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And... we're off!

There are only a few aspects of my personality that stick out to me as coming solely from My Father. Wanting to leave for vacation at 5:30 in the morning on the first day of said vacation would be one of them. It's currently 8:26 a.m., and efforts thus far to get Gregory out of bed and into the car have been unsuccessful: "If I get up right now, I will be in bed by 7:30 tonight." As someone who spent the two nights previous to last night going to bed at 8:30 p.m., this doesn't sound altogether negative to me. But... the guy's been sick for the last three days, lying in bed moaning a la Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally.... Fair enough.

Posting, as you can see, has been shoved further down the list of priorities these last few weeks, mostly due to my new position at work, which, by the way, I am loving. I am essentially doing what I always said I would NEVER do, which is work in a back office/cubicle with my nose in a pile of paperwork, almost entirely cut off from human interaction with fellow staffers. After 15 years of faking-it-till-I-make-it in customer service, the lack of interaction (read: enforcing damage control) is most welcome. This isn't something I would want to do full-time, I don't think, but it definitely serves as a stress release from the other half of my working hours, still spent in the afore-mentioned customer service/damage control department. I love a challenge. The fact that I'm in love with my boss probably helps. :)

Maddie's doing well so far in her second year of school. Still talks too much during lunch time and therefore comes home starving (no idea where she got that from), but has been behaving well in class and even occasionally walks to class on her own sans complaint.

Nothing else new to report - I'm off for pre-departure housecleaning. Will return, glowing with the radiance of rest and relaxation, with pictures! after our return.

Posted by stephanie at September 15, 2006 08:18 AM