Toledo Zoo

I think I neglected to mention that when we got home from the zoo on Sunday, we found our dumb cat stuck in a tree. Mimi immediately suggested we call the fire department, but fortunately we managed to coax her down with treats and a ladder. No idea how long the poor thing had been up there or how exactly she managed that.

Am leaving Saturday morning for nine days. Have packed nothing. Have not read class materials. So not ready.

Five thousand toys and dolls and she plays with the Neutrogena. Sigh.

I distracted myself somewhat by messing around with design on this page, and I think I’m going to stick with this one for now. I liked the other template I had up but the comments got screwed up when I upgraded Wordpress and I didn’t have the patience to figure out the problem. As far as this site goes, I have some other ideas brewing but it remains to be seen if they will come to fruition.

I distracted myself when not in front of a computer with the Art Fair, which was difficult to avoid since it was taking place all over my daily routine. I took a ton of pictures, for the first time in the 20+ years I’ve been going to Art Fair, but I don’t have any uploaded yet. It was the first year I’ve worked on campus during Art Fair, so it was a neat experience, actually, watching the town gear up for it, deal with it, and then shake it off. And then there was the ability to go out at lunch time, buy overpriced fresh-squeezed lemonade and giant plates of funnel cake, and wander around sweating and people-watching. (Don’t get me started on WHAT THE HELL people wear to this thing. Oy.) Far more appealing then sitting in the basement breakroom eating warmed-up leftovers. Plus, all the downtown stores have sidewalk sales to take advantage of all the foot traffic, and those are fun to browse. I did pick up some new sunglasses, as well, so that’s something.

Yesterday we decided we needed a break from the house, which is no where near unpacked and settled, and the stress, and the general crankiness, and so we packed up the kids and went to the Toledo Zoo. It’s less than an hour away and provided a few hours of relatively cheap entertainment. Mimi was a bit out-of-sorts and kept complaining that she wanted to go home, but Boo was a hoot, waving bye-bye to all the animals and, typically, being more entranced with the mundane ducks than the elephants, giraffes, and penguins. Took a zillion pictures there as well, again which will be forthcoming since I haven’t had a chance to download anything off the camera. (Hey, I finally got the pictures from Kev’s birthday at the, uh, end of June uploaded, so give me a break.)

Like I said, it’s going to be a busy week, and I leave on Saturday morning for a work thing and will be gone for another week. Which I am sort of in denial about because a) I have yet to review the lengthy and rather dry materials for the class I’m taking and b) I have done nothing to prepare the girls for my absence, which will be the longest I’ve ever been gone from either of them. Ack.

So I may be here a bit in the next week and then again I may not. We’ll see.

It might be because you’re wearing sunglasses that look like this. And you haven’t noticed any oddness, except that some people are looking at you funny, but that might just be your imagination, and so you continue to walk blithely down the sidewalk until you run into someone you know also on their way back to work after lunch, who says to you “new fashion statement?” and you have no idea what they are talking about until they actually gesture and point at your sunglasses, at which point you take them off your face and look at them blankly, until it sinks in. And then you realize that over lunch you have been to the post office, the library, and stopped in for ice cream, and you can’t remember if you removed your sunglasses for any of those stops, and you have no idea how long they’ve been like that, and you start to feel like the biggest dork who ever dorked.

Not that I would know from personal experience, or anything.