I don't know what it is with my friend Tammy and calling me at 7:45 a.m on a Saturday. (roll eyes) At least this time I didn't injure myself trying to get the noise turned off. She was calling to see if I wanted to go to lunch with her family after church, and also checking what time Sabbath School was. After hanging up with her I ended up going right back to sleep and didn't get up till she called again (actually her husband called) and told me they were out of church. I REALLY meant to get up and get a shower and do some stuff before going to lunch with them.

We went to lunch at this little hole in the wall Thai resturant. The prices were really reasonable, and the food was very delicious. I will definately have to remember this place for the future. I just love her kids. She has a son who is 4 and a daughter who is 2. I've been around both of them for the past three years, and have babysat them a number of times. Nicolas (her son) used to call me "Lorla" and now Destiny (her daughter) calls me "Lorda". Hee hee! They both were fighting for my attention. Nicholas insisted that I sit next to him. I am going to miss being around them when I move, but I'll still be close enough to see them once in awhile.

After lunch they dropped me back off at my place. I then went to go pick up Monkey's medicine at the vet. There was a really bad traffic accident on 635 and traffic was backed up for probably five miles, so I took the frontage road the whole way. Then on my way back, there was ANOTHER accident on my side of the road, so I again took the frontage road the whole way back. I was more than a little bit annoyed at the Vet's office. I tried to use the gift certificate for the medicine, but they said that it wasn't able to be used for that. I said the gc said it was for "treatment" and wasn't medicine a "treatment?" They said that no, it was some other word. Ugh!

When I got back I had an email reply from the guy on the dating site. I'd given him my real email, because I don't want to pay for another month at that site. Guess he wasn't too annoyed with me not replying faster. This time I emailed him back right away (which is really my normal way of doing things!) Not getting my hopes up or anything, but he really seems like a good quality guy - and he has a similar viewpoint in that a mom should be at home with her kids for at least the first few formative years. (I know that is not possible for everyone due to financiial circumstances, but I DO really feel strongly that that is the IDEAL situation.) That was one point that my ex-bf and I disagreed on (he didn't think it was possible to live on one income, although I tried to explain to him just HOW it WAS possible). Anyway, I digress.

My mom let me borrow her whole case of CD's when I was there at her house. Last night while I was doing stuff online, I copied/ripped all the ones I wanted, and then transfered them to my MP3 player. I then made a new playlist of all the mushy gushy light music, and have been listening to it all this afternoon. The weird thing is, that even my CD's that were so scratched up that I couldn't listen to them on my regular CD player, ripped perfectly fine to my computer and then imported to my MP3 player. I think after I finish putting all my CD's on the MP3 that I'm going to either sell or give them all away. One less thing to store. By the way, I got the MP3 player for a *really* good price at an after Christmas sale. It has 40GB of memory, nearly as much as my computer!! It also cost way less than it would cost me to replace my car stereo/radio system (which was stolen from my car a year ago February) and it's portable. I'm really really happy with it (especially since I got mine for $60 less than my brother found his for!)

I need to get off the computer. I want to read the latest Reader's Digest article about the Tsunami, and then maybe watch one of those movies I got from Blockbuster Online. Maybe also read some more of one of the books I got with the gc. Really, what I *should* do is pack up the books for Half-Price so I can go sell them tomorrow. Nah. I'll wait till my dad is here with his Jimmy and his muscles.

Spending Log:
Today:
Vet: $22.38 (One week supply of medicine)
Albertsons: $5.31 (junkfood - yes, again)

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura