Join Me in Snarkville

Yes, I’m back to the world of the blogging.  I’m sorry for leaving you a whole week with nothing, but since I barely got my bags packed I had no time to actually get the posts ready to go.  Problems with getting bags packed involved me being both the primary packer of useful stuff (Prince is going to have a cow here, but it is true.  I pack things like clothes, underwear, and such.  He packs power cords.  He can spend hours packing up a camera, where I spend less time making sure three people aren’t naked for a week.  In total fairness, he does pack his own toiletries — as my passive aggressive ways would require that I leave out something important like his razor if he didn’t) and being affected by the plague.  (what a run-on sentence, um, sorry.)

So, not only am I back in the blogging world, I’ve stopped coughing up a lung to return.  I also sound like a girl too — just saying that’s relatively new too.

Want to know where I’ve been? What I’ve done?  Why?  Me, too — when you figure it out, please share.  Since, it has been too long since I’ve been bonding with you, I have a list of stuff — just random stuff from the past week.

1. Note to person who leaned on me on the airplane for 4 hours a week ago.  Yes, I knit.  Yes, I knit the WHOLE time.  Yes, I’m freakishly good at knitting even with an audience who felt the need to make bodily contact with me (and no, I’m not related to this person).  Yes, the woman to your left was knitting too (was that weird for you?) and it would be ok with me, if you leaned on her and stared for a while.  Oh, and I had the plague (or sinus infection, whatever) and I think you might have it now.
2. I have finally, after 3+ years as a knitter, made a scarf.  Yes, I was shocked too.
3. No matter how much sleep or lack of sleep a little boy gets on the airplane, he will not go to bed until 10pm when he arrives.  He will fight sleep and only the promise of no one having fun without will get him in the bed long enough for his body to fall deep, deep asleep.  He will however wake at 5am the following morning.
4.  We spent a small portion of our trip converting the Queen Mum and Dad to Mac people.  (My father wishes to let it be known that while he may USE a Mac, he is not going to become one of THOSE Mac people — I told him it was ok.)  I have to say the conversion was simple, once you ignore the grossly stupid mistake (of failing to read the directions) I made causing me to restore to factory one machine at midnight and the fact that the Apple store closest was, um, CLOSED (the horror).  But week one into the new set-up and my parents seem to be doing well.
5. We spent 4 nights on board the Carnival Freedom.  This is the newest ship from Carnival and we had a blast.  Now, for the record the blast had nothing to do with the decor (HORRIBLE and seriously over the top and ugly), the ports of call (Key West and Cozumel), or the open bar (free drinks for four days, anyone?) — we had a blast because it was a relaxing trip with fun people and good time was had by all.
6. Then we get back on the plane and return home.  One very tired four year old, slept and sweated on me the whole first flight — which really just gave him the energy to stay up and play with Dad for the whole second flight (for the record the second flight was almost 2 hours longer than the first — and Prince isn’t letting me forget it).
7. I still have a bit of the plague, but it seems to be wanning.
8. While we were gone we had Thanksgiving dinner.  Which for the record is just as good a week before Thanksgiving as on Thanksgiving.  I’m thinking bout only making the sides I love this year and going out for the turkey.  (Oh, and I may make some sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top too.)
9. For my amusement and desire for personal space, I prevented the jerk in front of me from laying in my lap (pet peeve — I HATE it when the person in front has to recline all the way back).  He was totally annoying about it — but I held up (a well placed pillow on my knee helped.  He also had the entire row of seats to himself, and I had a Prince and Duke in my row.  I was also not allowed to knit the whole flight, because Duke decided he wanted to “play with his yarn” (which I was knitting his blanket with) and Prince took umbridge that I handed Duke knitting needles to play with.  There are days I don’t get Prince.
10. Finally, I came home with three suitcases of clean clothes (still not unpacked) and a dog who isn’t picked up from the kennel yet.  We have 4 cats who are VERY.GLAD.TO.SEE.US. if we’d just fill their food dishes and FIVE pieces of real mail in a pile of junk.  Welcome back.

So, what have you been up to this week?