I don't mind the rat race but I could do with a little more cheese.

Today is the first day in the past ten where NOTHING hurts. My muscles? Fine. My teeth? Fine. My emotions? Fine. I am so freaking happy that I could burst. I'm sure that setting the alarm for later than usual and dozing while snuggling with my kitties for the few hours between when Hubbyfink left for work and when my alarm was supposed to go off helped my mood. Getting a call from my sister didn't hurt either. We talked for about 30 minutes while she was on the road to Little Rock, AR, and ended our call because the cell reception was getting spotty and I REALLY needed to shower and head for work.

In other super duper happy news, I decided to try on one of the shirt/skirt outfits I purchased four years ago. I bought two outfits after I lost 30 pounds during the winter of 2006-2007. I needed to lose another ten or so to fit into the outfits. These two outfits have been hanging on my closet door since I started Jenny last August. Today, I am finally small enough to wear the outfits and I am in the mauve top and olive skirt with multicolored ribbon trims at the hemline. I'm SO happy. I tried taking a full-length photo with my phone, but it didn't come out. Y'all will just have to see me in person before I shrink out of these clothes. :)

Work's still hellacious and the issues with broken databases and stubborn network elements hasn't cleared up. Those issues may not clear up before I go on holiday, but at this point I don't care. I am going to do what I can today and I am biking to work tomorrow and leaving early to make up for all the late nights and I am going to make Hubbyfink take me out for Mexican food where I can get my queso and drink on and start my vacation right.

Yesterday was glorious. The sun was out and the air temp was in the 70s. I wore myself out swimming laps in the pool as Hubbyfink practiced his swordwork on the deck in the morning. We all spent much of the day running between the pool and the surf and back again. Unfortunately, none of us thought to apply sunscreen early enough so everyone was sporting a little pink by dinner.

We broke out the margarita fixings last night and psalite, pirategirleee, Hubbyfink and I boiled ourselves in the hot tub for a while. The night before we pulled out Rock Band at carthew's request and spent the evening pretending to be musicians. MissyAnne's pretty good on the bass guitar and Sir Aelfred brought down the house with "Aqualung". Much fun was had by all.

Hubbyfink got to play a little bit of "Halo" on the big screen in the theatre room. He found it disorienting but fun.

Today has been overcast and very, VERY windy. MissyAnne, Psalite, Livia and I checked out cute beach shops while allasondrea, Francesca, and PirateGirleee took off in search of yarn and bead shops. I found a place that does old timey photos; Hubbyfink and I will be getting a photo of us in old fashioned bathing costumes. :) I bought a bat-shaped kite and took it out for a fly this afternoon. I suppose it's kind of cheating to fly a kite in storm force winds (the red flags are out today), but I have nothing against shooting fish in a barrel.

We've had some close and not-so-close encounters with wildlife. I spotted a deer grazing between the pool deck and dune fence. She wasn't bothered by all the humans pointing at her from the higher deck off the dining room. She was quite content to graze in the lee of the dune and rest in the high grasses. We spent half an hour or so whale watching yesterday afternoon. We're assuming it was a humpback, but it never came close enough for us to get a good look and it never breached. It did slap the water quite a lot and those of us with binoculars could clearly see the fluke.