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Andrea will be here tomorrow!!!! *mad tail wagging* Yay!!

In other news... *grin* I spent last night down in Chicago with Jim and Lander. We ate at Dave's Italian Kitchen again, which is good food and nicely filling. I had the angel hair with butter and garlic... Mmmm. As it got to be night, we tried to divide up the sleeping amenities. Jim got half the bed of course, since it is his bed. *grin* This left Lander and I to figure out who got the other half. We looked at each other for a while, and finally I decided I'd take the air mattress. However, as the lights went out and I lay there, I realized how much I was missing my raccoon and how much I had been looking forward to snuggling up with someone to sleep... (Don't feel bad about putting me out though, 'k Lander? I was content to leave the bed to you and Jim) Finally I rolled off the mattress and crawled over next to the bed where I squnched up against it and tried to sleep. Heh, I felt like a dog trying to sneak into his human's bed for the night. Eventually Jim notice me down there and said that I should at least turn around since my head was down at the foot of the bed. Then he draped an arm over on me and went back to sleep. *sighhhh* Once again, all these feelings mixing together in me like alchemist's powders heated in a beaker left me smiling and nearly crying at the same time... I am so grateful for my friends. Spending an evening with them was very good for me after the stressing I've been doing. I just mss my dear one so much... Not long now.

Today the only interesting thing I did was buy a futon. Up until now, I haven't had a bed for quite a while. My old one was falling apart some years ago and in the space between getting rid of it and buying a new one, the space it had occupied filled up with other stuff and I never qute got around to finding a new one. I've been sleeping on a sort of nest of pillows and blankets in a cozy little nook of my room. But, I've been wanting some cuddle space recently even if I haven't managed to have any friends over at my house yet, and since Andrea is going to be here tomorrow, I finally had an urgent enough reason to pick one up. Or buy one anyway. I'm actually picking it up tomorrow.

So after getting home from that and pciking up stuff from Office Max for my dad, I was again kind of stressed out about time and money. You'd think I'l learn to stop that, wouldn't you? *sigh* I think I rather upset my dad by being insensitive to what he needed. I feel really bad about that. But after I got home I found Andrea had called for me. After calling her back and talking for an hour or so I felt so much better... I went back downstairs and gave my dad a big hug and apologized for being unpleasent which seemed to make him feel better. He's under a lot of stress too. He's coming up on the last part of his last semester of school before he starts student teaching, and he's got a great deal of stuff on his mind. I hate to add more stress to his already full plate. Sorry about that dad. (I think he reads this now.)

Well, off to sleep. Tomorrow I get to see my sweet raccoon!! And Dave and Jim are coming by too to meet her and my parents. Yay! I told my mother we should all have a comparative religions discussion. *grin* That would be interesting... And I think that that group would actually all be open minded enough that no one would be offended! Heh...