good weekend so far

So I was lieing awake in the wee hours, suffering a dreadful case of the hiccups, and decided that it was close enough to 6 to just go ahead and get up. Not that 6 is a magical number, but maybe it is. It is a relatively respectable hour to rise in most cultures, early enough to get a grip on the day, but I also reasoned with myself that since it's Saturday, I could actually go back to bed around 7 and sleep another hour or so if my brain would have it.

Now given that I'm up and you're not, nor is much of anyone else but the cats, I have nothing to do but blog about what a good weekend I'm having. It started Thursday evening, since there was no school Friday. Sarah came down to spend the night with Kate, and we stayed up til almost 2 watching the made-for-tv version of Stephen King's "The Shining". Good book, terrible movie. We had such a blast making fun of it, and the jokes lasted all of Friday. It was really that bad.

We slept in Friday morning, and had some really great conversations about spiritual stuff and how to get along as parents and kids, and what we all want to do when we grow up. Sarah is really good company, and I've found that when she is here, Kate and I communicate better. Not that we do poorly other times, but just having another angle of an issue is helpful.

We went to Kate's school conference yesterday, and they confirmed our suspicions that Kate is just wonderful in sense of the word. In spite of the fact that she thinks she's constantly behind with no hope of graduating, she really is doing an outstanding job and really accomplishing alot. We had a feeling she would. She is such a good kid. I wish I could have taught her better stress management techniques!

After conferences, we stopped at Hobknobb for a cuppa warm, and visited with my old pal Roy. Roy was one of the first people I met when I started working at McJob, and had a very cynical, open, emo kind of personality that immediately made him interesting. By the way, he's a kid. I just realized I should point that out, before you thought .. you know. yeah. Anyway, he's now a Baristo at Hobknobb, and we discovered that he's had a very good interview in a local paper for his music and art interests. And on top of that, he makes one heck of a dandy Knobs Caramel, easy on the sweet! Trav had a hot chocolate, and Kate and Sarah enjoyed their lattes; peppermint and hazelnut respectively.

On the way home, we stopped at GW on a whim, where I managed to procure a newinthepackage MP3 player, for $2.50.
Let that soak in.
TWO FIFTY.
two dollars and fifty cents.
Sure, it's a generic, but it's a 1 gig shuffle-style, and really, why would I need to carry around more than 500 songs? Any more would start to get heavy.

We had a yummy dinner (blackened tilapia, mac and cheese, and steamed asparagus) and wound up heading for bed around 10. Of course I wanted to try sleeping with the mp3 player (which isn't named yet, incidentally), and I've found that while that might have been a good idea when I was 15, it doesn't work so well at 35. I kept waking up to see which song I was listening to. Eventually, Mippen and Artemis quit their calisthenics for the night and curled up on me for naps; Mippen on my tummy and Artemis nesting on the figure 4. That lasted an hour or so, and here I am now. But the horrible hiccups are gone!

I may try going back to sleep now, but even if I don't it won't ruin the prospects of the day. First I'm going to check in on my pal Warwa, who had a successful surgery and stayed overnight last night. Tahnks for all your nice comments and your prayers for her!
Also, this day is the biweekly library book sale, and I plan to procure some more raw materials to deconstruct and reconstruct. Course, I might have to read them first.

Hope you're having a good weekend, too!