me. I’ve been out of energy and feeling craptastic all of the time. So, I figured I should do what I did last winter, work out at night after the kids go to sleep. And, pack in both workouts at one time, and only do it every other day. So, I popped in a DVD (watched Donnie Darko again), hopped on the bike trainer for 30 mins, then did weights.

My parents came up to visit Saturday – we met for lunch, then they took the kids while I got a chance to go for a bike ride (a real ride, in the out of doors!). Perfect weather, did a nice leisurely 28 miles – up through Sudbury towards Concord, jogged over past Acton and stopped at Bill’s in Maynard to say hi. Then I headed home through Hudson and on to the bike trail to Marlborough.

Saturday evening was a pot luck dinner at the church, another great time as usual. Lots of awesome food, beer, dessert and church coffee (which I don’t understand why Brent uses that term in a negative way – our church has awesome coffee). Then my parents took the kids for the night.

I actually managed to get some sleep, in fact I woke up late and ended up having to run around like a chicken with its head cut off in order to get to church, get the recording equipment all setup and still make choir rehearsal on time. I did cheat a bit on my way to church, stopped at Ariba coffee in Hudson for a grande dark roast. I’ve been trying to not buy coffee at all, so much more cost effective to brew it yourself – but I was totally dragging this morning after getting too much sleep. In any case, Ariba is awesome! Free wifi, they actually have food (like sausage egg and cheese on a croissant), awesome coffee, modern starbuckian/panera breadian atmosphere, and the local/non-chainism appeal.

In any case, got in some good churchin, then came home, put all the kids in bed, bought some steaks at the supermarket and made a fancy schmancy dinner with wine and bread and real metal utensils. Put the kids to bed and then it was workout time again. Finished Donnie Darko and started up Matchstick Men. I’m going to need to get Netflix going again – and I need to get my DVD recorder fixed, craptacular POS. Had to record Heroes on (yikes) VHS last week. Anyone want to donate a subscription free or lifetime Tivo?