Trent is off to his classes and I am getting ready to work on writing my book. Something I haven't worked on all summer.
Looks like I will be back at work next week for 2 legislative days at $200 a day, after 4 hours of IPAD training on the 13th. Then the 19th through 22nd I will be putting in time at work. I have loved my summer vacation and am sad to have it end!
My in-laws are flying in today. We got a call last night with the somewhat unexpected news. I hadn't heard back that they had been able to make arrangements and didn't want to pressure them to come if the flights were too expensive being last minute. I feel bad that I didn't get things arranged for them before I left.
I did leave some money for Steven, our 22 year old, to purchase tv dinners or the like, but he had given the money away to the neighbor for a fundraiser, before our 2 hour flight had landed in San Francisco. He figures they'll live on eggs and pancakes - the girls aren't real happy about that. Grandma and Grandpa will either save the day, or join in with the plan. I did leave them with plenty of bread, milk, cereal, peanut butter and lunch meat and cheese, mac and cheese, corn dogs, and spagettios. I don't think they'll starve, right?
So yesterday, our flight landed around 1pm Cali time - 2pm our time. I hadn't eaten since 8am breakfast - other than the little package of pretzels and a 8 oz. of Fresca on the plane. I figured we'd grab lunch at the airport. By the time we took the air train to the car rental place - and let me just say, I have never seen that many people trying to rent cars on a Thursday afternoon in one place. Apparently, it's pretty standard this time of year. Enterprise had the shortest line so Trent booked with the right agency. Even so, we didn't get our car until 3pm which mean I hadn't eaten for 8 hours with the time change (the pretzel snack doesn't count!). By that time, I was so shaky and weak that the car attendant offered me some of her dried fruit as a snack and gave us directions to the quickest and closest restaurants. Trent decided, however, that it was 2 minutes out of the way and that we should find something on the way to Napa. It turned out that this wasn't as easy as he thought it would be and I was feeling quite uncared for since he seemed to care less about me than the car attendant had.
I have decided that when I get feeling like this, that I don't act like my normal together self. I was so upset with Trent by the time he got off the freeway and got us to this little Italian eatery somewhere between here and there.
I got a vegetarian panini and he had the special tuna spagetti with capers. The interesting thing to me was that the employee directions were 100% Spanish - the only thing Engish on the instructional signs was "Department of California Public Safety." It was an Italian Restaurant too. Interesting place, and surprisingly good spagetti. My panini was awesome with grilled peppers and tomatoes. I'm still trying to eat healthy!
Dinner was the appetizers at the cocktail meet and greet. My gingerale and grilled vegetables, mushrooms, hummus and breads were delicioso - but we also had our share of fried coconut shrimp, beef tarts, and egg rolls - so I can't say the meal fare was completely non-fattening! I am trying hard not to put on weight while taking this prednisone!
I've gotta get some stuff done to help Steven with scouts from afar.
And then, I really do need to work on my book!
That's all she wrote for now.
