They closed another bridge here in Minnesota last week, Just a precaution, but it's across the Mississippi river and the closest other bridges for the people near it are 25 miles in one way or the other.

So the cities on either side decided to hire some transportation for commuters, so people could get across for the duration.

It started today.

I told you that so that you may understand what I heard on Minnesota Public radio when i got off work tonight.

I will type it with the spelling my brain tossed in instead of the spelling they meant.

A short boat ride is putting a smile on the face of commuters in Winona.

A pair of fairies motored to and fro this morning, carrying more than 1,000 people across the Mississippi in either direction.

and

Lisa Abertowski had been driving 70 minutes to make what used to be a short commute between her Wisconsin home and the Minnesota town of Homer. With the fairies, her commute was back down to just a few minutes.

She called the fairy service "awesome."

Brain? Let me grin as I drove home tonight.

My reflex is "fairies don't motor!" and then I imagined steampunk fairies, and I'm in my own happy place.

Jars, are you serious?

Yup. But, really, it's in the very early discussion stages. Like, if DH loses his job (which may be a possibility), we'll head over and he can work for a company that he loved working for before, and I can do a phd, maybe.

A fairy boat ride would put a smile on my face.

Why did I wake up at 5? At 5 a.m., it's too easy to slip from "Why am I awake?" to "Why was I born?"

Wow. Really quiet overnight.

Too funny, Daniel.

Jars, that would be really awesome!

Ginger, your body is cruel. Cruel, I tell you!

I was awake at 5 because my parents and a cousin from Arizona are arriving later for lunch and my house is horrifying. My dining room is presentable so I am considering blindfolding them and leading them to the dining room where the wondrous quiche and fruit salad will distract them from the disorder in the rest of the house. It is a very good plan.

Parental units fly to NY today and leave me their truck. Sister flies down Friday and we (with Brandy) drive up Saturday. The schedule gets ever so much more complicated after that. Ugh. Bobby flies up on the 20th. DH & Brendon fly up on the 2nd. I'm not going to bother to bring a vehicle for us. We're in the mountains and we'll bring the bikes. My parents are next door with a vehicle. I kinda like the idea of being carless for a time. Stuck in a cabin in the woods unable to get to the big city. (with internet and cable tv of course) Doing the research showed it is far cheaper to rent an SUV one way to bring us back at summer's end than it is to drive both ways with fuel costs.

So yeah, I'm rambling, drinking tea, and avoiding doing the dishes.

So yeah, I'm rambling, drinking tea, and avoiding doing the dishes.

I approve. Good luck with all the craziness!

Ooh, I was awake at 5! D is in with us until we can get his a/c installed, and our room doesn't have blackout curtains, so we were all up with the sun. By the time I left at 7 he was yawning and rubbing his eyes and he hadn't even had breakfast yet.

Ooh, I was awake at 5!

us too.

gronkalicious.

I needs help!!

I have to type up two personal essays (both short thank goodness - 150 words for one application, 250 for the other) on my academic and career goals, as well as why I deserve these scholarships above and beyond other people.

Somehow I think "Lurkers support in email" and "I am pretty" aren't gonna cut it. I've never written these before.