So far the holiday weekend is going well. I decided to not wait for my friends to make time in their schedules and saw X-Men: Apocalypse by myself this morning at the first showing. Good movie, if not a bit under-developed in some areas.

I've had some car issues, so I took it up to the dealer yesterday to have them check it out. Thankfully, I got it back today. Parking in my neighborhood is too difficult with just a visitor pass, so I'm glad to have my car back so quickly.

The folks are in-town, so I am going to meet them for dinner tomorrow night. Should be fun. I think I'm going to bake something for my dad before I head out.  I have a ton of errands to run before I meet them at their hotel, so I have to really try to keep to the schedule I wrote out.

Monday, I am walking in a charity 5-K walk for disabled veterans, then I have to go to breakfast with our team (that's a new, unexpected development), then hook up with a friend of mine to celebrate her birthday.

Yikes! It's gonna be a tight schedule!

Luckily, part of the birthday celebrations for my friend includes pedicures.....which, while I don't need it, I'm defitely looking forward to it.

I hope it's not hot the next few days......

My self confidence, the little I had anyway, took a big hit yesterday. Not my confidence in my ability to do my job (that's fine), my personal self confidence. All it took was a couple of comments over lunch. I'm sure they weren't serious and it wasn't a situation where the other person was being mean on purpose. In fact, the person who made them said they were kidding, and I'm sure they were, but I was crushed. I still am.

I'm sure I will get over it, but its going to take some time. I'll pretend like nothing happened and that things are fine, but, honestly, they're not.

I woke up and a little while ago (out of the blue) and decided to check my email and happened to notice a daily email from an Australian paper that contained some big news for oldies like me.....

Midnight Oil is reforming and planning a world tour in 2017!!!!

Anyone who even remotely knows me will be aware that this is a VERY big deal.  The Oils are one of only three bands that I will 1) see on a weeknight no matter what, 2) will see at a venue that's general admission and 3) will travel to shows not in my area.

The Oils haven't toured since 2001 (Peter Garrett being in Parliament sort of broke the band up) so it's been 15 years since the last time I saw them live. No word on if there will be a new album or if they are gonna just play from the existing catalogue. They have a huge bank of music to draw from, so, no matter what. The shows are gonna be awesome.

Fuck yeah bitches, I'm excited!!!!! (And I don't get excited about much!).

It's gonna be a good day today!!!!!