Wendy's Week (and a half)

I'm back! Well, sort of. I'm back physically. The mental part is a little fuzzy. Vacation hangover.

Good stuff:

• Hung out with Dad and Linda (his girlfriend, aka Primary Supervisor). We spent a fair amount of time at the rendezvous, and hit a big flea market and a gun show.
• Got Dad out walking several times. Weight control is part of his recovery from back surgery as well as prep for shoulder surgery in a few months.
• Eric had a great time at the rendezvous. Dad found a dirk that Eric bought which, apparently, was such a great deal they're both still giddy about it!
• Had a tin type photo taken with Eric, and another with Dad and Linda. I'll post those on my blog later, after I find where I packed the CD we scanned them to.
• Played Putt Putt for the first time in at least 20 years. Lost badly, but it was fun!
• Kicked butt playing Farkle.
• Eric bought Vicky's car when he got back. The two of them are proud co-owners of a red 1994 Cutlass Ciera. (Eric's name is on the title to prevent her from trading cars with the BF because her's gets better mileage, and he works in North St Louis. Yes, he's still around. Can you feel the love?)
• Restrained myself to 4 pieces of fabric from my favorite fabric vendor. There have been years I've come home with my suitcase groaning from the fabric stuffed in it!
• Vicky went out the other day to follow up on the job applications she'd put in without being told. My baby is growing up!
• Didn't do too badly maintaining my weight; only gained a couple of pounds, despite my best efforts at polishing off fry bread, pie, fries and other not-good-for-me foods.
  

Not so good stuff:

• Laundry, although I don't have nearly as much this year as usual.
• E-mails. In 10 days, I got 1,470. 28 were relevant. Fortunately, I've cleared them out already.
• It's raining and cold. No ice, though. Yet.
• Read through what I have on "Honor" so far. Found it to be shallow and, frankly, boring in spots. Lots of work to do on it, and I think I need to delve deeper into the history of the Rising so I understand motivations better.

This week (or what's left of it):

• Find more research material for Honor.
• Develop an additional story line with Highland characters to show why they rebelled and that they were far from blameless. Not that they deserved all the brutality following their final loss, but show why the Duke of Cumberland felt it was important to put the Rising down once and for all.
• Wash clothes.
• Put away luggage.
• Get back to logging food and eating right.

That looks like enough to get me through the weekend.