It was really good to be around other people and not focus on my own problems for awhile. REALLY GOOD. I spent the time of the morning before the moms arrived going over and over the issues in my marriage and had myself worked up into quite the state. But it all seems so far away now. I'm sure that some time with friends (or even strangers) would do Mike some good too. He's going to that StarWars card thing on Sunday, so that will be good.
I'm going out with Mel and some friends of hers tonight. It was really nice of her to invite me. I'm really looking forward to it.
Last night was a bit of a bust. One of the moms, who I hadn't met before, was telling a story about how she was thinking of calling CPS on another mom who had asked her to 'monitor-sit'. While I don't agree with the concept and would never ask someone to do it myself, I don't think it warrants a call to CPS. That was how the evening started. This woman didn't shut up the rest of the night and I left thinking that I would avoid her at future events. I don't know, I just didn't feel like I fit in, like I have at other events. I took my computer too, because my laptop is acting up - actually I should be reformatting right now, and I think I came off as a bit of a dork. But I didn't have any other hobby to bring. I suppose I could have taken a cookbook. That might have made more sense. Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20. Oh the subject of smoke detectors also came up and this woman made a comment that her son 'would be dead' because he would sleep through the alarm. Of course, she had no way of knowing what happened last month, but after having spent some time with Mel yesterday, my emotions were already a little raw. I just wanted to slap her for saying something so horrible, so casually. I'm definitely getting the talking fire alarms as soon as Spencer moves to a big boy bed.
That's about it for now. I'm going to go do some photochopping. Only 13 days on my trial version left :o(.