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Have been essentially offline for 3 weeks, busy with family visits and work and recurring bouts of "life". In no particular order, and far from comprehensive, I've been busy with:
- Brother and kids were in town for 11 days, but brother got sick and kids flew home on schedule and he stayed for another week
- Thankfully I didn't get sick!
- We all had tons of fun, but I got VERY exhausted. (Sleeping on the airbed on mom's sewing room floor much of that time didn't help so much)
- Picking peaches and blackberries with the kids was a hoot, and the resulting cobblers were DELISH!
- Gathering tiered skirts for the girls! (especially the 9-year-old) (the lowest level of one was well over 6 YARDS around. She LOVED it!)
- Work-work-work-work-work-work (which on it's worst days INFINITELY beats working with a shovel or sledgehammer!)
- Twisted my right knee pretty badly. Hurts. Limping.
- Disastered-apartment, hard work to un-disaster
- AC out most of this week (thankfully not too hot during the day and gorgeously cool at night, so not a hardship)
- The UBER-BESTEST-EVER-OMG-SWOOOOON! mac & cheese at a restaurant we discovered yesterday not far from the office. "Sublime" doesn't even come CLOSE to how good this was! I'm told there's another location of this restaurant very, VERY near my house! (Hey M&M, if you read this, perhaps we can meet for lunch in a week or two and check it out?!?! An alternative to St. Raymonds...)
- In about 3 weeks I begin a study group, studying Java, with the goal of being certified by the New Year. This is through work and isn't optional. One of my coworkers is almost through his round of the program and has been putting in 20 or so hours studying weekly, over and above the 50-hours or so he's been working. I forsee a LOT of work in my future, and not so much free-time this fall.
- Had hoped to be at Bristol this weekend, but work and my knee and my exhaustion are all conspiring to keep me home. New plan is for next weekend and closing weekend. I really, REALLY hope I manage that plan!
- There are so many thoughts and ponderings and just STUFF inside my head that I think I want to post about, and I never seem to find the time or the inclination (see above re: mostly offline for 3 weeks) I never did post about opening day at Bristol or Circus Parade. And if I sit down and write out my feelings about a "seemed-rude-to-me-but-may-have-been-in-jest" comment that was made to me on the topic of working on Sunday I might figure out something about myself. I could easily do an entire post just about the mac&cheese and the food-gasm yesterday. I smiled for HOURS after lunch!
- I wish I knew why I wasn't sleeping so well. Hot or cold but not comfy, tossing and turning, sometimes the knee really aches, sometimes the kitties wake me up (loving on me, or snuggling too well), the occasional series of ODD dreams (that I mostly don't remember) Sleep is GOOD and I've not had nearly enough lately.
- More, but running out of time....