The Real World

August 15, 2011

I went back to work today.  It actually was exactly the same as it was 8 weeks ago.  I think maybe this will be my last summer off.  The kids are getting older and didn't seem to be dying to spend time with me.  I did a lot of driving them around...to hang out elsewhere.  Grace and I did do a lot together, but she also spent a lot of time with friends.  I can hire a driver/sitter.  Then maybe I will be able to spend my summer salary on a beach vacation or a Flagstaff rental. 
I did accomplish pretty much everything on my summer-to-do list.  Clean out the shed: check.  Paint the bathroom: check.  Purge pretty much every storage space/closet in my house: check.  Go to the gym regularly: check.  Dog training: check (although that is still a work in progress).  Do a puzzle: check...ish.  I got about 80% of an incredibly hard puzzle done.  After that it just wasn't any fun anymore.  Update kids' photo albums: check.  I also got a good start on my Washington DC album but I can't check that one off yet.  Darn.  Read: check.  Good books: Half Broken Things; The Paris Wife; Thirteen Reasons Why; The Lace Reader.  Not so good books: Lake of the Woods; The Sun Also Rises (actually haven't finished, but it sucks...although maybe I am biased against it after reading The Paris Wife...Hemingway was a pig), and one other one that I don't even recall.

Now my goals are to keep up the gym visits and go to some classes at the Apple store.  And plan some good trips. 
Karen