cupcake heaven and the balloon fighting ring

......a.k.a.  the baby shower!  It was a fun day, but no name announcement.  :(  They HAVE a name, they just aren't letting anyone else know it until she's born!  Uncle Chuck (the grandpa) hopes they've taken his suggestion of Ariana.  I hope not.  Ariana across the street from me was such a brat when she was younger.  XD   Joey (the uncle) knows -- he used to hang out with her brothers in those days.  Joey is feeling better btw.  He was in the hospital Friday night and put on mega-antibiotics -- caught some kind of nasty infection.

It was so good to see Nuhi (he's another uncle!).  He's being deployed to Afghanistan.  He's known about it for a year but couldn't say anything.  I will be praying hard for him every single day.

I'm just relieved I didn't feel like crap today like I did the last couple of days.  Work was hard to get through -- and Kurt has apparently decided to place me squarely in the "friend" category.  Which is fine IF we actually do become real friends, and not just people who talk to each other at work.  I care about him.  And unless my instincts are completely useless, he cares about me too.  If we aren't actual friends -- if absolutely nothing comes of this -- that will hurt me, very much.