Saturday

We met with Beast's family friends for a couple of hours yesterday. Then we came home and watched "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" which we stopped and rented on the way back home. Like anything else in this area, meeting up with these folks meant an hour drive each way to the meeting point: the biggest freakin' outlet mall in the universe! Which, naturally on a Saturday afternoon, was crowded beyond belief.

Pirates = silly. One very funny scene and some good editing and acting--I was impressed by Keira Knightly, and I love Johnny Depp--but all-in-all a very silly movie. OK, at one point, I leapt into the air in shock, but that's only because we have surround-sound.

Took a bath, and of course that's when the phone rings. Beast was already asleep (ish). It was the pastor/chaperone for the camping trip Sparky is on. He left a message because neither of us could get to the phone. Seems that Sparky got in trouble for something--not quite clear on what. Sigh.... We'll find out today when we pick him up.

As a result of that call, I had some really bizarre dreams last night. One involved the laptop: I dropped it in our bathroom (the master bathroom--yeah, not in there with the computer real often!) and broke the hinges on the screen. The frame around the screen also broke and there were parts lying all over the bathroom. Somehow Beast got it all back together and it worked just fine. My hero.

Today is sitting-around-day. I need to research and buy plane tickets for Spring Break for Sparky and me, and of course we'll have to go pick up the kid, but otherwise there's no scheduled events.

For a change.

Thank God!! Oh, yeah, and we aren't doing church.