This morning I slept in a little bit and could have slept much longer to be quite honest, there is nothing in the world to me that might be better than sleeping in, except maybe having freshly brewed coffee brought to me in bed after waking up but that is another story. I got a ton of stuff accomplished today. Wanted to do things that beautified the outside of my patio, which meant the eternal hunt for the best flowers that don't take much management or effort. Petunias it is. We have a winner. I suppose that I will always default to petunias, one because they are pretty hearty and can survive both my lack of attention but the sways in the heat here (it was 90 today and will hopefully cool off to somewhere in the 50s tonite) which is a complete bonus. I wanted desperately to get some weird and funky crazy something for the planters by my front door since there isn't as much sun, but ended up with Johnny Jump Ups and some other weird uber colorful flower. I was unloading the car and my neighbor H (she is the one that told me about my acquaintance dying on Thursday... we both worked for and with her at one time, which was very kuhwinkiedinkie) she told me some more details about our friend. Such a sad sad story. It breaks my heart to hear how this whole thing went down for this gal. Just simply avoidable and tragic. So we were talking about flowers and she got really sad, understandably.

I canceled out on going to a Preakness party because I wanted to be around in case H needed a shoulder. Then my Mom called about dinner with B. We took him a fish sandwich and were quickly out of Dodge. She actually said last night that she too is getting tired of loosing all her time in the evenings to accomplish stuff.... HA!... I knew it. I don't mean to gloat but now she gets why I have been so frustrated and why I am so glad that I am getting at least two nights off from it a week. It was good to hear her say it too. I don't apologize for getting completely mental about it a couple of weekends ago, because I think it might have opened her eyes a little bit.

Went to Sunflower tonite to stock up on some peppers and snack fixin's. Can I just say... I had the funnest time. There was this little girl who snuck a peice of carob something out of the bulk bins and then because it was gross, spit it out on the floor, then picked it up and put it in her pocket. That will be a mess but totally funny. I watched this little tiny woman who might have been 200 years old look for a cantaloupe. I watched this kid open up the honey dispenser watch it gloop out and walk away... glooping away. I turned the spout off and then he came back to watch it some more I guess and we had this weird little staring contest. He said "what" at the same time I did, it was hilarious. Then his dad or grandfather, I don't know which honestly came over and we just kept staring each other down. I then said.... "its ok I turned it off for you". He looked at his shoes and then asked his dad/grandfather guy for candy all the while staring me down. I desperately wanted to say to the dad/grandfather guy look at the mess the kid made, all the time staring him down. Then when he finally looked away I said "I won! Sweet". The kid totally shrugged and went away. I suppose you had to be there, but it was awesome. Then in line the guy behind me was a hoot. The checker guy was beyond amusing. The guy bringing the buggies in from the parking lot was nice and said "thanks for coming in". Just fun for that 20 minutes I have to admit. I loved that naughty naughty little kid.

So I am going to get to making some custard in a little bit for some gorgeous blackberries that I bought. I decided that I have the eggs, the cream, the sugar, the vanilla paste (thank you bro and thank you TSA lady for letting me bring it back with me) I am just going to go for it. Then I will sit on the patio and catch up on reader stuff and finish this damn book I can't seem to get into enough. H and I are going to swap books, which means I am ready to give up some of the chick-lit I have sitting around. She is down with taking the cast offs (and I told her I don't want anything for it at all...just get it out of my house is all I can say).

Oh and I totally thought today was Sunday and was dreading having to go back into the office tomorrow. What a treat this is being Saturday night instead.