Ellemental

I hopped in the car after work on Friday and headed to Philly to spend the weekend with my friend Kacey.  I have to admit, I was a little worried Friday night / Saturday morning when we didn’t go to bed until 3am.  My normal bedtime is, oh, 9:30 or so.  Thankfully, Kacey is a later-riser, and I had PLENTY of sleep, so I felt bright eyed and bushy tailed all weekend long.  Although I slept a lot, we somehow still packed in an afternoon at a paint-your-own-pottery shop, and then Kacey, her husband and I went on an evening Ghost Tour.

I am such a creature of habit that I really do forget how good it is to get away sometimes and how VERY good it is to reconnect with old friends.

One other habit that’s all screwed up right now is my blogging schedule.  I am usually an early morning blog reader / writer.  I generally sit down with a cup of coffee at 6am and catch up online until 7am.  I have had no internet access at home for a week now – for some reason after “routine server maintenance” last Monday I have been able to get back online.  I know all I need to do is call support, but instead I’ve been taking that hour in the morning and doing all the stuff I don’t normally do:  wrap change (I’m up to $250.  It’s been awhile), go through old clothes, hem (well, “apply iron-on hem tape” is more accurate) my pants, go through pictures, all that stuff that I keep saying I’ll do someday.  It’s been a good thing.

Except for the blogging.  I always bring my laptop to the VIM’s house after work, but honestly, it’s hard to open it up when there are stars to sit under and wine to drink and bats to watch.  Tonight is the exception because the VIM is out of town, and it’s pouring down rain.  Even so, it’s taken me until 9pm to fire up the laptop because I had to watch “Rock of Love” first.

Yes.  “Rock of Love”.

Yes.  I AM embarrassed to admit it.

I have partially redeemed myself by switching over to History Detectives, which is truly more my speed.  But “Rock of Love”, man…it sucked me in before I knew what was happening.