Should of had this up yesterday…*shurgs* Oh well

Well…Around 11 o’clock this morning (give or take a few minutes here or there), Raya & Derrick were off…

My morning started at 2 AM. O.o *falls over* [I haven’t gotten very much sleep since…Only dozed off and on between 1 & 4. ]
Todd called at 2 asking for a ride from the bar…& wanting to come over to see Derrick & Raya off.
They were awake around 5:30 AM (not sure of the exact time on that either), instead of the planned 7 AM.
By 7 AM we were having burgers off the grill…Todd had brought over hamburger and wanted to grill. At least we all had a full belly this morning…Even if I was feeling quite comatose while driving. *weaves all over the road*

Took Raya & Derrick to the airport to pick up the rental car. They got a Ford Escalade…It was a really pretty red.
Todd, Harley and I came back to the house to wait for them. They got here and began packing up the Escalade. They managed to fit all their stuff in it…Not sure how, but they did. *laughs*

Shortly after they left I had to take Todd back to Gaylord, as he was suppose to be calling one of his friends from work at noon, because they were suppose to be going to the Cherry Festival in Traverse City.

Todd is suppose to call sometime…Said something about coming back over tonight (don’t see that happening if he and Arte do what they were suppose to be doing…Which was basically the T.C. bar crawl.) or tomorrow. Hope he manages to find his way back here, as it’s his last day off this week.

He’s got Tuesday & Thursday off next week…Alpenfest week…So don’t know if I’ll get to see him either of those days or not. And he’s requested the 25th – 27th off for a festival thing downstate that it sounds like his family goes to every year. So don’t think I’ll be seeing him that week either…Lest he come over when he has to be to work the next day. *shrugs*

Checked online with the post office, Sonja’s package with her coat arrived yesterday, so she wasn’t that long without it. *tries to remember if I had updated since taking Sonja to camp* Eh…I’ll check later, too lazy to do it now. Heck…I know I haven’t written about yesterday either…Raya & Derrick came along on walkies with Libby. [Got to see one little bat stuck to a building before Raya left.]

But yeah…I think it’s break time…I need to get some food into my belly…& mayhaps attempt a nap somewhere along the lines.

 

*has returned*

The nap turned out into full out sleeping…Think I’m finally caught up now.

Well…It’s been nearly 24 hours since Raya & Derrick left. It feels weird. Last night, though I knew they were gone, I still had that feeling that they were just out somewhere and they would be home anytime. Still doesn’t feel quite right now either.

 

Anyway…A looks says I haven’t updated since Saturday…So you didn’t get Sonja going to camp.
Which is the usual…She got there, decided after getting settled in she didn’t need us there anymore, and pretty much shooed us away. Almost home Mum realized she didn’t have her long sleeved shirt, which led us to the thought that Sonja didn’t have her jacket either. Got home to find out we were right…So Monday I went to the post office and sent out a package to Sonja. Said package included her jacket, a dress she took last year that I thought she might want this summer too, the Sunday comics (since she hadn’t had a chance to read them this week-end), a letter from me, & a letter Derrick wrote signed by him and ‘Aunt Wolfie’ (Raya).

I’m wanting to send her something else since she’s going to be gone for two weeks…But I haven’t a clue as to what. Usually when you think of Care Packages you think of goodies & snacks, but they aren’t allowed to have such in their cabins…So I have to come up with something else…Probably next Sunday’s comics anyway.

Raya forgot her one pair of shoes here…She couldn’t find her Slytherin robes before they left either. I still haven’t found them…[Hope they didn’t get mixed up in any of the stuff they tossed out. O.o]…But I’ve got to get to doing something with that closet of mine…Maybe they are in there somewhere yet. Told her I’d send them along when I found them…She needs them before November 21, 2008 *nods* After all…She needs them to wear to Half-Blood Prince. [And I’m not giving up on us making the premier for Deathly Hallows…Even if it has to be for the second part of it. *hugs Raya*]

*has a moment* Yeah…It’s hard to think that it’s back to virtual hugs for a while…Got kind of use to having the real ones.
No more running around the house evading capture…No more chasing through the house, intent on capture…No more walks down the road to the tubes, or picking up rocks and wiping them off on Derrick’s pant legs…No more hour long rides where we are no further than 15 miles from home (Should of done that one more time.)…And a few plans for the summer that just didn’t get done…

Was suppose to go see the dinosaurs, as Derrick hasn’t ever been there, & Raya (& the Critters) wanted to see them again…Didn’t make it to sailing on the Manitou (Raya & I were suppose to do that last summer, but ran out of time…So it was postponed to this summer.)…Didn’t make it back to the forts, or the island…Was suppose to make it to the historic mill this time around too…Didn’t get to the Soo Locks…I’m sure there are a few odds and ends that I’m forgetting even now. [Oh yeah…Like that boat ride down the Jordan River…]

Random thought: It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly a year since the book Deathly Hallows came out…[& Raya’s first visit…I still have confetti in my front yard from where I tossed it on her after she got here. *laughs*]

Tomorrow (the 11th) will mark Raya & Derrick’s one month of marriage. *sprinkles confetti all over them* They should be in Louisiana by then…The rental car is due back by something like 9:30 AM Friday.

Well…As my little Critter is wanting of the foods…& he is all I have to keep an eye on today…Suppose I should feed the little thing…That and he was just rubbing up against me like a cat meowing at me, demanding that I remember that I told him when I was done here that I would make him ‘yellow eggs’. [That is his name for scrambled eggs, as they end up, well, yellow.]

Hopefully I hear from Raya & Derrick today, to say they made it down there.

Hopefully I hear from Todd today, to say he’s coming back over.

Harley has a T-ball game today…I think…It’s suppose to be his last bit of T-ball for the season…I

think…

Sooo…I’ll be on my way, and get back to the lot of you later…

Plus…I have an RPG entry I need to finish…And a hiatus I need to put up on Raven’s diary…And yeah…A whole lot of things that should have been done already that I haven’t gotten around to doing as of yet…

Plus…I really need to think about seeing what day I go back to school next month…Gods…It’s hard to believe it’s almost time to go back to school again. *sigh* What has happened to summer?

*is about ready to run a name me contest again as I can’t think of one on my own*