Monday, Monday

Well, it sure was a hot, hot, hot weekend! Nothing much happening in my part of town. I went and hung out with Courtney, Hana & Baylee Friday night. We had a nice, relaxing evening. It was a good way to unwind after the rush to get my big job out. And I'll agree with Courtney. It's hard to remember that Baylee is ONLY 12!! She sure doesn't look 12 and she's much more mature than what I remember 12-year-olds being. What a great girl she is, though! I had a really nice time talking with her and just hanging out. Here are the pictures I took: 8-1-08

As Courtney mentioned in her blog, we decided to have Taco Bueno for dinner Friday. (I'm very much more a bueno girl than a bell girl.) Anyway, Baylee & I decided to go get it while Courtney was finishing up feeding Hana. So as we're pulling into the drive-thru, I'm looking at the menu. Because, of course, Bueno had added something new to their menu. It seems like everytime I go (which isn't really that often) they've got something different going on. So we're pulling up and Baylee says, "There's a boy in that dumpster!" I'm like, "What?" She says again, "There's a boy in that dumpster and his mom is right there." So by then I look over and sure enough, there's a boy of about 8 years old perched on the opening of the dumpster for Taco Bueno. He's obviously been in the dumpster and is getting out. Baylee notices he has gloves on, too. So I go ahead and place our order, and we continue to figure out what's going on. Baylee is grossed out completely by the thought of the boy being in the dumpster. (Me,too.) I speculate that he must have thrown something away of value, possible a retainer (although he looked too young for that), and his mom is making him find it. As we're at the window waiting for the food, he runs across the car to the door and we noticed his "gloves" are those really thin, cheap, plastic food prep gloves. So he wasn't getting much in the way of protection. So Baylee and I are talking and we both agree that Courtney would never make her child go into a dumpster after something, no matter how expensive. We also both agree that Ashley would possibly make her children go after something expensive if they threw it away like that. So I told Baylee to always remember the boy in the dumpster once she gets her braces off and gets a retainer, but she will NOT want to be digging through any trash! She got a big laugh out of that, but said she'd remember. LOL

We got back and had our Bueno and talked some more. We, of course, played with Hana. She was right in the middle of it all. She most definitely didn't want to be ignored and "caged" for the evening. LOL She's such a sweetie. Also, Courtney had some ice cream that was AWESOME! It's Haagen-Dazs's Sticky Toffee Pudding Courtney & Baylee had gotten some ice cream the evening before. Baylee had Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, her favorite. We all agreed to really liking that one, too. That brought up the discussion on how do you eat it? It was interesting that we all three eat it differently! So we'll take a poll on it to see how y'all eat your ice cream. (I'm always jealous of Court's polls!) Look on the side bar for it.

On Saturday, I didn't do much. I did some laundry and ran some errands. Then Saturday night I went and babysat Matt & Maggie so George & Julie could go see Jersey Boys. (My tickets are this coming Sunday. Really looking forward to it.) We had a really nice night. I got to hear all about their trip to California. They were there for the earthquake, too. Matt told me all about it (several times). Although, he assured me he wasn't scared and it "wasn't a big deal" really. LOL We played some games, which Matt won every time, with the help of his sister a couple of times. We watched iCarly (thankfully NOT Hannah Montana). It was cute. Maggie is ALL about Hannah Montana, though (and Miley Cyrus). She's got one of her CDs. She played it for me (a few times) and danced and sang along to it, too. It was a great night.

Sunday, I went to Sam's & Costco with Julie (and the kids) and Mary Ann. It's kind of like when we'd all go to Wal-Mart for hours. More talking than anything. I did find some really cool scrapbooking paper at Sam's though, which was cool. Costco was crazy insane busy. I mean crazy!! It was soooo hot yesterday, too! Matt told me it was even too hot to swim! LOL I got home for the shopping and laid down for a little nap. Mainly just trying to get cooled off again.

I watched Next Design Star. The person I wanted to win did not, which is good. That means there's one less show I'll be tuning in to watch. I saw that Sunday Night Football was on. I too am glad to have football starting back up. I can't wait for the regular season to start!!

Be sure and take the poll. I'm off to the post office, bank and to get gasoline. And maybe I'll swing by Happy Hour at Sonic! LOL