Aurora Borealis

Agent Murphy and I went for a little walk around the neighborhood this morning.  I should be doing that more.  Maybe now that the weather is nice and crisp, I will.  I am happy to report that I saw four McCain-Palin yard signs (still waiting for ours to show up) and only one for Obama.  I guess Georgia is considered pretty safe to go for McCain, but still this makes me happy.

In other news, Mr. Tldz and I had a lovely evening last night just being together.  With his new commute, it normally feels like we don’t really see each other during the week.  He gets home and we have dinner and then Agent Murphy does or vice versa, depending on the timing, I pack Mr. Tldz’s lunch, Agent Murphy gets put to bed, dishes get cleaned up, etc., Mr. Tldz spends a little time catching up on e-mail or other miscellaneous things he needs to do, and then it’s time to go to bed to get up early and do it all over again.  But last night was nice.  We need to find a way to make more “us” time regularly.

I said I wanted a t-shirt and yard sign.  Finally got around to ordering them.  I hope they show up quickly!

So I came down with the cold Mr. Tldz had.  Felt pretty crappy all weekend.  Still don’t feel great today, but I didn manage to get a fair bit done.  Of course, there’s feeding the Agent, picking up toys, picking up toys again, feeding the Agent, picking up…  Well, you get the idea.  But I also got diapers folded, a load of kiddo laundry washed and put away, scrubbed the stovetop and kitchen floor, and made another test run of Agent Murphy’s proposed birthday cake.  I didn’t mess up the frosting this time, so we’ll get more of the full effect.  But my cake decorating skills definitely need work.  Maybe the Agent will get birthday wishes written on his cake.  Right now we just have squiggles.

Mr. Tldz worked from home today because he isn’t feeling very well.  Well, at least he put in a few hours.  He has some sort of cold/sinus thing going on which started yesterday.  And today I’m starting to feel like I’m getting a cold.  So I’m taking Airborne to try to keep it away.  Hopefully Agent Murphy won’t get it.  He - knock on wood - hasn’t been sick yet.  I know it will happen eventually, but it doesn’t need to be now, does it?

Though I’m sorry Mr. Tldz isn’t feeling well, it was nice to have him home again - like “old times.”

Wow.  I wish these big convention speeches weren’t so late so I could actually see them.  But in the clips I’ve seen and heard today, just wow.  Sarah Barracuda alright!  I’m finally excited about this election.  I want a yard sign and a t-shirt.

We’ll be having fudge cake for dessert tonight.  If it’s any good, I’ll use that recipe for Agent Murphy’s birthday cake.  I intended to make my butter cream frosting, but messed it up and have a bowl of goo instead.  (Sauce on your cake, anyone?)  At least I know that recipe works - well, most of the time; so I was really just testing the cake.  The recipe says it’s good enough to eat without frosting.  We’ll see.

You know, I always think with a long weekend that lots will get done and we’ll have time to really enjoy just being home, relaxing, etc.  Well, I guess we had a pretty good weekend, but it always goes faster than expectations.  Saturday we had regular errands, plus a couple of extra ones (haircuts, picking up a pair of shoes we’d ordered for Mr. Tldz).  Sunday we took Agent Murphy to a birthday celebration for his little friend E.  Unfortunately, Agent Murphy was fussy and just wanted to be held.  And he made the birthday boy cry when we tried to get them to play together.  Yesterday we went over the B.’s for lunch with a few friends.  And we were able to get a few episodes of Matlock watched over the weekend.  And Mr. Tldz got a little extra time in with his guitar, besides the normal 20 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings before he leaves (the days he doesn’t shave).  So all in all a good weekend, but Labor Day was Mr. Tldz’s only day off for a long while - well, I guess until Thanksgiving; so it’s kind of sad to see it come and go.

Now Mr. Tldz is off to work again, and we’re back to the normal routine.  We really need to figure out how we’re going to make a move to give Mr. Tldz a less taxing commute.  Let’s just hope the big tax-and-spend folks don’t win in the fall elections (you know who I’m talking about) or we probably won’t be able to make a move.