home again, home again, jiggity jig
The DadFam and I arrived back in St. Louis late this afternoon. I helped unload the packed car, hung out with the tykes for a little while, hugged Jackie Joyner Kersee (OMG SHE WAS AT MY HOUSE!!!), and then took my leave. I really wanted to go home. Also, I really wanted to take a 20 minute walk/run/jog/whatever-I-felt-like-doing, and when I got home, I actually did. Sprinting felt delightful, as did walking and jogging. I'm not a distance jogger by any means, but I do love to stretch my legs, and have missed that kind of exercise. So it was fun.
After that, I showered and came down to Starbucks to do homework where there is no internet.
Except, when I arrived, I found signs on the tables: Free Wi-Fi for everyone. Now at Starbucks.
JUBILATION! And also, a possible death knell for my homework productivity, as I am even now on the internet rather than doing the homework I came to do. But they also have sandwiches here now, which gives me joy, so I am not complaining. (Really, I wasn't complaining to begin with. Internets! ^__^)
The trip was great fun, the tykes were great fun, and the DadRents and Wen and I had a good talk about nutrition at the tail end of our journey (related to my weight, but in a helpful way, not a "you're so fat now, why won't you lose weight instead of being a failure at life" kind of way). That talk, along with Gretchin Rubin's father in The Happiness Project, were what inspired my 20 minute ramble outside.
I read a bunch of books to the tykes--some short, a few long, and only three of which I will count (well, 3.5, since we didn't finish The Wizard of Oz before the trip ended). Being around the tykes reminds me how much I love them, and my sibs at large. They are wonderful, wonderful people. (Just ask nosferatu_blue. ^_~)
But--homework now, so more about the trip will have to wait. Also, catching up on LJ--I'm nearly a week behind!
After that, I showered and came down to Starbucks to do homework where there is no internet.
Except, when I arrived, I found signs on the tables: Free Wi-Fi for everyone. Now at Starbucks.
JUBILATION! And also, a possible death knell for my homework productivity, as I am even now on the internet rather than doing the homework I came to do. But they also have sandwiches here now, which gives me joy, so I am not complaining. (Really, I wasn't complaining to begin with. Internets! ^__^)
The trip was great fun, the tykes were great fun, and the DadRents and Wen and I had a good talk about nutrition at the tail end of our journey (related to my weight, but in a helpful way, not a "you're so fat now, why won't you lose weight instead of being a failure at life" kind of way). That talk, along with Gretchin Rubin's father in The Happiness Project, were what inspired my 20 minute ramble outside.
I read a bunch of books to the tykes--some short, a few long, and only three of which I will count (well, 3.5, since we didn't finish The Wizard of Oz before the trip ended). Being around the tykes reminds me how much I love them, and my sibs at large. They are wonderful, wonderful people. (Just ask nosferatu_blue. ^_~)
But--homework now, so more about the trip will have to wait. Also, catching up on LJ--I'm nearly a week behind!