How do you spell....

vacation? D-R-A-M-A, that's how! At least that is how you spell and sum up my vacation. Started with drama, ended with drama and a little drama sprinkled through the middle for good measure! Let me just say I hate drama, absolutely abhor it, so the drama that seemingly clouded this vacation was not of my doing. I will spare you all the details, but for the sake of venting will give you a small dose of the drama that I endured.
It started with a telephone call at 5am the morning we were leaving informing me that my Grandma had fallen and was in the emergency room. It turns out she broke her hip and back and they discovered a large aneurysm in her heart. Add that to the already long list of maladies that plague her (Parkinson's, cancer, emphysema, vertigo, blind in one eye and losing eyesight in the other, deaf in one ear and wearing a hearing aid in the other) and it is a list about as long as my leg! I think that she may be an indestructible super hero disguised in my Grandma's body!
We finally made it to the campsite after I spent the morning with my Grandma in the ER. As we were setting up our camp site I heard a very distinct sound. It sounds like the cracking, crunching, popping and crashing of wood. A tree that bordered our campsite fell over! Thank God it did not fall onto anyone or anything. I think now it must have been a sign. You know, like the sign that Dorothy and her posse read upon entering the Haunted Forrest on the way to the Wicked Witch of the West's castle? It said, and I quote, "I'd turn back if I were you". Maybe that is what the tree was trying to tell me, but alas I did not listen, I do not speak "tree". Just so you know though, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, it still makes a sound (trust me)!

In a strange twist of fate it turns out that there were a few appearances made by this person...

Now I know what you are thinking, Dorothy melted her, right? I know! I was thinking the same thing!!!!!! So imagine my surprise when she continued to show up time and time again. Man, where is a bucket of water when you need one?
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all bad. It's just that for me the drama outweighed the relaxation. My daily life is more relaxing than this vacation was. I do however have another vacation scheduled in 3 1/2 weeks to San Diego for 9 days! YES, an opportunity to redeem the dramatic vacation with a drama free vacation with just the 4 of us (and the dog). There is more than I care to detail here to be done in those 3 and a half weeks, but the anticipation of said vacation will hopefully carry me through! Oh, and did I mention I have absolutely no time to scrap?! Ugh! That makes me a little sad and melancholy at times, but what cha gonna do? This too shall pass, right??????????? ;0)

Here we go!

See ya in a week!

Hmmm, let me see....

What to post? Let's see... I got some happy mail today from Becca at Scrap in Style. Some great goodies included in the package that I won from a challenge on the site. I also got a magazine in the mail today, woohoo! Now that is happy mail!

Hubby is up in Tahoe. He took 12 of his employee's on a surprise camping trip up in Tahoe! It is only going to be for one night, but I already miss him.

I am getting my hair colored tomorrow. I don't know quite what I am going to do yet, but I am excited to get my hair done. Isn't it crazy when you work in a salon and you have to schedule an appointment at least one week in advance just to get your hair done? Seriously though, why is it that I realize that planning in advance is a necessity, when other's fail to see it's value? I had a client call this week acting all crazy because she couldn't get an appointment in the next two days. Even as I type this I got a call on my HOME phone about making an appointment tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. Seriously! 9 a.m.! Can you believe that? Okay, I need to stop before I go off on more of a tangent than I already have!

Oh, and it was over 100 degrees here today. Holy cow that's hot for May! If this is any indication of what's to come then I think I am going to curl up in a ball and shrivel up in a ball and die! Usually this kind of heat doesn't happen till much later in the season. We need to get a pool.

One last thing, I spent $72 dollars on gas today. Cool, huh? Gas is crazy expensive and shows no sign of going down significantly anytime soon. I may need to put my kids to work just to afford the gas to shuffle them around from here to there. Sheesh.

Okay, I realize that it seems like I am complaining here. That is not at all what I meant to do. I am not grumpy of pms-ing or anything! I am just sharing little bits of my daily life with you. So, with that said I bid you adeiu.

much love to all of you who endured this entire post!

Tricia