I have Columbus day off. I have thus far cleaned the bathroom, cleaned and vaccuumed my bedroom (honestly can't remember the last time I did that, and the cloud of dust that came out of the vaccuum when I turned it on says a looooong time). I was going to make a roast for dinner, but it is still almost entirely frozen, even though I took it out of the freezer yesterday morning. Oh, well. I'll make a potato gratin with ham and gouda instead of the mashed potatoes and roast beef that I was planning on.

Actually, I bet Hec is merely indifferent to this site....

So you'd think. But I clicked, looked and gave a single low chortle.

Emmett has Columbus Day off, except it's just noted as a Teacher's Planning day. Teachers were used to their Columbus Days off around here, I guess, because they always still get it off but in disguise.

At Emmett's kindergarten it was "Indigenous Persons Day." There was also some celebration of the moon dealie around Veteran's Day.

Anyway, Emmett is very happily returned to his mother's house with his brand new, just available copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. Which will be all the rage among the middle school set.

Thank goodness that book is out! I was begining to think there might be a riot

Thank goodness that book is out! I was begining to think there might be a riot

It's a phenomenon! Not quite up to Rowling standards, but there was eager awaiting.

Good luck with the job stuff, Jess.

I hope ita's having a good day.

My day has been bananas. Put Owen on the bus at 8:30, took Liv to preschool at 9, stayed for her swim lesson, left to volunteer at Owen's classroom from 10-11, picked Liv up from school at 11:30, went to the gym to work out at 1 and am now prepping for a board meeting at 5.

I have Columbus day off

I don't but I'm behaving like I do.

brand new, just available copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

I do hope that the barcode on this book scans with our register scanner, as opposed to the most recent book in the series, which I always have to key in. It's a first-world complaint, but it is a PITA.

If it makes anyone at work feel better, I have to go into the office to do a few things that I didn't have time to do on Friday before I leave town tomorrow.

I have so far used my day off to bake cinnamon sugar muffins, drink my newly arrived Kona coffee, watch birds (song sparrows on their migration!), play with the dog, exclaim over our also newly arrived buffalo hide (thank goodness it was only half--it takes up the whole couch as it is), watch Mad Men, and work up some piano/vocal songs with the SO.

Pretty doggone close to my vision of a perfect day. Later there will be hockey on the teevee, and chicken fajitas for dinner.

The bonus of us getting all ready for kiddoes and then not having any on Saturday is that the house was clean for Sunday, so I can loll with impunity.

I have survived another Turkey Day...but I really don't want to go to work tomorrow.