MY BED . . .

Calls out to me in a loud, clear, persistent voice, and I will give in soon, but first, a quick rundown of the day's successes:

... the G's baby shower preparations completed early! I was sitting in the direct path of sunlight beaming through my bedroom window, getting warm and relaxed and playing Word Mojo online when the first guests rolled in!

... plentiful food, excellent decorations, an abundance of helpful hands, games that perfectly suited our slightly-lazy-but-highly-intelligent-and witty selves, friends-who-are-like-family who don't mind making my home their home (so I don't have to babysit them! Yay!), and a clean-up crew to rival any crew out there (I think I owe Soybean a year's worth of lotion to make up for all the dishes she washed. Eep.)

... an SUV-load of gifts which included the all-important New Dad outfit (if someone out there has a digi-photo of it, please send it to me because it MUST be posted for the public to see), including sound-proof earphones and a most imaginative all-purpose apron.

... people who were actually willing to take leftovers! Praise the Lord! (Note to future guests: don't be shy; you KNOW you want it.)

... a fresh sound system at NHF that mostly works, but of course, the coolest thing is the industrial-strength, foam-padded, multi-compartmentalized microphone case. That thing is AWESOME. And our new monitors, now named Matthew, Caleigh and Derek. Don't ask.

... a newly implemented church prayer meeting that had a small but intimate first turnout, and which rejuvenated even my aching feet, sore back, stiff shoulders, droopy eyelids and hoarse voice. God is good. All the time.

... a perfectly perfect time of winding down at JWu's, gorging on vegetable tempura (random!) and exchanging random bits of information that none of us knew the other person knew that we knew that they knew. Well, you get the idea. Bottom line is, we all watch waaaaay too much television.

And now, she sleeps.