#293 - halloween

little mac is back!

so, halloween turned out pretty good after all. it started pretty darn good actually, our team had our last tennis match saturday morning... i dressed up for the halloween match as a confident man (not a wuss, like usual) and finally won my first match, woo hoo! it was pretty tight though, we (my mixed doubles partner and i) were playing well in the first set, won that 6-4, then we were pretty even in the second set, but broke the lady's serve to go up 6-5 and then it was up to me to serve it out... i remember having at least one match point, but man then we cracked! we lost that game and i think were so bummed at ourselves that we tanked in the tie-break also, losing 4-7. but my partner is super competitive and that kinda parter really helps me because i fold sometimes, but she's fiesty so that helped me pick up my confidence again and we totally rebounded in the 3rd set tie-break (we play a super-tiebreak to 10 points in place of a full 3rd set) and blew them away 10-2 for my first win! the other team was nice though (which you don't get all the time, unfortunately), we had some good rallies and they didn't cheat too much, haha, anyway, it was a fun match and a great way to start a halloween that i kinda just wanted to get through.

so after post-match lunch and drinks i was feeling much better about the rest of the night. got home, took a shower, made dinner, then went to listen to the UH vball game on the radio and completely fell asleep on the couch! man, i must be getting old, a little sun and beer at lunch and i konk-out. anyway, but dinner was good and we played some wii punch-out (insert action shot:and i even got some trick-or-treaters this year. well, maybe about 12-15, but that's like 3x as many as last year, i almost gave out a whole bowl of candy (of course, i was grabbing the candy by the handful, but almost a whole bowl...).

ended up not going out to chinatown afterwards, i was feeling pretty beat from the long day (damn, i must be getting old), so i plopped down on the couch to watch a bit of ghost adventures (live!) on dvr and fell asleep. oh well, it was a pretty fun halloween anyway...