Sheep Guarding Llama

Very busy day for me today.  I got up early and got as much done on the early side as I could.  Then made a huge coffee and had a phone call for an hour around noon, then did a webinar that went really well this afternoon.

After the webinar, it was time to prep for the SpiceCorps event that we were having at the house tonight.  This was a panic meeting to try to do damage control after the last meeting was so epically terrible and insulting.  The group used to be really good, but now there is no reason to attend any longer.

The meeting went well and even Andrew made it out tonight.  There was  a lot of drinking, of course.  Had a purely social evening, no presentations.  We ended up having to drive Andrew home by the end of the night.

The outcome of the evening was that the organizers decided that it was time to disband the SpiceCorps DFW group after eight years.  It just isn’t what people were wanting any longer and it was not working out well.

It was a very late night for Dominica and I as we were playing designated drivers until about four in the morning.  Rachel had to stay home and watch the kids.

Wednesday.  Normal writing and posting day.  About six weeks until we head back to Europe, starting to get into the window where there is a lot to be done and it seems like there is a lot of time but it is actually becoming a crunch with the holidays and everything.  We should be in New York in less than a month.

This evening we had dinner at IHOP with the kids.  They like it there and we like the toasted marshmallow hot chocolate.  The kids tried it and Liesl liked it a little but could only drink half of one and Luciana could not drink any at all.  So I got a lot.  I took a full cup to go, as well.

Rachel went out with Melanie to go car shopping this evening.  While they were out we babysat Melanie’s two year old son.  The girls thought that that was fun.

Rachel came home with a “new” 1996 Honda Civic that looks like it is about to fall apart but seems to run well enough.  It is a standard, so no risk of Dominica borrowing it.

Tuesday. Got up super early before anyone else was awake.  Got out and got breakfast at Taco Bell, their breakfast is always way better and cheaper than you expect it to be.  But their coffee is nothing to compare to McDonald’s so you have to pick your battles or drive to two places to get breakfast going.  The sun was insanely bright this morning, I could barely see for the longest time.

Kids wanted pizza and we are tired of the other options so just got Domino’s tonight.

Hung out with Shawn and Rachel at the house tonight.  Rachel has been begging us to watch Last Days of Disco which it turns out is the third part of a trilogy of which she was unaware so there was a lot of the movie that did not make sense.  Of course, it was not a good movie that really made sense anyway, so that probably was not  a big deal.  This continues the trend of Rachel picking absolutely terrible movies.

Monday.  Got to Grey’s this evening just in time to swing into Domino’s down the street and pick up pizzas that were waiting for us.  Then off to his house, which I have never been to before, to spend the evening hanging out with him and his wife.

We had a nice evening.  Grey and I have not had a change to catch up in forever.  So dinner and Scotch for us all night.

Sunday.  Not much in my notes.  Watching a lot of Coupling today.  Ordered in pizza.