I didn't want to get up this morning, but it helped knowing that it was almost the start of the weekend. I LOVE Fridays...not only because it's the last day of the work week, but also because I get off at Noon on Fridays! It's wonderful...I would totally cry if they changed our work schedule!

At work, I got that middle school librarian list finished and wrapped up some loose ends and emails, and even played for a little bit with my boss's 3 year old who was there with his daddy. (He is adorable...and he seemed to love me!)

Usually on Fridays after work, Juliette and I go grocery shopping, but we did something different today. I had one of those daily deals for the restaurant at Vermilionville (a cajun heritage living history museum here in town) that was about to expire, so we needed to use it. I had been to a retirement party there for my old boss and loved their food, which is why I bought the deal, but the restaurant is only open for lunch, so that's why we haven't been yet. So, we went and it was great! Juliette and I shared fried catfish and jambalaya and Matt had their lunch buffet, complete with bread pudding with praline sauce. Yummy! (And, since I had bought the deal months ago, it only cost us $3.80 today, plus a tip!)

After lunch, we came back home and I sat down and planned out meals and lunches for next week and made out a grocery list. Juliette decided to stay home with Matt, so I went by myself. On the way, I stopped at the Hershey's Ice Cream Store here in town, but not for ice cream, though. The Great American Cookie Company is part of their store, and I had a daily deal for it as well that I've been saving to use for Juliette's birthday (and our special "back to school dinner" that we're having Sunday night). I ordered a little square cookie cake with apples and 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C on it for our dinner (which I will blog about Sunday night) and a larger round one for us to have for her birthday on Wednesday. Then, on the way to Super Target, I stopped off at Old Navy to see if they had any school uniform shorts left in Juliette's size (I prefer the way the Old Navy ones look on her, but we only were able to get one pair of them.) They didn't have any, but I did get Juliette and me new, really cute Saints shirts!

I finally made it to Super Target and since I didn't have Juliette with me, I took my time looking around the store and all the time thinking, "Man, it's hot in here!" When I got over to the food side to get the groceries, I realized that they were having some electrical issues, as all the refrigerated cases where blocked off with boxes (trying to keep the cold air in I guess), so I wasn't able to get any of the "cold" stuff that I needed to. After I got home and put everything away, I realized that I was double charged for a $13 item, but at this point it was after 5 and I didn't want to go back and get it corrected (will have to go back tomorrow). I felt pretty frustrated about my whole shopping trip at this point!

I can't really remember what we did between then and about 8...I know Juliette and I ate some pretzels and took turns biting off pieces of them to turn them into letters and numbers. And, I took a bath in that time frame too. I didn't cook dinner since we weren't hungry...we just snacked. Juliette added some raisins and a granola bar to her pretzels and called it dinner.

At 8, we went across the parking lot to our friends Brad and Christine's apartment, as they had invited us over to meet Christine's sisters who were in town and have birthday cake (it was one of her sisters' birthday). We stayed over there until after 10 (Juliette and Christine played with the balloons pretty much the whole time) and then we came home (with a garbage bag of balloons) and went to bed way too late!