Weekend back to "normal"

Hey. Sorry. :-(

Perhaps it is my own feeling of being in limbo that is preventing me from finding some kind of writing groove. I might have been fooled into thinking I had written, since we emailed back and forth a couple of times yesterday.

I so know what you are talking about. I've felt this way since New Year's Day. Although the nice thing is that your place is clean and you don't have to be somewhere unpleasant or undesirable today. That's the best situation for trying to get out of one's own way. Good luck. Call me if you need to...

Last night we had wine club, which, last month, was kind of a bore. But we had such a good time this month! S&L cooked a full Italian meal (Chicken Parm) for us. I decided on crab cakes (used a box mix and fresh crab) and garlic prawns for the apps. They both turned out well...although I'm not used to frying foods and think I should have had the oil hotter for the crab cakes. Good flavor though (Zatarains) and texture. Homemade ice cream for dessert...the theme was "Your Favorite Red" so I took a chance and brought my new fave - the $2.97 Walmart brand Oak Leaf Merlot. We had three different reds from the same vineyard in Lodi, CA (all were specatcular) and the fifth was a Washington blend. I was a little nervous until we revealed the bottles and comments and discovered that my cheap-ass swill really can stand up to the test. We rated it as high, if not higher, than some of the others (one was a $35 bottle!) and everyone was pleasantly surprised and newly informed. I so love being in the know.... :-)

Today JJ has a baseball clinic, in preparation for Little League starting next month. J and I will run some errands while he's there, then I'm going to run down and pick up B for the afternoon. His dad (crackhead, remember?) is in a band and has practice today, so B's going to hang with us. Then I'll drop him and JJ back off over at B's for the night. S, his sister, is babysitting the two of them because Dad has a concert tonight.

Meanwhile, J and I will be attending an annual FD banquet for the neighboring district - the town in which I had been teaching. We haven't gone to this one since we first moved here 12 years ago, so I probably won't know a soul. K& R were actuallly invited too, but R's sending some rep because he and K have a personal dinner date tonight. But boy, did I try to talk them out of that, because then the FD thing would have been totally fun. It won't be bad...lots of hand shaking and such for my hub, and a reason to dress up and play grown up for me.

I'm off now to shower and get my day started. Enjoy your day and if I get a minute later I'll check in verbally.
xo
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