The past exhausting week and good stuff too.

My husband is a freakin' genius. He set up a separate computer and consolidated all of our itunes libraries onto one. Between us we had like 4000 songs or something. We were getting to the point where we were having to give each other cd's of stuff we were downloading so we wouldn't be buying anything twice. So, he loaded everything onto one main server and put it in the living room. He just set up wireless internet in our house so he put a laptop on the desk in the living room and hooked the computer up behind the tv so it comes through our speakers. Now we can play our itunes on the stereo speakers. It is so cool! He is basically just taking the knowledge he uses in his everyday job and applying it in a different way.

Now we are all hearing new stuff around the house. It is so cool because we are totally sharing all the new music we have each found in the last few years. Forest has a lot of good new music too. Actually for a kid his age, he has a really varied tastes in music. He seems to give everything a good listen from rock to rap and all the other scenes in between and take what he likes. It is pretty neat. I definitely think ability to explore new genres and his tastes in music are inspired by James.

This has been a pretty exhausting week. I have been getting everything caught up. I have been totally out of sorts with my office in transition so basically I have just set up the desk and all the tedium that goes with it. The jewelry stuff is all still scattered around on the other two tables. I have so many ideas in my head right now for jewelry but I can't make it so I just sketch it out and hope the inspiration comes back in the future!

I am leaving today to stay with my mom for the next few days. I don't know if it will be 3 days or a full week. It just depends on how she is doing after the surgery. I must confess that I am a little nervous about it all. I know millions of people have surgery every day but you just don't think so much about it until it's someone you know. I also know that this is a fairly common surgery for women so I should not be so worried. I also think being so busy all week and out of sorts has made me skip some of my exercise over the last week plus I am in between training sessions with my trainer so maybe I just needed that outlet and it was missing. I only made it to the gym twice this week. I am not worried about it though as we are due to start up as soon as I get back.

Anyway, I did get to hang out with Jennifer and her girls and see Melissa for a bit. I also got into P&L to drop off and pick up. Unfortunately I missed getting together with friends on Thursday night. It was something I was super getting excited about but when the time came I just realized I wouldn't be good company because I felt physically exhausted and mentally stressed out.

Man, James keeps making references to music videos from the 80's and I realize I have no reference for that. We didn't have MTV in my small town. All we had was this show called Friday Night Videos. I totally stayed up to watch it! But, I don't know if I want to remedy my lack of reference. Do I really want to start a whole thing of watching 80's videos? I recently noticed that VH1 is showing a lot of 80's videos during the week day. Maybe I should check it out. Some of these videos he mentions sound interesting. I feel like I missed out on some cultural milestone! ha ha

My hometown has come along with the technology. Now they have cable and fast internet connection there. So, I will be keeping in touch over the next week.