Saturday, we helped our friend Leia move to her new apartment. It's a neat place, with wooden floors, lots of storage space, and a window A/C unit with a remote control. We had a bit of a fiasco with the moving truck, as whoever took Leia's order apparently had gone to Idiot School and told her on Saturday that they would call her when the truck was ready. Which, they never did. However, we had several people there, so we only had to make a couple of trips. One thing that was funny, was that several of the guys were wearing white shirts and khaki shorts, and all but one of the girls were wearing white shirts and black shorts. We called it our uniform. After getting Leia moved in, David and I took off and went to his place, to shower and cool off. We also tried out a new restaurant, called TJ's. I had a grilled pizza that I thought was fairly decent, although I've had better. (My father makes the world's greatest pizza, so I am perhaps a bit picky). I know I slept really, really well on Saturday night. I crashed hard!

Sunday morning was church as usual. The sermon series is on growing deeper with God, and yesterday's message was on knowing God. I thought it was a great sermon, and thought of a great book that went along with the sermon, called Experiencing God. I went up to our church's library afterwards, and apparently, someone had the same idea as me, as it was already checked out. I did find some good books, one of which is a Christian mystery book. I also saw a notice in the library, wanting people to come in and work in the library on Sundays. Since I go to the early service, and my new Sunday school class (which starts next week, and I am very excited about) is during the latest worship hour, I would typically spend that time in the library reading, so I should work in there! Yay! It'll be great!

Last night, my friend Tracey and I went out to a fundraiser for the Celtic Heritage Festival out in Ft. Worth. We got there late, but got to hear two phenomenal groups, The Corsairs and Brothers 3, which, contrary to the name, had seven members. They were awesome and played some fantabulous toe-tapping, hand-clapping music! I am excited about the festival, which is in October.

Yesterday was Ladies' Day. My mom and I were discussing awhile back where to take a vacation this year. We typically go to a place and do a lot of shopping. One year we went to the Mall of America, another year we went to the West Edmonton Mall. This year, we could not decide where to go. So, we decided to take the money we would have spent on a vacation, and just have a nice day in town. That is what we did yesterday.

We started out by going to the Zales outlet store, and picking out some jewelery. After that, we went to lunch (It's amazing how diamond shopping can put a smile on your face, and work up an appetite.) During lunch, we admired our purchases and compared jewelery sparkle. After lunch, we went to Spa International for an afternoon of pampering. I got my first ever manicure, and a back/neck/shoulder massage. As I was getting my manicure, the manicurist and I were talking, and she has a son who wants to take piano lessons! Yay!

After getting pampered, we went home and relaxed, so we could get rested up for dinner. Dad came home, then the three of us went to Ruth Chris' Steakhouse. I had heard everyone who has gone there rave about the creamed spinach and au gratin potatoes, so that is what I had. Mmmmm. The best part is that I had some left over to take home. Yay! Dessert was creme brulee. It was a perfect ending to a wonderful day.

I have been looking for fun things to go do on weekends. I typically look for things in the paper. One such thing is this group called the Texas Astronomical Society. They are having a lecture, which looks like it would be over my head, but it did get me thinking about going to a planetarium. I took an astronomy class as an undergraduate, and we had several outdoor labs at the UNT observatory. There, the TA would show me where a certain star was, and I would pretend like I saw it. It went something like this:

TA: (pointing at invisible star) See that star?
Me: (looking for star) No, I don't.
TA: (pointing again) It's right there. See it?
Me: (looking again) No, I still don't see it.
TA: (pointing and gesturing towards invisible star) See, it is right there!
Me: (pretending to see invisible star) Oh, yeah! I see it.

Actually, I did enjoy my astronomy class, and I do like to look up at the sky and try to find the constellations that I learned about during class. David gave me a star chart, and at some point we are going to go somewhere and look for the stars on the chart. That will be lots of fun!!

