friends

making
baked ziti for dinner - with garlic bread of course. and it smells sooooo amazing, i want to hold it up to the flames so it cooks faster (but i generally don't have such good luck with stunts like that ;)

baking
an apple pie too.  who am i???!  not working at all and having the boys back in school is awesome - like being Martha Stewart, kind of  (but i can't fold a fitted sheet -i just roll it in a ball and stuff it away :)

visiting
Theresa tomorrow :) she has pumpkin loaf from Trader Joe's!!!!   

wishing
we were going for another delicious moms only lunch at the Indian restaurant tomorrow.  we stayed for THREE HOURS until a) school was over and b) the place was closed ;) 

also wishing
the baby bird would just miraculously fly back to his nest and live happily ever after.  because i am filled with the worst guilt ever knowing he is out there suffering and i can't do anything to help him.  did you know baby birds need to be fed every 20 minutes?  and 95% of them die anyway?  sigh - the internet is a very depressing place :(

loving
the 'after' feeling of the ten mile walk.  not so much the 'before' or the 'during' which totally suck ;)

kind of hating
on the cub scouts... they have something going on every single night and i hate being over scheduled :(

also kind of hating
that Joe Biden.  i am sure he didn't email me personally but his latest email is just too mean, and it starts 'Look, Carol --" and then accuses me of not trying hard enough to help Barack, when i am working out like a dog (see above) to get that man re-elected and i - of all people - have his back.  grrrr!!!  i don't like his attitude - freaking Scrantonion :|  but i still like Barack, even though he's from Chicago, which is even worse than Scranton* :) 

*i have never actually been to Scranton but if it's like the rest of PA, i already know i don't like it ;)

wanting
to go and see Barbra Streisand at the Hollywood Bowl.  but it's oprah money (i think $700???) and will we even be here on 9 November?  i bloody hope not!!!  but i do love her dearly - she's in Vegas too, i want to go to Vegas again :)

hoping
to meet Amy for lunch/redcard shopping next week - anywhere!!!! (that has a Target nearby :)

going
on a date tomorrow.  i hate hate hate the name...... but we are going to BJs again - three cheers for pizza, pizookies and the sweetest, cutest company!!!