Stuck inside

I picked up the girls yesterday morning from their mom's and we had a big breakfast at Jimmy's Egg, along with its requisite poor service (asked us three separate times what we wanted to drink, as though we were new patrons each time, finally brought us the wrong drinks, gave us someone else's check, didn't brink my toast,etc).

Afterwards, we swung by the store to pick up a birthday present for a party the girls were invited to only Friday.

As we were just next door to the Saturn dealership, we stopped there next and ended up being there for some time taking care of the VUE's overdue 30,000 mile service, during which I watched a significant portion of the OU/Texas game (the girls were appopriately dressed) that I had the opportunity to attend (but I'm SO glad I didn't, after hearing about how it went). The strange thing is that there were two TVs playing the game on opposite sides of the waiting area and one of them had some kind of a delay. We always knew a split second ahead of time that something good was about happen because we heard the cheers from the other side of the room right before it happened on the TV we were watching. It was like watching the game in an echo chamber.

After the service appointment, we booked it to that birthday party and were just in time. It was a bowling party, but not just any kind of bowling party, it was a cosmic bowling party. So the girls loved that, though I thought it was pretty darn chaotic. With 20 or so kids running around in the dark throwing eight pound objects around somewhat indiscriminately, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time just knowing that one of the girls were going to either inflict damage on someone or be damaged themselves. I can't believe everyone made it out unscathed.

Following the party, we went to the library to look for more books for the kids. Darby had previously started reading a 200-plus page book (Dickens, Tale of Two Cities [her choice not mine]) for her book report due at the end of the Month. But I told her the requirement was only for a 65-page book and that if she wanted to pick something different at the library for her book report she could. So she did pick something else out for the book report, though she said she would continue reading the other book afterwards, which is a good thing. We also picked up another book for Shelby. I don't think, at the rate of the last week, that she's going to make her book-it goal, but she needs the reading practice so we're going to keep going anyway. So all three of us check out a book just in time for the library to be closing. I picked up the recent Play Baseball the Ripken Way, figuring I could learn a thing or two, and maybe give Darby some pointers to help her get out of her slump.

I had some outdoorsy plans for the girls for later that day, but sometime during the birthday party it started raining, and it pretty much hasn't stopped since. It is supposed to rain the rest of today (ruining yet more outdoor plans) and Monday.

Bleh.



UPDATE, LATER
I am so sick of the freakin' rain already. I think we have enough for this year and next. Forcasts call for more of the same tomorrow. This makes for bad Monday karma.