Woohoo, it's Saturday night and we're watching the Stars! Plus Tivo is being lovely so we can pause it at commercials and fast forward later.

This week has been an okay week. Sort of slow...budgets are due, which is gross. I think comparing this Friday to last, it was a lot more put together and I got my work completed in a more timely fashion. But next weekend my boss is getting married, so I have to find something adorable and sophisticated between now and then.

Clothes are difficult for me. My bottom half doesn't match up to my top half so sometimes it's frustrating, off and on, to go clothes shopping. Especially for an event in which I have to present myself in a certain manner. Or maybe I just stress way too much about it.

This morning I woke up early and got some chores knocked out (did 2.5 loads of laundry, and folded two; shuffled some old art portfolios and stuff into my study from the bedroom; bagged up some old clothes for Goodwill; fed the ratties; finished organizing my closet; etc. etc.) then went grocery shopping. People look at me like I'm nuts, walking around Walmar with my Ferry Building tote bag and picking out my food based on free range vs. organic vs. low fat, low cal, low price. I try not to be too picky, because the best stuff is really, really expensive, but I refuse to buy generic or poor quality-equals-low price on the following:

• toilet paper
• Ziploc bags
• Band-Aids 
• chicken or beef stock, or basically any type of good produce
• anything involving rat food mix.  

That's all I can think of for now, but that reminds me - I have photos!

Namely, of rat mix: 

This is the latest batch, a modification of the Suebee's Mix: Kashi GoLean 7-grain cereal, Shredded Wheat (Wheat n' Bran), Wacky Mac, and dried banana chips that I've broken into tiny pieces so they don't have too much sugar in one sitting. I put kitten food in the last batch but I'm not sure if that's giving them too much protein, so I left it out of this one.

I found this photo on my phone today; the ocean at Half Moon Bay. *sigh.

Oh, and I gave Zig a bath last weekend. This is my least favorite part of the car wash because I start to get incredibly claustrophobic if it takes too long.

Steve and Barry's was having a sale last night, so I bought this shirt and a cute necklace on clearance for like $12 - then this morning as I was hanging laundry I walk back into the bedroom to find Rudie using it as a nap spot. The one shirt that wasn't christened with black and white cat hair...grah.

We went out to Grapevine to hit up the Best Buy because Jay bought this tiny, tiny computer to use on his research projects and the store in Grapevine still had them in stock. And it was on sale! Then I put in a request to go to the Books-A-Million in Grapevine Mills because I always look there for stamps and stamp material (where I was greatly disappointed. Who knew so many people were obsessed with coin collecting? It's taken over the stamp section - anyway. Another nerd rant for another time) and he found a book he'd been looking for. Then we went to S&B, where I was hoping to find a snarky hockey t-shirt, but alas, nothing. So not a complete disappointment...just not what I was expecting.

Anyway. Today after most of the chores had been knocked out I've been sitting here on my butt playing Sims. When did I ever decide it had gotten old? Sad, sad. I've got two pages from the SF trip scrapbooked and I've got about two or three more to go. I was also looking through my scrapbooking reading materials and found photos from the SF trip last March. Kite flying and all! It was a nice discovery. Like in high school when I'd hide $20 someplace in my room, to find accidentally six months later while cleaning. Surpriiise~

Next weekend is our Halloween party! I don't think a lot of people are going to come, but we're going to pick a scary movie to watch and play some scary video games. I say scary because it's probably going to be Fatal Frame or something like that, so I will probably just stay in the kitchen and make cute little edibles instead of watching Jay play that because it might give me heinous nightmares.

Tomorrow I am going to experiment on little foods for the party. Stay tuned, lovelies! <3