The most satisfying sound of the week was heard at 5:35 this morning. That was the sound of the alarm shutting off for nine – count them NINE – glorious days!

Vacation is here and NO MATTER WHAT I will NOT get up to the alarm even once during those days. I will get out of bed when I wake up and I will go to sleep when I’m tired.

I think it’s sad that this is all that I want from life these days.

School was a rather wild place today, as the kids are more than ready for a vacation. This vacation week is later this year than it has been in the past few, and it’s evident in the kid’s behavior.

Not that they’re bad, they’re just restless and in no mood to do school work. I’m not sure that the faculty is any different. I do plan to bring a few work related items home with me, in case I find myself in an ambitious mood (who am I kidding??), but there is no pressure to get any of it finished this week.

That’s a luxury that I don’t often have. I usually have reports to write, but at the moment I am actually caught up. (Gasp!!)

My big plan for the week is to clean my carpets. I had planned to rent a carpet cleaner one day and try to tackle the spots that Encore has christened in one way or another, but the school nurse gave me her Electrolux cleaner to use! I’m very excited. (sad isn’t it)

What that means is that I can do the cleaning in bits and pieces, at my own pace, and not have to worry about rental fees and when the machine is due back.

I like the idea of being able to re-clean spots that need more than one going over.

I’ve already cleaned the offensive hallway once. It takes about two hours for the carpet to dry, so I won’t know the results until morning.

I’m so glad that I can actually tackle this project this week. It’s been bugging me for some time.

Wew got whaled with a snowstorm this afternoon. It started at noontime and is coming down with a vengeance. We could get a foot out of it before it stops tomorrow.

Ick.

The drive home was one of those slidey, dicey affairs, so I parked my car at my apartment and walked to my hair appointment. The place I go to is about the equivalent of three city blocks away and it seemed safer to walk than to drive in the snow.

I looked like the abominable snowman when I got to the salon. The new "do" was history by the time I walked home. Not that it mattered as I was in for the evening anyway.

Dee and I had planned to go out to celebrate vacation, but there was no way either of us wanted to go out again, so we’ll have to do it tomorrow. I was looking forward to my blue drink, though.

I’m really hoping that the snow ends by morning. There’s a stamp show that I really want to go to, but it’s about forty miles north and I know that they’ll get even more of this storm than we will in this area.

I’ll have to play it by ear, but I would like to go and see some of the demonstrations. I’d say that I won’t buy any stamps because I don’t need any, but why lie?

Hey I’m not going away this vacation so I might as well spend money on stamps.

It’s cheaper (um, maybe) than going to Florida.