Insomnia

AUGH! It's 1:30 am on Monday morning or Sunday night however you prefer to think of it. And, for some reason I am suffering from what I am sure is self inflicted insomnia. You'd think after my happy pill (which usually knocks me out after 15 minutes) and 2 glasses of wine - after having wine and a beer at my sister in laws house, that I would be passed out, much the same way that Rick is yet here is I am, blogging at this early/late hour.
The last few days have been a trial of mental proportion. After find out my aunt (on my fathers side) had passed away, I was torn with the decision of making the long trip to Oregon to attend the funeral or staying home. One would think this NOT a hard decision. However, after not speaking to my father in over a year and the fact that I would spend close to 20 hours in the car to attend the funeral for 3 maybe 4 hours I decided not to go. Let me say that I am NOT close to my father side of the family at all. However this aunt (and uncle for that matter) are quite possibly the only members of my patriarchal family that were ever kind to me and that ever showed me any type of love (including my paternal grandparents). It was difficult to make the decision to not go, but I feel like my aunt would understand and know that in my heart I was thinking of her.
Other than that I had a good weekend. Friday my good friend Terra came over for dinner with my beautiful baby girl Amelia (I've decided to adopt her, only her parents won't agree - so Rick and I have the honorary title of aunt and uncle). We all hung out and chatted until Amelia decided it was time for bed! Then Saturday I worked which is great for the pay check! And afterward went to Killians 2nd to last baseball game in the playoff series.
The game it's self was good! They of COURSE won and will be playing their last game Monday (if they win, they will be the champion of the Sacramento area). The kids played excellent and other than a few issues with "blue" it was a good game.
After the game we ran home, showered and beautified ourselves and went to meet our friend Becky and Greg to drive to SF to go to see 3 for all (BTW- thanks to Becky who explained to me how to link a website to a word on blogger). They were amazingly funny and we all enjoyed the show. We dined before hand at one of Rick and I's favorite restaurants Ti Couze in the Mission District. We all enjoyed a rich dinner which included the meat and cheese plate, the organic green salad and then of course a savory crepe. Greg and I opted for the special which had Fontina cheese (I LOVE CHEESE), grilled sweet red onions and a red pepper sauce and Becky and Rick both had a scallop crepe (EW!). We were all delightfully satisfied but ran out of time for desert (SCREWED!) and had to leave for the show. After the show we tried to hunt down a good place for desert. We went to Ghirardelli square in hopes of finding something. The actual Ghirardelli desert place had a HUGE line so we opted for Lori's diner (also in Ghirardelli square) - we should have waited in line. The weird smell should have been our first clue that we shouldn't stay - but of course we did. We all ordered desert. I made the mistake of thinking that the hot fudge sundae would be a safe choice. Needless to say - it wasn't. We finished our desert and left unsatisfied and ready to rid ourselves of the foul smell.
I've ended my weekend with a very surreal fathers day (which in NO way included my own father). We had a WONDERFUL family breakfast at my Aunt Billie's house - with our traditional biscuits and gravy (this is the stuff fatty thighs are made of - SO GOOD!). Then Rick and I came home and had a few hours of nap time before heading off to Sissy's house (Rick's sister - LOVE HER). We had a great dinner there with wonderful food, wine and conversation.
Now here I sit at 2am trying to go to sleep. I am hoping that any minute the exhaustion will kick in and I'll just pass out! I guess I should be lying down in case that happens. Off to bed I head! Happy Monday all!