Darned Stomach!

Well, Sam and I were supposed to drive up to our friends who live in 'the valley' and hang out this afternoon and evening, since it's our last free weekend here. So we got going this morning to get some recycling done, and stuff we wanted to donate to the Goodwill taken care of.

At the time, our friends had hoped we'd show up early, around 1 or so, but we called before we started heading that way, and sure enough, plans had changed a little. So we killed some time at Fashion Island at the Apple Store and Sharper Image, then up to Fry's Electronics to kill another hour, and back down toward Irvine to the only stand-alone Chick-fil-a we know of in the area.

As we were sitting and eating, my stomach decided to go rogue on me, and I had to run to the ladies' room. Something that just happens to me now and then... I suspect it's IBS, but I don't think they had defined IBS back in the 70s when they tried to figure out what my problems were. So, I had to rush home, and knew I'd better stay home... an hour on the road (in good traffic) to our friends', and trust me, I don't want to be that far from a bathroom. Blah.

So at my bidding, DF went ahead and drove on up without me. They were kind of his friends before they were mine, so hopefully they won't be too offended that I couldn't make it.

It did mean that I got to watch the Belmont, which was nice, even if Smarty Jones didn't capture the win. And now I'm left with lots of stuff I probably should do, but I think I'd like to curl up and stitch and just relax.

Sam probably won't be back until late (10pmish), so I guess I can throw in one of the Netflix movies (Sorry we keep them so long, WG!!! LOL I so rarely drag myself away from the computer these days to watch movies & stitch), stitch for a while, and then maybe tackle some filing later on. The only problem is, I'd really rather be stitching on something more fun than a Cherished Teddie. The rest of my stash is packed, but the boxes aren't sealed, so the temptation is there. I just have no willpower, no stick-to-it-ness. Gonna do CT or nothing at all though.

Back to stitching, me!

Okay, so it didn't take much convincing. ;) I already do (the LiveJournal thing, but maybe a stitch related journal will help me get some stitching done! I've been a slacker since we moved out to So. Cal, and I can't blame the sunshine and the gorgeous weather. It's all the EverCrack, Anarchy Online, City of Heroes, etc.

So... we're moving up to San Jose, next weekend, and hopefully I can get together with some of the cool stitchers up there. I miss Annie and JenX and LisaNC and the rest of the NC crew!

Right now I'm sitting in an apartment full of boxes. All my stash except one little Cherished Teddies piece is packed, and all our books, DVDs, CDs (yay for iPod!). Sam should be landing at John Wayne airport any time now and coming home after another 4 day commute week, so we'll go out to dinner and relax, and tomorrow it's back to work, packing up the last bits. Movers come on Thursday to pack the kitchen, and on Friday to load all our stuff up. Saturday we'll have the apartment cleaned, check out, and drive 400 miles north. I can't wait until we're all settled in up there.

The new apartment is really close to the light rail system, and I did some surfing around today and found a cross stitch shop down past downtown, and looked at all the fun stuff right in downtown San Jose. I'm excited! And we're just minutes from the Six Flags Great America park and new waterpark too, so we won't be totally without (we've had Disney annual passes this past year, which we really enjoyed).

And I get to go to Needle In A Haystack! And hopefully some other awesome stores in the area to. *bounce* I'm getting excited, which is good, because this was a "we really don't *want* to move, but the promotion and raise was hard to pass up" sort of deal.

Enough babbling for now, gonna go post. :)