I have the medi head.  I am so full of cold meds, I could stick a fork in my leg and not feel a thing.  In fact, I may have.  Who knows.  So thank you, whoever gave Mark his vacation cold.  I have it.  Are you HAPPY NOW?

Also, you may notice I chose the "exanimate" froggy which looks remarkably like the sleepy froggy as well as a few others.  I ( Read more... )

I have been home just over 24 hours and I've already managed to put Law and Order: SVU on my TiVo season pass AND I've watched three episodes. It's currently recording a 4th. ACK! I mean really, ACK! This is my brain turning to mush...

My bug bites still itch.

Had a great time.

Let's start planning the next one.

Why am I not packing?  Perhaps the packing fairy will come take care of this for me.  Maybe I can just call and order one up, like a cab.  That's another thing I need to do - secure a cab for the a.m.  Is anyone writing this down?

Yeah, I said it. It's not looking good for vaca, kids. And I can't even get a good whine out of it, knowing that it's just my vacation and not (thank God) my actual like home. Sucks all around. Worst case for us, we sit home and fake like we're on vacation. That's not so bad when compared with say, evacuating ( Read more... )

So houseguest has gone home and my thoughts naturally turn to the Next Big Event: vacation ( Read more... )

The view from the top was excellent, btw. And there was an actual cool breeze. COOL! Like, a little nippy even. I'm going to take this as a sign that I can start wearing my fall clothes. I don't think that would be premature.

Ok, so today we did a tourist thing - we went to the Empire State Building.  I would just like to say upfront that this was Aaron's idea and I will hold this over him for the rest of his life.  Anyway, here is what happens when you go to the Empire State Building:

First, you scoot right in and they send you downstairs to this seedy little cattle ( Read more... )

We picked Aaron up last nigh. Had crazy cab driver who always asks about Mom. He was very disappointed when we picked up Aaron. He quickly recovered and told us about five hundred stories that started with, "When I'm sixteen, and I was so wasted..." Of course, I could not even begin to guess how old he is NOW but he was listening to ACDC, which ( Read more... )