Now Look...

at what's in my yard.

We were eating pizza and Rob saw it on the pool cover.  It was trying to dig through the pool cover, stupid thing.  I scared it before I thought "hey, might wanna take a picture of that" so it was using stealthy tricks to get away.  Did you know they could climb trees?

So I realize the picture is small.  Yeah...that's a raccoon.  It was huge. 

And update on Little Bit.  He got into a recycling bucket and we didn't know and he couldn't get out, so he's dead.  But at least I didn't kill it so I don't have to feel bad about it! 

I Am in a Mood

Something has got me in a mood today. I am really wound up. I think it's the contents of my inbox. I just read certain things and it's just like, you cannot be serious! Are some people really that stupid? Or just delusional? I don't know. Anyway, if anyone gets on the wrong side of me today they are going to get the rant that I am holding back!

Yesterday, someone (whose name I am not revealing because of the crazy involved) sent me an email that Cara has pictures of the kids on her myspace page under the heading "my older kids". Yeah, you don't HAVE older kids. You gave birth to them, neglected them for a few years and then gave them away. Now, I don't think she reads this, but if she does, good, she can see this. I wasn't mad or anything, more annoyed than anything else. I told Alyssa and she said, and I quote, "Oh my god! Freak much? We're not her kids!" Those were Alyssa's words. She wanted to see what pictures she had up. We showed her, she said "I don't even remember some of those pictures. Ew!" Brandon's response was "WHAT!? That's creepy." So, even the kids are not thrilled with this.

So I sent her an email telling her that I did not appreciate it very much. The kids thought it was weird and I was no longer going to keep in contact with her or send her pictures since this is what she is doing. She responds basically by saying that I need to accept that they are her kids. No sweetie, you need to accept that they are my kids. She said something about them making a decision when they are adults. Um, do you seriously think they are going to come back to you as adults? Yes, I think they will want to see her and talk to her. But I know they are not going to decide I am not their mother and she is.

She is under the delusion that we are providing for them materially but she is their mother. Right. That's what it is. They just live in our house and we give them stuff but they are sitting there pining away for their "real" mother. Brandon has some issues as far as that, but Alyssa does not consider her a mother at all. Or if she does she is really, really good at lying about it. Aly thinks she's crazy.

She thinks she did me some favor and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't even have kids! I don't have my own kids because of her. Two emotionally traumatized children was all I could handle so I chose not to have any of my own!

I know Kate will tell me not to respond. I just don't know if I can do that. Sometimes you jsut have to tell people when they are just really insane!

I am bored out of my mind!!!

I am home all by myself.  Someone is supposed to be delivering my new refrigerator and here I sit.  They were supposed to come between 11:30 and 3.  They will call 1/2 hour before they come.  It is now 4:38 and I have not heard from them.  So I guess this means I will be sitting here until after 5.  I was supposed to go out to dinner with my mom, Aly, Ellen and Andrew.  Since we can't make plans, now everyone is coming here for pizza.  Which is fine, but means I won't get out of the house today.  My mom called and said they would just come here and I said come now, I am bored to death!  I guess I should clean up so we can eat at my table. 

I have not had a good week. I could rant forever.  So I'll clean up before my mom and sister-in-law, who have spotless houses, get here. 

I'm Bored

So we have to do Bingo for Brandon's school, which blows, and Rob is at Bingo and I am bored out of my mind.  It's funny because not that long ago I was happy to be alone when he went to Bingo, but now I don't like it.  It's a new experience for me to actually like being married and want to spend time with my husband. 

Anyway, what's going on around here...On Monday Rob wakes me up with "I need to talk to you about something".  Those who read this who know 'everything' will obviously understand that this is not a good thing to hear.  He then tells me that the refrigerator leaked, the kitchen floor is wet, part of the basement ceiling fell down, the carpet down there is wet.  Argh.  This is ok though considering what I thought it could be about! The insurance company came Thursday then sent some clean up people.  They tore the carpet out of the basement and ripped up part of my kitchen floor.  Some appliance people are coming Thursday because the insurance company doesn't want anything fixed until we know what happened.  So that's fun.  

I put in for a transfer to a middle school for next year.  However, they are talking about cutting two librarians at the high school so one of them may get that job.  We'll see.  I am still hoping.  I have been around longer than they have and if they didn't put in for it, it may be their tough luck when one of them gets stuck with my job.  I am hoping that the transfers get processed before cuts are finalized.  

