LA and stuff

Just got back from LA. Boy was I a busy girl down there. Left the house at 5 am on Thursday and drove the six hours to get there. At one point during the drive my Dad called and asked what time I'd be there and I said 11. And sure enough at 11 on the dot (Dad said it was 11:01, the stickler) I pulled up in the driveway where he was washing a car and I exclaimed what'd I say? I have good timing. I took vacation time for this trip, but it wasn't a vacation, believe me. I cleaned the house (I can clean that house for days because it's inhabited by two very sloppy guys--heck I could spend days just cleaning the floors), dug a 3'x3'x3' hole to plant an ailing tree in (digging holes is great for the muscles by the way. If you want to feel the burn for days afterward, go dig yourself a hole), weed-wacked the ailing lawn, pulled the weeds that a weed-wacker won't wack if a weed wacker could wack weeds, baked chocolate chip cookies, muffin tin cookies and a batch of cream puffs (also made the dough for another batch of cookies, chilled it for 3 hours, but when it was time to put them on the baking trays I realized that I had forgot to put the eggs in! Du-oh!!), made a slew of won tons, picked up a tray of sushi, went grocery shopping, and during all that I managed to find time to see friend Mary. We went out and had dinner and then because it's Mary, found our way to the ocean and chatted on the cold beach for hours and I didn't get home until 5 in the morning. I froze my butt off but it was so worth it since I only get to see her a few times a year. Then I had to wake up 2 hours later to get ready for my sister-in-law's baby shower. I'm gonna be an Aunty!! Did I already tell you that? And it's gonna be a girl! Busy busy all that day. I didn't get any pics worth posting. A lot of baby-shower-gift-opening pics, but those would bore you. This morning I woke up at 3:45 in the morning and drove back up here to Oakland. I don't know if I'm sleep deprived or not because I'm on my third cup of coffee right now.

What day is it anyway?