I have a late sim tonight. Yet this morning was the first morning all week that my body wanted to get itself out of bed bright and early at 7 a.m. even though I had all the time in the world to sleep in. C'est la vie. So I've been poking around the house dragging my feet about going to work. Guess I'll head in soon. I was kind of holding off to go in so I could pick up some yummy takeout lunch on the way in, so that involves me staying home at least for another 30 minutes or so.

Yesterday, I finally just picked dates and purchased to go to the cottage rather than continuing to attempt to ring out various schedules from family and friends. Serendipitously, Byron got his schedule for August right after I bought my tickets and it looks like he'll actually be able to come with me for most of the time. Sadly, none of my aunts seem to have enough time in their schedules to come up, so I guess that will mean a few days in Philadelphia on the leading or trailing edge of the trip to visit family. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that the twins will make it up for a few days too.

However, now I do feel the stranglehold of a whole bunch of things I'd like to have done before I leave on vacation. Again, c'est la vie. Looks like Byron is coming home on Sunday (yay!) where he'll sit reserve at home until its time to leave for the cottage... that basically means that they can call him anytime and he'll have four hours to get to his flight to wherever they need him.

Before he gets home, one big project which is fixing the giant hole in the wall Bennet scratched. The dry wall guy was supposed to come last Thursday morning but canceled at the last minute. Now its the delicate balance of finding another time this week that Cari or I have a free moment in our schedules to stay home and wait for him. Then, of course, we're going to have to repaint the entire wall to make it match. My home to-do list seems to be growing too.