1.  So, we spent last night discussing all the ways we could remodel The Farm to make it more comfortable.  The Boy, apparently, spent all day dreaming about that gorgeous hillside.  Looks like that property is not yet out of the running!

2.  Day off today.  Day off begun with a long, lazy, lie-in and a phone call from one of our NH friends wanting to send us a link to “the perfect house” and also to tell me that she found me a perfect part-time job.  The house is, actually, semi-interesting, though I have to say I’m not particularly interested in a new job at the moment. Am very interested, though, in the fact that our friends are doing legwork on our behalf.  It’s nice to feel like they’d welcome us up there, invading their state with our New York ways!

3.  According to my friends at the ROP, the drama just continues to escalate.  I am feeling well and truly grateful for the dust plume that got me the hell away from her when it did.

4.  According to the ditzy manager at the new branch, the meeting I have to attend at the ROP next week is, in fact, a baby shower.  I’m grinning like a fool as I write this, even though I would have protested, if asked, that I don’t need a silly shower.  I’m just simply tickled and touched that my friends there want to do something so nice for me.  I have not, over the last two years, been at my best while on the job.  It’s good to know I didn’t alienate people too much – or that they understood & didn’t hold it against me.

5.  Another overcast day.  Hot & humid, but SO MUCH BETTER than the summer hell that was last week.