That's really it I guess.  Nothing exciting.  Like I said...I'm bored. 

My Godson Joshua

Hey all...my sister-in-law sent me this link. My nephew/godson, Joshua, is in this video that his kindergarten class made. He is the blonde in the blue shirt and silver sequined vest. It's about 2 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIzoYC4X7T4

And He's the "Smart One"

So this morning I am about to get in the shower, I tell Brandon to go eat something.  It was almost 11 so I thought he should eat before he got all involved with his games.  He says he's going to have some oatmeal.  No problem, he has made oatmeal before, you boil water in the microwave, no big deal.  I get in the shower. 

When I get out of the shower I spray the shower spray and at first I just smell that, then I smell something that is sort of sickening sweet.  I don't think a lot about it because I have a cold and stuff has smelled weird to me the past few days.  I figured it was just the spray, soap, my lotions, whatever, all mixed up.  I finished getting dressed, drying my hair, etc.  When I go into the hall, there is Brandon sitting at the bottom of the stairs, head in hands.  So I ask "what's wrong?"

"I thought that we boiled water on the stove and I melted a plastic cup."  I have a ceramic stove top in case you don't know that.  So, because I don't want to freak out right then and there, my response to this is "go sort your laundry".  Which he does without argument, so I know it's gonna be bad. 

For some reason, Brandon took a large, four cup, plastic measuring cup (you only need 1/2 cup of water for oatmeal) put it on top of the stove and turned it on, no doubt on high.  I don't think I need to tell anyone how that turned out.  I just look at it and think 'oh my god'.  The fumes are absolutely toxic so I open a window and turn on the vent, yeah, it's all of 25 degrees outside.  I tell Rob what happened so he leaves work to come home and try to clean it up.  

When I am sure I am beyond the point where I will scream I ask Aly what happened.  Her story went like this:  I was sleeping, Sheila texted me that I left my charger there and I was just getting ready to go write you a note that I was going to get it and Brandon came running up the steps saying 'I need you to help me'.  I could smell something gross.  He said he put a plastic cup on the stove and I thought he meant like, just a little cup, but no, I didn't think he was so stupid as to try to cook something on the stove in a plastic cup.  And he left it sitting there while he came and got me.  I mean, at least take it off the stove.  And he's supposed to be the smart one.  

I thanked her for moving it off the stove completely instead of setting it somewhere else on the stove where the melted part would just fuse to another part of the stove.  She even set it on a paper towel first so that it didn't get anything on the counter.  She does have some common sense.  

Rob spent about an hour and a half and it mostly came off, however, there is still some that is like below the surface so now we are going to have to look into either replacing the top or the whole stove.  Fun.  Because I feel like buying a new stove.  In case you are curious as to what it looks like when you melt a plastic measuring cup onto a ceramic stove top, I took some pictures.

Little Bit

Last week I went into the garage to take out some recycling and sitting on the edge of one of the buckets was a mouse.  I slammed the door and came back inside.  We always have mice in the garage in the winter.  We have never seen them, in the Spring, we see the messes they leave behind.  A few months ago I had a mouse in my car but that's another story.  So Rob had been saying he wants a pet mouse, I say no and we have a cat.  So I see this mouse and go onto chat and tell him that I am going to put Kitty in the garage.  He says "Noooo".  I would not do that and he knows it, but that's beside the point.  

Last night I go out to put some recycling in the bucket, and in the bucket, jumping up, over and over is the mouse.  It is stuck in the bucket.  I scream and go back in the house.  Of course, Rob wants to know why I am screaming so I tell him, "your new pet is in the recycling bucket".  Rob proceeds to give the mouse a pair of socks and a cracker.  I reminded him later that the mouse will need water.  In the morning he gave the mouse a lid full of water.  I heard from Brandon that it was peeking out from under the socks.  I did not see it in the morning, although I looked in the bucket.  I guess it was hiding in the socks.  I told Rob last night we had to release the mouse, we cannot keep a wild creature, and it was agreed that we would release the mouse when everyone was home and could watch.

When we got home I looked in the bucket and did not see the mouse.  I poked around with the long reach thing that Rob's mom gave us for some odd reason.  The only other person I know with one of those things is my grandmother and she is 84.  But I digress.  I did not see the mouse.  Alyssa tells me it's in the sock, she saw it when she came home.  Then she asks if she can call Sheila over to see the mouse.  I said DO NOT TRY TO TOUCH THE MOUSE, several times.  

