MY PLEASANT LIFE CONTINUES......

Nothing really special this time. Painting is about 99% finished. A little touch-up tomorrow and then I'm finally done!!! YEA!!!!! I'm smoking. I'm still dieting and to date have lost 13.5 pounds. I weight on Mondays (2 days from now) and I'm hoping I hit the big 15 pound mark on Monday.
Planning my trip to New Orleans for Frenchquarter Fest. Can't wait. Hope all my friends there are doing better, I've got my fingers crossed constantly for them. Hurricane season is just 2 months away and all I can hear is the news peeps telling me that New Orleans isn't going to be ready. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing them all and looking forward to Frenchquarter Fest, too. I've never been but I've heard its wonderful. A local flavor to it, rather than the world wide acclaim and big names of JazzFest which starts one week later. Lots of good local music on stages throughout the Quarter and lots of food booths, too. And we aren't talking hotdogs and cotton candy, cher. I expect to gain a couple of pounds but will go right back on my diet upon my return to Sacramento. I have worked two mornings OT this weekend (we had Friday off - Ceaser Chavez Day). I'm working for CTO because I don't have enough vacation time to cover my trip. Easter is just around the corner and Hailey is very excited, of course. I have picked up a few toys for her and one big toy for Evan. Got Hailey walkie-talkies and this egg plant thingy (plant in an egg? I'm not sure, myself). Evan's is a cloth tunnel thing that he can crawl through when he starts crawling which I'm sure is a bit of a ways off. Also, got lots of candy, etc., for Hailey. I'm planning on buying them each a couple of outfits, too. S0 all will be nice on Easter morning (two weeks away). Today is April Fools Day and this morning the kids called me at work to tell me that Brandi was preggers again. I was thrilled, although Brandi acted like she was in shock. She had told her mom, too, and apparently her mom wasn't too happy about it. Turned out it was an April Fool's joke anyway, but its sad that her mother couldn't be more positive about something like that. They even got Hailey in on it. "The stick had two lines!" It was all very funny but I have to say I was a little disappointed to find out it was a joke. My money is on a third child somewhere down the line.