Yawn! Hello, Wednesday.

Well, I need more sleep.

How are you? I feel pretty good. I paid bills yesterday. I actually had to use some of my emergency money. Not much of that left, actually. I will feel some serious panic when it is gone. But I do like it when I can just pay the bills when they come.

"Dut, dut, dut, dut...." That's what I played at taiko last night. I know. Enough to give you chills. Okay, so it wasn't super exciting, but I was happy to be there. We have a performance the week from Saturday in Osage Beach. (Then, two days later, I go right back on my way to help Gran with her pictures.) Anyway, should be fun. The performance and the visit.

I have a ton of movies to watch, all of a sudden. We have Trainspotting, which we've never seen, and Netflix sent us The Proposal, and Brother gave me a copy of Serenity. Josh and I did watch a movie this weekend, though! We watched City Slickers. Haven't seen it in 8 years, probably, but it's a classic. Cute writing, great acting. Good stuff. ...And why do I get the feeling that there is another movie that I was supposed to watch....?

Actually a bit miffed with Brother. He was mean to my mommy, and she's got enough on her plate. You know, for a guy who reads Judith Martin he's still got a lot to learn politeness-wise.

Still hoping that Josh will find a fantastic new job and things will greatly improve. Don't really know what it would take, but I am hoping.

So, reading DRACULA for Halloween is fun. It really shows the difference a century makes. Personally, I think that the characters in this book are enormously more civilized than we are in all our technology. Depressing. And I feel at a disadvantage because of my advantages. Meaning the various characters spent a great deal of effort to beautifully describe their surroundings, but because I've seen pictures/movies of what they are describing already, my patience suffers. It shouldn't.

I may or may not go to the mall today. If I do, I should call Lisa K. and see if she wants to meet us. Josh thinks I should, but I mostly want to go back to sleep and hibernate.

And if Jay hadn't said something funny about the time change this weekend, I would have totally forgotten and been an hour late to taiko on Sunday. Um...that's right, right?

My mommy is coming on Halloween, and maybe my cousin Mackenzie, too. We'll have to see. I was given a bunch of spice cake mixes lately, so maybe I'll make cupcakes. Dunno. We'll have to see.

Hope you all have a great day and week and weekend!