It was a PAR-TEE, and I should've painted my toenails.

Brad and I drove to Dallas to attend his brother's wedding party. It was a lot of fun! It was held at an indoor golf place that gives you the opportunity to play at different courses throughout the world by using computer simulation. It was really neat: you go into a "booth," a ball automatically comes up on a tee, you pick the right club out of your bag, get into the golf stance, and take your shot. The ball hits a TV screen type thing, and you watch it travel down the fairway. Brad did pretty well. I tried it a few times, but I don't think I quite have the swing down. I think his brother and sister-in-law had a great time. It was a lot of fun to see family and socialize.

We took Callie, the newest member of our immediate family, with us. On Saturday morning, she escaped from Brad's mom's house. She was lost for about 3 hours, and we were all running around the neighboorhood calling her name and growing more worried by the second. Thankfully, she is microchipped and tagged with a special id number from 24 Hour Pet Watch. It turns out she was three (3!!!) houses down. The neighbors were leaving to run errands and saw her sitting under their tree. They put her in their backyard with their black lab and called the number on her tag for 24 Hour Pet Watch. 24 HPW gave them our contact information. Of course, we didn't find out her location until I ran all over the neighboorhood for 3 hours in my Chacos. I have flat feet, and when I run, I need to wear special shoes, not sandals. I ended up with huge, painful blisters where the arch should be. I had planned to paint my toenails but never got around to doing it. If I had known so much attention would be directed at my feet, I would have painted them! :o) They still hurt, and I'm trying to stay off them as much as possible.

School is really busy right now. I don't think I've written about this yet: I dropped Writing, Layout & Production of Technical Documents and added Persuasive Writing, a class I have been interested in taking since seeing the course textbooks at the University Bookstore. Over the weekend, I had to make up for 3 missed classes. It's worth it. I love the subject matter, and I really hope it helps improve my writing style and ability to critically read documents and articles. My first paper is due Thursday; tomorrow is going to be a busy day!

Well, I need to get to bed. When Brad came home from work this afternoon, we took a 2 hour nap. We're exhausted from all the driving we did over the weekend. Tomorrow I'll respond to e-mails I received while away.