Sharing an office with The Boy

Greetings from the beach, everyone:-) If it makes you feel any better, it is slightly chilly this morning, requiring me to wear a sweatshirt and sit under a light blanket (next to an open door that looks out over the ocean...hee hee...) Not gonna lie, this definitely beats the office...

The Boy and I are sharing an office today:-) How cute are we? I think I plan to work more than he does this week, but he has some stuff he has to do today, so we are both taking up residence in the room that is most fit to be an office. If he plans on working the whole day in sweatpants and no shirt, then I can not be held accountable for any of the time that he loses because I am distracting him from his tasks...:-D

I am really looking forward to the time with Munchkin, too:-). I miss her! I knew that our summer arrangement would be different, and would take some adjusting...but I am surprised at how much it feels like I have come to visit her in her summer house.

And it's not just me...Papa Bear said something on Saturday about how he wasn't sure whether or not one of his sisters-in-law was coming down this week because he hadn't heard from her yet. Munchkin piped in "She is coming Wednesday with the kids...she called me yesterday." So yes...all visitors are now generally clearing their stay through the new Czarina of the household;-)

Munchkin, by the way, is completely on top of the world right now...enjoying her summer at the beach exactly as much as you would expect that she might. She really likes the family that she babysits for, and it has worked out really well...they pay her well, and she can fit it around her schedule at the ice cream store very easily. Since she is never really "babysitting" by herself, she doesn't have to worry about minor schedule problems...the Mom is always happy to have her around to watch her older kids. For now, she seems uninterested in working for any other families, despite several asking her.

And she really loves the ice cream store, too. She makes a lot less money (and has to pay taxes on that, too:-)) and it is probably harder work, but she loves the social aspect being around kids her age and a little older. She is still at the age when it is cool for friends to come in and visit you at work...actually, why does that ever stop? Work would be way cooler!!! She has made a ton of new friends and still has a ton of old ones, and is just basically loving life.

OK...back to work for a bit:-) I will try and check in this week regularly.

Actually, I have big news tomorrow, I think...hopefully!

Baby needs a nap!

Totally a wreck today...and completely self-inflicted! I went out with Smoking Hot Roommate and a couple other girls last night, drank too much and stayed out too late. Trouble was caused and mischief abounded;-) The Boy was out of town, as was SHR's Rocket Scientist, so I slept at her place, which just meant that we stayed up way too late eating late night pizza and whatnot.

I actually don't feel terribly hungover in the sick-to-my-stomach/headache sense, since I made sure to drink plenty of water and took a couple Advil before bed. But I am completely exhausted, and have very little voice left. You know what would solve this? Vacation!!!

Hells yeah it will! Leaving tonight, picking up some chicken fingers to-go as a surprise for Munchkin and heading to the beach for two weeks. And I am as excited about that as you could possibly imagine...I am technically not on vacation, as I will be working the whole time, but it will obviously be a whole lot less time and effort than being the in office involves. I will be wearing a bikini as much as possible;-) Board shorts if I need to dress up...

I will also be blogging, so you shouldn't all miss me too much;-)

Now, if only I could shake the cobwebs out of my head...hee hee

A Slow Wednesday

I was once again a derelict blogger yesterday, and I apologize sincerely. I was out of the office again, and didn't have the foresight to post on Monday night or the energy to post last night. Which is too bad, because I felt like I had three or four awesome blog topics, and now I can't remember any of them. I should start writing these things down during the day...

The good news is that we had absolutely outstanding sex before we got out of bed this morning, so I am kind of in a good mood. I am not really sure which one of us was awake at 5:45 (probably him:-)), but we were definitely both awake shortly after that. Completely awesome way to start the day!

My problem now is that I am having a terrible time getting motivated. I kinda just want to spend the day shopping online, chatting with friends and reading celebrity news on the Internet. To be honest, save for a couple small meetings, that could very well be my itinerary for the day...

Speaking of shopping, I got a Victoria's Secret catalog yesterday celebrating their Fall collection. Seriously?!?!? It is barely July 4th and they are pimping sweaters already??!?! Not to mention some hideously ill-fitted, high-wasted pants that I hope are NOT fashionable this year. Like a next-generation MC Hammer pant...not good.

This may begin to sound like a broken record, but I am on vacation for the next two weeks:-) This is technically not "vacation", since I will be working much of the time, but I will be conveniently located at our satellite office. Actually, between Big Sis, Papa Bear and me, that office has been pretty well staffed this summer! The Boy will be with me for a week, and then a week will be just me and Munchkin (and whatever other assorted cousins and aunts and uncles from the pretend family that are around). Very excited!

Now, if only the sun would come out...

So THIS is Summer...

I am sure that you all noticed with great sadness that I was not around to blog on Thursday. Hopefully you didn't lose too much of your long weekend worrying about me...I was out of the office pretty much all day, and then forgot to take a couple of minutes to blog before I took off for the weekend.

Absolutely fantastic weekend! Tons of sun, tons of friends and quasi-family around, lots of good food and drink and just an all-around great time. Friday was a little fogged in, but it burned off late in the day and stayed sunny from there on out.

Munchkin seems to have assembled an entirely new band of additional friends in the last week, as the public schools are now out and all of those families are officially on summer vacation (for the month of June it was basically just other kids in private schools that end early and college kids). She had a whole mess of them around with her on the beach on Saturday and yesterday.

That actually led to a pair of interesting interactions. The first was with the mother of a girl that is about her age who seemed very confused by Munchkin's living situation ("So, um, she really does kinda live here by herself?" "These friends of yours take care of her, too?" Not sure that girl is gonna be allowed to stay over...)

The second is, no surprise, boy-related. Having a whole bunch of new beach friends means having a whole bunch of new boys that have fallen instantly in love with her. According to Papa Bear, their efforts to impress her were a little more overt earlier in the week, and had calmed down a bit by the weekend. But several of them are very clearly smitten. And that led to one wide-eyed lad asking me, in a quiet moment, "What's up with this French kid? Is he like a real boyfriend?" I deferred...she can deal with that on her own:-D

Let's see...the water was cold, but we made very good use of the jet skis. Played golf yesterday morning. Had a fire on the beach both Friday and Saturday. Ate a ton. Didn't really drink that much. And just basically enjoyed what finally felt like summer! And now next weekend is only a couple days away!

Est-ce que je suis un mère indulgent? Oui!

As I explained to a couple of you via gChat yesterday (yes, that is a hint to the rest of you to say Hi...I have a slow day ahead of me today!), I did what is probably the most absurd thing that I have ever done, and very well could be the most absurd thing I will ever do:

I booked plane tickets to take my little sister to visit her boyfriend in France.

She still talks to him every Saturday, exchanges constant emails and still wants to fork over some of her hard-earned money to go and see him...and since I did promise I would take her (and will happily make use of the free place to stay in France for a week:-)), here we go. The Boy is still not sure whether he will be able to take a week off, so we will have to figure out his status later on.

I am fully aware that this is just one more example of her being spoiled rotten, but she really wants to go and is going to pay quite a bit to do so...and basically she is just such a good kid that I feel like she deserves to do silly things like this. And again, who am I to turn down a week split between their (probably stunning) Paris flat and their (probably similarly stunning) summer beach home?

So, if you are wondering where I am from August 21-28 (Friday-Friday)...well, now you know...