If you haven't seen the video of the San Diego Governor's announcement from the 19th I urge you to go search for it on YouTube. I wish Schwarzenegger had this guy's guts. I hope that this video will go down in history as a turning point in the struggle for marriage rights.

Happy Birthday, Emmett!

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Avatar fans, come over to our house! It's on our TiVo.

It'll rerun this week. I'll check the listings.

Oh, like that's a BAD thing.

Turned out to be the most popular cake in Emmett Birthday History.

Sun came out long enough to have ten boys in the pool jumping, leaping, wrestling, dunking and generally being head-butting goat boys. Which was very good because other wise EM's apartment would've been destroyed by their energy.

Nobody got hurt and nobody cried. Yay!

Pizza was had. Cake was gobbled. (It really was very good. Especially with the ice cream.) I gave Emmett S4 of the Simpsons, which prompted a viewing of "Kamp Krusty." Kids rolled off about 3 and 3:30. Three were left to sleep over with Emmett tonight.

I don't know what EM was thinking having sleepovers on back to back nights but she was getting seriously fried.

Oh well, everybody's gone by tomorrow morning and she can collapse.

Very successful birthday, really.

I'm glad Emmett had a good birthday. Dave's birthday gathering was also successful. Our friends just left, dinner went well, and fun was had.

Happy birthdays, Emmett and Dave!

Also, continued ~ma to GC's GF and family. Also hoping the Trudy familt and tommyrot family are doing OK.

Cereal:

I know I bitch a lot about my family, but I just love my sister so much and think her kids are so amazing. I love them all so much I feel heart bursty.

This sentimentality brought to you by Spaten Oktoberfest and "DAMN, I'm still tired from last night."

Hac--how are things with EM's psycho-ex situation? Things calmed down with that?

(ps- skybus still sux, can't check in for my flight.)

I'm working hard on doing what it takes to feel better about how I spend my time...both using it more efficiently and being okay when I don't.

My problem is I tend to badly overestimate how much I can do with any given stretch of time. This weekend, for example, I didn't have anything special planned. DH wanted to try a new restaurant for brunch this a.m. and we have church on Sunday a.m., but other than that it is/was a great big beautiful chunk of unassigned time. And if I used it well, I could get a lot done in 2 days plus Friday evening. But my problem is I think of EVERYTHING that I could/should do with the time. Driving home from work Friday, I'm thinking, "I'm going to totally clean the living room and kitchen, and do all the laundry, and buy groceries, and cook extra food so I'll have lots of leftovers to take to work next week so I'll stay on WW and not spend so much $$ at the caf. And I'm going to do that beta read I promised that woman from Historical Novel Society, and write 15 pages or so on the WIP, and finish reading that 500-page research book on the Congress of Vienna, the one I'm currently 75 pages into. And I'm going to spend at least an hour hanging out with DH every night after AB is in bed, and in deep conversation, not just watching football or catching up on Stewart and Colbert."

All that in two days. Yeah, right. So what happens all too often is that I'm intimidated by that big, amorphous to-do list in my head, so I think, "I'll get started as soon as I check b.org/LJ/my favorite blogs," and it just spins out from there. I procrastinate because everything I feel like I have to do puts me in a panic, so I hide from it and don't do it.

What I've actually accomplished so far this weekend? Hung out with DH, loaded and ran the dishwasher, merged a rewritten scene into my WIP (but no actual new writing yet), did about half the laundry, went to brunch, got groceries, cooked dinner, and read about 150 pages of the Congress of Vienna book. Which looks pretty impressive now that I type it all out, but it's been pretty haphazard and interspersed with a lot of procrastination. And I haven't done a thing on the two items I consider most important--the beta read and producing new pages on the WIP.

In middle of the night non sequiter news, EW used the portmanteau "Gizzie" in reference to Grey's Anatomy.

Super ick.