Hi! I am back!  It was awesome!

Things I learned: 1) Northern Europe looks very much like northern Ontario. (It's a latitude thing ( Read more... )

It really is. Checking in to say she's going away on vacation.  Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Why are we laughing?

Be good while I am gone.  Brush your teeth and eat all your vegetables.  Be sure to floss.  No candy from strangers.

See you round about the 23rd.

I'm back and better than ever!

It was great!  Even the part where I got tripped during the life boat drill (yes, before we'd even left port) and ended up with a super-sprained ankle!!  Go me!  I was basically in bed with my foot propped up on bags of ice for three days, but that gaveme plenty of time to read (The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell is ( Read more... )

... both literal and metaphorical.  I'm off on vacation. Two week-ish Med. cruise (because we are old people and do stuff like this.  Can Viking River cruises and adult diapers be far behind?  I doubt it.)

Behave yourselves! See you in May!

ADDENUM: IT'S SNOWING!  FFS, enough already!

I take back all** most*** a great many of the bad things I've said about you over the years.  So long as you keep Lake Louise and Banff stunningly beautiful, keep the Badlands totally bad-ass, and have lovely, sunny days with negative heat index readings  (Honest to god, it's a thing!!!) in July, I think we should be friends.  Really, really  good ( Read more... )

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooocy, I'm home!

Vacation was awesome. Cruises are awesome,  Real life?  A bit snowy for my liking, but there you go....

So what have you all been up to??

...but I am settling for a cruise instead.  (Yes, the two could overlap - it's a risk I'm willing to take).

Behave while I'm gone.  Play nice. No fighting.

See you all in March!

...only my inner ear/brain still think I'm at sea, despite two intervening airplane rides (remember when going on a plane was a fun experience?) and a harrowing drive home through an attempted blizzard. (Oh human physiology, you are a laugh riot ( Read more... )