Summer Vacation!

YAY FOR GORGEOUS WEATHER!!

Our summer vacation is going pretty well! We've been keeping really busy walking around town. Today we are thinking of taking the bus to the market in Bury St. Edmunds. I need to be out in this gorgeous sunshine because even though I read them COMPLETELY out of order... I'm on my last Harry Potter book now. Once finished I might be able to accomplish something else like cleaning this house or hemming my friend Christina's curtains!

But most importantly- we have some really exciting news:

Jackson lost his first tooth! He was so excited that he literally danced for an hour!! The tooth fairy did come to visit us and she left some chocolate buttons and a pound coin. Woohoo!

It seems like just yesterday I could feel his first tooth popping through and now... all growns up!

Nothing like a good 'ole milestone to make you just want to hug them... and also freeze time! It goes too fast!!

NO LUCK!

Okay, so I've had a pretty unlucky coupla days. And it all pretty much centers around the stupid Mildenhall library... Want to hear all about it?! Of course you do, or else why in the world are you reading my inane blogging?!

SO, for about a week, I have been trying to hunt down the last Harry Potter book so I can re-read it. I had Kurt look at the library for me but not being the aficionado that I am... he came back with the 6th book instead of the 7th.



This is what happens when you have minions... they are often not as competent as you'd like. It is a burden the powerful have to suffer... Strangely enough I think Voldemort would second me on this.



Anyhoo, I graciously decided to forgive Kurt. The 6th book is actually the next movie to come out and I wanted to read it eventually anyway. So, I read it. It was very good. I'm looking forward to the movie. But what I'm still REALLY looking forward to it reading the last book... still.

I woke up on Saturday and thought, "What a lovely morning! Jax and I should walk to the library and get the last Harry Potter book!"



Things started off well... we decided to ride our bikes to the Mildenhall library. Half way through our journey there...



Yes, rain in England- if you can believe it! No problem... you come to expect this sort of thing. I whipped out the rain coats I was carrying and off we went. That is when the pavement started to get uneven...



Between the raincoat, puddles and uneven pavement Jax kept falling off his bike. So, here I am walking two bikes, in the rain with a bleeding child.

But we made it to the library. You might think this is where things pick up... but you'd be WRONG! We get there, shed our rain soaked jackets and I start searching for the card catalogue. There isn't one. So, I have to bother the front desk guy. The exchange is as follows:

Front Desk Guy says, "Do you have a library card?"
Soaking Wet Me said, "No, I need to acquire one."
FDG say, "You need photo ID and proof of residence."
I say, "I don't have that... didn't think you needed ID for being able to READ."
FDG says, I will paraphrase, "Then you aren't getting any books today SUCKA!"
I cry quietly and die a little inside.

I call my friend and neighbor Jo to come and collect Jax for me, who by the way is not any more pleased to be leaving the library with no books than I am. Jo really saved the day on this one...



Poor lady wasn't even out of her jammies yet! She kindly lent me the 5th book to tide me over. So I was alright. I woke up today, my day off, the last Monday of school... and it's sunny again! I thought to myself, "I'll drop Jax off at school and then hit the library!" Grabbed some ID, proof of residence and a DNA sample should they need it and off we went. Walked all the way to the library and whatever do you suppose?! THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS-



Frick.

Who the heck is closed for business on a Monday of all days?! I'm beginning to imagine there are conspiracy theories at work here...

So, I decided to walk to my friend Kris's house. Now, Kris has Jo's copy of the last Harry Potter book. He's had it for ages and hasn't finished it. I've been trying to get it off him for ages! I decide that if I bang on his door he'll have no choice but to hand it over. As I walk along I begin to notice that I have accidentally put on the flip-flops that give me blisters after walking long distances.



I get to Kris The Slow Reader's home and, of course, he isn't there. I call him- no answer. Someone must have tipped him off. The windows to his house are open. I sit and ponder whether there is automatic prosecution for breaking and entering in this country. I wonder if I should ask the neighbor who is eyeing me conspicuously whether she might supervise my B&E so as to witness I only leave with the book for which I came. I picture headlines that read, "Harry Potter Nerd Arrested for Theft...".

I limp home to spread news of my tragedy. Defeated.

!!!UPDATE!!! After taking a SECOND journey to Kris The Slow Reader's house and having to arrange a meeting time with his flatmate... to my chagrine I found that the book Slow Reader had was in fact the SIXTH NOT FINAL BOOK!! It was the wrong one!!!!!!!!!

