Had much to do, intended on getting up at 8:30. Was once again rudely awakened at 6am by Gizmo pawing at the blinds. Lured him out and crashed. Turned both alarms off at 8:30 and went right back to sleep. Whoops! Woke up at 9:50. Double whoops! I decided I would go ahead and run my errands then come back and get dressed. So I drive all the way out to Short Pump (so far, I know), getting there at 10:30, only to find Best Buy does not open until 11. Doh! So I went to Target then decided to try Circuit City. On the way, I remembered CompUSA was right there so I whipped over 4 lanes of traffic to turn at the light. 11am. Grr..drove up to Circuit City. 11am. GRR..what's the deal?? I wasted a couple of minutes in Michaels, but obviously not enough. So I just drove back down to Best Buy and by the time I got there they were open. And then I waited in line for 15 minutes. And I'm sorry to whoever already purchased a card for me, how was I to know? Plus, I needed it Sunday. Just like I needed the camera Friday. I hate birthdays.

So ok, after making all the necessary purchases I rushed home to shower, wrap packages and drive to Chesterfield. In the middle of getting ready I had a clothes crises. What I was planning to wear didn't fit so I had to quick think of something else. I just don't have "nice" clothes for parties and things like this. I finally came up with something and ran out the door an hour late. I was planning on being there early, so I wasn't late for the party, just later than I wanted to be.

I ended up getting kitchen duty, rotating the hot dog thingies in and out of the oven. After most everyone showed up we ate. I was so hungry by then; I hadn't had time to eat all morning. After food Kelly had some games planned. Most of the time I'm really nervous about party games like this, but hers were ok. The first one was a quiz to see how much we all knew about Mike and Lauren. Lauren's mom and I ended up in a tie on that one. Lauren then got to play a Price Is Right game. It was the High/Low game-she had to pick the three highest priced items on the trays. After a little assistance from Kelly she got them all right and was awarded the prize. :)

In the meantime, we all had to write down one piece of marriage advice for Lauren. She read them all and chose the best one. Kelly Hurd won that with -If you want him to help with housework, you have to unplug all of his computers- Right on! After the games came the presents; and boy, were there a lot!! At this rate they'll have no problem filling up that new house! Cake followed the gifts and then the party disbanded. Between mine and Lauren's car we managed to fit all the gifts in to travel back to Malvern.

Once there we made plans for dinner; since it was Brian's birthday he chose the Grapevine restaurant (second choice, but Trak's was closed). I'd never heard of it, but it's greek-italian food and come to find out, run by the same family who owns Traks. I wasn't too hungry, but Eric, Lauren and I split a pizza anyway. Wow. That was good pizza. We may have to visit this place again. We got sneaky and had the waiters bring Brian cake and we all got to sing. The Sostes and Mike's grandparents headed back to Malvern after eating and the rest of us came back to our place.

Brian still had a couple of (not so surprise) birthday presents to open and then it was midnight and time for him to hit the road. For some reason, even after all the activities this weekend, I was not tired at all. I laid there looking at the fan; couldn't even close my eyes. I think th last time I looked at the clock it was 3:30. But surprisingly, I'm not tired today. Don't feel like working, but I'm not tired.