Saturday night.

I feel like a little kid. We were over at J's house, having dinner and playing cards, and then there was too much junk food and three Mt. Dews, and now I feel ill. I also feel sleepy, but M is having too much fun playing with his new monitor* to coerce him into going to bed yet. Of course, he also had multiple caffeine drinks, and he's more sensitive to caffeine at bedtime than I am. He argued this point fiercely for a long time, but it's hard even for him to keep arguing something when all facts point in the opposite direction.

*We ordered a monitor online last week, but it hadn't shipped yet (we did know it was out of stock when we ordered it, so that wasn't really a problem in itself) and last night, we found a better one for cheaper online, so we went to Lexington today to pick it up. Of course, it's only ($50) cheaper after a $170 rebate, so technically, I cancelled an order so we could go spend over $100 more. Yay. It's a Samsung 17" flat-panel, if anyone is interested, and M hasn't stopped smiling yet, so I think it was a good investment. ;).

Anyway. J and I majorly pounded M and A on the Rook games. We actually won three out of four, and by a huge margin (I'd say on average of 400 points per game.) It was great fun because previously, we've always lost. It's funny, because our gloating husbands did not find quite so much to laugh about tonight... hmm... There were several very creative new expressions coined relating to "flood season" and "new complexion", but I don't think they'd be funny in the retelling. I'm not even sure why it was so funny tonight but I had tears at one point from laughing so hard.

We went to an auction not long after we got married, and when a certain item came up for bid, I actually roused myself out of my stupor of boredom and surprised the heck out of everyone by bidding on it. It's a retractable magnet--it looks like a pen, but with a relatively large head instead of a point. You can pull that out for about two feet, and the magnet sticks like glue to anything metal. I think I bid like, $2 on it, and I don't know if I've honestly used it once, but it's just so neat. I have it in my pen cup and pull it out now and then just to have something to play with. I probably won't think it's so neat when I accidentally wipe out my harddrive, but uh.. it's pretty cool until then.

Bookishness, mainly.

Have you ever had one of those days when you completely forget to do something important? Like, for example.. start reading a book and completely forget to stop until you hit the last page? I was in a bit of a stupor this evening with Always, which is the third in Jude Deveraux's Forever trilogy. The previous two books were completely and totally fascinating, and this one was absorbing as well, but it.. well. I won't get into the whole story, but let's just say that I can't decide if I liked the ending or not. I'm leaning heavily on "not", though, and that makes me feel a little sad. When you wait so long to read the whole story and end up with more questions than you had to begin with.. typically not a good sign. Although I've had a few days to think about it.. I read too much of the reviews not to figure out what was going to happen.

Moving right along. Speaking of.. actually, I don't want to write about that. Never mind.

I'm so glad I have tomorrow off (standard-issue every-other-Monday-off.) We didn't go visit family today, which I think annoyed my mommy. We had lots of productivity planned but that also kind of failed. I feel a little off today.. but we did start the day off right by killing Draak and saving the world, so that's always a bonus. We had our little book party and I accomplished nothing. I made a good deal of progress on my Crafty Project of the moment, though. I'm hollowing a book out for my niece for Christmas. All the cutting is done now.. just need to finish up with some glueing and beautifying. It is actually not quite as easy as I envisioned when I came up with this grand plan.. but I think she'll like it. At least, I would have loved having a place to store all my valuables when I was nine. I still would, actually, but I don't have the valuables anymore.. growing up sucks.