Irwin is at home sleeping for an indefinite amount of time. I am so jealous.

Today is a jealous day. I just read about Sarah's plans for her trip to visit Nick in France. I want to go. Desperately. Actually, my desperation isn't even limited to France. I just have itchy feet. Need to travel. Need to travel. One week in Greece next year just isn't enough. Maybe I will suceed in finding a long weekend in Rome yet to visit Kris. Probably not. But I can hope. And I can satisfy myself with Vermont in two weeks - and Vermont is a beautiful place. If I were a European visiting America, Vermont would definitely be on my list of places to go, so I guess its ok.

Until then, I will just have to live vicariously. Sarah better send me at least one postcard!

That is until I quit this whole space program thing, sell my house and move to Australia. Or New Zealand. That's where I'll write the great American novel. Yep. That's the ticket.

Instead, I'll just write a paper on DPS jettison design so I can go to a conference at the exotic locale of Austin, Texas. That's an unenthusiastic cheer "yeah me!".

I need to stop eating and start running. Its been over two weeks since I've gone running. Lazy me. And I've eaten more food in the last two weeks than I thought possible. I am so full I probably don't need to eat again for at least three or four days. Irwin asked me this morning about dinner plans and I was too full to even think about it.

The List

Last night I bought a wireless router. Now I have this irrational need for a laptop so I can surf the Internet while I watch t.v. The wireless router was actually rather inexpensive (about the same price as a wired router). I am VERY happy with my purchase.

I've also put Ir to work when he wakes up today, he's going replace the stopper in one of my bathroom sinks (it doesn't work right now). He's going to put a new massaging shower head in my shower (he couldn't understand why poor-me would splurge on something that obviously wasn't a necessity in his mind - the $20 was more than worth it though!). And he's going to figure out a way to reroute the rain runoff in my yard so I don't need to surround the gate of my fence with bricks to keep the dirt from washing away.

The decision has been made about painting. We're going to do the dining room. In the absense of evening plans, hopefully we will be able to prime the room tonight. Then the primer will HOPEFULLY be dry tomorrow to do at least one coat of paint. I'm going with a dark rose/burgundy below the chair-level molding and then a really really light (practically white) rose above the molding. Now the challenge is that I told Sarah she could pick do the study ANY way she wanted (because that's the room that I don't really have a clear picture in my mind of how I want it). I think she's obsessed with purple, which is great. So now we have to find a purple that matches the burgundy at least enough, since the two rooms face each other.