It's been a pretty good week. We spent the weekend with Mom & Dad and despite my inability to focus on work, we got a lot accomplished. Dad, Mom, and Mike did some projects around the house, Mom & I went shopping, we all played games, watched movies, ate good food, and celebrated my birthday early and Mike's birthday late. In addition to the awesome cheesecake, we're the proud new owners of a new video camera. this one is (I kid you not) about 1/8 the size of my old one AND records to a 30 gb hard drive. I see it sitting on the table and am still in disbelief that it's not just a still camera!

I got to talk to Meg for her birthday on Monday and then briefly talked to Alaina on the phone (though she's lucky I still like her after she tried to hang up on me by making static noises and then saying I was breaking up. Little punkie!!)

Yesterday was Rick's big pitch at Criminal Minds - and this year they chose his episode! That means he'll be writing and shooting his episode this season as a member of the writer's staff!!! On top of that, he let it slide that he's an extra on tonight's show. So much good news (and he deserves every bit of it). Adam has been working as a PA on the show a lot lately - it sounds like they're enjoying working together and that he's having a good time there.

Happy Birthday to Meg and our niece Alaina (Monday) and Alysia yesterday!