Valentine's Party

Well today was like any other to start with. I woke feeling like I really didn't want to be, though once I got up I didn't feel sleepy or too opposed to being up. Last night I had got all my stuff that I planned to take with me all together so I didn't have to worry about it now. Although in doing this it meant I had free time to do what I wanted, though I don't feel like doing much when I'd be leaving in only 30-40 min. I did play on my computer for awhile before I packed it up and left with my mom.

Before we got to the office, my mom took us by the Trans Texas bank and she bought us each a heart-shaped Valentine's cookie. It was really cool because 100% of the proceeds go to Relay For Life. I still haven't eaten mine. I was going to but around lunch I didn't want it then I felt too full or kinda sick to eat it. Plus, my mom hasn't eaten hers either pretty much for the same reasons.

While I was there I didn't watch Bleach and I didn't take my picture of my chracter I'd been working on. I felt like I needed a break. Besides, one of the pictures relating to her that I drew was on my desktop and there was no point putting it on my laptop since I don't do art well on my laptop. Plus, I don't have anything but MS paint on my laptop so I would have only been able to finish the sketch. And I know I can put art programs on my laptop, but I just prefer not to double up on programs between my two computers except for staple ones such as Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Skype.

We didn't go and eat anything after we got done cleaning because we were having a Valentine's party at group so we knew we'd have food. Before we went though my mom and I went to my Grandma's house to give her a Birthday card that we had picked out for her during lunch. We stayed longer than either of us expected, or wanted to. My sister decided she had to sit there and just chat away like we had nothing better to do than listen to her talk. I spaced out through most of the conversation as my attention span had all but run out about halfway through it. Though I don't think anyone noticed as I was able to maintain the illusion I was actually paying attention to her as I was still responding.

We finally managed to leave and we headed to group. We got there right on time. I think. It was fun too. There wasn't much to eat that interested me but there was at least some lettuce and carrots so I was content with that. What I waited for the opportunity for was the cheesecake. I saw that and wanted it but I didn't want ot be the first to get into it as I found it rude. My mom kept telling me to go get some so I finally did regardless of being the first one to do so. I got it and sat down. I was happy, I love cheesecake. After I got some though, everyone else started to go in there for some. Seems like I wasn't the only one wanting to wait till someone else got some to get them for themselves.

Shortly after everyone who wanted it got cheesecake, we had a little drawing for some valentines presents on the table on the other side of the room. Instead of numbers however, we drew words. They were words such as "beautiful" "caring" etc. My mom got the one that said "beautiful" and I got the one that said "caring". Mom's present was really cool. It was a little trinket box with a picture of Jesus's face on the top. I was really glad she got it, especially when she told me she'd been putting her jewlery in a white, paper box, so now she has something nice to put them in.

I didn't care much for my gift. It was a wine-glass with broken hearts decorated on it and it said "Love Stinks" on it. I think it's blah. Of course, at things like this, I never like the gift I end up with but it doesn't matter as that's not the point of these things anyway. If my and my mom's gifts were switched, I likely would have traded her so she could have the cool gift anyway. I might still make use of my glass thingy. I could always try to get the words off of it or something. Or perhaps I can ignore it and make use of it all the same.

I helped to clean things up before we left. I have a hard time just standing around doing nothing while others clean up and such, plus, I wanted some of the decorations. Really I just asked if I could keep a few of the little fake petals on the table as I figured they would want to keep the majority but apparently they didn't mind if I took them all and offered. I, of course, couldn't turn that down being the artist I am. I ended up with the heart-shaped sequins too and the plastic table cloth. I didn't even have any interest in that thing but they offered it to me so I figured, why not?

As we talked before leaving, I played with James a little. He was still into pretending to shoot people with this cardboard tube that was approximately twice his height. He seemed really entertained when I would nicely take the tube from him then make little echo-y howling noises through it. I only did this repeatedly because the grin he got on his face and the giggle he made were just too cute.

There was leftover cheesecake after the party so naturally, anyone who wanted any got to take some home with them. Some people did, including me and my mom. We pretty much got every bit that was left from the others taking some with them so we got about six pieces of cheesecake. I definataly was not going to complain about that.

We got home and I put my things away. I'm pretty tired now. I think I'll probably wrap up here and go to bed soon. Night!