Sheep Guarding Llama

We slept with the windows open last night and the room was super cold this morning which bothered my sinuses so I had a bit of a “cold” day all day. I was up before seven this morning but was feeling pretty good.

We got up this morning and actually put in a bit of time cleaning the house which was great. It looks so much better today. It was a lot of effort, it had gotten pretty bad. It is amazing to me how much better we feel when the house is all cleaned up and yet we never do it.

We watched some more of the first season of How I Met Your Mother. It has been easily seven or eight years since we have seen these old episodes. They are often references later in the series so they mostly do not feel that old to me but it has actually been a very long time since I saw them. I believe that we were living in Geneseo when we first watched some of them which shows just how long ago it was! It is good to see them again. Now we can see lots of setup being done that played out throughout the entire series. Amazing how well written the whole series is.

The girls played together much of the day. They have so much energy it is crazy. They went upstairs and we could hear them playing for a long time. They are so adorable how they have this elaborate, imaginative play together. They really are best friends.

This evening the person who rented our home in Peekskill for four years came up and babysat the girls at a quarter till five and we went out to the Quiet Man pub in downtown Peekskill with Rob who had driven up from Manhattan to hang out for the evening. Liesl and Luciana were excited as they love getting to have a babysitter. They regularly mention how much they miss Morgan.

Rob got to the house around five thirty and we rode with him downtown to the Quiet Man. We haven’t been there in months. There was live music going on in the street, which was pretty cool, and it meant that everyone that was outside was sitting out front rather than out back. So we request the patio and got the whole space to ourselves which was awesome. We had some beers and a nice dinner. We really like that pub.

After dinner Rob came by the house for a Scotch and hung out for a while longer after we got the kids off to bed.

Today is Dominica and my eleventh anniversary!  Time sure does fly.  Because we have been traveling so much and away from the kids and because there is just so much going on in our lives these days we decided that for our anniversary we were just going to take it easy and spend the day at home together.

For dinner this evening we ordered in from our favourite Chinese delivery place getting General Tsou’s tofu like we always do.  A movie and a no effort, tasty dinner.  That is all that we need these days.

Rob and Abby had talked about maybe coming up our way this evening at some point.  They were thinking about taking a trip north to see the leaves in the Hudson Valley but they ended up not coming up.

It’s Friday.  Tomorrow is Dominica and my wedding anniversary.  Eleven years now, if you can believe that.  And all of it documented on SGL!  Hard to believe that our whole lives are here at this point.  Pretty crazy.

Today is the end of my week back in the office.  We have not heard anything about my non-compete paperwork yet which is making us a little nervous.  We were not really supposed to have heard anything by today as it just went in on Monday and the process is supposed to take seven to ten business days which puts the earliest that information would be expected would be on Tuesday of next week.

I have transitioned, already, from doing “normal” work to just doing transitional work helping people to get ready for me to leave.

Nothing exciting today.  Normal day in the office, other than waiting to hear about the paperwork, and then home in the evening to spend time with the family.

It’s Thursday.  Since having put in my notice and then being gone for over a week on vacation to Austin nothing really feels like normal work anymore.  My days are very different than they were before, which should go without saying, I suppose.  Mostly everyone, both work and at home, we are into a just sit and wait mode.  Our hope is that everything gets cleared easily and we just have a few final weeks to work through.

Wednesday.  Was running a little on the late side this morning.  I got to see the girls before leaving the house, though, which was nice.

Work was better today, less stressful and I am not freaking out as much as I was yesterday.  Had a good day overall.  Not very eventful.

Joe left yesterday so today is our first time back together at home as a family since before SpiceWorld.