This weekend I :

- ate a meal with an ungodly amount of garlic slices (not slivers, not minced - they looked like banana chips they were so big) and I could not quit eating it.  It was so delicious.  Chicken Bruschetta Pasta at TGIFriday's.  I went out on a limb and ordered it just because the choice sounded good, didn't have seafood, and it was decidedly NOT chicken nuggets.  Here's a recipe I found to copy it.  I definitely plan to try it out at home, even Pinky ate some of the pasta.  I know Mom would love it, she and I share a passion for the garlic ;)

- clipped my toenails too short, and now every one of the tips of my toes are throbbing. Nice.


- bought two new pairs of dress shoes because flopping around in 3 1/2" heels that are too big is not the best way to avoid falling flat on my rear.

- already talked about the pajamas.  They are a hit with the little person wearing them.  This week I plan to sew a nightie from the bright flowered flannel, and I hope I'll have enough left over to throw together a pillowcase dress like this one. I have some 1.5" wide chocolate brown ribbon I'm just dying to use as trim.

- got to clean up a midnight puke from Zesty.  He called it pook.  Poor thing.  He was exhausted from his day with Momma at the church on Saturday.  He came and climbed into bed with me at asleep o'clock plaintively crying, "I make a mess!"  It took awhile for it to dawn on me that the unpleasant odor I detected was connected to that statement. That may have had something to do with the fact that he was plastered on my stomach and cutting off my air supply and circulation simultaneously.  He was semi-pleasant and asked for a bath, and then he volunteered to sit on his potty -- and he PEED!!!   I was so excited.  I had to keep it down though, because everyone else was sleeping.  We did stickers, we did high-fives and hugs, and generally made a big deal out of it between the two of us.

- got so tickled at myself when I was trying to put Pinky in a (little) time-out, and Zesty in a time-out, and I'd go to put one back in their place, and the other would pop up.  It was like Whack-A-Mole.  Would have been a hilarious home movie with the action sped up.