What I really want to do at the end of a week like this is collapse, muddy & exhausted. But the adrenaline rush of the last several days…weeks, heck who am I kidding: MONTHS keeps me buzzing long after I should have.<\/p>\n
The to-do lists have been decimated, both at work and at home, and even though there is ALWAYS something still to be done, it will just have to wait: work, for Monday, and home, for when I get back from Boston. <\/p>\n
I’ve been so busy this week that I’ve not had a lot of time for noodling around online…I’m woefully behind in my reading and even worse in my writing and reading and sleeping. But! I’m packed! I’m ready to go.<\/p>\n
I have presents for Christina<\/a> and her lovely boys and my colleague Lora and her adorable kids and my MOM. I have not packed for the weather, however…I refuse to take a heavy winter coat and boots with me, even though my mom says a nor’easter is blowing up for tomorrow, which could cause problems with flights and arrival times for both of us: keep your fingers crossed, please, that we are not in for a blustery day of travel!<\/p>\n Karin gave me a little surprise present today to take with me and “sleep with on the airplane”. It’s a tiny white rectangular pillow, handstitched together with red & black thread and it has the words LOVE YOU stitched on the front in red. Awwww! She gave me a huge hug at dinnertime and wailed, “I don’t want you to gooooooooooooooo!”<\/p>\n “I’ll bring back Halloween candy,” I said.<\/p>\n She promptly let go and sat up, smiling. “Okay! Bye!”<\/p>\n Unfortunately, we won’t get much of a Halloween this year, so candy is the best I can do. I return on the 30th and we leave on Halloween for a lazy* week on the west coast of Italy. So, no trick-or-treating. No AWC Halloween party, no costumes. Pumpkin PEEPS and candy corns will have to do the trick AND the treat!<\/p>\n I can’t wait to be in the States for autumn! Halloween decorations! Pumpkin stuff NOM NOM NOM! I hope the nor’easter hasn’t blown all the color off the trees by the time I get there. AM SO EXCITED!<\/p>\n CRACKING ME UP<\/b>: The God of Cake<\/a><\/p>\n