I got some exciting news today. According to the UNT News Service we are having an Equity and Diversity Conference in February, and one of the speakers at the conference is Maya Angelou! How neat is that? Yay! Tonight the Carrollton Band is having another music filing party, which means a lot more music to put away, but we were making some good progress last week. Tomorrow, my mom and I are having a 'Ladies Day' in which she and I are going to go shopping, get massages and manicures, and then go out for a nice dinner. I think it will be fun.

Afterwards we went to Half Price Books. I was looking at the foreign language books, trying to find a good Spanish book. I was not finding anything good, except for a dictionary, which would not tell me the pronunciation. I walked over, and was looking at the Spanish software, which was, of course, on the very top shelf. David was somewhere in the store, but not close by to reach it down. After glaring at the software for a minute, I found a stool to stand on, and started to bring it over, when someone saw me and reached the software down for me. Ahh, the joys of being somewhat vertically challenged. (And I found the same software down where I could reach it right after I had the other one. Sigh.) So now I have software to teach me Spanish. I played with it yesterday and already feel smarter!

Saturday, we were supposed to go to the Warped Tour with a group of friends. Well, my stomach was bugging me, and we decided that the heat would NOT help it, so after a lunch at Freebirds we went home and took it easy. After my stomach settled down, David made some of his yummalicious chocolate chip cookies, which I got to take some home. (Yay! Thanx, David.)

Sunday. I went to the late service at church. I took it easy for most of the afternoon, and then went up to David's church to go to the Frisco Rough Riders game. It was a madhouse getting all the kids into cars, as somebody would not want to be in a car with someone else, and it would be this whole big deal to be in the same car for thirty minutes. After the kids left, David and I stayed behind to make sure no one else showed up. When we got to the game, we found our seats and the kids. Of course, the kids were running around, and not really watching the game. When it got dark, they did come and sit down. I enjoyed the game, although the Rough Riders did not win. Our group was on the Jumbo Tron once, we all stood up and screamed. Later, the camera guy came over and filmed us, and when they showed us again, everyone in our group on the left side of me was on the screen. Including the person who was sitting right next to me. That is so typical. After the game, they let kids run the bases. I wanted to do it, but they probably would not have let me. Oh well, it was a good night.

My toe is not as painful today, however, more than half of my foot is purple. Oh well, if I'm going to bruise up my toe, I might as well do a good job of bruising up my whole foot! On another note, yesterday I spent the morning at the CCA pantry. (Ooh, I also just learned how to type in the code for a hyperlink instead of just clicking on the "add hyperlink" button.) Anywho, back to the pantry story, I had intended on working the check-in desk, so I could sit down and rest my toe. Well, we had two regular volunteers not come yesterday. I think they were on vacation, however, it meant that I needed to be on a register. It was so busy yesterday, that with two registers open, we each had five customers with full baskets in our line. Finally, the pantry manager saw that we were swamped and came out to open the third register. That helped greatly. We also had three people come in about twenty minutes before closing, I was very surprised that they were out of the pantry by our closing time at one o clock. It was a good day, albeit very busy, and we were all quite wiped out by the time we were locking the doors after closing time.

Last night, I went to a music filing party for the Carrollton Community Band. This entailed taking music out of the folders, putting it in score order and them placing them in the appropriate file cabinet. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, we have a TON of music! We had a filing party back a couple of months ago, and had music all over that room. It was not much better for this party. We are filing ALL the music, not just the most recent stuff. It is one of those things that is a pain to do, but we will be glad when it is finished. Next week, we are meeting again to do the same thing. Oh well, they had munchies, great music playing and good company, so it wasn't as cumbersome as it could have been. Also, they had a new 7 month-old puppy named Lillie that I had fun with. Although, she wanted to "help" file the music, which meant that she ran around all over the place. They finally had to lock her up, poor thing.

One perk about today was that I got to drive Mom's new car to the grocery store this evening. She has a beautiful sapphire blue Acura! I was all excited about getting to drive it, and would have been jumping up and down if not for my sore toe. It made up for the not-so-fun time I had walking around the store on said toe.