Sweet Sweet Summer

Sorry, I've been quite lazy about this whole blog thing.

Some Updates:

• I have a job security (part-time, fun, great pay) until the end of September and can look for new jobs in the meantime. Yay! I have applied for a few. No word yet, but it is still early...? We'll see. I definitely feel so much more qualified having just completed a great program.

• Cricket is potentially quite sick. We'll know more later this week. Preliminary diagnosis: uveitis. Could be chronic. Sad, but less so if treatment is affordable and we can take good care of her until she's mended. Fortunately we now have A/C in our bedroom to offer her (and us!) a place of refuge on days like today-- a humid 93 degrees.

• We had a fabulous cabin weekend with friends -- a blissful afternoon on a pontoon and at the sandbar of a nearby Wisconsin lake. Sun + water + brew + pals + grilled veggies + SPF 55 = time well spent.

• Also, reading a new book -- Let the Great World Spin. It didn't strike me as fabulous at first-- too down-and-out for my mood-- but it has grown on me and so have the great variety of characters. I'm looking forward to getting further into it now. SB is also reading it, as it is the first of our 2-person book club books. Yes, that's right. We're reading the same books so that we can talk about them. Can't wait for the next one -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.