stephanie is: 
sleepy…
i’ve been spoiled this weekend. danny switched to a day schedule so that he could go sight-seeing with his big-boss-from-out-of-town. it has been nice to see him more than just for the evening.
on friday i woke up around 7:30am.that is a couple hours later than i wake up for work, so it was good enough for me. danny and i just ran errands… i got underwear at the maul and we braved the super-big grocery store they just built out here since we hadn’t shopped for groceries in a couple weeks. danny went to bed early because his schedule was all kinds of messed up. i stayed up till 10pm doing programming for the happy tails web site. then i watched a few of the million-billion shows that have been building up on tivo for me. i got to sleep around midnight.
today i got up at 8am or so. we got breakfast at a french chain restaurant where you get a tray and walk through a line. i had scrambled eggs, a croissant, a goblet of fresh strawberries, grapfruit juice, and hot tea. yum.
at 12:30pm i had my yearly eye exam. there were minor changes to my prescription but (despite my doctor being attached to a lenscrafters) he said i was fine with the lenses and contacts i have now. he does want me to continue to come yearly since my dad has had glaucoma recently and the circle thinger in my optical nerve is at 50% (he explained it as an unusable area in the center of the nerve that is at 10%-50% in normal eyes… over 55% and they recommend testing fo problems). he assured me it is completely fine for me to be at 50% already (that sometimes little kids are even like that) and that it wasn’t likely to ever be a problem, but that i am doing the right thing by being checked regularly. when i got my air puff test it was given by a cute guy in dress clothes instead of one of the nurses in the cheesy flower scrubs. he looked like he should be working next door at the lens crafters. i warned him i was a blinker and he was going to have problems doing the air puffs in my eyes. amazingly he got it on both tries in my right eye. but he tried on my left eye (the non-dominant one, which also has poorer vision) about 7 times before giving up. i left the exam room with tears streaming down my face from trying so hard not to blink while having air blasted into my eye. the doctor saw me and joked “that doesn’t look too good…”. i told him his assistant had been abusing me.
in the afternoon i took a nap because we were planning to go out to dinner later with friends. i had a bad dream that danny had to leave to join some strange army training thing and they made him drive off a cliff.
tonight we went out to dinner with 
acdprime and tomorrowsangel. we went to reston town center and somehow ended up with three of those restaurant pagers… we were waiting to see which would go off first. some american food tap room place won. i got water with lemon, a gardenburger, and fries. as we were leaving an hour and a half later, the pager from the mexican place next door went off. heh!
afterwards they stopped into our house for a few minutes to meet the zoo. i got tamara’s aim name (if you want to be able to aim me you have to tell me your aim name first because i have heavy security set up) so we can set up a date to go see ‘the passion’ soon. our boys have no interest in seeing it so we will spare them. i am happy to be making a new friend! especially one who is often just down the street. i just need to get my tired, slacker ass in gear and work out my time budget so i know when i need to be doing work or chores and when it is time to play.
here are some pictures i took tonight while waiting at the restaurant. they were taken without flash and a slightly slow shutter speed because i liked how the colors looked. one is in macro with a sepia filter.
i go bed now – work tomorrow.