Last night, I decided that I was not going to set my alarm clock for 8am like I had first planned. I was suppose to be going to a friend's baby shower today and I wanted to get up early so that I could do some blogging before getting Miss J. up. Instead, I didn't set my alarm at all. I took advantage of the fact that its Saturday and I slept in until around 11am. The baby shower was going to start at 12:30pm and go until 5:30pm, and although I HATE being late for anything, I thought that maybe I would leave home at 12:30 and get there by 1pm. Well, we got to the place where the baby shower was being held, but we did not get to go in because I completely forgot that there would be paid parking. The price was not severe at all, it was just a price that I could not afford to pay today. I was extra mad at myself for not taking the time last night to look at the invitation one last time to make sure that I had all of the details. I really wanted to be there to share my friend's joy of receiving cute little gifts for her first soon-to-be born. I was also mad at myself for driving all the way there JUST to drive all the way back home. Damn it! I put on makeup for nothing!! I could have waited until next week to wear this outfit, grrrr...

Before getting back on the freeway to head home I pulled over to call my bank to check my account balance. My financial aid package has been approved and the award money will be transfered over to my school account, which will pay all of my academic bills and then deposit the rest into my bank account as a refund. Wouldn't it be great if this had already happened somehow and then I could turn my little car around and go back to the shower as if nothing had ever happened?? Needless to say, that was wishful thinking, but obviously I was not wishing or thinking hard enough because my bank account was still as dry as it has been for the past 5 weeks. So I had no other choice but to say "just fuck it then, humph" and return home with a defeated look on my face. Miss J. started in with the interrogation: Are we going home? So we can't go to the baby's party? Grrrr, we never get to go anywhere!! I turned the music up and kept driving.

Once we were home there was a band playing live music in the courtyard behind our house so I asked Miss J. if she'd like to go to the park for a little while. While there, I decided to log in to my school account again for the 50th time this week to see if there was any change and low and behold there was, there was money! My financial aid had finally transfered over and paid all of my bills. $0.00 across the board. I couldn't stop thanking God as I stared at my SideKick in disbelief. The money hadn't been in there yesterday when I checked and I thought the financial aid office only operated during the week... oh yeah, that's right, everything is computer generated which is why everyone's life is made a living hell when the fricken money doesn't pay out on time! I asked Miss J. if she would like to go have some ice cream and she excitedly agreed. I grabbed my $9 in laundry money and we got back in the car. All of my stress just melted away with the vanilla ice cream and oreo cookie mixture on my tongue. I felt great when we left Baskin Robbins and I think Miss J. did too. There is truly no problem that 2 scoops can't solve.

We returned home with satisfied taste buds and I went to work finishing up a baby blanket that was in progress for one of my newborn twin nieces. I had already completed one for her sister.

I had planned to present both of them to my sister in-law at the same time, but I was too excited to wait once they came home from the hospital. They were so tiny and adorable and I just had to get this little blankie over to them as fast as I could. Since I am on vacation this is the perfect time to finish up the other one, so I did.