Sunday afternoon nap

In an unsuccessful attempt to take a family nap, Naked Rebecca enjoyed playing around with Daddy's glasses, watch, and everything else she could find. I gave up on the nap concept myself, but now R&R are sleeping soundly in our room.



It has been a nice long weekend for us. Friday was Ramy's 9/80 day, so he was off. I actually had to go in to Casa Colina for about an hour on Friday morning, because I needed to talk to my supervisor at the TLC about how she does reports, because she is going to be out of town the next three weeks and I'll be flying solo. Then I met Ramy and Rebecca at Ramy's dad's nursing home. They were celebrating the start of the Olympics and having a party, so Rebecca got a balloon. Then she and I went to Gymboree, where Rebecca was the only little girl in attendance. It's so funny to see her in comparison to the boys, because they are all so much bigger than she is (not to mention rowdier). She had a blast as usual. She took a nap for us on the way home but not any longer, so we went to lunch at Islands. Friday night, we watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics and I took apart the fabric softener dispenser in the washing machine to see why it wasn't emptying properly (it was clogged with guck).

Yesterday morning, I got up to find a message of doom on the computer saying that the hard drive was about to crash. So I spent most of the day backing up the computer, buying an external hard drive, getting it set up, and trying to figure out what is wrong with the computer. I ran ScanDisk and it found no bad sectors. I uploaded the diagnostics stuff to Dell, and it says the computer is working fine. And indeed it does seem to be running normally. And yet, there's a flashing light on the screen telling me that it may bite it at any minute. Hopefully not since we've only had this computer for a year. Rebecca took a very nice long nap for us yesterday, which was delightful. Ramy took Sydney and Paddy to be groomed. In the afternoon, we took the truck to Pasadena to Maddie and Paul's house. Maddie needed an armoire moved to her sister's house, and we're the only people with a truck. So Ramy, Vincent, and Paul made like cute little Asian moving men and accomplished the deed, while Maddie and I played with the girls. Then we all went out for Mexican food.

So it's mostly been a weekend of home maintenance projects for us, but it's been so hot that we've been happy to stay indoors.