Vacation, Day 6

Although I ended up sleeping better, I was still up far too early. It was a good thing, though, because I shared breakfast with Mom before she left for work. painted_wolf woke up just as my Mom was leaving the driveway so we got ready for the day, she ate breakfast and we started our trip home a couple hours after Mom had left.

Our first stop was at Mom's office where she brought us on a quick tour and introduced us to all of her co-workers. That was kinda nice. She also showed us this really neat piece of art in the lobby. It was a train engine car in a frame that was made from various disssembled mechanical devices like analog and digital watches, old rotary dial phones, a box wrench and all kinds of other stuff. It was really neat looking!

From there we drove up to Concord where we were going to stop in Borders and buy another book and DVD. First we decided to stop in Hannaford to use the ATM. As we were entering, I heard someone ahout my name. I turned to see Paul walking toward us carrying his daughter G. who is one year old By the way, I'm Paul's Mom (long story from our college days), so he told G. I was her grandmamom and we had a little chuckle. We wandered around the store with him and he invited us over for lunch. We weren't in any rush to get home so we figured it would be a great opportunity to catch up and give the truck a rest, too.

We ended up having grilled hot dogs and chourizo for lunch. I got to cook on Paul's nice new grill while he took care of feeding G. While lunch was cooking and while we were eating we discussed the wacky days of TX70 and working for ITS, politics and religion and which is always fun with Paul. He's a conservative Democrat and he loves to give me a little ribbing once in a while for being a Naderite. We took the discussion to the living room and sat on hif very comfy new couch and that's when the lack of sleep started to take its toll.

Paul noticed his Mom was having a hard time staying awake so he very graciously started some espresso while we talked more about politics. That's when Jennie called to let him know she was on her way home. She got home from work and while Paul and painted_wolf had more political and religious chat over coffee, Jennie and I had some nice discussion about various random life stuff, which was nice. Then we all chatted together and G. joined us after her nap while we looked at some of her baby photos. Paul and Jennie are so fortunate to have such a beautiful child! She's always smiling and loves to chat, even if she can't say much more than yes and no and baby chatter.

We left Paul and Jennie and headed right to Plymouth since I wanted to get my paycheck before Town Hall closed for the long weekend. We got there with half an hour to spare and headed right to the bank when the truck stalled right in the middle of the end of Court Street. Fortunately it's not a very busy street and it's a dead end, so we sat there with the hazard lights on for a few minutes while we waited for the truck to decide it would start again. We went to the bank, then to the movie rental store, then to Hannaford for dinner and stopped at the farm stand to get our produce for dinner and breakfast.

We got home and had dinner while watching Casino Royale. Oh. My. Stars. I loved Casino Royale! I think it's the best James Bond movie in a long time and it felt like the classic Bond movies. It was amazing! It was a bit odd to see a Bond prequel with more advanced technology than the first James Bond movie produced, but it's forgivable. I won't spoil the movie for anyone who still may not have seen it, but it was awesome and I have a new favorite Bond.

Daniel Craig as James Bond = hot sex on toast with a side of yes please!

And as usual this James Bond movie had the same effect on us as the others so we won't discuss the rest of the night.

Today and tomorrow I will have little time to spend with painted_wolf because she's training for her new campus job. I'm definitely going to fix the bed and go for a walk today. I may also go for a swim but I'm not sure where yet. I may brave Wellington State Park even though I know it's going to be packed during Labor Day weekend. It's funny. Usually I treasure the time I have to stay home alone, but today I just don't feel like being alone. I think I'm just having painted_wolf withdrawals. It's been absolutely wonderful to have an entire week off to spend with her.

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Vacation, Day 7

It was a pretty uneventful day. I slept in, did some housework, listened to some music, went to the hardware store, went in to work to do a couple minor things, then went to pick painted_wolf up from her first day of work at her new job.

As a result of the trip to the hardware store, our headboard and footboard are now firmly attached to our bed. Finally! Sadly they did not have horse hobbles in stock this time so we'll have to wait until the new order comes in. Hehehe.

After picking painted_wolf up we went to an art gallery in Ashland to look around and then had dinner at Lucky Dragon. They have really good food there but we don't get to go as often since we hardly ever have reason to go to Ashland. We used to go more often when we lived in New Hampton because we passed through Ashland to get home from Plymouth or to get to work from New Hampton.

After that we did a little shopping where we saw Randy and Sarah. Then we went home where I fixed the bed and we had some conversation with Lonewolf.

I also started reading Talking From 9 To 5. It's an excellent book! I can see already that it will help me get a better understanding of how others interact at work and hopefully help me interact better with others. I have such a horrible time with interacting and sensing the feelings of others.