The kids go home later today, and I'm settling in for a long weekend of rest and self-indulgence. I told the office I'd be back on Tuesday, not Monday. I needed to take care of a few pressing tasks, like getting the car serviced, before going back to work, and that's done now, the rest is not that time-sensitive and now I need a few days off. While Girlchild's car was being ministered to we stopped at Borders and I picked up some "summer novels" and an armload of decorating magazines, as I seek inspiration for the master bedroom. I really wish I hadn't entirely forgotten my smattering of college French when I saw this one: Marie Claire Maison talk about a visual delight, but I can decipher about one word in ten at this point. My Spanish is a wee bit better, and if I'm ever going to revive my knowledge of a lost second language it probably should be the one that is spoken all around me. Oh well.


I really like Budget Living, even more than Real Simple, which can be Real Pretentious at times, though it usually has useful articles and recipes among the fantasy tales of artists who decorate clay pots all day in a picturesque converted barn studio in very expensive Zip Code as if You, Too, Can Do This, if You Really Tried, though if one reads between the lines it's clear that this idyllic lifestyle was actually paid for by her husband the very successful neurosurgeon/heir to a tire store chain/whatever....


Neither Borders nor Joann's had the new IK. Oh well.


I need to get back onto my diet, too - time to put aside the funeral food groups (caffeine, baked goods, alcohol) and get back to low carb and high exercise, it really was working and made me feel much better. I got on the scale the other day and I'd only put on a pound or two in the past couple of weeks, which, considering I was living on vending machine fare followed by restaurant and takeout food, strikes me as a success. That'll come off fast as soon as I get back to regular exercise and South Beach Dieting.


The Bossy One is requesting his morning stroll....actual knitting content to follow.