Where have I been?

I have been on vacation, wonderful not at work vacation. Was it a nice relaxing vacation, aah NO!!! Let me start at the beginning...Sunday 12/7...not bad did a Ride class at 8am, met up with friends and had a great day just hanging out. Mon. 12/8 nothing to write home about just a relaxing day with hubby and Kailyn..she is so my girl, hee hee. Tues. 12/9 no Kailyn she went to Papa Canns today, so I had the whole day to myself, then it was off to the gym at 3pm, great workout...Wed. 12/10 gym day, not much else, but nice hubby and I watch an NCIC marathon of about 9 episodes, we love this show and have only recently discovered it, yeah we know we are about 5 years late, but we are catching up quickly. Thur 12/11 We went into Boston and had dinner at Cheers (bull and Finch restaurant) it was very good but the next time I will eat closer to the Wang Center. After dinner we walked to the Wang Center and took in a performance of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, it was

AWESOME!!!! FANTASTIC!!! SO GOOD!!! WE LOVED IT!

WE returned home to an incredible ICE STORM, we have a huge and I mean huge pine tree in our front yard and half of it was on the ground, there were tree limbs everywhere, I couldn't believe it, we had maybe 40 trees all with some sort of damage in our yard when we awoke in the morning, not only that we had no power, however we did have heat, ahh Natural gas you may be expensive but you are always on(thankfully) We spent all of Friday in the dark, no electricity, but we didn't let that stop us from celebrating our 4th year wedding anniversary, we traveled to Worcester and had a nice dinner in one of the only places with electricity in our county, thank you Texas Road House, we returned home to a very dark street, still no power, ohh well walk the dogs and go to bed. B had to work in the morning 12/13 so he was not pleased he had to take a very lukewarm shower, he states it was very chilly but with a touch of warmth. I sent him off to work at the wee hour of 5am. I awoke at 9:30 am to complain to Annabelle that there was no electricity and half the city had power last night why couldn't we, then out of the corner of my half opened eye I see a green light on my DVR box, oh my goodness we have power, WOOHOO! Never was I so happy to have power. However my dear friends in Sterling did not get power until Monday night..4 whole days later.Sun 12/15 we had breakfast with friends and spent the day getting food and replacing everything we lost in the fridge and freezer, not fun or cheap.

Mon 12/16 I had Kailyn all to myself as B had to work overtimes the prison. We had a great day we played, we laughed, we slept, oh how we slept and then it was time for her to go home.

Remember I said we had an ice storm well things were still not back to normal as of Tuesday and as I was waiting for Kevin to drop off Kailyn for the day, mind you the town they live in still has no power as of Tuesday. So anyway I am waiting for Kevin when all of a sudden there is a knock at the door and I assume it is Kevin, but I open the door and standing there on my porch was an officer from my station, he said he was there to take me to work, we were in a state of emergency and I was being forced in to work with a police ride, ahh no I had a baby coming who had no heat in her house I carefully explained it to him very nicely and he let me off the hook, as I was explaining it to Kevin showed up with Kailyn and he said "very well then see you when you come back from vacation" and left. Can you image being forced into work because you answered the door? I can and now I have personally seen it happen, had I not had Kailyn I would have gone in, but there was no way I was bringing an 11 month old to work. Okay Tues 12/16 had Kailyn all day and B was home with us, now I love the man to death but really he threw off my whole day with her. We didn't get in our nap, hello I'm on vacation I should get a nap and so should she. We did manage to have a nice breakfast and enjoy each others company, then we returned her to her daddy, nice day all in all. Wed 12/17 guess what I woke up to this morning 4 inches of snow, snow can you believe it? Yeah I know it is December in Massachusetts. So I got up and shoveled, I remembered just this morning that I hate shoveling!!! I did it though with a smile on my face as I wanted B to see what I had done while he was at work, its a guilt thing. B finally got home and I was tired from shoveling all day so we ordered a pizza and had another NCIC marathon night actually I only watched 4 episodes and went to bed at 6pm and B continued to watch the next 4 episodes. I had to get up at 1am and get ready for work, ahh I had to return to work only to find out I was being forced in the morning meaning, I don't get to go home at 6am I have to stay till 10 am, what a nice welcome back from vacation gift, NOT!!!

So here I sit all refreshed from vacation...ahh not so much.