A lovely vacation came to an end on Saturday morning. I got up before the sun to see it rise over the ocean one more time before we left. I am so grateful to have spent a week beachfront with my family in Emerald Isle. You can see
the beginning of vacation in this post and pics I put up on
Instagram here. The full vacation post will be up on Wednesday. We left Emerald Isle at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. Travelling on the Fourth sucks it.
Trip home happenings: I made my own DD iced coffee at some Hess gas station in Vanceboro, NC; we stopped to pee and happened to find ourselves in Dismal Swamp where the water was...dismal; and I had a toddler-like hanger episode and ate McDonald's for the first time in over a year. Otherwise it was nine hours in the car and by the end it was like Survivor up in that bitch.
MFD and I got home at 5. Geege was overjoyed, Mae growled at us for a while. Gus was so excited before he remembered he was supposed to be angry. So he puked dramatically and then ignored us all night. Home sweet home. I love being on vacation but I miss my dogs so much even though I know they're in good hands with my dog sitter.
The awesome thing about a vacation with a washer and dryer is that you come home and all of your clothes are clean. So you have time to wash sheets and towels and all that you left for yourself before vacation and go through all of your mail.
Other Saturday night things: Wawa hoagies, Orange is the New Black, and restraining Geege and Mae for hours while 1776 fireworks went off every minute. Fun times.
There's no way in hell I was going food shopping, and we were totally washed out of food. Peapod wasn't delivering on Sunday so I used Instacart and had my groceries by 10 a.m. Sunday morning. Weekly food prep: breakfast burritos from the freezer for breakfast; strawberries/peaches/plums and celery for snacks;
greek orzo salad for lunches; grilled chicken thighs, steamed asparagus, and caprese salad for dinners.
I had to pay some attention to the flower beds too for the dead heading and all that crap.
Otherwise, I hung with the dogs, read, finished the third season of Orange is the New Black, and just enjoyed doing nothing before getting back into the swing of life.
Back to work for me today. Back to targeted exercise. Back to not eating a bunch of crap.
How was your Fourth? How have you been?
