Life this week

Last night we had a fun little birthday party for Little Dude. We had a few friends come over and I think everyone had a good time. S-Boogie insisted that we needed party hats and balloons (she's read Dora's Surprise Party a few too many times), so Master Fob provided both. S-Boogie and her friend Dylan were the only ones excited about the hats, but the balloons were a big hit with Little Dude and all the other kids. This morning when he woke up and saw the balloons in the living room he got excited all over again. We ate shish kebabs (chicken, shrimp, and veggie), fruit salad, chips and dip, and curried couscous salad (the salad is really good--I doubled the amount of couscous and kept the other ingredients the same). The food all turned out really well, and I made two kinds of cupcakes for dessert. We had vanilla ones with chocolate frosting and chocolate with vanilla frosting. Little Dude enjoyed his chocolate cupcake quite a lot, but then he had trouble sleeping all night. Probably the caffeine. He also got a nice little collection of board books from everyone, and I got him a caterpillar pull toy. The toy was basically welded to the box, but with the combined effort of several people we managed to free it. It was a good birthday and a fun reason to get friends together and party.

Also, I just got an email asking me to come in and interview for a job! It's a position that I found on craigslist, and it's not high on my list of desirable jobs. But, they are willing to interview me so I'll go see how it feels. It would be a word processing/document preparation position, so at least it doesn't involve a lot of phone answering or front desk work. Now I'm getting really nervous that I oversold myself in my cover letter and that in my interview I'll just come across as an incompetent nerd. I think my interview will be Friday, but it hasn't been confirmed yet.

Last week my computer started doing this weird thing where it will suddenly shut off without warning. It tells me that there's a problem with the memory. It's under warrenty, but I really don't want to ship my computer off to get fixed right now, so I'm going to hold out until next week and have my brother look at it when I get to Utah.

Yes, we're coming to Utah for a few days next week. It will be me and the kids and we're mainly coming down to go to a family reunion at Lagoon. I've never been to Lagoon before, but I think the kids will love it. Plus I'm planning to get my thesis all taken care of and turned into the library for binding. Then I will truly be free and ready to graduate. That will be nice. I'm already feeling a little freaked out about taking them both on the plane by myself, but hopefully we'll all survive the ride. It's just like sitting through sacrament meeting, right?