wild and wooly weekend

Summary, 10/23

Points used: 26
Activity points earned: 3
Flexpoints used: 0
Water: 4c.
Veggies: 3
>12 lunch: no
Dinner @ home: yes

It's my son's 9th birthday today. Hard to believe it's been that long...makes me feel old. His birthday always makes me feel introspective (shit, just about anything makes me wax introspective), thinking about where we were then and where we are now. I'll spare you that, though.

I intended to get Noah up a little earlier than usual, so that we could have a slow, happy morning and not a "get your shoes on and in the car now, we're late for school" sort of morning. Unfortunately, we overslept and barely got bathed and fed before we were out the door. He did get a call from his father in Wisconsin, though, so there's something. We're going out to dinner tonight, and going to see Good Boy, which he's been dying to see for weeks now. And tomorrow we have the big party with 15 or so of his closest friends.

My foot isn't any better today, but now the pain is on the top instead of the bottom and feels like it's in the bones again. I'm beginning to think that this foot is possessed by a very small, very restless demon. It needs to be exorcised so I can exercise. Get it?! Exorcise, exercise? (Yeah, pretty bad, I know. Blame the stress.)

I planned a trip to a remote site today, mostly so that I could finish up my project there and then head home afterward. With any luck, it will take me an hour or so, then the hour drive back to my house will be enough to call it a day. I told the guy I'd be there between 1 and 2 pm, which gives me enough time over lunch to get a workout in and order Noah's cake for the party tomorrow.

I am, like, the worst procrastinator ever. I had a dozen things I needed to do by the end of this week, whether with the birthday party or the church...I'm just now getting to all of them. I was supposed to call 5 people to get them their Sunday school class outlines before they have to teach, and I'm just now getting to that. At this point, I have to email or fax them, and all I have are phone numbers. I should have done this 2 days ago when I got the phone numbers, but instead I'm waiting till the last minute. If this week's lesson sucks, I have no one to blame but me. Thankfully, it doesn't have a game this week, so at least they don't need to learn the rules in 20 minutes or anything. It is a good thing I started making calls today, though...one of the guys might have the flu by Sunday (most of his family has it now), and I may need to fill in. Time to actually read the lesson materials, I guess.

And yesterday, I finally managed to pick up the party favors for Noah's shindig tomorrow. The favors are my favorite part of kids' party planning...get me into a party supply store, and I am all over the goody bags. I spent nearly $40 yesterday on bouncy balls, Yu-Gi-Oh pencils, styrofoam gliders, candy, 3-D animal puzzle cards, and all manner of small toys that can be broken or lost in 10 seconds or less by a group of 5 to 9-year-olds. Tonight, I get to go back and get enough crap to make 4 more bags! Yay! And then somewhere between the family outing tonight, the pre-marriage counseling in the morning, and the party in the afternoon, I have to put those together AND shop for a present for Noah. Which I should have been doing weeks ago, of course.

We're having his party at an arcade/mini-golf place, and it's looking like it's going to rain. On the radio, though, they said that it was supposed to rain in the morning, clear up in the afternoon, and then storm at night. I'm hoping that's the case, because I've allotted half an hour after our party room-time is up to do the mini-golf thing. If we don't do that, I'm going to have 4 adults corralling 15 kids in an arcade for that extra time. Pretty much the definition of chaos. The party will be fun though, even with all the craziness. We have gone to the same place for 3 years now, and Noah has a blast every year.

Then, after the party, it's back to the grindstone. Before church on Sunday, I still have to update the sign-in sheets, make 80 nametags, photocopy more lesson materials, buy wax sticks, create a winter camp roster, and start on the drama booklets that I want to bring next week. I have a nagging suspicion that I also volunteered for something else, but I can't remember what. I'm going to try to clean the house Sunday afternoon and do my laundry, but it may not happen.

Hopefully, I'll be able to keep my eating on track. The party is at 1:30 on Saturday, so I can eat before I go and avoid the pizza at the party. I will probably have a piece of cake, but I'm going to try to confine myself to just that. Hopefully, with 15 kids, there won't be any leftover cake to take home. That would be dangerous.

So anyhow, wish me luck, and cross your fingers that I survive with no major mishaps...