Okay, Okay
Not that I'm feeling any pressure from you to write, but I'm aware that I didn't write yesterday, and for no good reason except that I was bored and it was a boring day and I didn't have anything interesting to say. I know; when has that stopped me before? I did have a meme to post, but I forgot. I'll get to it.
So I really didn't do anything this weekend, which was a waste of a perfectly good (and beautiful) weekend, but it's part of the whole vacation mindset. I did do some of my first-day-of-vacation straightening up yesterday morning, including getting the last of the spare giant TVs down to the basement. My living room now looks more or less like a living room, and not a staging area for some overseas mission. Oh, I'm also obsessing over food again this weekend, but I'm keeping the details out of here and writing all that crap at Meals Included. Once again, no one feel compelled to read there. I'm just saying.
No movie again this weekend; there just isn't anything I feel like going to see. I guess once these next two days of workshops are done, we can go to a movie anytime. K's next class doesn't start until July 9. (Speaking of which, she actually has a lead on a job right near campus that would fit into her class schedule. Keep your fingers crossed.)
In my Weird-News-of-the-Day Department -- and I'm not kidding -- the Hubs strolled in at some point this morning from his yardwork and -- the condensed version -- said he thinks we should go away for a few days for our upcoming anniversary. (The 30th, btw.) Well. And, may I say ... well. I honestly did not know what to say. He DOES NOT take time off work for anything except a) a child's out-of-state graduation, or b) any occasion on which I am hospitalized (and that one's not even 100%.) I believe he said something about going away from July 16 to the 19. Uh, okay. Sure! I brightly responded. I wonder where we can go? And it turned out he's been thinking about that, too. So he presented his thoughts, and we've decided to go to Gettysburg/Lancaster, Pa. for the few days. It's closer than any of the New England destinations that we've already been to anyway, and we've toyed with the idea of going to Gettysburg for the last few years (except he never takes a vacation.) So it's settled -- I guess -- and now it's up to me to make the arrangements. Fortunately, the Colleague knows this area well and goes a couple of times a year, so she'll know places to stay and things to do.
The real question is, Why? What brought this up in his head all of a sudden? And here's the answer. He would never go on a vacation just because he thought I'd want to. (We did that once, when he famously offered me my choice of vacation since he didn't "have time" to shop for a Christmas present for me, and we went to DisneyWorld, which he hated. So he's not making that mistake again.) He would never go on a vacation because he wanted to, since he doesn't want to. What happened? His two best buddies at work -- btw,, one a divorced man and one a woman, married -- have been working on convincing him that he needs to take a vacation and he needs to do something nice for me. Them, he listened to.
So, we're going on a trip. Gee. Thanks.
And that's my news. I didn't even use all this time over the weekend to copy over any more of my old entries, but when I do, I'll put "copied from dland" at the top of each one so if it shows up in your reader, Google or otherwise, you'll know to skip it. And of course, I won't send out an email notifier for any of these. Meme tomorrow, perhaps.
watching Shrek :: entry #1505
Typical male, I guess. My husband never listens to me either, but he'll listen to anyone and everyone else. It used to be that I'd tell him something, and he'd immediately turn to whatever male he was standing next to, and verify what I had just said. Fortunately he's learned not to do THAT anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut Gettysburg sounds fun! Can you believe that while I was dragged around to every other battlefield (Revolutionary and Civil) on much of the East Coast, my parents left out Gettysburg? We'll have to go check it out when we get back on the "right" coast.
Congrats on 30 years! Now THAT is something to be proud of! ;o)
In college, one of my jobs in the library was to read a family's collection of letters from the Civil War and write up summaries of each letter. The freaky part was driving to northern VA from Williamsburg the next time I drove home -- almost every exit I passed, I recognized the place names from the letters I had just been reading. Then later I went to the graveyard of Bruton Parish church in Williamsburg and found their graves. That sent chills up my spine, to be reading handwritten letters by the people who were buried in these graves.
ReplyDeleteI am really looking forward to moving back to the East Coast, though. Here in Washington state, anything over 100 years is "old," and Jamestown just celebrated its 400th anniversary! ;o)
Ole and I were at both Gettysburg and Lancaster about 10 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them and I'm not even a history buff. We were at the Gettysburg battlegrounds late in the afternoon and it left kind of a spooky feeling - like you could see the ghosts of all these soldiers coming over the hills. It was wonderful. Congrats on 30 years.
ReplyDeleteA mini vacation HOORAY! Please send me a post card and I hope you have a wonderful time with your hubby. Your anniversary is the same day as my in-laws anniversary. Teachers NEED to do something SPECIAL in the summer to make the whole school year worth doing. hehehehe. HAPPY SUMMER!!!
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