I'd just gotten home from work yesterday. Was trying to do several things at once - plan dinner and do a trade on Neopets and find some songs to buy with my slurpee freebies - and the phone rang.

It was Kris. "Are you still planning to go to the book club with me tonight?"

Oops. I'd completely forgotten. But yes, I still wanted to go.

Which leaves Matt doing the babysitting for two nights in a row, because tonight I'm doing some scrapbooking after work instead of going home.

Everyone tell Matt how cool he is for taking all this in stride without even being grumpy. (In appreciation, when Penny woke up at 5:45 this morning, I got up with her even though it was technically his turn. Just in case you were thinking I'm ungrateful, or taking him for granted, or living the life of ease and luxury while using him as my manslave, or something like that.)

Anyway, the book club was fun. Everyone agreed that the book was fun but not very intellectual, and no one seemed offended when I said the writing could've been better. No one drew back in horror when I confessed to being a sci-fi/fantasy geek, and they even seemed to be very interested in my suggestion for a future book (which was American Gods).

They had some fun ideas for future meetings, too. Like, reading books set in various locations and then meeting at an appropriately ethnic restaurant. Or doing a book/movie combination, so the meeting becomes a movie night. Neither of which is even vaguely original, I confess, but they still sounded like fun.

I felt a little on the outside - they were all stay-at-home moms (or work-from-home, anyway) and they all go to the same church and are very active there and obviously know each other fairly well. But they were very nice and funny and I'm looking forward to the next one.

And, as I said, I'm scrapbooking after work today. Elizabeth's now working just around the circle from me, in the same office as my dad (remind me later to tell you just how small the world is) and we thought it might be nice to get together occasionally after work and scrapbook. Maybe once or twice a month - nothing formal, just a pre-arranged time and place to work out of the reach of kids and pets and such.

Since there are several other scrappers at my office, I got permission for us to use my office's conference room after-hours, since it has a nice big table that we can spread out on, and the others can join us if they want.

So I'm all social this week.

--Liz