Some kinda random stuff

A couple of decent party ideas yesterday, although most of you were noticeably silent!!!

Atlantic City is probably a no-go...not worth the drive to get there. It takes less time to fly to Vegas and to be honest, the whole place is kinda skeevy. New York is definitely a possibility. My only concern is that we probably aren't going until late June, and the city is notoriously empty on weekends in the summer. But that might actually be a good thing. Also, if we go we will be out until 4:00 am every night and that probably means leaving Munchkin home.

The weekend is here, yay! And the weather forecast has improved to now call for a pretty decent Saturday. I have nothing really exciting planned...Munchkin's friend is coming home with her tonight and staying until Sunday. They are both huge baseball fans, so I was thinking of maybe taking them over towards Fenway to grab some dinner and watch the game (the bars get really empty during the game and the kids can be in there then. Before and after the games are a madhouse).

By the way...on a little Boston tangent...is there any place with a less clear vision of itself than Game On? By all accounts, it should be a casual sports bar. It is basically in Fenway Park, only gets busy on the days of Red Sox games and has tons of TV's all over the place. Because of that, people are usually dressed in jeans or shorts, baseball hats, etc. In other words...VERY casual. But then randomly at like 10:00, just as the after-game crowd descends, it tries to become a trendy dance club. It's like being in an Applebee's and then suddenly having a rave turn up. (Note: Ally loves Applebee's! I swear...) Am I missing something?

Anyway. Is The Office much darker since it came back last week? The Jan/Michael thing was really weird and kinda creepy, and his dating efforts were very sad last night. Same with Kevin's story about his fiance leaving him...really much darker than the show usually is. Is Rickey Gervais involved in this at all? The last episode of Extras was very much of the same kind of theme...

How about the earthquake in Illinois? Seriously...that place has gone to pot since I left! BFFg says she got woken up from the shaking. Also, on an unrelated note, she has another date with the as-yet-unamed boy that I set her up with. If this one goes well, I will really have to give him a name soon.

Munchkin and I are headed out there soon, and then she is going out there for at least a week this summer to spend some time with her brother. Tinkerbelle may come and spend a week here, which would be like my favorite thing ever! Maybe I could swap sisters for a week...lol. Nah, they would wanna hang out together:-) I know that Munchkin would love to bring her to school with her one day, but that will have to wait until at least next year.

Speaking of which...Munchkin only has five weeks of school left! Where the hell did this year go? Anyone remember what happened on her first day of school? I do...that actually seems like a very long time ago, so maybe the year didn't go as fast as I thought it did.

Other than that, I have nothing else for you today. Should be a nice, relaxing weekend full of parenting... hope everyone else enjoys theirs, too.