Road Trip

Last evening I went with JC and two of her friends to meet Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum novels! We drove to Skokie, IL to a Barnes & Noble bookstore. The store was packed with people and they had a live band. Janet's daughter, Alex, gave us each some stickers and a keychain and we had our picture taken with Janet. They even had free samples of cheesecake! On our way home we stopped at a McDonalds for dinner. It was a fun evening full of laughter, silliness, cheesecake, books and friends. (Click on the little picture for a bigger view.)

Check out Janet's website at www.evanovich.com

Purple Cheetah Performs Perfectly

Someone snatched up niteflytes.com so I won't be getting that back any time soon.

The muscial my daughter was in was EXCELLENT and a lot of fun to see. Everyone involved worked really hard and it showed in the performances. Big thanks to TS who loaned me his video recorder! Mucho thanks to JC for help with makeup. Enormous thanks to my mom for spending the entire month at our house and taking E to her drama class and for all the trips to Subway and Walmart!!!! We couldn't have done this without mom's help! SP & family...glad you were able to make it to the performance on Saturday and for taking pics with my good camera. I can't wait to get them developed. Did I mention I took 3 cameras with me on Saturday? A digital, a 34mm SLR and a video camera! And just found out that TH made it to the Friday night show. She said she enjoyed the show and had a wonderful time. Thanks TH!

Now I get a break because mom's gone home and E is on vacation with her dad. So if I owe you something, such as a Bowie CD or a clarinet I will be working on getting those things in the mail this week.

Back to work now...

To Market to market to buy a fat hen

I did it!!! I opened an eBay store!!! It's called "Niteflytes Nest". How original is that - NOT? I need a logo! I hate the built-in eBay store logos. Here's the link to my barely stocked store - http://stores.ebay.com/niteflytesnest - with just TWO books listed. Visit my store! Pleasepleaseplease! I promise to add lots more books and other stuff this weekend.

Eat my carpet!

I can't believe how BUSY I've been! I spent the weekend sewing a purple cheetah costume for the Seussical musical my daughter is in. If my mom wasn't staying with us this month I honestly don't know how we'd survive. We probably wouldn't eat because I don't have time to cook or shop for groceries. We'd have nothing clean to wear and the house would be a disaster. Speaking of my house...don't even ASK me about the carpet! I can't believe what I did. Fine...I'll tell you. Friday morning, middle of the night kind of morning, I got up and the dog had diddled on the new LR carpet. I got a towel and soaked up the mess. I grabbed the bottle of Simple Solution off the dryer and squirted a ton of it on the spot and OMG it was NOT Simple Solution!!!!!!!! It was freaking TOILET CLEANER!!!!!! Do you know what toilet cleaner does to carpet? Maybe you're thinking it stains it blue. NOPE! It EATS THE CARPET!!!! I have a nice spot of nothing where new carpet used to be. And has the carpet place called me back yet about fixing it? Nooooo. I'm calling around for someone else to fix it.