The devil is in the details

Va-cations

I finally got my act together and scheduled a vacation. Thanks to lots of careful researching and an expedia sale, I managed to get a very good price and stay well within my new budget for the trip. Actually, the flight+hotel package was less than I was expecting, so more money gets to be budgeted as "spending" money while I'm there. Yay!!


Here is a picture to tell you where I am going:


I had orignially thought about taking a daytrip to London (on the train under the English Channel!) while I was there. Now that I have saved so much money, that might be back on. Woohoo!!

As for the potential wedding that I mentioned before, I had a long talk with my best friend on Friday night (which killed my Friday night plans but it was worth it) and found out that the whole engagement thing was further off than she had originally thought, so I have plenty of time. (Note for those of you who find yourself in this situation: Saying "You seemed kind of freaked out about ring shopping last time we talked" pretty much opens the floodgates and gets you all the info you need. :) )Also, she apparently told him that I am the only person he is allowed to consult with about rings/ring styles/proposal stuff so I might even end up with some advance warning. :) We are trying to synchronize schedules so that I can finally meet him in person.

Speaking of vacations, I think I desperately need a vacation from this heat. Ummm, hello...I live in Boston. It is not supposed to be oppressively hot here. If it was supposed to be oppressively hot, we would all have central air now, wouldn't we? It has been so hot that I can't sleep. Boo. Hopefully the weather people are right and the lightning storm outside (readers of mm's blog...am I allowed to blog during a thunderstorm? I am still highly confused on this matter.) and it will cool off tonight.

Also speaking of vacations (okay this one is a business trip, not a vacation, but humor me), my boss was out of town yesterday and today and will be out of town again Thursday and Friday. This has left me with a fair bit of free time at work. As a sort of last minute thing, my mom and my sister are coming on Thursday to spend the weekend here. It should be fun and should entail much shopping. Yay! Like last year, my dad is not coming although I guess there has been a little discussion of it. I am glad that he didn't make a plan to come and then back out so that I felt let down like last summer. I certainly wouldn't be upset if he decided to come at the last minute though.

As for mental vacations (okay, this one really doesn't fit), episode 2 of season 3 of my favorite reality show Project Runway will be on tomorrow night! Yay! I can't wait.

Okay, I have to go now because the lightning is freaking me out...I suppose my other post will have to wait for later. :(

posted by Immunegirl @ 11:33 PM