…until the Odyssey.

It was great to read about all of your plans for the summer a few days back. How exciting! As our trip gets closer, details are piling up. It would have really helped to not have had my financial life compromised by felons. Fools. Fie could find out where you live…But all is well, and all funds have been restored, account numbers changed, new card arriving soon, blah. It’s over, until the next time.

So we took a side trip to Greektown Casino the other day because they offered us some money and free food/hotel, and the stars in the video poker heavens aligned, sending us home with considerably more clams than we took up there. Huzzah. Some went to savings for the trip, some went into the bank for bills, and I put a little towards clothes. And what did the Thriller buy?

After the Js left yesterday morning, he went to work. Five hours later, my carpets smell like new (which is a delight indeed, since Rousseau got sick the other night…*erk*). They couldn’t look nicer if we’d paid $500 to Stanley Steemer or Rug Doctor. Awesomely awesome. (Though I won’t ask him to do the furniture, since it’s Fathers Day. Tomorrow, however, is not…)

I hope you’re all doing something fun for Fathers Day, even if it’s a long-overdue phone call.  We’re having an informal dinner tonight — kind of an open house, since our kids have other dads and dads-in-law to visit. Nice, relaxing day planned. I hope the same for you, fiends. Happy Sumday.

How’s everyone doing?

Posts will be a bit on the thin side for the next couple of days, but I still live and breathe. What happened to teachers having all this free time in the summer, hmm? Lying on a raft in the pool with a book? Not this little rodent. Too much to do…

So I know BoomR is planning a huge voyage this summer, and that Greg just returned from Alaska. Anyone else going anywhere fun? I must keep tabs on all my fiends.

Yo homie, smell ya later.

boundless bliss.

You know, there are days when you feel like this:

and others when this:

squeezes down so hard, that although you’re feeling confident trying to do this:

and maintaining a positive attitude, even when it appears you’re doing this:

it ends up feeling like this:

which reduces you to this:

Ever feel like that? Shew.

Then I look at folks who have real problems, and I say Rat Fink, Rat Fink, what a donkey.

I covet your stress reduction techniques this day. I know people use prayer and meditation, which are both powerful in a personal way, but is there an outward routine that calms the beast? Ready, steady, go.

Coffee today? 10-4.

The first V & S post since April, just because I heart you. Well, that, and because it’s 4:45 on Saturday morning: perfect time for a lovely link salad.

• Certainly, almost anything you need to know can be found on YouTube.
• As many of you know, I like (or dislike) words because of mouth feel. Many on this list are cool indeed, as are some of the comments. Heh.
• I know it’s being snarky about a serious issue, but I had to laff anyway, especially at the caption.
• For all you visual learners out there.
• ^5 to fellow werd nerds
• I never knew about this. Did you? My research reveals some skepticism as well as supporting evidence, but boy they sure look real.
• And there you have it.

Welp, it’s time for breakfast, then back upstairs to the spring cleaning project. Oh, yesterday our porch swing finally bit the dust. But no worries, we ordered one of these:

Now who’s going to come over and sit a spell? DD coffee is on the house.

…that there’s a reason people customarily have young children in their twenties and thirties?

We’ve had the Js since Tuesday night, and it’s been a blast. But the old bod is paying for it, oh my, my, my…

Back in the saddle again tomorrow!

*creeeeeeak*