Summer of Saedigh
So, my summer of teacheresque holiday time is quickly drawing to a close. The Summer of Saedigh is heading in to its last fortnight. For most of July, from the 1st to the 27th, it was the Summer of Saedigh and Mike, since Capt Mike was also on holiday.
We have mostly stuck pretty close to home. It was an expensive year of home ownership and academia, so we decided to be minimalists when it came to planning a vacation.
We spent a week visiting our parents, and took two day trips to Toronto. Once for a dinner at Ruth's Chris with Capt Mike's Uncle, where we got to eat butter-grilled steaks and see the Boston Red Sox do the same, and once to Canada's Wonderland. It was my first trip to an amusement park since I was 14 and went to EuroDisney. We rode all of the non-kiddie roller coasters, but I abstained from the Drop Zone and so cannot truly call myself a "Ride Warrior" according to Capt Mike's logic. :-)
However, now that Capt Mike is back to work and given the crummy weather that has defined Summer 09, I have to say I am getting a bit stir crazy. I've been keeping myself busy enough with housewifey type activities - baking, cleaning, weeding, dograising (Zeppelin is as much of a handful as a toddler at times) - and I have learned that had I been born in the earlier half of the 20th century I would have developed a heck of a 4 o'clock martini habit to get me through the afternoons. As routine as my job is, I've found that the routine of basically doing nothing is more tedious.
And so on August 10th I will be returning to work. The Summer of Saedigh will come to an end, our bank accounts will slowly be resuscitated back to life, and I will no longer remain up to date on daytime television.
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