I’m sorting through teensy handmedowns, taking out the blue things and re-boxing the pink things. Woo hoo! I party hard! I believe I may also place an online order through J.C. Penney! EXTREME!

We going to buy our 14 month old new shoes. At Target. Whoopee!!!!!!!! Can’t wait for another fun filled weekend. We may even get crazy and organize our office. Oh yeah, and we’re going to move our guest bedroom furniture to the bonus room. The excitement never ends.

Actually, celebrating my son’s 11th birthday. Playing miniature golf by black light! Good times!

Baking bread, having friends over to play board games once the babe’s asleep, and finishing a sweater I’m working on. Oh, and using sandpaper to help Jacob’s damn canines along.

(No? Okay, buying stock in Motrin, then.)

Basketball. 3rd grade style. I am coaching my step-son’s recreational basketball team. This will be our first game. Wish us luck!

I’m also making a yummy home-made dinner on Sunday: meatloaf, homemade mashed taters, mac-n-cheese, fresh green beans, and biscuits or bread and butter.

Maybe we’ll drink a little on Saturday night….who knows.

Grocery shopping tonight. tomorrow go to a preschool fair and make a nice dinner on Saturday and drink lots of reisling. Sunday we are going to my aunts to celebrate my Grandmothers 85th birthday. You can toss in a couple naps and just hanging out.

Work is having its Christmas party Sunday. Which is even more ridiculous and annoying than it sounds. Sigh.

I’m also going to clean. And maybe cook lunch for a few girl friends on Saturday. And hopefully work on some art.

I will be eating some greasy chicken and hush puppies at Long John Silver’s with my boyfriend tonight, then tomorrow we’ll go grocery shopping. Woo! Oh, the excitement. Then while he goes to work tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be spending the evening playing the Sims 2. Love, love, love that game.

Tonight my oldest daughter (16) is in a play at school which is right after Girl Scouts for my youngest (9). My middle daughter (13) is having a friend overnight on Saturday and my oldest is going to a party tomorrow night which means I’ll be up late waiting for her to come home. I guess this is my payback from my high school days. Karma bitch slaps again.

My stepson (17) is also going to be with us for the weekend. I’m trying to block out how I feel about that. We’ll probably go to church somewhere in there and also the gym. I’m positive there will be at least one trip for groceries, one trip to Target, one call to Pizza Hut and one trip through a drive-through. 3 loads of laundry, minimum and about a dozen requests for cash. Envy me.

My husband and I are meeting with our kitchen designer tomorrow. Good-bye, old lady kitchen! Hello, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances! And a microwave. Oh, how I can’t wait to have a microwave. And also more than one square foot of counter space. Of course, in a few months we’ll be living without a usable kitchen — and with assloads of plaster and dust getting all over everything — while the construction’s going on, and won’t that just be a joy? Anyway, other than that, just the usual schedule of errands, reading, writing, staring into space. Maybe strolling into Central Park to take photos if there’s any more snow and the trees look pretty.

Tacoma Art Museum has an Eric Carle exhibit that I might go check out. I plan to avoid Belle Square this weekend, at least until I get paid on Monday. :) Also I plan to finish crocheting my boyfriend’s scarf and maybe starting another crafty project.

Flying off to vacation in a place actually *colder* than my current location. When I was single, I’d jet off to Cabo or Acapulco or South Beach…now, it’s to Santa Fe to soak at Ten Thousand Waves (spa) while waiting for the Victorious Snowboarder to return. (Hopefully in one piece.) Which is nice, but… c’mon. I can do that at home. So that, and skating with the roller girls in Duke City. I can’t wait…they practice IN A BAR. How awesome is that?!

Painting the living room with a perfectionist. Shoot me now.

Viewing of “The Manchurian Candidate” at the Spy Museum tonight!
Concert at the Kennedy Center tomorrow!
Planning my lobbying trip to Richmond with Planned Parenthood!
Working on PR for my choir’s silent auction and gala!
Perhaps a yoga class!
I am a font of sophistication and suaveness. Behold my fascinating weekend plans and weep with despair, ye mighty!!
Also: laundry.

Tonight is Dolly Parton movie night at a friend’s house (rock on!) and then I think for the rest of the weekend I’ll hang out in my room, avoiding my roommates for no reason.

Not a damn thing for a change. Sometimes you just need a few days to veg and this is one of those weekend.

Having my fiance’s two pre-teen cousins sleep over. The last time we watched them, one of the girls got her shoelace caught in an escalator. And yet their parents have trusted us AGAIN.