After the girls looked at the mouse and I got done sorting out why Sheila and Brandon were shouting at each other, Alyssa informs me that she tried to move the sock because they couldn't see the mouse and the mouse ran up her arm, jumped off and ran away.  So we were not pleased with her because everyone was supposed to be a part of releasing the mouse; and that was supposed to happen outside...but now the mouse is still in the garage.  She lost her phone and computer privileges for the evening because when we say "don't do _____"  she does it.  

I have no doubt that the mouse, who Rob named Little Bit, will manage to get itself stuck back in the bucket in no time at all, especially since the cracker is still in there. 

Oh yeah...here it is.  Cute isn't it?

Happy New Year!

Just a note to say Happy New Year to the three of you who read this.  Rob and I went to a bar/restaurant right in Williamstown for New Year's Eve.  They had dinner, dancing and two hours of open bar included in the price which was $55.  That was pretty good as far as we could tell.  Most of the things we saw were over $100.   We had a good time until at midnight we went to the dance floor for the countdown and stuff.  Shortly afterward we were heading back to the table and someone stepped on my foot.  Spiked heel right on two of my toes, slid down between them so I have broken skin and a lovely bruise.  Plus it hurts a lot.  We put ice on it at the table.  I was crying, in public, so you know it hurt a LOT.  Here are a couple of photos...

Snow Ball 2007

Suzy is here so of course we had to get together and see her. Sorry we missed you Becca. Here are some photos from the evening. First we had dinner at Marrakesh. Kim met me at my house and drove up with us, she was only 10 minutes late! Go Kim! Very exciting. Suzy's sister Lisa and her husband Tom brought Suzy and John so there were 9 of us at dinner. It was a lot of fun. When the belly dancer came by we told her it was Lisa's birthday so she had to get up for the lesson. Here is a picture of that.

Pic of Suzy, John and I. Suzy is wearing her napkin/towel as a bib so she doesn't get her white top messy.

Then we went to a club that just so happened to have an 80s night when Suzy was here. It was way crowded which I was totally not expecting. The first place we tried to find to dance there was no room, so I dragged Suzy up onto the stage for a song. Beth told us later that we pissed off some scary girl and she was glaring at us for the whole song. It was "boys Don't Cry" by the Cure for anyone who wants to know. If I had known that she thought she owned that stage, I think we would have stayed up there!!



Several minutes after that Beth said "Hey, it's Kristen"! So we went over to hang out with her. Apparently she goes to this 80s night every month with some friends. Everyone cancelled so she was there with her husband. As soon as we came over he said hello to everyone then he said "Good, you have friends here now so I'm leaving" and he did! But here she is...looks the same as ever.

Now, for all of you who read this, (ok, Becca and Heather) I have to share this story...Beth and I have had conversations, me teasing and saying that my friends here are lame and won't go out dancing and I have to go to Florida to go out dancing with Stacy and Cynthia and Beth says "Yeah, that's not my thing". However, she is a big fat liar and had as good a time as Suzy and I and here is the proof! And I know you will hate this picture Beth, but who looks here except the four of us??

Oh! I forgot to mention, check out what Lisa is wearing.  She was planning on going home after dinner and skipping the club because she was not feeling well the night before.  However, she was feeling much better and  we were having a great time so she wanted to go to the club but she was wearing work clothes.  So Suzy says "Let's go to the stripper store" we were on South Street after all.  So we did and Lisa got that corset to wear. And then announced "man, that's a lot of tits I have"!  LOL!  She looks really good and consider that she is the first of us to be 40! 

 We are hoping that Heather is out of the boot by February so that we can go back for the Mute Records anniversary party. A celebration of Depeche Mode and Erasure so there is some incentive for you! As if you can do anything about it. Finally, here are a couple of random pictures. If you want to see any more there are some on my MySpace page and Suzy's. Becca, you can't look at mine because only 'friends' can see my pictures. I have to have it that way because of my job.

