the essence

My wonderful husband slept on the sofa last night, without me asking, & I was able to get 4.5 hours of glorious solid sleep! That was so nice. Maybe I can get him to sleep on the sofa more often.

I made a very fruitful trip to Sam's this morning. I needed to go shopping so badly, we had run out of A LOT of stuff. Of course I'm not done with out grocery shopping yet but at least I can eat before I have to go out again.

The past couple of days have been fairly busy. Rach came over with "baby" Ruth on Thursday while wood floors were being installed at their home. It was nice having them over to visit for so long (even if I was cleaning like a mad woman a good portion of the time) & some of the Nix's were in town so they stopped by my house for the first time. It was so nice getting to see them & having them here!

Thursday night I was able to talk Ray into a date, a real live date where we went out, spent money, & I wore makeup (yea for money made by blogging!). I didn't sleep well at all that night which lead to a lot of tiredness yesterday. I also had to face the fiasco of picking up my car from the shop (which took about an hour of driving each direction during rush hour traffic).

Then, we were supposed to be at Randa's for dinner at 7:00 & I was supposed to bring dessert. I didn't get home until around 6:00 so for the first time I can remember I brought a store bought dessert. It did the job, but Randa was disappointed it wasn't one of my creations.

But, after all of that sleep last night I'm doing so much better today!