I’m back. It was a lovely jaunt to the City of Fountains. Yes, Kansas City is called the City of Fountains. Isn’t that funny? Apparently it has more fountains than Paris. Hm. It was beyond fabulous to see all of my girlfriends and their darling husbands. Wendy, Heidi, Ferk, Kris, Karrie, Amy — Thank you for taking time out of your lives to play with me all weekend. It was THE best. Thank you to Karrie for letting me stay with you! Karrie has THE best style. I want to copy every single things she does and claim it as my own. We have very similar tastes. She just has follow through, something I lack. I suppose I should cut myself some slack though. Here are some of the girlies at dinner Saturday night. (Ferk, Heidi, Amy, me, Kar)

There was lots of gabbing, eating and laughing. God, I laughed so hard this weekend my face hurts. There is nothing like those girls. At one point I literally said to Karrie’s husband Taiji “Stop! I just peed a little bit!!!”

I also picked up a new shirt and cool necklace that were both so freaking cheap I felt like I should have been paying in Pesos. Fun Fun.

I had a hard time returning though and only today do I feel back to my old self. The weekend sort of kicked my ass physically so I was hurting all Sunday night and all day  yesterday. I am recouping today as Finn sleeps and HJ is at school. The poor dear clung to my leg this morning and whimpered as I left her. She told me on the way she wants to switch to a school where they let the mommies stay all day.

Finn is turning into an avid little reader. If given a choice between a book and TV, he’ll pick the book. He flips through the pages, chattering and squealing. I swear he’s been saying “Sissie!” lately when he sees Hadley. He’s taking more steps on his own and is just becoming more and more of a boy. Not only does he have his mouth open all the time but lately the tongue comes out too, especially if he’s really working on something. Exhibit A…

Yes, sister still enforces the dress code when brother plays with her. I figure until he balks about being dressed up like a girl then I’ll let her do it. He seems to enjoy being included.

I watched Celebrity Fit Club 2 last night and it’s just too much crazy for one TV show. Willie Aimes made the BIGGEST jackass of himself. Well, wait, scratch that, the jackass behavior started when he chose to call himself “Willie”. Ugh. He wasn’t working out so the show sent a trainer to his house. He opens the door in just a towel. (sweet sweet lord) and starts wigging out, punching the door talking about how angry he is. Um, listen up fatty, you signed on to the show. Don’t act like the camera crew just showed up here because we wanted to see your naked, fat, tattooed ass. I just kept hitting pause, laughing hysterically, telling Peter exactly what happened and then making him watch it again.It’s just too much. I smiled when I saw that he lived in Kansas City, KS. I should have popped in on him. Willie  got out the HOSE and sprayed the trainer. You have to be embarrassed. He just wasn’t making any sense later on either. Then there is Gary Busey, who I’m still not completely convinced is human. He does seem like a sweet man though now that he’s not snorting and drinking his life away. I love how he’s always blurting out strange little sayings at inappropriate times. Although it’s painful to watch him talk with all of those teeth in his way. I thought John Elway looked like a horse. Sweet Jesus. You know when he signed on to do the show though they were high five-ing all over the VH1 offices because he’s a reality show dream. Although he couldn’t carry his own show. Remember that? It was a little bit scary.

Hm….not much else.

I saw an ad in a magazine on the plane and I don’t even remember what it was for but they showed a woman jumping up in the air. I think she won some sort of contest or something and they had a list of things that she had accomplished. One of the bullet points was “Lupus Survivor”. It just struck me as odd. To say that seems to say her Lupus is gone. My mom is a cancer survivor because she had breast cancer, beat it and it’s gone. (Wahoo!) I don’t know. I just found myself staring at it for a long time.