VaCaDay 7

So here it is:



This has been the most amazing week of weather for a vacation week. Every single day has been sunny and warm and perfect. The colder temps and rain are coming back tomorrow, I think, but this week was delightful. Never had to wear a jacket once.

You know, I wanted this week to be relaxing, and it was. I never made a big list of tasks to do, I just kept a little running list on a post-it and erased the stuff when it was done. Today I threw out the little blank list. (Okay, I didn't actually erase the last thing because that would have been weird.) I saw the podiatrist this morning, speaking of weird, and then had a nice lunch with the Sibs at The Cheesecake Factory and then we went to Costco. I was so good at Costco, too; I only spent $35, which you wouldn't think was even possible there. All I got was a box of plastic knives, some ankle socks, one DVD and a book. I got the first volume of The Spiderwick Chronicles. I'm not sure why, but it's a cute little book, and that appeals to me.

Speaking of which, after I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns the other night -- excellent book -- I went on a tear to find something else to read on the Palm. I downloaded and started Julie Andrews' memoir, Home, and then last night, I thought to check a free ebook site for something I'd been looking for, a book written over a hundred years ago called Looking Backward, and they had it because it's old and out of copyright, and I downloaded a few more from there, too. And I have a real book pre-ordered from Amazon coming next week, The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, whose The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay I liked so much last summer. I love it when I'm on a reading binge. I haven't had a real good one in years and years.

As I mentioned, I've been looking over a lot of old entries, and seriously, I have to apologize to you all for the typos and spelling mistakes. Foxfire, the browser I use now, spellchecks, so I'm finding all the mistakes in the old entries as I bring them up. (Spellcheck, btw, is a mistake. It must be spell check. Okay, it is.) Oh, and I'm really really sorry I wrote so much about food and losing weight. Something else I think I'm over in this life.

One of the things I didn't get to this week -- I erased it off the post-it yesterday -- was cleaning. Well, I'm on vacation. I'll get back to it, but it's not bothering me, so there.

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