Considering that I am an emotionally fragile, easily overwhelmed, slightly loony person who needs quite a lot of alone time: further considering that we have had some kind of company since just before the last day of school until two days before we left on vacation: taking into account that we vacationed with three other families and then the four of us spent twelve hours in the car together driving home....
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Is this evidence of mental health progress on my part, or was it just the right kind of company and travelling companions? You know when you get up in the morning and the silverware is all in the wrong slots and the mugs are where the plates should be and there's a cheese grater in the bowl stack and sometimes a measuring spoon falls out and hits you on the head when you open the cupboard? That means you have a guest who got up before you and unloaded the dishwasher, and it totally rocks. You know when you have two children who aren't yours in the house but you're allowed to say to either one of them at any time, stop making that constipated pterodactyl sound right now or I'm going to beat you senseless, and there are no ill feelings? Isn't that the best thing ever? And so what if the charmingly offbeat artist uncle let my nine-year-old watch Caddyshack? It made him feel cool and grown-up and he still thinks the worst word in it was 'turd'.
More on Halifax and the Bay of Fundy and the harrowing sojourn in St. Julie, Quebec, later. Right now I think I will go spend that bit of quality time in the laundry room. Missed you, Internet.
3 comments:
We missed you, too. Truly. I'm glad you lived to tell the tale, and maybe even really enjoyed it. :)
I'm tired just reading that! But I'm tired in general these days! Summer has worn me out!
...and we missed you!
Seriously, I was obsessively checking in for an update while you were away (especially after your brief appearance on FB). Glad you are safely home and still sane.
I was going to call and see if you'd like to catch a movie with us tomorrow, but suspect you will still be communing with your laundry for a day or two. ;) Perhaps I will be in touch NEXT week instead.
Welcome back. *snicker* snort* the constipated pterodactyl... Yes, you have been missed.
-Lynette
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