*hammy announcer voice* Yes - Welcome to the 10/29 Edition of Exciting Friday Evening Plans!

Well, Tori, looks like this edition is for those who aren't going to Friday Halloween parties.

*back to abnormal self* A friend who usually has a Games Night at his place every two weeks had canceled the past month, then announced a half hour ago that it was on for tonight. I live far enough away to honestly say that by the time I get there I'd have to turn back around (so I'd leave before the drunks would get on the road).

So, instead of Games Night I'm listening to Friday Night 80's on the radio (again), and getting my overnight bag ready for tomorrow's adventure of afternoon wine tasting and evening's street party with a high school friend.

(For some reason, your mentioning of the cold apartment and waiting for the heat made me 'home'sick for Montana.)

Yeah, it's definitely the start of cozy/snuggly weather here, but I'm already jonesing for the beginning of spring/summer. I'm sooo hoping we have a light winter this year.

which new one did you get? was it your first fleshlight or a new addition?

LOL Nice...my Rangers played tonight, but lately they just bum me out and I end up staring at the tv and just shaking my head...still love 'em though!

Hey, being a band geek, I liked Mr Holland's Opus, lol.

And speaking of Band geekdom, lol, while I may not have any plans for tonight, tomorrow I'm going to the Crystal Coast Band Classic with Synthetik! I'm going to show him what all the fuss is about when it comes to me liking Marching Band so much I can't wait!

You'll notice I didn't say a bad word about it - I love that movie!

Hmm, all our kids were out, even the little one went to her older sister's house to dress up and watch Halloween movies.

My Man and I were home alone....we got take out dinner, put a movie on from OnDemand and he fell asleep in the middle of it. *sigh*

Oh, well, I got some this morning....and last night....and yesterday morning. The poor man is old and needs his rest.

Eating babies! Hahahaha! Cute. When is her Little One expected?

November 20th, I'm excited! The sister who was dancing tonight is due in May. Hopefully they can be enough of a fix so my biological clock will shush until I'm done with school.

Ah, very true It's a great movie, when I was at my old High School (not the one Synthetik and I met at, the one before it) we'd watch it in Band if we didn't have anything else to do (which wasn't often, but it happened once in a while

Crash, sounds like my evenings in college. I went to the occasional party. Most of the time, I was studying and worrying about grades and OMG, the note cards so you can put your papers together! I was in college in the days before the internet, the research had to ALL be done in the Library or with huge, heavy books (I was a Psych and PreMed major) and we didn't have a word processor. If you made a mistake, say left out a sentence or a paragraph in a paper and wanted to add it, you had to either type the entire page over, or actually CUT pieces of the paper and tape them togehter. Some profs wouldn't let you do that, so even after your research and writing was done, you were up half the night typing.

There were some people who made quite a bit of money typing other people's already written papers for them. (Some made money writing the entire papers for others. Kids got caught doing that.) I was a terrible typist when I was a kid, and my Mom wouldn't let me bring the typewriter where I lived at school so I had to either borrow one of the crappy typewriters from the library and type the entire thing IN the bitty room they let you borrow, or go all the way home (two El trains, a bus and then walk a mile, with all my shit) just to type a paper. Yeah, and it was uphill both ways, and it snowed even in the spring and fall. (I realized for a minute there I sounded like an old lady, "Well, when I was young...." LOL!)

Anyway, it sucked, I know it still does. No matter what you are doing while you're in college you are thinking, "I could be studying. I have a paper to write. There's a test on Monday." It never ends. It's totally worth it to get your degree, though. That's what I keep telling my daughter who is in college when she's freaking out about all the work.

It is worth it. No one will remember too much about those parties later, but you will always have your degree. Keep up the good work, honey. (But, do get out on occasion! The occasional break is good for you.)

I know, My Man just jumps into things, too. He almost joined the Merchant Marines when I was in High School. I threw a FIT and he eventually gave up on it, but I heard about it for years! "I coulda seen the world!" "You could have been raped by pirates, gotten the clap and fallen overboard, idiot."