As far as three-day weekends go, this Memorial Day weekend was one of the nicest I’ve had in a very long time. We filled it with a shopping trip to get some new clothes for both Richard and I, a party involving the frying of several large turkeys with some friends, and much wandering about in hardware stores, looking at kitchen cabinets and countertops, and comparing the merits of various types of flooring, and in general doing our best to overwhelm ourselves with all the choices we’re going to be facing when we move. The shopping was not nearly as painful as it might have been, due primarily to the fact that I have the very best husband, who not only does not mind going clothes shopping with me; he is actually very good at picking stuff out for me to try on. This is extremely useful because I am *not* very good at picking stuff out for me to try on, so it’s nice at least one of us can figure it out. The turkey fry party was on a perfectly lovely day, and we got to see our friends’ newly landscaped backyard (lovely), but I did let them know how disappointed I was that the frying of the turkeys resulted in nothing more than cooked food. All those stories one hears about turkey fryers that involve great columns of flame shooing into the air, or exploding propane tanks really had me hoping for at least a little bit of excitement (okay, not really, but it was fun to tease them anyway).

Memorial Day itself was a quiet day, mainly because I knew I was going to be up til far too late last night (or actually, far too early this morning) , due to the fact that the women’s ensemble was scheduled for a recording session. So I tried to take a nap but wasn’t very successful and instead just decided to hope for the best. I got back home around 2 in the morning, and by that point my brain was just too wired to let me sleep much at all.

Needless to say, today my coworker (who is also part of the group) and I were a little spacey from exhaustion. Naturally this meant that we had people come in from an office across the country, and they arrived just in time to have a nice long meeting upstairs in the conference room where it’s warm and there are comfortable chairs and how I managed to *not* doze off I will never know.