Day 41 - Long island here I is

My mom asks me everyday if I'm going to update the blog even though I'm sitting next to her able to give her real-time updates on request.

I left Spain and endured the flight with 2 movies (Time Traveler's Wife & Benjamin Button) and finished a book (Thirteen Moons by Charles Frasier) and arrived at JFK huggled John and my mom. We loaded up the van and mom cranked the ignition and it wouldn't start. Quite an ordeal involving a tow truck, rental car, Audrey the dog, Jamaica Queens and lots of money spent.

Now I'm here in my room unsure how to dive into the art of scrapbooking. Yesterday we picked up a shit ton of supplies and I spent an hour looking through photo albums this morning, but I feel like disturbing the peace of these 20 year old+ albums is sacrilegious so I'm still at square one. Even once I find some photos, I know I'm going to be intimidated by all of the little pieces and fitting them together. Hopefully after I have a few under my belt I'll get the hang of it. Let's hope that's not the case with child-rearing.

Speaking of which, I definitely felt myself getting thicker Wednesday & Thursday of last week, which was pretty bizarre. Lately I've been falling asleep at 7:30ish. I know, it's ridiculous. By the time it's 5pm I'm like, Wheeewwwwhh alright, I'm ready to put myself down, then I look at the clock in disbelief and force myself awake for another 2 hours. The flip side is that I've been waking up at the crack of dawn everyday. I've also been fighting a cold, which hasn't been too bad at all and may account for the inability to stay awake.

My intentions up to Friday are that I spend time with Ashley, Gabby, Gina, Jessica, Loren (alphabetical order), and of course Tim, Ma & Pop, eat a lot of peaches because they taste great all the time, and produce something close to a scrapbook. I'm enjoying being here.