So, I arrived angrily at my house. My family only saved from my ire by the fact that we encountered an ice cream van on the way home... I called around to the bookstore on base. They shut in 2 minutes. Unless I had a time-turner it wasn't gonna happen. So, I made one last desperate call back to the base library. The very nice lady informed me they WERE open and they DID have the book I wanted and she set it aside for me... I went and got it.

I AM VICTORIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harry Potter!

I LOVE HARRY POTTER!



I pretty much watch the movies on a constant loop when Kurt & Jax will let me... and now I'm working my way through the books.



The new movie: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince comes out in November!!! I can not wait! Kurt just picked up a copy of the book for me at the library. (Yay for lovely husband!) I'm going to have to chain myself to the radiator when it comes out because I'm waiting for my wonderful friend Mae to come back from her wedding in the states to go and watch it in nerdy partnership with her! I've told her she needs to cancel that pesky wedding so we can go and watch in a timely fashion... but she hasn't relented... yet.



J.K. Rowling is a genius.



She invented this whole universe! I adore her and if I ever have the good fortune of meeting her I will give her a great big hug! And then I will ask her to introduce me to Rupert Grint...
I'm a sucker for a ginger... ;)



Anyhoo, this post is probably far too long to proclaim my love of all things Potter... BUT I DON'T CARE!

Wrinkles

Looking in the mirror the other day... putting on my SPF in the hopes of saving myself a couple of freckles this summer... I suddenly realized: I've got the RIGHT kind of wrinkles!



I haven't got frown lines or angry lines. I've got smile lines and surprise lines!! And I'm really kind of glad. I think people surprise me with their kindness every day. Okay, some surprise me with their stupidity but usually they leave me laughing!



As more of these little life lines start showing up on my face I'm sure that eventually people will stop mistaking me for a teenager... I won't have to carry my ID around during school hours! Can't fool them forever I guess!!!

Sundays...

Sundays kind of feel like Half-Mondays to me... blech.

Kurt and Jax go swimming on Sundays.

I can't swim so I stay home and bake cakes!

Then it's the slippery slope to Monday Morning Madness!!!

I LOVE FRIDAYS!

Fridays are my FAVORITE day of the week! I wake up VERY early and bike down to meet my good friend Christina at the local village market for my weekly dose of fruit and veg...



This is the actual market but that is obviously not ME in the yellow sweatshirt. Although she did go to a PA college apparently! It's lovely here. I feel very lucky every single Friday for the life that I've got.




I've made friends with the vendors there, Mark and Lee, and it's lovely to have a chat before the rest of the village shows up! I always bake something yummy with whatever I buy fresh that day because Friday is also my day off. This week it will be something berry as they're in season and cheap!




On Fridays they always have something a bit fun at Jax's school. Today it is The Ugly Bug Ball!! He looked so cute in the little getup we made together! And I'm putting a pic of his best mate Wills too. When they're not fighting it's a beautiful friendship based mostly on fart jokes!























I even convinced Mae to skip the gym today... HOORAY! Fridays ROCK. Sorry the video is sideways... but it's still cute!! Jax got a last minute speaking part today because someone begged off sick. Actors! Such Divas!

Grey's Anatomy

Apparently Grey's actual anatomy is centrally located around the tear ducts... cause I just watched the finale of that show and I BAWLED MY EYES OUT! I don't watch this show... I am not emotionally attached to these characters but I CRIED and CRIED!



So, I guess I'm down with the fan club, up with the hype... I'm hooked! Count me in next season if it doesn't clash timeslots with The Office that is. Jim & Pam are my original Meredith & Derrick. They have a cuter nickname too... JAM. I mean, I know Grey's has that McEverything going on but it doesn't pull my heartstrings. Henceforth JAM is McBetter in my McBook.



I think I need a hobby...

Gymeriffic!

So, I started back to the gym today... and by started back to the gym I mean that my friend Mae dragged me there. It's probably a good thing. I've gotten a little doughy. That combined with my pastiness makes it all a bit unpleasant under the flourescents...



I have no goal. I have no plan. I'm sure that is a fantastic start that most trainers would recommend in regards to a gym routine. But wish me luck anyway!

Under Construction

Thinking of starting a daily blog... but really just at the thinking stage!!

Watch this space!