Thursday 10/12, I hit the store on the way home then went in my room and played with my new computer some more and just relaxed. I ate some leftovers and around 6:45 I left to go to the Rack to return some shoes I’d purchased the week before and then headed to Costco Home to see if my couch was in stock yet, it wasn’t, but was available for special order. So I put my order in and $1,200 later and in six to eight weeks I’ll have my new dream couch and ottoman. I drove home and stopped at the store to pick up some vanilla yogurt to have strawberries with it. I holed up in my room for the rest of the night, showered and went to sleep early…like 10:45.

Wednesday 10/11, Eric and I left my house separately around 8:45, him to the Crossroads skate park and me to MI to meet up with the parents. When I got there Dad presented me with my birthday present: a new wide screen laptop. Yay, thank goodness because I’m pretty sure mine is about to give up the ghost. We got on the road to Ernie and Erika’s (thank goodness Eric hadn’t hitched a ride with me as I thought the briss was on Bainbridge at Josh and Amy’s and it would have been an uncomfortable situation) by 9:45 and were the first to arrive at their house. We all milled around and then the baby got there and he’s very cute. Everyone started showing up and we all just milled around until it was time for the snip snip. I couldn’t watch, though Kassie did and we did a little dance afterward and then it was time for brunch. I told Mom and Dad I needed to leave because I still had to get back to work so we left, Eric called me on our way back and I filled him in, then when we got to the house and I took off making it to work around 1:00. I worked late to make up some of the time then headed home and prepared for Chrystol and Schuyler to come over. I started getting the new computer hooked up but because B the Asshole had set up my wireless I don’t know what the password is so I had to call tech support and the guy was really good and walked me through it and I got it all reset and the new computer up and running! Susan informed me that she had felt the entire house shaking the night before and her bookcase almost fell over. Needless to say I was mortified, so I called Eric to tell him and he just thought it was hilarious though he told me to apologize to Susan for keeping her up. Then C & S showed up and they started making dinner. We had a huge salad and a yummy pizza with artichokes, tomato, sun dried tomato and some delicious fresh mozzarella. It was very good to say the least. We watched ANTM and booed and cheered at the appropriate times, also vowing to do this more often. When it was over Chrystol cleaned up and wouldn’t hear of just leaving it alone for me to do later, it was really nice. I brought my computer downstairs and got the cookies out and I showed them all the pictures from St. Martin and told them all the stories that go along with them. They left around 10:15 and I pretty much just went to bed.