Boy have I been lax in keeping this up to date the last week or so. Funny how when I start feeling better, I’m talking less. I’m still really enjoying work. Things are going well as far as I can tell. My mom, grandma and sisters were just here for a visit. The actual reason for the visit was to drop Rugrat off for her visit, but I had thought they were going to stay until the weekend. I was wrong. The original plan was for them to get here on Tuesday and (I thought) stay through the weekend. It turns out that they got in Monday evening and left this morning. So it nets out to two days in a car and two days here. While I’m trilled that I got to see everyone (especially my grandma, who hadn’t seen my house before), I have a feeling they’ll be sleeping well once they get back to Ohio.
Rugrat is installed in the third bedroom and the paperweight that passes for a computer has been put together in the office for her to use. Now the question is how long will it take for her to get bored. My neighborhood doesn’t have a pool, so she won’t have that option. We did go to K-Mart today and I picked up a Slip-N-Slide knock off for $6, water ballons and a sprinkler, so she’ll have something to play with. I almost picked up a kiddy pool, but my lawn is in poor enough shape at this point without putting out a pool and killing a perfect circle on top of everything else.
For lunch yesterday, I took everyone into work and we ate in the cafeteria. I figured they’d get a kick out of it. I’m not sure if that’s what happened. Grandma seemed thrown for a loop by everything and kept saying how big everything was. It really brought home what a different world I live in than some of the other members of my family. When she, my mom and my aunt flew to Colorado in the spring, she wished that they’d brought a man along with them. I don’t think anything of taking a trip by myself. I wouldn’t even think of a man as a necessary piece of luggage for a trip.
Poor Claire is going to get up to Ohio tonight and is to flying back to Iowa this weekend. By the time she gets back home, it’ll be time for classes to start again and she’ll wonder where her vacation went. She’s spent the last week in a remake from Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Me, I’m going to be early tonight and I’m going to sleep until I wake up. The dog and pony show has been put away for the week.