On the one hand, intellectually I knew that I couldn’t be the only one to do this, but on the other, to have someone else actually admit to doing it too…. feels so great. Not as good as knowing that I’ve mostly trained myself out of it, but still pretty darn good. What is “it”?
“It’s called the We’re All Going To Die Homeless And Alone Spiral.” – Dooce
Wednesday night papa and his wife drove down. We had dinner at IHOP and then watched Juno (which was really good). Thursday we drove to San Jose. Mom, her husband and my brother drove down to meet us. We then all went for lunch/dinner at my pirate’s aunt & uncle’s house. Lots of good food. Most of the youngin’s went for a walk later on (after mom and crew left for home). Friday papa gave my pirate a ride home so he could go in to work (ugh!) while I stayed to hang out with MM on Saturday. We had lunch at a Japanese place, played some WoW and watched a bunch of anime.
Sunday I just relaxed, baked everything cookies for AP and did chores.
Monday night I finally got the save the dates done. So Tuesday they went in the mail as did the cookies. Tuesday night I made it out to salsa night. Wednesday I fussed with the computer some while I figured out what cookies to make. And tonight I got two batches of dough finished and it’s bed time with gym time at 8am tomorrow. Bleh! Too early!
Oh, and I’m thankful for such wonderful future in-laws, and such wonderful family and a great fiance. I’m also thankful dad gave my pirate a ride so I could spend time with one of my best friends.
So I came really close to spending a ridiculous amount on postage so I could get stamps to match my save the date postcards. Then I realized that most will get trashed or at best cut apart and used as ornaments like I intend. Spending more on stamps is just silly.
I also am looking through my old archive fold and cleaning out stuff like this hardware list for my first computer:
Acer Aspire P/N 91,AB576,Mo5
S/N 2601404720
DeskJet 672C
Iomega 250 Zip Parallel
Intuos Graphics Tablet
4GByte Hard Disk
128MB + 32MB
My daily gratitude is that I get paid time off to donate blood (2 hours per month), and that having Total cereal almost every morning keeps my iron up enough to allow me to do so. An hour or two snuggled up warm (to keep my blood moving) and quietly reading my magazines is always nice.
And some email cleaning:
Cute video my pirate found for me that put a smile on my face: Dancing Matt