Saturday

My crop last night was fun, although I got nothing accomplished. I stayed up super late reading New Moon, and I think I changed my mind about the whole vampire vs. werewolf debate. I was leaning towards werewolf, but Edward Cullen came back and got awfully romantic at the end. So now I am thinking vampire. For Bella, not me. Just to clarify. I am very happy with my human husband and don't pine for mythical monsters. Anways!
Dave went to work this morning from 6-10. When he came home, we played the What do you want to do? I dunno, what do you wanna do? game for a while. Then we sort of gave up and let the kids decide on our outing. So it turned out we went to Mustard's Last Stand for hot dogs (Jonathan's pick) and then to the library (Anna's pick). The kids went and grabbed a table and sat at it patiently while we ordered at the counter. The food was delicious, as always, although a total sabatoge of my first day back on Weight Watchers. The library was fun. They put up this sign in the children's section, in real big, agressive font, PARENTS! CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN! If a sign like that ever helped anything, we should post them everywhere.
Jonathan got a Batman book, Anna pickout out Little Critter and Arthur books, I got a novel, and Dave got a Star Wars and some other sci-fi book. I felt like our family was so wholesome and literary. We still have no TV. I have forgotten what it's even like to own one. I could care less if it ever comes back, until The Office season premiere comes on (Sept. 25? I think?). Then we are just going to have to lug the old broken Sony out and plug it in to our new basic cable. But until then, we'll just wait, and wait, and wait some more. We've made progress. The TV has at least left our house and headed to the repair shop. But I sort of feel like the Samsung is already dead and buried. I just don't have any faith that TV will ever come back.
Dave's at the grocery store. I am wrapped up in a blanket, drinking hot tea. I have a sudden cold! I had one earlier this week and snapped out of it, but now it's returned, times two.
It looks like Ike won't be coming our way. I had sort of gotten a little excited about going to KY to evacuate. I am sure we might get another opportunity to evacuate. Maybe Josephine? Obviously, though, I really don't wish for the hurricanes to come here.