there's a man hot-tubbing in my tea!

home. headache. long day-long ride home.

even chaco is exhausted-he's curled up beside me, too tired to finish his treat! he's had a long week. bruno was able to relax around the cats, but chaco was on edge most of the time; he just needs to be around the cats for an extended period of time to get used to them.

this morning, i decided that i really needed to stop by and put up the banner that i made, because hopefully it will help make a great ending to a fabulous trip! so i went an hour out of the way to branson to put it up. i guess it wasn't really out of the way, because i really had to stop at dick's 5 and 10! besides, the drive is so easy (i remember when it used to be a 2-lane, under construction and one night when i was driving to k.c, i almost got in a wreck because of the construction-that was YEARS ago!) anyhoo, when i got there, i pulled out the tiki torches to hold it up (i wasn't sure how i was going to support it, but i found tiki torches at walmart that were just the right height!), and put them in the ground, then when i tried to zip tie the banner to them, they kept leaning over. well, i forgot to get tent posts to anchor it, so i looked around and found a pile of scrap wood that was being thrown away and broke off a couple of pieces that i could pound into the ground (i brought one of dad's many mallets and i had some purple duct tape) it was standing when i left, and i tied a card to it with a 'catch-up' letter. hope it's still standing and they don't miss the letter!

this is what happens when the people i want to see are gone on vacation

as i was leaving, someone was pulling in-through the circular drive. hopefully i didn't scare the neighbors!

then we stopped at dick's 5 and 10 because they had the pillows that mom and i like, and we've had difficulty finding them. so i bought one for me and one for her-they only had two. so i couldn't be picky about the designs... i have difficulty sleeping with any other pillow, in fact, it may take awhile to break this one in. anyone else out there with this problem?? gotsta have your own pillow?

i'm excited

tonight i still need to take an online assessment before i go to the assessment center tomorrow! ugh. i might just have to wake up and do that tomorrow morning, my head isn't feeling it right now. i also wanted to re-read a chapter in my leveraged leadership book-because it's just that good.

so, i was worried about my package that was supposed to arrive while i was away..no worries, it arrived! i now have a little man hot tubbing in my amazing tea cup that maria got for me! yea!

i need to go buy a good canister of tea! world market or whole foods, ready or not, here i come!!

wow. i just re-read through this post, and i can tell i have a headache-super flat...sorry!

ok, i'm off to find some excedrin and take a shower-gotta get rid of this headache!! boo.
julie