Well, the Tigers lost. Bummer. At least we didn't have to sit through a painful game on TV on Friday night. Instead, we were at the Palace for the Barenaked Ladies concert! The show was great... just the right mix of old standards and fresh material from the new album. There was lots of goofing around onstage and a few funny impromptu songs. Those guys are just so much fun to see -- they're on-par with Ben Folds, in my book.

The concert ended early enough for us to listen to the tail end of the Tigers-Cardinals game in the car on the way back to Stef's house. It was painful to hear, but I still give the team a lot of credit for everything they accomplished this year. Nobody thought we would have such a great regular season, let alone such an impressive playoff run, so I have nothing but praise for the Tigers. Hopefully they can do it again next year.

Anyway, since there wasn't a game six on Saturday night, Stef and I decided to head back to Lansing a little early. Since we weren't in any rush though, we went to see "The Prestige" in Birmingham before hitting the road. The movie was really good, and I would definitely recommend it, but I think Stef and I both agreed that we enjoyed "The Illusionist" a bit more.

We went back to Stef's to pack up after seeing the movie, and hit the road by about 5 or so. The drive back to Lansing was pretty uneventful. We just watched some TV at my place for a while before getting dressed up in our Halloween costumes for a night out on the town. Stef and I were Doug Funnie and Patti Mayonnaise this year, and the costumes turned out really cute (I'll have pictures in the next day or so). As always, Stefy gets all the credit for planning the outfits and buying the stuff.

Once we were all dressed up we went over to Stef's apartment to hang out for a while and see what her friends were up to. It seemed like everyone was planning to go to various house parties, but we wanted to go out to a club or something so we could dance. Stef's cousin Olivia was in town for the weekend and we wanted to meet up with her, so we tentatively planned to go to Buffalo Wild Wings, since they supposedly had some Halloween-related activities planned. It turned out that Olivia ended up going to some party with one of her brother's roommates, so Stef and I ended up going to BWW's by ourselves to get some dinner. Well, come to find out, whatever Halloween business they had planned was a total bust, since there were like two other people dressed up in the whole place. It was already pushing 10PM, so we decided to stick around and order some food, since neither of us had eaten since noon.

After dinner, Stef finally got a call from Olivia. She was on her way over to Rick's, so we paid our bill and headed over there to join her. I had never been in Rick's before, so it was cool to finally check it out. There were lots of people in crazy costumes, so it was nice to feel like we weren't the only ones dressed up anymore. The band that was playing basically had an all-90s setlist, so it was fun to sing along to all with all the 90s-era songs I had forgotten about (Semi-Charmed Life, anyone?).

It was well after 1 by the time my head hit the pillow on Saturday night. Considering that I usually go to bed by 10:30 or 11, that's ridiculously late for me. Of course, it just gave me another excuse to sleep in way late on Sunday morning.

Yesterday was kind of lazy. I ran out to get some lunch at Panera for Stef and me while we watched "The Big Chill" at my place during the afternoon. Stef was knitting a scarf for Morgan's Halloween costume all day (she's going as Hermione Granger), so it gave her a chance to get most of the work done. After the movie we took a break to go walk around Eastwood since it was so nice outside. We bought some more movies at Schuler, and Stef bought some fall clothes at J. Crew. Once we were done shopping we came back to my place for dinner and our evening movie, "Drop Dead Gorgeous."

So yeah, that's about it for this weekend. Hope you had a good one.