Busy Weekend Ahead

Hey there, Barb.

Ughhh.... Not only did I not need that last beer, I really didn't need the variety of all deep fat fried appetizers that haunted me all night long.  I love how, as we're perusing the menu (as if it has changed in 20 years), we all say "Oh, this is gonna kill me at 4 in the morning, but those wings sure sound good."  When will we learn???  OMG, I was so freakin' miserable last night.

J didn't come strollin' in until after 1:30, poor guy, only to get up for a 7:00 meeting this morning. He said it was really fun and that I could come next year. This is funny, I think, because it's so the last thing I would want to do on a Wednesday night - follow a pipes & drums band around the city, squeezing our way in and out of a dozen sardine-packed pubs full of unfathomably trashed Washingtonians who claim to be of some Irish decent.  Or not. This would be more up T's alley - I think S and I will let them go and we'll stay home next year, even forsaking the greasy appetizers.

I purposely took the day off today to get some things done for the weekend, and to help S with her dinner party tonight.  K has a friend in town who also published her first novel this year, and she and Kim became friends on line. She is an old friend of K's but none of us has met her, so S is having a little get together. All the boys have sports in the middle of it, so we'll be running around a little with pickups and dropoffs - maybe this will curb the drinking and result in an early night :)

Tomorrow I already have a job lined up at my old school, so I'll be gone until 4.  We are having this couple over for dinner - a relatively new guy in J's department with whom he has become very good friends.  I like his wife well enough; I just don't know what I was thinking trying to have people over for dinner on this particular weekend.  C and her friend R are due in sometime Friday night too...

....so today is my day to clean the bathrooms and the rest of the house so I can go to work in the morning and have nothing to do but cook dinner when I get home. Since the weather is awesome - and only supposed to get nicer as the weekend goes on - I think I'll try to plant up my front-porch pots too.  Those dead, molding kale plants that are currently rotting in them just don't contribute to my feng shui, especially when I'm having "new" people over. 

Then, of course, Saturday is the big day around here. We start with a ball game at 10:00 which should take us to noon, when I will head over to Borders and start getting that set up.  The reading/signing is at 2:00, and since we don't know how long we'll be there, I've just blocked out the whole day. The dinner starts at 7, so we'll probably head over there around 5:30. 
Amazingly, we have absolutely nothing planned for Sunday.  Yea!!

I hope you have a good weekend planned also. What is the latest news with D?  Anything?

Love you,
A