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Made it home about an hour ago. Had a little ordeal yesterday with hubby's car that resulted in him driving through the night and getting home about 1 am this morning. Nothing too serious and it'll be fixed tomorrow but still annoying.

So, time to unpack and get laundry going and catch up on some TV. And then back to work.... :-(

Other than being burnt to a crisp, vacation has been wonderful so far. A whole lot of nothing, which can be really awesome. :-)

Monday we went to go pick up the bikes to get around the island. There's really 2 main ways to get around here: bicycle and golf cart. The roads are very narrow and all residential, and the max speed is only 25, so driving a car around the place doesn't really make much sense. Then we went and laid out at the beach. And that's it. LOL

Tuesday, we went for a bike ride in the morning. Found some BEAUTIFUL houses on one end of the island. I may have to go back and take a picture of my favorite for you. Then we went to the pool. Then hubby and I had to go find a Best Buy or something because I brought the wrong cords for charging the video camera my parents bought us specifically for this trip. *facepalm* Luckily, there is one in the next big town over, so we got what we needed. Yay! :-) Then there was a huge ordeal with the grocery store that I'm not even going into right now. Ugh. It was a mess.

Today, another morning bike ride. I swear, I've probably ridden about 50 miles since we've been here. And it's been years since I last rode one. My thighs were burning! Then after lunch, back to the beach where I got cooked like a Christmas Goose! LOL So, tomorrow I'm taking the day off. I think I'm going to go get a manicure at the island salon with my sister-in-law. I need one badly. My nails are a mess.

After dinner this evening, we went back to the beach where they were doing a check on one of the turtle nests. In a moment that is both \o/ and :-( there were no live hatchlings to be found. The nest had hatched about 90% and they all made it out safely.

So, that's it. Hope y'all are having fun! :-)

Isn't it purty??

notasinglelady kindly gave me permission to use her amazing Kurt as a Snow Nymph/Blaine as a Wood Nymph art. I totally fell in love with this when she posted it and I just couldn't stop staring at whenever I went through my picture folders. She's so talented. Further explanation, in case the reference is lost on you, as well as the original art post can be found here.

So, it looks like we're going to New York next month now. Sort of. My paternal grandmother has decided to throw herself a 90th birthday party. She lives in New Jersey, not far from the NY border. Since it would be nice for Martouf to get to spend some time with her while he can, it looks like we're heading out. It helps that she is going to pay for everyone's hotel and rental cars. And flights out of Milwaukee are actually rather reasonable. So, yeah. Looks like we're going. And my mom mentioned that if we did go, she and my dad would watch the baby Saturday night if we wanted to go into New York City to do something. My first thought? We are going to see How To Succeed In Business with Daniel Radcliffe. I hear it's an amazing show and, well, DANIEL RADCLIFFE!!! I just hope I can hubby to agree to my plan.... ;-)

Ballet is going well. For me, at least. The flabby bits are definitely starting to get less flabby. ;-) Martouf still hasn't been back. He's actually getting over a cold this week, so I didn't want to take him. I guess maybe we'll try again in two weeks? *fingers crossed*

Off to Vegas in 5 days!!! Tomorrow is cleaning day to get our house ready for my folks to come stay. And the beginning of laundry to make sure everything I want to take is clean. Yay.

And I think that's it. What's new with you?

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Psych

I'm back!! Had to leave very warm and sunny Florida and have now returned to cold, wet, rainy Chicago. :-P Hehe. THe wedding was great, though. Very relaxed and informal, which was nice.

Hubby is back off to New York shortly. I had to leave him at the airport. *sniff* But, good news (and kinda bad, too)!! He'll be back home for good November 3!!! Yay!!!!!!!!11 However, this means that there will now be no trip to NY for me in which to see Gale on stage. :-( *pouts* Oh, well. Guess it wasn't meant to be. He did say he would take me on vacation wherever I wanted to go next year to make up for it. I'm trying to see if I can get London out of him. :-D

All right, I'm gonna go make some brunch (since it's not even noon here yet), unpack, chill out, catch up on all the LJ missed.

Later!!

Current Mood: hungry

Shopping is done. Just need to wrap tonight. And now, I am doing breakfast at my place. With all the stuff going on with my grandma, my mom doesn't need any extra stress. So the boyfriend and I volunteered to do breakfast this year. At least it's only breakfast for 5. We should be OK. And the BF's mom invited my family to dinner at her house. There are 37 people coming already, so what's three more, right? :-)

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be skiing in the UP (that's the Upper Penninsula of Michigan for those non-US folks) next week. So, I haven't disappeared off the face of the planet. Just stuck on a mountain with no internet for a week. *SOB!* How will I manage? I'll miss you all so much! {{{HUGS F-LIST}}} I guess this will give me a chance to get a lot of writing done. I'm not sure how much skiing I'll be doing with the knee acting up like it is. I guess we'll wait and see.

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scrooged fics have been posted. There's some good stuff up there. There's a really cute Gus fic about discovering Santa doesn't really exist. Very well written. Haven't read thru everything yet. Not sure when I'll get the chance. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish my work a little early and maybe have some time this afternoon. That would be nice.

OK. I should go now and finish the work I have to do before we get dismissed early. At least, we better get dismissed early....

Later!

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Carthage Christmas

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