keeping up with the Jonses

This weekend in summary:
Fun fun tennis doubles with V, Matt, and Christoph, and dogs Kona (calm) and Nyx (spaz)
followed by a delish indian dinner with V Matt and Eric in Little Italy of all places! Mmmmm, Baingan Bartha (to quote Eric, "mmm, I love this "bangin' betty" !)
Then we watched this movie called Idiocracy. Stupid movie but I liked the premise, namely that with no natural predators, 'evolution' doesn't necessarily favor intelligence. In this case, smart people who only have a planned number of children, sometimes waiting until their 40's to even start, get outnumbered by the drooling masses who produce gaggles of kids, leading to a world of idiots sitting on a lazy-boy equipped with built in toilet seat, drinking beer from a tube and eating goo out of a bucket with their fingers while watching, 'Ow I got kicked in the nuts' while the United States is run by a president originally from WWE. Is that where we are heading??
Stupid movie though.

Anyway, Sunday I dropped one kid off at a friends house and picked up a friend to play with my other son. Both of the houses were huge shiny new McMansions that made me feel like I live in a urine-stained cardboard box in the ghetto. For a moment, I felt anxious about bringing this 8 yr old into the house! Well as a single mother in her early 30s I shouldnt be comparing myself to 45 yr old married couples life situations, and ideally I shouldn't be comparing myself to anyone, but its just so hard not to! lame.

Then Monica, Wissam, V, the kids and I all had a vegetarian Chinese feast at my house, followed by a 2 hour long set-up of the surround-sound speakers V gave me, the Wizards game (they won!) and some highly animated games of Spit (a fast-action card game) involving much screaming, laughing, and anxiety! I was worried for a minute that I had lost my touch, but in the end, I dominated.

THE CHAMPION!