Life Lessons

So here is the story of what happened yesterday. Aly wanted some boy named Cody to come over on Saturday. I said no because we had to go to my grandmother's funeral. She wanted him to come over later in the evening but he needed a ride home and I did not feel like doing that so the answer was still no. I was feeling generous and was was going to tell her that he could come over Sunday because she got a bum deal the rest of the weekend. She has to stay home with her brother on Fridays and then Saturday she had to go to a funeral. So we are eating breakfast at noon (teehee) on Sunday and this kid just shows up. Rob was mad and wanted to send him home but I was going to let her invite him over so I said let him stay and we will discuss this with her later. The end result of that was she never told him that we said it was ok for him to come over.

So he comes in, Aly is not even dressed. He introduces himself, obviously, I sent Aly to gt dressed, and I had Brandon show him where the PlayStation was. When Aly came down I asked her who brought him, she said his dad, and then I asked if his dad smokes or if it is him that smokes. She tells me she asked him and he said he does not smoke, so she guesses his dad.

She calls Sheila to come over, then they all went to Sheila's to decorate the Christmas tree. When they came back, Rob and I were cleaning the garage. Rob went in the house for something, came out and told me "teen drama unfolding". A few minutes later, Aly, Shelby and Sheila come into the garage and Aly is crying. I ask her what's wrong. She's upset because he lied. He does smoke. She doesn't understand why he lied about it. I said, "What have I told you? This is your lesson for the day, I know what I am talking about, BOYS LIE."

After we took him home I asked her if she asked him why he lied. He said because he knew that both she and Sheila didn't like it and he thought they wouldn't like him if they knew. (So why he went out and smoked when he was at Sheila's-no idea, whatever.) But anyway, that just proves my point that boys will say whatever if they think it will get them what they want. Is it wrong to teach my daughter that? I think not!

Today she came home and told me that "everyone" at school said Cody is also on drugs. So I think we're done with Cody. He seemed like a nice enough kid and didn't look like he was on drugs, but who knows.

Are You Kidding Me

What is with this weather?! Of course, I have wonderful bus duty starting tomorrow. Supposed to be freezing and wet. Just one more reason to hate my job.

It's That Time Again

These photos represent ONE HOUR of raking. So I guess I could also title this one million reasons to live in an apartment. This is only from the driveway and along the very front of the yard. Notice that in the last picture, taken up close to the house, behind those trees in the front, leaves are still a foot deep on the ground.

On another note, if you look through my old posts you can find last year's leaf pictures and compare the house. We got a new roof, new front door and had the siding capped in a non-ugly color.

So, now I am off to continue working on the kitchen. One day that may actually be finished.

Aly's Jeans

We have had this issue with Aly coming home with her jeans and arms written all over. I spoke to her a few weeks ago about the jeans and told her there was not to be any more jeans written on. I have never bothered to read what is on her jeans, stupid teenager crap I figure.

So last Friday she apparently wore a pair of these jeans with writing all over them to school. When I said goodbye to her I didn't notice. I generally check her top because she's usually try to wear something low cut or sheer, if she's wearing a skirt, I look at it, but she wasn't so...whatever. So around noon I get a call from the vice principal that there are "inappropriate things" written on her jeans. I told him we had already spoken about the writing on the jeans and asked what it said. So he told her she could read exactly what it said on her pants to me. He had her on speakerphone. So in a very shaky voice, because she knew she was in big trouble, she reads "I sucked Jessie's enormous dick". Lovely. Jess is a girl btw and apparently she is the one who wrote this.

So I told him we could not go get her because of where we work, he said she had to sit in the office for the rest of the day and if it happened again she would be sent home. I am fairly certain it won't happen again! She was bored out of her mind sitting in the office for 2 1/2 hours and she was bored out of her mind sitting home all weekend with no phone or computer. She had lunch detention Monday and was told that if it happens again she will lose the Hershey Park trip in the Spring.

So that's the story of Aly's jeans.

Bleh

I am not sure what is going on with me. All the sudden last night I started feeling really sad and all that nonsense. No reason at all. I am not sure if it is because of the cold weather, if I was tired or if it has reached the point in the year where my job starts getting to me. Of course, it could be all of those things.

I was thinking that I would stay at my job for a few more years, definitely next year while Brandon will still be in middle school, but then I was contemplating staying until he is out of high school because Rob and I are talking about moving out of this big house when both kids are out of high school. We have discussed moving into the city where we don't have to have two cars, can get a smaller place and not have to deal with yardwork and then I can either not work or just do something that I enjoy and don't necessarily require that income to eat. But after a few months I reach the point where I can't imagine coming into work for one more day, let alone six more years. I have also reached the point in the pay scale where I will be making a decent amount of money, especially since I really do only work half as many days as most people. I still think it's a harder job than most people have, but I do have off half the year with the holidays and summers.

