So I'm very content right now. In fact I'm more then content, I'm ecstatic! I just got done shopping with Michelle, Rachel and my mom at Lane Bryant. They had a great sale for 40% off (employee discount) of anything in the store for yesterday and today. So I was interested in going to see what they had. And to my amazement I found a TON of stuff. With how much weight I've gained I usually hate shopping for clothes. But I found an outfit for my cousins wedding next weekend, a denim jacket, brown slacks, and a cream camisole to go under a brown lacy silky tank. It'll be a cute outfit. :) I also bought two sweaters, a blue and a black one in the same style. :) I love em both. I walked out only spending $100.00 and for Lane Bryant that's unheard of! Rachel was so sweet she got through the line before me and bought my two sweaters!!! :-D Anyways, I was thrilled with my purchases. It's been a while since I've loved so much in one shopping trip.
Anyways, I've had a nice weekend. Friday night I hung out at Sam's watching Star Wars Episode III and played on the computer for a while. Sam wasn't there. He and his brother and Ludek drove up to Buttonwillow to drive their cars on a track, not exactly racing but teaching more about their cars or something. hehe So I took his keys and used his place so I could avoid Vegas traffic. I got home around midnight and went straight to bed.
I got up Saturday fairly early, and got ready and made my way into work. I got there around 9:30am and worked through to 2:00pm when I had to head out to Pasadena to meet my family for lunch/dinner. My brother Shawn and my sister-in-law Brenda were on a 10 hour layover from LAX coming back home from their trip to Fiji (yeah... I know... must be rough! ;) hehe) so my brother Brian drove down to pick them up and we all decided Pasadena was middle ground. My parents and sister drove down from the desert. And if you can believe it, with traffic and all we all made it there within minutes of each other. So we were going out to eat at the Cheesecake Factory in Old Town Pasadena. I had been there a couple times during my visits with my friend Russ... So I felt more schooled in getting around. For my family it was pretty up there in confusion have the diagonal crosswalks and all. ;) But we made it work. I paid 5.00 for an easy parking spot. My parents found a parking garage. Brian was somewhere in the opposite direction. When we said our goodbyes it was rather funny to see us all go our separate ways, literally. Anyways, back to our dinner... Shawn had to go out to Fiji for a business trip and decided to take Brenda and have a romantic time with her too. The trip was successful for the business end, and as well for the romantic end. I was shown the pictures and it looked like Brenda was having the time of her life. They were treated to high class treatment the whole time. They had pictures of the island that Castaway was filmed on.
*Side Note: Apparently the island is deserted because it's considered to be haunted. I think I'd like to look into the production of Castaway and see if they had any weird incidents happen during the making of the film.
So we had a nice dinner as a family. The food was excellent and the service was awesome! Our waiter was too funny and made the evening all that much more enjoyable. It was great to see Shawn and Brenda. It's strange how when you're family it doesn't seem like you've been thousands of miles away when you meet. It was a great time. They brought me a necklace back from Fiji and I love it!
After dinner Brian realized they had to head out. I ended up taking Heidi back with me. I was glad I did so I could get into the carpool lane. On our way home I got a call from Sam who was driving back from Buttonwillow. He was exhausted but had the time of his life. He said it was the most fun he's had in a LONG time. I was glad for him. It will be a good memory for him of time with his brother and Ludek for when he moves to Wisconsin in less then two months. Sam was going to stop by on his way back through. When he got closer he realized he was dead tired and asked if he could spend the night. As soon as he got there his bed was made up and he got ready for bed and we talked about our days and what we did. I let him crash. The next morning I had him transfer to my bed so he didn't get interrupted with my parents walking through the living room while they got ready for church. So after I got ready he decided he probably needed to get up. He had a few calls about things he needed to do today. So as I left for church he headed down the hill. And after church I went to Lane Bryant. All-in-all it was a good weekend.
I have all of last weekend to update about too. Hopefully I'll do that tomorrow night or something. I'll try to get the pictures done too so I can explain the weekend and have pictures as references. My mom wants to watch a movie so I think this will have to do for now.
posted by Charity at 11/13/2005 08:02:00 PM 
