lobster, olympics, babies

With lobster at a ridiculously low price of $3.99/lb, my dad really wanted me to buy some for dinner.  He knows I love lobster and due to it's usual expensive cost don't get to eat it very often.  What he didn't know was that I've never actually eaten a whole lobster by myself.  When I go out to eat, I get the "lazy man" lobster that requires no work at all and when I'm at home I'm normally just take the pieces my dad, Ben, or Dave's mom might toss my way.  Dave doesn't eat lobster and I knew he had zero interest in cracking it open to retrieve the meat for me.  So I determined that it was a grand time to go home and visit my parents. I haven't seen them in a while and it was a very good excuse.  My dad tried to teach me how to eat a lobster but after I tried my hand at it, I determined that I will leave to other people to get me the meat.   I just couldn't get the hang of it and seeing all the inner parts messed with my head.

Afterward, we watched the Olympics.  The girls gymnastics and the men's swim was on tonight which is always my favorite to watch though I also enjoy diving, synchronized swimming, and a couple of others.  Though I doubt anyone who reads this cares enough about it but I don't want to give away the results just in case.  I actually heard it listening to NPR before I watched it but that was okay.  I don't know the sports well enough for it to matter when I watch.  I don't know the intricacies to be able to determine my own idea of who should win medals.  It's not like figure skating.  Speaking of my mom and I are going to go see a skating show that a friend from college organized or helped organize on Saturday.   We also spent a good time talking about my getting back into it.  Turns out the man who I bought my skates from and who is awesome is also a coach at the Stoneham Skating club.    It's got me thinking.

In other news, another one of my wedding guests had her baby girl today.  Thankfully, she posted pictures of Facebook and she is absolutely adorable.  Summer of 2012 has turned into a mini baby boom for my social sphere.  I love it.  BABIES EVERYWHERE!