Urgh. Still recovering from party. Was fantastic. So many friends were there! We got lots of presents, too, which of course I love. And wasn’t expecting, so very exciting. Will write more later, hopefully someone took pictures!

Delicious dinner last night. 25 points worth of delicious dinner. That is now more than I am allotted in a day. But worth every point. Oysters Rockefeller. Chicken topped with hollandaise and lump crabmeat. Creme brulee. Chocolate mousse. (Yes. That is two desserts. Mine and half of George’s. I will freely admit it.)

Tonight is a bridal shower for my friend Mandy from Barnes & Noble. Tomorrow is George’s birthday. Saturday is the party. Monday is Jacque-Imos. I know I keep harping on how pointy this week is going to be. Must accept and move on.

And seeing how last night’s dinner was 3 hours long and we didn’t get home until 11, I did not go running this morning. Maybe tomorrow morning. I hope.

Yay, lost 1.4 more pounds this week! Dunno how, either, after my honey nut cheerio binge last night. And melba toast and light garden vegetable philadelphia cream cheese and healthy choice ice cream. (Only small tastes of each, maybe “binge” is a strong choice of words.) Speaking of Healthy Choice ice cream, is it meant to taste like it’s full of sand, or did I get a bad batch? I got the cookies ‘n’ cream flavor, which would’ve been yummy, I think, were it not for the repellent texture. I hope that I will find that it was just sandy on top. Or even if I just got a bad batch I’d be okay with that, but now I have a whole half gallon of it in my freezer, taunting me with its inedible sandiness. (Thankfully, I got it for $1.50, thanks to a sale and the magic of TRIPLE coupons!)

Tonight I’m off to dinner at a fancy restaurant with work people (free!), I challenge anyone to find something low in points on their menu! Gaa! And then Saturday is the party, and all of the chips and dip, finger sandwiches, and sausage balls that it entails. And Monday is dinner at my favorite restaurant in this city of yummy restaurants. And in between? Bridal shower, George’s birthday, and well, isn’t that enough? So many challenges…I’ll be happy just to maintain this week.

Why is my blog currently backwards? Does anyone know? There used to be a setting, I thought. Or I thought that the default was for the most current post to be at the top. Hmm.

Dropped my sister off at the airport this morning. I think no one was more surprised than we were (not that we mentioned it) that we didn’t fight hardly at all this weekend! We’re growing up, I guess!

Got some cute new curtains (from my sister) for my dining room today. Can’t wait to put them up.

It’s been raining every day this week. (Okay, yesterday and today.) I hope the weather is nice for the party. Fingers crossed.

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Oh sure, after I say something it fixes itself. I must have magical powers or something.

Am very sleepy. Zzzzz. Am at work an hour earlier than normal. But went to sleep later than usual. Bad combination.

Weekend was fun, I guess. Friday night, my sister didn’t come in because of a bad combination of her plane + Baltimore weather, so instead I went to the pub. Had five beers and random bar snacks. Ingested 19.5 flex points worth of crap! Hmmph. Oh well.

Saturday I drove to Baton Rouge and watched my sister try on her wedding dress and then her friend Monica and I tried on bridesmaids outfits. Nightmarish, mostly. But not too bad. Later that night, ate a yummy dinner at my mom’s house – grilled salmon, salad, and green beans (my secret special recipe). Then we went to a bar to see this cheesy band who is supposed to be playing at Jenny’s wedding. We’d heard that it was a gay bar they were playing at, but weren’t we surprised when it was full of women, not men. It was funny, and my mom’s friend Mauro was the only man in there. But nevertheless he did get a girl asking him to dance with her (after, I guess, she saw him dancing with my mom. I couldn’t watch, because, as a daughter, it is my duty to be hideously embarrassed when you’re at a bar with your mom and her boyfriend and they start dancing. Especially if they’re the only people in the bar dancing. Doubly especially if they’re the only heterosexual couple in the bar.)

So on Sunday, we went to lunch and then saw Laws of Attraction. Enjoyable movie, and I ate an entire (small, but still!) veggie pizza at lunch. It was very good, at least.

Went back to New Orleans, blah blah blah. Tonight I have to pick up my sister in Kenner so I can bring her to the airport bright ‘n’ early tomorrow morning.

Awww…

Last night, George and I did something very cliched, but it was lots of fun. We went on a carriage ride in the French Quarter. As annoying as those carriages are when you’re driving, and as disgusting as the piles of poo are that the mules disperse on the streets, the carriage ride really was fun. We’ve been having a freak cold snap (temps in the 60s!) for early May and figured last night would be the last comfortable night that we could spend walking around the Quarter. Also had a Krispy Kreme donut. After dinner at work, which was a cheeseburger, potato chips, and a brownie. Oh, I’m so glad I’m weighing in on my scale at home tomorrow.

Ok, fixed it. Sorta. It’s better, anyway.

Sent out Evites to housewarming party. If I didn’t send one to you, it’s because I don’t have your email address, not because I don’t want you in my house.

Went to wedding on Saturday. It was very nice, delicious food, and was very great to see some old friends. Too bad it rained the whole way to Opelousas. Blech. Got my hair cut, though. Just a trim.

Aw, crap. I messed up my blog. Will fix later. Stinkin’ archives.

New colors nice, yeah? I can’t believe I used to be a web designer and I have the dullest blog template. The same one bazillions of other people have. I really should be ashamed. I think I will work on it tonight.

Went and got a free scoop of ice cream (actually low-fat frozen yogurt) from Baskin-Robbins last night. Yum. Ran into a guy from work who was on his sixth (out of twelve, I found out later) Baskin-Robbin of the night. Really made me wish Kristina still lived here, because that is exactly the kind of thing we used to do. Don’t ask why we never did it when they had free scoop night before.