A Great Day in the Books

I definitely had a good day today. Joe decided to come over for a visit; third time in a month. Oh happy day!! Kara, Joe and I cleaned out the fridge and had some great laughs in the process. I don’t think he was expecting to be doing any cleaning but he pitched in anyway. Then we had to straighten up a little bit because Dolly was getting to meet her teacher today. I don’t think I mentioned that I got a phone call from the Head Start on Tuesday saying that they have an opening for her. Another oh happy day!!

Her teacher had to make a home visit and fill out a little bit of paperwork before Dolly could start school. Kara and Joe hung out and watched TV while Dolly and I met with her teacher. Dolly chatted with her and even read a book with her. She was too cute and said she was excited to be going to school. When I asked her if she’d be okay with me dropping her off, she looked a little sad so I know she’ll probably cry the first couple of days; but she’ll be fine soon enough. Bonus for me: she gets to start on Monday. Dolly will be in school from 8:15 to 3:15 every day. That means free time for me to get some things done and possibly find some kind of work. YEA!!

Anyway, after Dolly’s teacher left, Joe left too and the boys all began arriving home from school. Homework was done by all; dinner was eaten, as was dessert later in the evening. Then the kids went to bed and I texted back and forth with a friend from MO. He’s the sweetest thing. Remember “Dan” from a previous post? He was my text buddy this evening. We talked about, pretty much, everything over the course of a couple of hours. Then my phone began to die and he was heading to bed so we said good night; but not before we’d had some really good discussions. He’s really easy to talk to and we agreed we’d talk again sometime.

After that I decided to hook up my Netflix account to Kara’s Wii so we’d be able to watch movies whenever we want. I couldn’t get it to work at first because I thought we needed a USB cable and we didn’t have one. Then she was talking to a friend of hers, an IT geek, who told us that the Wii can actually connect wirelessly. That was too cool. He stayed on the phone with Kara while I walked through the steps of getting the connection set up and the Netflix downloaded. I got the code, poked it in on my Netflix account on the computer and we were good to go. The menu popped up right before our eyes. Now that was just awesome (to use a seriously-overused word) and we couldn’t wait to see what was available for us to watch.

It was really late, though – after 11:30 – so we weren’t going to watch a movie. I started flipping through the comedy shows and came across Louis CK’s standup. Kara had never seen him before so I put it on for us. We laughed until we cried. He’s hilarious so if you ever want to watch someone really funny, Louis CK is the man. Give him a listen; you won’t be disappointed. We didn’t finish watching it, though, because it got really late so we just decided to stop it and finish watching it tomorrow. That means to me that tomorrow, or today as it may be (it’s almost 1:00 in the morning), will be another fantastic day. I’m going to get some sleep so I’ll be prepared when my alarm goes off in another few hours. Maybe it’ll be even better than today was. I hope your day is wonderful, too.

Until next time…peace to all.