So anyway, I am just doing chores and junk like that today. Things I have been blowing off for weeks. Which could also be what is wrong with me. There is so much to do around here that we really can't just blow off entire weekends and that is what we have been doing. We painted the kitchen and since then have done nothing. It would probably take one day to finish the kitchen completely, but we have just done nothing for the past three weekends.

This weekend we didn't even do date night. I think that was a bad idea. Things were going really well, Friday I was just really tired and didn't want to do anything but stay in and sleep. So we watched a movie together and then went to sleep. Then Saturday we slept late and went to my dad's for dinner. Rob had a bad allergic reaction to the new cats so he was tired when we came home. We were supposde to watch a movie but he fell asleep so I watched it by myself. After that was when I started feeling really down. So I think it was the combination of everything, and I was pretty tired too. I think I can deal with work this week since it is only 2 1/2 days, but the week after that could be another story. And once we come back from Christmas, I am really going to have problems dragging myself out of bed every day.

I guess I will go back to the original plan which was to research what else I can do with the education I have that will allow me to make at least what I am making now (which is not public libraries) and that I may actually like. Back to chores. Bleh.

Better Late than Never

or, as my pledge class motto, better late than pregnant. Either way...

Last Thursday Rob and I went to see Duran Duran on Broadway. I would have liked to go with my usual Duran friends but they had other stuff going on and it just wasn't going to work out. Beth pretty much summed it up in her email to everyone, just when you think you are going to see them because you *have* to, they go and put on a fantastic show. I am not really crazy about the new album but I like it better live. I have noticed recently that I like most music better live-Morrissey for example.

But anyway, the new music was first, then an electro-set or something like that. I was espcially excited by that because tey did some different songs. Last Chance on the Stairway and some stuff from Big Thing, which is my favorite album. Then of course were the obligatory top tens-minus Hungry Like the Wolf, which is always a plus. Rob and I had a good time and I am glad that I decided to go.

I am not however, glad that we drove. We sat in traffic for two hours. We went a half mile in that amount of time. It was a nightmare. I have also decided that being trapped gives me panic attacks. I have them once in a while and I had one after being stuck in that one spot for all that time and then having to go through the tunnel. The whole problem was that there was only one lane going into the tunnel. But once we got out of there I noticed that I was especially wound and on edge. Fun.

Nothing much else is going on. Things are going well here. I went to the NJ Assoc. of School Librarian conference yesterday and today. My assistant and I stayed overnight. Nothing exciting. I thought it was interesting that there was a hot tub there and she and I seemed to be the only people who took advantage of that. Bunch of fuddy-duddys! Whatever, we didn't have to deal with anyone else that way-so it was better anyhow. Neither of us really likes people.

Rob and I are trying to decide what to do for date night this week. One of the choices is dinner and a movie. We decided that even though the counselor said that movies don't count, we have been talking and spending a lot of time together so if we want to go to a movie, we will! We'll see. I am going to go hang with Rob for a while now since I wasn't home last night.

Date Night

Rob and I have been going out on date night on Fridays. We started a few weeks ago. It's good that we have kids who are now old enough that we can say "see ya" and just leave them home. So far we have gone to the Mutter Museum and to dinner one week, the next week we went to a concert, She Wants Revenge, on Thursday and then saw Rocky Horror on Friday-but according to the therapist, movies don't count. I had never seen it and it was playing at the IMax for Halloween. This past week we went on a ghost tour in Philly. It was ok but we went on one in Charleston before and that one was much better. I am in charge of planning this coming week. Thursday we are going to see Duran Duran on Broadway. I am also planning dinner on Friday because I am not sure the DD concert counts. Although it is something different than what we usually do. But since movies don't count because you can't talk and whatnot, I am not sure if concerts count either. Although we will have a long car ride where we can talk.

So that is really all that is going on here. My sister-in-law and mother-in-law are drving us crazy worrying about Alyssa's MySpace page. It would be nice if everyone would just let me parent my own kids. I don't bother them about their kids! Everyone can decide how to raise their own!

