You're on Holiday!

You're done already! I just did the time conversion and realized that you won't read this at school, so welcome home to your holiday!

Yes, we definitely are losing something in translation. That's the hard part. But I did know you were joking, and I was joking back, but the sarcasm comes out wrong I think. My folks arrive around 2pm today and I will be running around getting ready for dinner with bro and family tonight, but I'll try to call today for at least a quick check-in.

I have to tell you how wonderful it is to be so laid back today. Normally I would be stressed out of my mind, cleaning like a madwoman, probably in a bad mood to boot. But I'm just fine...the bathrooms aren't cleaned yet, the kids are in the family room making a mess with the art supplies and I have to go to a dr.'s appt. in half an hour - haven't even showered yet - la di da! I love Prozac! I really believe that's what's doing it for me, I can so feel the difference.

Last night, the girls came over to test drive the Pumpkin Spice martini with me. I have to say, we couldn't taste any pumpkin. We mixed half vanilla vodka, half Bailey's, and improvised a rim dip of sugar, pumpkin spice and cinnamon. But it didn't taste like Thanksgiving in a glass, it tasted like a white Russian. Did I miss something? I'm thinking today I'm going to pick up some pumpkin Torani syrup and try adding a splash of that. I'm planning to make them tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.

Everyone's coming over here for dinner tonight but CC is making the soup. All I have to do is get a loaf of bread and make a salad (my kind of cooking!) so there's not much left to do but cleaning around here. M has a job interview at McD's today at 2:00 so I have to pick him up early from school to change. He's very excited...last night R was in here yakking away at him about how to answer interview questions and you could just see M's head spinning, like, "Dude, it's McDonald's. I'm not interviewing for the CEO." But since he thinks K&R are loaded, we pointed out to him that R didn't get to own two BMW's by being stupid, and then M started to take notes. Literally. I found this little notepad by the computer this morning and was cracking up. How funny is that?!!

I just wanted to say hi and respond to your post last night...I hope you are cozily tucked into your apartment, Dad installing the new bookshelf, anxious to get started on creating a new literary corner for yourself. I'll try to check in later on ...
Love,
A