Mum's in Town

Mum and BIll came into town this week. I played the role of dutiful daughter and tour guide. As a result, I am exhausted.

Highlights include:
Winning $40 clams in Atlantic City.
Immediately spending $30 of those clams on a pink knock-off Burberry bag. Styling.
Having Mom lecture me about curteous driving as I push my ways through rush hour traffic in a minivan.
Lunch in Chinatown and introducing Mom to dim sum and bubble tea.
Thrift store crawling. My family loves a bargain.

Now that she's gone, I miss having my mother around. It was nice.

Next vacation idea

Okay, it's weird. But how cool would it be to go to Dracule's Castle for our next trip?

30

Yesterday morning I wake up and Andy says, "Do you know what day this is?"

"Wednesday," I say, failing the entrance exam for Spy Girl Camp. (It was a bit early for guessing games.) I was still in bed, for crying out loud.

"No. Today's your last day of being in your twenties."

I was tired. And groggy. My eyes started watering. "Shut up! Why would you say that to me!"

"Life begins at thirty," Andy says.

"Shut up, shut up!"

"I'm trying to make you feel better."

"You suck!"

And that was the tone of the day. Everyone at work knew I was turning 30 so they tried to make me feel better about it, which can only make a person feel worse. The way people are acting, it's like I was going to have all my hair turn white and develope instantanious arthritis.

Thankfully, this morning (the 30 morning) Andy didn't try to make me feel better. However, I did anounce that I was spending 30 in jim-jams.

"Wait," he said, "all of your thirties?"

"Just 30."

"Good thing I didn't get you a girft certificate to a clothing store." I did get a gift certificate to a bookstore. Cool.


But now it's my birthday and I'm 30.

It's just a weird concept to wrap my head around.

But I can say that it was WAY more traumatic finding my first white hair at 25. I was getting my hair cut and I was so surprised I stated to tear up in the hair-dresser's chair.

Playing catch-up

At lot has happened in the month since my last post. I know. I'm terrible at these things. Everytime I sit down at the keyboard, my mind just kind of dries up and I can't think of anything to write.

For our anniversary. Andy and I upgraded to a king-size bed. It's beautiful. And comfy. And it's so large, I can stretch out my arm and not hit Andy. Cool. And the snoring has been reduced to a rumbling in the distance, as opposed to right in my ear.

I had the prep work done for my bridge this week. I am now wearing a temporary bridge. It hurts. And feels funny in my mouth. My tongue hurts, which is just plain weird. And it hurts to talk.

I have started to re-write the nano 06 novel. So far I've added a character named Florida. I'll post in the lab when I have something more than one page long.

That's all I got for now.