I just got back from a few days on vacation in Duluth with my sister. Monday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. Cut short by a plea from my husband because, well, yeah, he was not holding it together so well at home.

Ugh. Start from the beginning.

I'd been daydreaming about a getaway to Duluth for a while, even pre-pandemic. Like, a year ago, pre- ( Read more... )

The trip started out on a demi-sour note- the night before we were crashing at my parents’ house- they live 10 min from the airport, and we needed to be at the airport by 4 AM. They were going to babysit Motoko for us- we’d had a playdate with the two cats before, and were pretty sure they were gonna be fine together. That evening they got into a ( Read more... )

We got home from Mexico late last night. Today featured a lot of Photoshop twiddling, unpacking, avoidance of laundry and cooking, Chinese take-out and a *lot* of WoW. I am in the deep-peel stage of sunburn removal ( Read more... )

I'm off of work this week, thanks be to $DEITY. So instead of being at work plowing through all the stuff dumped on me over the weekend by my more industrious engineers, I'm at home drinking coffee, petting the cat, and playing on Teh Intarwebs ( Read more... )

Sorry for the long silence; life has been getting the upper hand recently, and it's been taking all my mental RAM to just deal with crap- so blogging fell to the bottom of the priority list. It probably does not help that everything I've *had* the energy to post about is depressing. :) Dan pointed this out to me when we met up at the Muddy Pig ( Read more... )

( Friday )

Yes, Molly actually remembered to bring the friggin' camera...

Here's pictures and some minor commentary from our anniversary-celebration trip to Madeline Island, WI. I will try to post a more detailed account later.http://www.flickr.com/photos/76721706@N00

It's been psychotically busy Chez Carruthers. June is a fantastically busy month. In a two-week stretch, we celebrate eight birthdays, Father's Day, and our own anniversary ( Read more... )

The holiday weekend is shaping up to be nice, quiet, relaxing- which is exactly what I need right now. Work has been bad, and is shaping up to be much worse, so I'm trying to rest and fortify myself for the deluge to come.

( catching up )

A quick recap of last weekend...been meaning to post this for some time, but it's been crazy.

( getting away was a little hard )