Emily, if I weren’t busy this weekend I’d say lets go party, sorry! Ten thousand waves is the shit, and be sure that you buy some of the cedar mountain products, produced by a local guy, and just the smell makes you feel calm and relaxed. I love them!
I am going to a class called soul retrieval and recapitulation. It’s about the mind body connection as it relates to health, if you are sick in your soul, it reflects in your health.
I am hoping that it is not shaking a tamborine at the moon, but you never know.
That’s saturday, sunday I may go shopping with my bff. And watch it snow hopefully.

daughter is snot bubble sick, so my weekend will likely involve wrestling with her so that I can suck out her mucous with an aspirator. you had to ask…

Let’s see…tonight I am going to a retreat (that doesn’t allow adult beverages to be consumed) out in the middle of nowhere (and it is freaking cold still here in Texas!!) and tomorrow possibly driving to Austin to pick up the grand-dog for the weekend. My partner’s daughter’s boyfriend’s grandma passed away…

It’s my 24th birthday this weekend. I’ll be mourning the fact that I am officially too old for raging keggers and Girls Gone Wild auditions (unless they’re into droopy boobs and if that’s the case, I’m there).

Tonight I am going out to dinner (Mexican! margaritas!) with some girls from work. That is the only passable noteworthy answer I have for my weekend’s activities. Unless vacuuming tumbleweeds of dog hair counts as noteworthy.

Sorry about the manties thing, I had no idea JB was so manly.

Weekend plans include sitting in lines for hours trying to replace my lost drivers license and ss card. Probably an ass load of house work. I’m helping my brother move. And if I don’t kill anyone from nicotiene (sp?) withdrawl I might even fit some whiskey into the equation somewhere. Also I’m going to meet up with JB and we’re hiking blindfolded into the woods to hunt bears with pocket knives. (better?)

tonight relatives come to town & we’ll all go to dinner somewhere. tomorrow is my aunt/uncle’s 40th wedding anniversary so we’ll all travel the 2 hrs to their city for a surprise party. we return saturday night & we’re going to just play it by ear with the plans. then sunday i say goodbye to relatives and if i have time i might buy sage green paint for my bathroom.

I was going to go to a Post Secret exhibit, but instead, I’m getting over the flu. Good times!

Surrepitiously storing boxes of my stuff in my sister’s garage before I leave my partner in a couple of weeks.

I am so jealous Emily is going to Ten Thousand Waves. That is my favorite spa ever.

I am going to a wine tasting tonight followed by dinner with friends. Tomorrow, I am going on a bike ride, doing some reading for school, and shopping for a new outfit to wear on Wednesday to greet my husband when he returns from Iraq!!!! (So exciting!!)

Sunday I have an 8-mile run scheduled and then will start cleaning house and get a grocery list going so I can have all of my hubby’s favorite things waiting in the fridge for him on Wednesday. Oh yes, and I will be buying lots of beer to have on hand. The man has requested I stock up on the Shiner Bock that he misses so much.

I am hitting the girlfriends up tonight for a boozy gathering, coming home to brine a turkey (ooh dirty), clean the whole gd house saturday, cooking and eating said turkey sunday. Ah, what a crazy bitch I am!

We’re going sledding for the first time with my 2-year-old son. Then I’m going to paint my studio/office. Should be a good time!

(Oh, and BTW, men don’t need to ask for directions because they have a map of the world tattooed on their penises. Or, so says my hubby.)

So far my weekend plans include renting a few movies and cuddling on the couch with my husband, as well as cleaning the apartment. I was also thinking about inviting some friends over for game night so we can be loud and annoy my neighbor downstairs who annoys us with her loudness every day. Revenge = tons of weekend fun.

I got suckered into having a Mary Kay party. My husband, meanwhile, will be out in the woods making a short film with his friends.

Jr turns 8 on Saturday so we’re having his party at the bowling alley. Since Hubby is off this weekend I’m also hoping to get laid. Well, not AT the party, you know, maybe sometime on Sunday. That’s pretty much it.

We are in the middle of what seems like week 9,231 of the Bathroom remodel. Last weekend we rented a truck and bought slabs of sheet rock, only to find out — after we measured, fought, cut, fought, and brought it back in the house — that some of it was the wrong size. grrrrr. So this weekend, I expect we will make several more trips to the Depot while muttering expletives under at our breath at each other, fight about how to properly do any of this remodeling crap, and then finally start cutting some sheet rock. By then it will probably be Sunday and *hopefully* we will be able to sit down together and just stare at our finished wall.

The boys are getting haircuts, I’m going to a choir rehearsal. Hubby’s birthday on Sunday, so I’m sure we’ll be watching football. Because what better way to celebrate?! (…sorry about the Seahawks, we were pulling for them.)

I’m having lunch with my in-laws Saturday which means I need to bone up on some safe topics of conversation today unless I feel like sitting across from people in silence for 2 hours. Yee-haw the fun I have in store for me.

Installing my new computer at home. Now I’ll be able to keep up with updates at the weekend.

