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I am back from my extended holiday weekend. Much fun was had and I only have at current count about four "problem" bug bites. ;) As always, returning to regular life/work/reality after a vacation is teh suck. Ah well.

More update-age later; need caffeine.

updates, the good and teh suck

The weekend overall was really nice. We got to see the only game against Toronto that the Sox actually won: Saturday night, when the weather was lovely and we were WAY high up in the bleachers (literally the last row). Then on Sunday morning there was much confusion and disorganization trying to get ready to leave for the cottage -- luckily we mostly found it humorous rather than frustrating.

Finally we got to the cottage, and several days of pleasant relaxation ensued. The weather was lovely pretty much the whole time, and although Isaac was quite cranky off and on, overall we had a good time. Isaac took a serious shine to his aunt sandykidd, who now has a standing invitation to move up here and become his nanny. I think she is his new favorite person (with the possible exception of me and gramma, LOL).

And then we packed up and came home and it rained and rained. Ah well.

Isaac was a bit reticent about returning to daycare today, understandably so, but I'm sure he'll be fine.

( And now the bad news. Lots of financial woes awaiting when we got home last night. )

I cannot even begin to tell you how stressed I am about all this money stuff. Right now, I have enough in my bank account to pay the mortgage (due last Friday but I have a few days' grace) and this Friday's daycare bill, with $3.71 remaining. That's right, three dollars, to get me through until my next paycheck on the 15th. Not to mention the gas, electric, phone, cable-TV, and internet bills, all of which are at least one month overdue; or the credit-card bill that I paid online just now. And tomorrow I have a plumber coming to look at the leaks in my kitchen sink. I'm sure she will want to be paid as well.

All isn't lost, of course. I can, and obviously will have to, tap into my savings. It has taken me over a year (since I bought the house and wiped out everything I had) to build up about $1300 worth of savings. And it looks like I'm going to have to just about wipe that out in order to catch back up from this month. If Brian ever coughs up the check he owes me, that'll help too, and then I think we may have to have a talk about rethinking our financial arrangements, because this thing where I pay all the huge bills and he pays all the little bills and takes two months to pay me back my half is just not working out.

To sum up: Money sucks. I am super super stressed. Should have stayed on vacation.

on a more pleasant note

An interesting thing happened the other day when we were riding the subway into Boston to show my SIL the sights of the city. Isaac was sitting on my mom's lap and I was sitting across the aisle so I had the perfect opportunity to observe this. Next to my mom was another mom, and next to her was her husband, and next to him was their son, maybe 3 years old tops.

Well, Isaac looked over, noticed the other kid, gave a big inviting smile, pointed to himself, and said "Isaac." It was totally clear that he was introducing himself and trying to make friends. Of course, between the roar of the subway train and the two intervening people and such, I don't think the other boy actually understood what Isaac was saying, so he just gave Isaac a blank look, but still, I thought it was so neat that my boy was being so proactively sociable. It was like a little peek into a whole aspect of his personality that I had suspected but never seen such clear evidence of. Pretty cool.