Fun and Full Weekend

Well, that was certainly a full weekend!

On Saturday, I went to my second job and found out that to keep me from quitting, the boss is willing to have me work from home 90% of the time, PLUS gave me a raise. How's that for employee appreciation? :o)

Also on Saturday, Jason's Mom came in, and then PJ & Jaime visited. We had a nice BBQ and then later, a nice night of very competitive hearts. We had a very good time, laughing our asses off at Kate Bush. I love this woman's music, and had watched this particular video before. Apparently I was unaware of how incredibly weird it is. But in my defense, I first watched Wuthering Heights (the one where she's in the woods, wearing a red dress), and after that nothing seems weird.

Sunday was a great, productive day. I cleaned the whole of the upstairs, and washed AND folded all of the laundry. Jason hung pictures & stuff, and watched the baby. That last job was not little, as "the baby" has a tooth coming in and is so cranky that if you so much as look at her, she'll scream (I only wish I were kidding).

Yesterday was a great end to a great weekend. I made mucho progress on Mom's website, and got us all out of the house at about 2:00 to go see Matt & Debi & their baby, Brady. We had a wonderful time there. She & Brady played pretty much the whole time, and I can tell, Brady has a crush. They were standing side-by-side at one point, and Brady kept putting his hand on her butt! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of this with which to embarrass them both later in life.

There was also some water fun to be had yesterday. Matt & Debi have a small inflatable pool, and Abigail loved it. She even slipped out of Jason's grasp once and went in, face first. She emerged, sputtering a bit, but no worse for the wear. She just went back to what she'd been doing: walking around, and around, and around the pool and splashing us all till we were dripping. It's a really neat pool - it's not the usual little round one, but one that's about as tall as Abigail, and has big, inflatable sides. Every now & then, while she was making the rounds in the pool, she'd throw herself on that inflatable side, giggling madly. If it weren't for that last thing, I'd think we had an Olympic swimmer on our hands!

I nearly forgot: The Squirrel War. He's winning. He hangs out just long enough for us to open the screen door, and then he's off. I don't think we've actually managed to squirt him with the Special Squirrel Sauce since that first week. As if this weren't bad enough, there's a small black & white cat that's also taken to hanging out at the bird feeder. Right under it, in fact. When I see this one, though, I don't reach for the squirt bottle. I pick up our giant, behemoth cat Gizmo and make lunging motions with him. Incredibly, the cat does not fall off the patio wall laughing, he actually runs away. I think I'm on to something here...