So the weekend was good. Kind of. Niece's party was swelling. I got to meet the beau. Cute. As non-communicative as one would expect a 16 year old boy to be toward a 40 year old woman. Lots of one word type stuff but he seemed nice. Her girlfriends are adorable. All-in-all, not a bad night. Niece was even able to bite her tongue when mom just couldn't resist making one of those "and if you don't keep up your grades you'll loose it" comments - in front of the kid's friends. The kid totally avoided the bait. My baby's growing up! The kid scored, btw. She got a new Palm Centro turquoise phone. That's quite the phone for a 14 yr old. Let's see if she actually uses 1/2 the features on that thing. Kid, if you read this... LEARN TO USE THE CALENDAR SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE TO BE WHEN. She could also use the note/memo feature to make homework notes. Considering the kid starts high school in a few weeks, it might help. The young miss also got a laptop. Also beneficial for high school.

Springsteen delivered as always. We took the kid, as a matter of fact. Also took hubby's mother. The kid was pleasantly surprized by the antics and musical talent of a 50-something. After all, no one over the age of 20 even knows what music is... Right? ;-P Her favorite song of the evening was Spirit in the Night. Good choice. It's no Candy's Room mind you but it is a great tune.

Needless to say, having to drive from one end of the state to the other two nights in a row, resulted in my getting only 7 hours sleep between 2 nights. This is not enough for me. I need more and I was feeling the effects Sunday. It kinda sucked. I spent a couple of hours at the market purchasing healthy food for the diet I've put hubby and I on. We're like... extra-fat now! This is just not acceptable. I'm trying that Glycemic Index diet thingie. We'll see how that goes. I'm a little pissed because I haven't had 15 seconds to do any crocheting the past week. After all that inspiration I picked up at the conference, it's doubly disappointing.

Tomorrow I get to take my car to the shop! Yay! Stupid thing is making so much noise. It's absolutely deafening. Weird thing is that you only really hear it when the windows are shut. I'm just worried that this going to end up costing me a small fortune.

Well, I'm exhausted and I still have to read eleventeen million blogs before bed so I will chat ya when I can.

Later