One annoying thing about having a bigger house is that, especially when the air conditioner comes on or the dishwasher is running, it is impossible to hear each other unles we're in the same room. This is especially obnoxious when, for whatever reason, I didn't sleep very well last night. Oh well. At least we have air conditioning.

This morning, we attempted to make waffles from scratch with our new waffle maker. Like I said, I didn't sleep well, which basically equates to me being easily frustrated...and thus, I didn't last long in the waffle making endeavor after the batter had been mixed. Once Adam got the hang of working the machine, we did alright.

Afterwards, we traveled to Santa Clarita...which turned out not to take as long as we thought due to the higher speed limits here. We returned our KitchenAid mixer that sparked and smelled like smoke and got a new one that seems to work fine thus far. We also shopped a bit, had lunch/dinner at TGI Fridays, got some ice cream at a place called Pam's Ice Cream and Donuts (random) and headed back home to relax and watch some more Chuck.

We got home to Lacy's fun garbage can adventure, or what was left of it. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but might eventually result in getting a more dogproof version of a garbage can. We have Sunday School and church in the a.m. so hopefully that will lend itself to furthering relationship building and potentially making some more friends. The first week here wasn't too bad. Staying at home wasn't as hard as it could've been...and I kept fairly busy, even without a car or going anywhere. I'd imagine that might be the case in the long run. I learned quickly while it's hard for mothers to get things done because it seems like it takes a long time just to get various "simple" tasks done, even without much interruption.

Happy Birthday Dario.

G'nite.

My question for the night: If you spend $200 on clothes and stuff, but the receipts say you saved $200, does that make it free?