Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name

Today was a fractured, frantic day which included:
• a vase-breaking incident while at Primary Presidency mtg (guilty party: one mischievous, tow-headed toddler)
• the 3rd trip to the grocery store in 3 days...forgetting onions EACH time...will I EVER finish this blasted canning of salsa???
• running hither & yon for the fetching & ferrying of kids; school pickups, guitar lessons, etc.
• helping with party cupcakes and breaking Ali's hand mixer
• almost ruining frosting for said cupcakes
• sitting with vase-breaking toddler in the car for 60 seemingly endless minutes while waiting for kids in guitar lessons
• reading Cinderella to Mimi 3 times in succession (which I admit was fun)
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• dropping into a chair at Chili's, surrounded by some of my favorite people on the planet, being served 2 Diet Cokes at once by our Best Waiter Ever Zach--whom, by the way, we set up on a blind date & successfully married off--
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• laughing our guts out for 4 hours about life's various idiosyncrasies including, but not limited to: Bert & Ernie, facebook, kids, movies, books, Disneyland, weird people in the general public, tiki torches, near-misses, Thriller, missing teeth, mutual disgust of dogs, Christmas present cleverness, the Swedish subway, Beatles Rockband and husbands.

Thanks girls.

(please note my mandatory bowl of lemons &
2 simultaneously-served Diet Cokes.)

* Not pictured: Ali & Ann, who were late.