A Good Day!

Hey there.

Yay on the W front!! Please keep me posted about the job and I will definitely be sending white light his way!

About five minutes ago, I was filled with all kinds of writing inspiration so I sat down to get started. Then I started reading everyone else's blogs and now I'm roadblocked. I'm in a good mood today, let's start there, I guess.

I am thankful for little things today: Even though the washer repair guy never showed up yesterday, he did show up first thing this morning, and it cost me less than $200 to fix it. Someone is covering for me at Friday Treats because of that, and because that sinus infection is back, two-fold. I have the whole day now, with nowhere to go and nothing to do, AND I have digital music on my new HD TV setup thingie (technical term).

We had an awesome evening last night, J and I. I dropped JJ off at his baseball game in the care of our "new" friends, A&F, whose son is on the team. We have known them for years through sports and school and such, but have never gotten to know them until now. Turns out they are very cool and fun and we're having a great time hanging out with new people. Anyway, the reason we didn't go to JJ's game was because J was going to win an award at a community dinner last night, so we went to that. I wasn't so excited about a prime rib dinner at the big hurkin' Koolaid church, but this community summit is, evidently, a pretty big deal. My crack friend, JT, is very involved in some of the task forces and has been trying to get me involved too. After having been to one of the breakout sessions, I definitely will. I could only make it to one forum (they went all day) but it was worth it. Anyway, at 6 everyone went into the main area (of this huge church) and there were tables all set up - really a class act. Dinner was great, the highschool band serenaded us while we ate. There was a keynote speaker, some guy who works with youth and is very entertaining, then they presented a bunch of awards to various people. John was honored with the Unsung Hero award (the plaque is really pretty and unique). Many people from his office were there and we had a big table full of fire people to enjoy the evening with. My favorite moment ~~~ there were many people who won awards and after each one, the room broke into applause. (There had to be 200 people there.) When J went up there, he shook hands with the MC and the other recipients and when he turned around, had a standing ovation. He teared up, S and I started crying; what a great moment. I'm so glad I went.

When it was over, we were supposed to go pick up JJ at A & F's house, but she had texted me that they were at the local Italian place for a late dinner. We headed over there and met up with them and another family we know pretty well; we had a great time just yakking and drinking wine and the kids all hanging out...we didn't get home until after 10!! Still, it was just a great evening, start to finish. :-)

Things with TIM are per usual - found out that crazy mom applied for free lunch for M under the homeless act; seriously, he qualifies for that as a runaway, even though he is, in no way, homeless or disadvantaged. No wonder our government is a gazillion dollars in debt. Jesus! I had to make a slew of phone calls to make sure that she hadn't tried to forge my name or anything; I'm telling you, she's a Nut Job. I just can't wait until Thursday and this whole thing will come to some kind of a head.

I'm on a roll to clean my house today; K called to ask if I wanted to go to Nordstrom and I actually passed on it! I'm supposed to go to PTA friend S's tonight for drinks so I'd like to get something productive done today. I hope your Friday is going well and that W hears something before the weekend!

Love,
A