I think we will take in that Bodyworks exhibit you so heartily recommended. Incidentally, what are your thoughts (if any) on taking a 6-month old baby along in a stroller? Appropriate, or not so much? Is the stuff, like, encased, or will she be able to grab hunks of flesh in her grubby paws if we take the Snugli instead?

I get to start gathering all the paperwork our tax preparer needs to do our taxes! Fun!

Oh and making chili in the crockpot. I think I may have to step out to the Mall of America though as they are hosting the largest indoor exhibition of tulips EVER! I need a dose of spring right about now.

Surpsingly, I actually have plans other than finding some way to entertain my nearly 4 year old for the week-end. We are going to see Pan’s Labyrinth, about which I am ridiculously excited. Also I am going to a baby shower. My husband and son will likely be doing something manly while I talk babies with a bunch of women.

I have friends and relatives coming to town for a baby shower (for me!) and this afternoon I am getting a pedicure. Since my husband now has to help me put socks on my 37-week pregnant body, I’m pretty excited about that. I think I get to be DD this evening for my husband and friend, but there will be good food involved, so it’s not too bad.

Tess, I think you would have a better time at the Body thing with the babe in a Snugli rather than a stroller. No flesh to be grabbed and you will have better maneuverability. Just my two cents. Have a good weekend, evenyone.

As an aside, I was sent to the store to purchase the magazine on JB’s nightstand the other day only to find that it is not in stores yet. We were all bummed. I love me some Battlestar Galactica. :) Glad the only repercussions from the post were misidentifying the style of manly drawers.

WHO DAT SAT THEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS? WHO DAT? WHO DAT?

Um, no really, I’m not sure. Heh, but on Sunday I’ll be watching the game because, despite my traumatized past with football (see: childhood spent watching adults cry as the Buffalo Bills choked at the ‘Bowl four (four!) times in a row), the Saints winning streak is the best thing going in New Orleans right now and I want to get a piece of that beery hope and joy.

We’re going to visit our friends who just had a baby. And also trying not to freak out at her stories because I am due in April and I’m scared sh*tless about the delivery process. Oh, and putting in some hours for work – what fun!

That is THE funniest and most accurately description of man underwear I have ever heart. And the term manties. FUNNY!

This weekend I plan to:
a) buy diapers and
b) change many diapers

Saturday: Skiing in Tahoe, where the slopes will be crowded and very fast (no fresh snow lately) and I’m likely to kill myself and/or others. Wanna come?

Sunday will probably be spent nursing the wounds generated Saturday.

We’re going to TigerFest!!! yay… Because my daughter has a mega crush on a certain right fielder named Magglio. Never mind that he is closer to my age than hers. This was a Christmas gift for her. I cannot wait to stand in an 8,000 person long line to get his autograph. Really. I can’t. Actually, it will be great to spend time with the children, their father and my father. Never mind the walking around in a sweaty coat with 12,000 strangers, my head kind of hurts feeling.

Tonight is Date Night. Which now means a 5:00 dinner at Chili’s (great place to take the baby Pterodactyl!) followed by a quick zip to Barnes & Noble to gaze at books for which I’ll never find time to read, and trying to get home before the baby turns into a pumpkin. Saturday: after just painting her room, I’ll be getting it ready for next week’s carpet installation. Sunday: it may be as warm as 0 here this weekend, so we’ll probably spend some time outside chopping and stockpiling wood for the wood stove.

Dogs are going in to town with me one day so I can give them baths at the self-serve dog wash. Nothing makes an old dog bouncy and wiggly like a good bath!

Oh let’s see…(flipping through chockfull social calendar)…ah yes, we’re bringing dinner to my coworker & his wife who just had a baby. And then… yep, that’s it. Let me fill you in on how the rest of the weekend will playout: tonight, my husband and I will get through at least three Tivo’d shows (best bets: The Office, My Name is Earl and Medium). Tomorrow, I’ll throw together a casserole for my coworker. I think I’ll do some laundry and ironing. I’m a loser.

We’re going to have dinner at Brasserie Margaux & then catch Don Giovanni at Seattle City Opera tomorrow night.

Major excitement here, too. The plan is to nest, nest, nest. We just moved and I’m 8 months pregnant. In no particular order; 1) figure out which box has all the infant hand-me-down clothes, wash them in baby detergent and put them away, 2) Make some lasagna, meat loaf, soup and/or chili and freeze them for after we get home from the hospital, 3) Walk the pups at least twice, 4) Watch my husband go to the gym and feel guilty about it, 5) Maybe rent Band of Brothers (again! God, I love that series!) and do a movie marathon, 6) Hey! Maybe decide on a name for the little guy?!, and 7) Drive around some of the backroads here trying to find a new, interesting place to walk the dogs. Realistically? Probably only 4, 5 & 7 will happen.