Yesterday was quite nice, though it raaaaaiiiiined so much and so hard. Not only was our sidewalk a creek and a pond on our street... later in the afternoon we drive by a house further down the road, the tiny creek I'd barely noticed even being there had flooded a ridiculous amount, and the car in someone's driveway had water up to its undercarriage. O_o;; Crazy.

Mom and Steve came by around noon, we went out to Applebee's for lunch (pecan-crusted chicken salad, mmm <333), then out shopping awhile. We nosed around Tuscany's, a smaller more specialized little grocery store I guess, with a small nursery attached - andand!!! Mom found GHIARDELLI HOT CHOCOLATE MIX OMFG. *dies* Wish I'd remembered to make some last night, it was chilly enough.. Went to WalMart for awhile, picked up some things, including a broom whose bristles are *not* bent into an l-shape *giggles* and a dustpan! Which is far more exciting for me than it should be. Got some fgroceries and also a few clothes, another pair of nice pants and a skirt, a few shirts, one that ACTUALLY matches my other new pants, and! the cutest thing! A little cream-colored tshirt with the "Magical Mystery Tour" logo on it! And so cute, and done and fit just right, and will match the skirt I got at Fashion Bug pretty awesomely. So happy. They'd also brought along Mom's small grill for us (yay!) and some flower pots and things for me, also exciting. But it was a really nice afternoon, catching up and talking and visiting and things. :)

They left around five or six I think, and then Tom and I waited for his father to arrive - one of Tom's uncles died this past week, he'd been in poor health for awhile so it wasn't a surprise, nor were they particularly close, but still. The funeral's in Ohio, so Tom's dad picked him up along the way. I think it was around 7 or 8 that he got here, the rain slowed everyone down yesterday. We'd waited to get dinner until he got here, so we went out to Wing City, as both Tom and his father are pretty big on wings, and there's like 20 different flavors there, hee. So we got some wings to split, and we all got burgers, but the burgers were huuuuuuuge and NONE of us finished ours. *giggles* Insaaanely good burgers though. Came back here, and Tom gave his dad an overview of Linux, whihc he's thinking about switching to, and showed him some other interesting programs he recently found; all evening we'd been discussing net neutrality and all sorts of geektastic things, hee. I eventually came down here awhile, to give them some time to catch up and things.

We all got up about 7 this morning, they left about twenty after, and I personally went back to bed. *giggles* I'd tried valiently to sleep in yesterday but couldn't sleep past 8, I'd gotten so used to getting up then for work. >_<; It's awfully quiet around here without Tom, but I've a million and a half things to do today, and I can have my music on as much as I want, heh. ;) It's really pretty outside now though, whihc is probably not a good thing, as I'll want to be out there rather than in here.. but, maybe I'll just re-pot my fern before getting to computer-based work. <3