Looking forward to the weekend

I'm so glad it's Friday.

We have what looks like a full weekend ahead of us, and most of it looks like it'll be on the "fun" side of things...well, except for the requisite homework.

Tonight, 11 of us are off to see Brian Regan. I've never been to a live comedy show before, but having listened to his recordings, I am prepared for much frivolity and anticipate muscle aches tomorrow from laughing too hard. (Hopefully with such high expectations I won't be disappointed...always a concern, though I tend to agree with Anne that the soaring almost makes up for the thud.)

Tomorrow I told my mom that I'd come and help her tidy up a bit for some sort of church gathering she's hosting in the evening. Then on my way home I thought I'd try to hit a few of the shopping errands that have been stacking up. (For example, the other day it occurred to me that I could cease my complaining about how I needed new dress shoes by ordering online. I have ordered other clothing online with no issues, so why should shoes be any different? And it saves the sometimes torture (only sometimes, because on rare occasion I do enjoy a little shoe hunting expedition) or trying to make time to go look at and try on roughly 300 pairs of shoes before finding one that "will do." So, I looked, I ordered, they came. And they're very, very comfortable except for one minor little detail. They don't fit. Now why mail order shoe sizes don't align with regular store shoe sizes, I couldn't tell you - though it could just be my foot, seeing as how I wear from a 7.5 to 8.5 depending on what brand, but most of the time it's an 8. In fact I'd say 90% of my shoes are 8s. So I ordered 8s. I think I need an 8.5. So, reading over their return policy, they say you can exchange them in store. Saves me shipping, saves me having to go to the post office. I don't see a downside. Except, of course, that I now have to go to the mall and try on the roughly 300 pairs of shoes anyway. I don't think I'll be shoe shopping online again in the near future.) And I have yet to look at fabric for the other little project I've already discussed here.

Then, depending on how much of Saturday is gone, we'll need to head over to the furniture store to look at one more time and probably order the sofa we need for Thanksgiving dinner. And while I'm out that way I need to swing by the bookstore to look at Gourmet and others to see what they're recommending for dinner and decide if I can go with one of those menus or if I need to mix and match my own. (My sister has already voted for mix and match, taking the time to give me a list of all of her favorites. In fact, I asked her if we were convinced that we needed to have turkey. Her response, "Oh no, a standing rib roast would be fine too." Though in many ways that actually sounds preferable...I really don't like turkey.)

Sunday is church. I have a little internal bet going on as to whether the email bru-ha-ha currently taking place in our Sunday school email list will spill over into classtime even though the whole point of trying to deal with it in email was so that we could spend classtime doing nutty things like, oh, studying the Bible. The nice thing about internal bets is that no matter who wins, it's still you.

Somewhere in there I need to do homework. I'm feeling behind again (perhaps due to the two projects looming that I really haven't started) and that's just an unpleasant thing. I also need to spend some time in the online discussion, though I have nothing to say that will actually add to the discussion. Still, participation is graded, so I've got to make something up and get it out there - perhaps I can find a way to include the fact that it would be nice to know how she feels we're doing in our discussion participation since she's given us no feedback whatsoever up to this point and to say that's demotivating is a bit of an understatement.

Anyway, while most of that may not sound fun I'm looking forward to it. Primary reason? I won't be at work. And that, my friends, is an officially Martha Stewart approved "Good Thing".