That would be me! It seems like all of a sudden I have a gillion and one things to do and not enough time to do them. To begin with Aidan and I are going to be in a play together in August and rehearsals began this week. I took him to audition for Willy Wonka because all of his little friends were auditioning to be squirrels and Oompa Loompas and he was pretty nervous once we got there and didn’t want to go through with it. I asked him if I auditioned would he and he said yes. So guess who get’s to play Mr. Bucket, Charlie’s dad? I know you are thinking to yourself that you don’t remember Charlie having a father in the movies but this play is a little different from the movies. It’s supposed to be more family oriented and “little” kid friendly….not quite as creepy and weird as the movies. Oh yes, this is a musical too and I have to sing! What the hell am I doing….?

I’m also in the middle of a seahorse pinata for a friend’s daughter’s birthday party Friday night. Rehearsals for the play are almost every night from 6:30 - 8:30 so I come straight home grab a quick bite to eat and Aidan and I take off. When I get back I work on the pinata and then work on a website that is supposed to be done by Thursday. Thursday is JUST around the corner and guess what? Thursday is Jordan’s birthday party! We’re having her party a week early for some reason. I can’t believe my little girl is turning 16!!!! She’s been looking up cars online every day for me and Carly to look at. I guess she thinks we’re going to buy her a car or something??? I’m looking at her list right now and she has a Audi TT listed with a smiley face next to it. Ha Ha Ha…that’s funny.

Oh…I can’t forget about me and Aidan’s guitar lessons which have suffered because all this other stuff going on. We haven’t been practicing like we are supposed to. I just didn’t realize the play was going to take up so much of our time.

I did at least just make my deadline (after several very late nights) at work for getting the new hospital website done. You can check it out by clicking here. I used a really sweet open source content management system for the site called Joomla. I’ve still got some tweaking to do with formatting some content but overall I think it is a huge improvement over the old site. Web design is weird sometimes when it comes to getting work. Feast or famine. Right now it’s a feast. All of a sudden I have four sites to build with a possible fifth in the works. It’s GREAT though because right now I really need the extra dough.

I love pinatas. I love guitar. I love parties. I love that me and Aidan are going to be in a play together even though I am terribly nervous about the singing part of it. I love building websites. I just don’t love doing all of this stuff at the same time.

I know……STOP WHINING BILL!

Saturday was Emmy’s party and boy did she have a good time. We surprised her with a real kitten and she has just been beside herself with joy over it. She named her little calico Elly so now we have two little “E’s”.

The Pinata and jungle cave turned out pretty cute and the cake was AWESOME! Carly had a friend of a friend make a spectacular snake cake.

Here’s Emmy & Elly all tuckered out at the end of the day.

I posted photos from the party in the gallery here.

Here is my new steed! It is a restored 1973 Honda CB350 dressed in San Antonio Spurs silver and black! I picked her up yesterday in Rockwall which is near Dallas. It needs a little carb cleaning and a good tank cleaning but other than that she is absolutely beautiful. (Click image for larger view)

Jordan had school yesterday, Carly was scheduled to work and Aidan and Emmy were off for Memorial Day so the original plan was for me to take the little ones with me. That would have been a fun day…5 hours up there and 5 hours back with a 7 and a 3 year old. Fortunately for me Jordan got sick in the middle of the night and Carly called in to stay home with her….and kept Aidan and Emmy home too. Unfortunate for Jordan (she was feeling fine in the morning) but man was that trip easier without having Aidan and Emmy with me. They actually travel pretty well and I wasn’t too worried but without them I was able to drive straight through without making one stop.

Jamie went with me to pick up the bike and I got to visit with Gracie, Mac, Sam, Mom and Fr. Bob a little before heading home. I gave my mom the sunflower painting I did recently and she was really happy about that.

So my plan is to eventually turn this sucker into a cafe racer and the guy that sold it to me included a fiberglass cafe seat pan so hopefully it won’t be too long before I can get that painted and installed. If you aren’t familiar with cafe racers check out Carpy’s website for a good look at some brilliant examples. They are essentially vintage motorcycle hot rods…artwork to me.