I'm sorry it is so wearing of late, msbelle. Meds sound like a good direction.

I think it might be time to pull one of the ac units. I'll leave my bedroom one in a little longer, for when the humidity gets up there. But not tonight. My arms are sore. Managed 2 miles every day since friday, and even at a brisk pace, so I'm paying for it.

I need a vacation FOR home improvement. So many things I'd like to get to, but simply not enough time with daily life, especially my daily life now. I'm not complaining, just still adjusting.

I'm officially tired of being sick. Blech.

Excellent news about Drew!

java, it's been summerish during the day and cooler in the evening the last week or so. Not sure what this week is supposed to bring.

Man, I want a vacation from motherhood.

I know that feeling. Have you thought about an a pair, maybe?

It is kinda what I am thinking. I could move into the guest room and give a live in the master. They could be a student or even have a part time job and maybe I could pay a bit and give free room and baord. Not sure how it could all work, and it would to be someone trained with difficult kids.

Oh and I know I am late to this, but

The Social Network

Hahahahahahahaha

It would probably be best to go through an agency for an au pair, I bet. Are you thinking the master because it has an attached bath?

Yep. I am not even sure a live-in could work, because I cannot pay a real au pair salary, but if I could find something to work, I think a private bath for them would be needed and I also think mac would do better sharing with me than with someone new.

True.

A woman in our neighborhood has an au pair, and the girls love her, but I have no idea what she pays. I've never, in fact, met her, only the au pair. She's divorced and works full-time, so.

Some friends of mine had an au pair for a while while both parents were in grad school. They said that they didn't have to pay as much as they would for a regular live-in nanny.

True au pairs aren't paid a real salary (they get room & board and a small monthly sum), but then they are also not trained and can't stay more than a year.

Sounds like a typical day in his life! What was the play?

It's called Compulsion, and it's a not-at-all-veiled dramatization of Meyer Levin's obsession with the Anne Frank story, and how he went from representing Otto Frank's interests in negotiating with American publishers to suing the publishers and Otto Frank for having stolen his ideas for the Pulitzer-winning stage play based on the book. He really went off the deep end, and by the 1970s he was accusing Lillian Hellman of stealing his mail.

Patinkin was fabulous in it, but it was not a happy play, given the subject matter. Very well done, though.