A week off
In case it wasn't inherently obvious from the timing of my entries this week, I actually took the week off. Actually, I should qualify that - I took the week off work. I was however busy doing many many other things.
Let's see - starting with the most recent:
Today I completed a 12-hour tax marathon. Our taxes were complicated this year. Of course, not nearly as complicated as next year is gonna be. Suffice it to say - we owe money. Wow - what a shocker.
Yesterday was baby class, a trip to the property, and a major cleaning-out-and packing of the master and guest bedroom closets and nick-nacks. Everything that doesn't fit? packed. Trinkets collecting dust in the bedrooms? Packed. It was a flurry of activity. 5 boxes I think. And the house is clean, thanks to Tim!
Friday was 3 child care center visits and interviews.
Thursday was another child care center visit, Tim's dentist appt, another visit to the property (since we were in the neighbourhood) with the rest of the day frequently punctuated with mails between Tim, myself, the architect, and our builders on our house construction.
Wednesday was child care research and just generally running errands.
Tuesday was our regular site meeting and our fireplace mantle meeting (I figured it out - it's been driving me crazy! I keep wanting to spell it m-a-n-t-l-e but I always see it spelled m-a-n-t-e-l on all the signs and pamphlets and web sites and yellow pages ads. So I thought I was crazy and resigned myself to spelling it e-l. Until I looked it up and figured out that e-l is the darn american spelling! I've been wanting to spell it correctly the entire time, so be damned with y'all now that I know l-e is correct. That's how I'm spelling it from now on ;-))
Monday was a visit to Ann Sacks for selecting tile, and the Mariner's season opener (brrr - it was COLD!)
Last Sunday and Saturday are but a distant memory at this point. I think there was another house visit in there somewhere, and I know I got up extra early on Saturday to take care of the 2 remaining work items that were preventing me from being able to start my week "off" with a clean slate and concience.
And now? Now it's back to work tomorrow. Woohoo. Wonder what joys await me - I've been VERY good and have not checked work email ONCE since signing off last saturday morning. Nor have I received any cell phone calls - so I'm assuming all is well ;-) We shall see ;-)
And now to spend the rest of the waning evening with my most WONDERFUL husband - the greatest guy in the world who cooked me my favourite comfort food tonight for dinner AND served me chocolate raspberry cheesecake for dessert to boot! He's so good to me ;-)