About the Weather

It really needs to decide what it wants to do. This constant change just gives me headaches. Today I stayed home from work because I woke up with one of thse sinus headaches where I was sure my left eye was going to just shoot right out of my skull. Not that I don't love staying home from work as we all know. I am really tired though. I got up at 9 because I think half my problem on Monday morning is sleeping too late on weekends. So I better sleep tonight!

I am really tired of the mood swings too. One minute I am fine and the next I want to cry. I don't get it. Sometimes I know what the problem is, others it's just there, for no reason at all. I wonder if other people feel like this too. I guess I should go deal with Brandon and his homework. Maybe that's why I want to jump off a cliff.

Cape May

So if you have a MAC and you want to put pictures in here, you have to save them to your desktop. Just an FYI.

The weekend of October 5 Rob and I went to Cape May for the weekend. This was to spend some time together after the 'incident' that happened over the summer that most of you who actually read this know about. It was a very nice weekend. The weather was amazing for October. When I was packing I took a bathing suit and said "I will take this because if I don't I will wish I had" fully expecting that I would not use it. I used it-I should have taken two.

We went down there on Friday night. Lisa stayed at home with my kids. Friday night we went and played skee-ball and then walked back to the b&b on the beach. It was a little chilly but we had hot chocolate so it was not too bad. Here is a picture of where we stayed. The room we stayed in had a cool shower with a whole bunch of shower heads. It faced the beach and I could hear the ocean at night.



Saturday we walked around the shopping area. It's a good time to go because everything is on clearance since they are closing up for the season. Around 4 we went back to the b&b and had afternoon refreshments, then we put on bathing suits and went and laid on the beach for almost two hours. It was 88 degrees in October! Crazy!

Sunday we went to the beach much earlier in the day. It was so beautiful out and I figured I definitely won't be going to the beach again until next summer at this point so we may as well hang out there all day. We walked for a while and saw dolphins. You can't so them so great but it's kind of hard to get a picture.







It's a really cool time of year to go because there are tons of migrating birds also. I have no idea what kind of birds these are but there went loads of them.














A dorky picture or Rob and I that we took ourselves.










There were also tons of people actually successfuly surfing. I have never seen that in New Jersey. I guess the water was a lot rougher than when we are usually at the beach. But it was New Jersey in October-not when you usually go to the beach.










This is just a cool picture I took. I had to make a whole bunch of attempts so it has to be on here.




We wound up hanging out at the beach basically all day on Sunday. Since it's not summer anymore, it never occured to me that we should have sunscreen. We were both a little burned. I was pretty tan this summer (for me anyway) so I wasn't too bad and it now I am ust tan. Rob's face peeled though.

Finally, it is also butterfly migration time. This I knew because it is a big deal at my school. The Kindergarten kids have a parade where they dress us and march around the building singing "gotta go to Mexico". I did not know that the butterflies make a stop in Cape May. There were loads of Monarchs everywhere. Rob was making fun of me for trying to take pictures of them. But I got some good ones and he admitted later that it was pretty cool.




Monday after we checked out we took another walk on the beach before we headed home. There were no boats in the water so there were even more dolphins than there were on Sunday, they were closer and playing a lot more, jumping up out of the water. Of course, I didn't haev my camera.

I think this post is long enough. I will try to be a little better about my updates!

Confusion

I am trying to learn how to put in pictures from iPhoto so I can update this from my weekend. For some reason it is not as easy as one would think it should be. All this "i" stuff is quite difficult if you ask me! So when I get it figured out, if I still feel like writing about it, I will!

Oops I did it again

Haha...I am not so good at keeping this updated. I had a ton of stuff I was thinking about that I needed to put in here but now I forget what it was. I had a really bad day. Don't want to talk about it though. I'll start with the most recent. Saturday I went to DC to go to the National Book Festival. I went to Becca's first and she and I and Sammi took the Metro in. We had a picnic lunch on the mall. The lunch was quite gross but the company was good. Becca took a picture of Sammi and I that is really cute...



Hmmm...this is showing up as code but when I preview the picture is there, so we'll see.

The book festival was not all that exciting but the weather was beautiful and as I said, the company was good. We went to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The ride back on the Metro was pretty much a nightmare. It was packed. I thought there was no way more people could get on but at every stop, somehow more people squeezed in. It was crazy.

What else...off the top of my head I can't think of anything else, probably because I am completely engrossed in Prison Break right now. So, I guess I'll try again tomorrow.