Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Friday, December 10, 2004

Catching up.... If that's possible @ this time of the year.

So - Hi again! Busy week, what's new. Let start off with last Friday's fun. Got myself out of work and down to the T-Birds game, in Friday night traffic, early! So I'm sitting in the car, touching up the make-up and hair when this truck pull up beside me and the girl in the front seat is staring at me with this bizarro look on her face! Oh yes, it's my daughter.... Perfect timing and we all head off to the game together. Fun, fun, blah, blah....

3rd Period and I head off to be @ Fado's by 10:00pm to see Lars' final show *tear, sniffle* The place is PACKED! OMG, the heat generated by all those bodies, well needless to say, I lost the bangs! Hair curled right up! So much for that urban sophisticated look I had cultivated. LOL! But seeing everybody was a lot of fun! And a wonderful surprise, there in the crowd stood "Mojo" Brian and his lovely wife CJ!! I had e-mailed to see if part of the Seattle DL crew wanted to hook up and there they were! What a GREAT treat that was! Because of how busy and packed the place was, it was hard to talk at first, but eventually we found ourselves a spot and had a nice chat! We practically have LepCon planned BTW, if anyone is interested! LOL!

After finally waking up on Saturday ( Yeah, I missed the boy-childs game) It was off to Meems piano recital. That was a rather amusing experience..... Boodge and Hubby had a All-star practice at 2:40, Meems recital started at 2:00. Hubby had worked it out with the Piano teacher to have Meems be one of the first up so they could see her play and then bolt. And bolt they did! Both of them were sitting there in their SJHA hockey warm-ups, tapping their feet and fidgeting. The minute she walked off stage, hubby blows her a kiss and sez to me "we're outta here!" and off they go. We followed after everyone else was done and there's Meems in the back of the van, trying to changed in to her jeans while I'm heading down the road to the ice rink!

Since I missed his game, I thought I'd show up for his first all-star practice. And I'm glad I did. Ran into parents I knew from the neighborhood that go to school with Glenn or Emily and we sat down and had a nice time chatting while the kids were on the ice.

The rest of the weekend was a blur and we end up back at Monday. Last week was a train wreck! My bud, Dede was in Hawaii (Bitch!) and so I stayed home later in the mornings and did double duty with the car pool routine, running kids to the middle school and then and hour later, the elementary school. So this meant I got to work an hour later (to a pile of work!) and had to stay an hour later. It was recital week for Meems dance classes, so she had extra classes and the boy and hubby had extra hockey practices too. And to top it off, I got the Xmas bug.....

The Xmas Bug.... This is what happens every year. I can't help it, it's just how it happens. Every year I have every intention of getting my xmas shopping done early. But what happens is this: I get everyone's present figured out EXCEPT one. It varies from year to year, but there is always one person I get stuck on. And for some reason since I have everybody else figured out, I don't actually buy anyone else's present, I just fixate on the one I can't figure out. And then I'll be out somewhere and I'll find it! That one present, the perfect present! The flood gates open and I'm in the zone!!
I must shop until all present have been bought and I am done! If I don't I will explode!! Trust me, I will.

And so with everything else happening last week - double car pools, double dance practices, double hockey practices, band recitals, dance recitals and all the rest - I power shopped! And everything is taken care of.... Except for the pillows. The kids and I got this wild hair to make pillows with their pics on them for the grandparents - STUPID*STUPID*STUPID!! If they turn out, I'll post a pic. Who knows when....

Have a great week everyone!

As told by moi8:41 AM ...

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