My buds in Mount Prospect are still without power (as of 4:00 this afternoon) but as John is the every cloud has an electronic silver lining type, they are now the proud owners of a shiny new generator which is currently running their refrigerator and the neighbors'.

Happy Anniversary, Jessica and FoneBone! Hope it was a good day.

I'm having chocolate and ice cream for dinner, thanks to communist invasion all food cravings shall be indulged.

I just sent sj and teacup guy home. I think they liked dessert.

Happy Anniversary, Jessica and Fonebone!

I had a pretty lazy day, but got a lot of my house cleaning done despite the lazy. Now I want a big helping of whatever vw was serving for dessert.

ChiKat, I'm glad you were safe, along with all your 6th graders. Yay for having power back on.

I had ice cream for dessert - a scoop of triple chocolate, a scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip, and some Hershey's syrup on it. Yum. I'm pretending it's not bad for me because it was no sugar added ice cream.

That's a bit too much excitement, ChiKat. Eeep!

Happy Anniversary to Jessica & FoneBone! I hope Dylan was extra sweet to you both today. Also hope there was dessert!

I'm tired. Just got up from a nap and showered. It has been non-stop perpetual motion since leaving Otter Lake. Drove straight through. Got the kids back to school and me back to work. The living room still has suitcases and various travel debris strewn about. We just won’t talk about the horror that is my bedroom and bath. I spent serious hours in the kitchen today so we can stop worrying about the dept of health getting on my case.

I was awoken from a sound sleep last evening with the news that my friend Bob passed away. It has been over 2 months since he had his heart attack, and it is a blessing that this is over for him. It has been too hard on him, in and out of the hospital. It’s hard to say if he ever understood what had happened to him. RIP my dear friend. We were at the hospital until 2:30 this morning and DH spent most of the day making arrangements. We decided to charter a boat for half a day and have a grand farewell for him.

Very busy at work. I hired an assistant. Yay! I think I am going to love her. We are moving our offices upstairs in the same building to a larger space. We have a couple weeks with both places so it shouldn’t be too crazy. Lots going on.

It has been impossible to keep up at all here. Hopefully things will calm down a bit so I can have more Buffista time in my life.

Laura, I'm sorry to hear about you losing your friend. Here's to the good memories.

Laura, I'm so sorry about Bob.

I had a pretty lazy day, but got a lot of my house cleaning done despite the lazy.

Speaking as a professional lazy person, if you're accomplishing something, you're not being lazy. Keep that up, and your license to laze may be revoked. If the Lazy Council ever gets around to it.

Oh, Laura, I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry, Laura.