Meaghan’s wedding reception is set for October 9th. We have a great venue and everything is coming together nicely. I have been keeping a small notebook of ideas and lists to maintain my sanity. My mom and I are going shopping on Labor Day to pick up a bunch of what we need. Plates, napkins, silverware, table clothes, etc. I will probably need to order the grooms cake and her wedding cupcakes. Everything is being done in an Alice in Wonderland / Mad Hatter Tea Party theme. Don’t worry; I’ll be taking a lot of pictures. It’s coming together nicely. Invites will be going out next week. She is about 18 weeks pregnant now and she goes back to the doctor on Thursday. Hopefully they will be able to determine the gender of the baby. Girl seems to be the popular choice. Joslyn Leigh or Dylan Jasper. Personally I’m hoping for a girl. I bet you can guess why. She’s doing well. Her hormones are going nuts, but that’s to be expected. I wonder what brand of vitamins she is taking and if it’s making her sick. I hear spring valley prenatal vitamins are really good. For the most part both mom and baby are healthy. We will find out more on Thursday.

I took Becca to get her eyes checked last weekend. She is taking driver’s ed this year and can’t unless she gets her permit which she can’t pass unless she has glasses. So this place was supposed to have a special for two complete pairs of glasses for $69.95 including eye exam. What they don’t tell you is that anything like scratch resistant coating or other NORMAL things were ‘upgrades’ and cost much more. The sales lady checking me out didn’t even bother to ASK me about any of this, she just assumed and gave me a price of well over $200. I did indeed pitch a fit, loudly. In the end we left with an order for two pairs of glasses with no special upgrades (she even had the nerve to tell me I’d be sorry if I didn’t get scratch resistant coating…and I called her out on it from across the store…needless to say, I was pissed.) Becca is 15 years old. Those glasses will be lucky to last a year with or without scratch resistant coating. I’ll get her some nicer glasses when she turns 16 just before her eye exam expires for when she actually starts driving.

The past couple of days have been so nice. I love the rain. It makes for great sleeping weather and it cools everything off. I think we finally had a day that was below 90 degrees for the first time in two months! Of course, it’s expected to go back up later this week, but I’ll take the relief while I can. I hope all those who own them put their hot tub covers on because it came down hard yesterday. The pond behind my apartment is finally back up to it’s normal level for the first time all summer. I’m so glad fall is around the corner. I sure miss the cooler weather.

I am a big Stephen King fan, so when I found out Sy-Fy was starting a series based on The Colorado Kid I knew I had to give it a try. Now, I admit at first I wasn’t too impressed. The acting seemed a bit campy and the story line seemed pretty far fetched. However, now that I’ve been watching it for a while I really like it. The characters are starting to develop and it is filling out the story very well. Yes, a lot of weirdness they refer to as “The Troubles” keeps coming along, but it is simply part of the plot. The whole town is involved and I like that. There are several story lines going on at once. There’s the one where our main character, Audrey, is looking for her mother. Then the other main character Nathan is trying to figure out his place in the world. Then you have handfuls of other townsfolk each with their own stories. There’s the local medical examiner, the news reporters, and the local smuggler. Ah, but don’t forget there is the romantic undertone between our two main characters. It’s quiet, but there. So, now that I have been watching this for a while I really like it and every Friday night I look forward to watching it.