{"id":528,"date":"2006-03-26T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/26\/elaines-spring-break-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-03-26T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T16:00:47","slug":"elaines-spring-break-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Elaine’s Spring Break 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, did I tell you all that Gene left me?<\/p>\n

For a week, people. Geez. He's gone to Colorado for a class. He's driving so it takes 3 days to get there. So, I have been left ALONE and UNCHAPERONED <\/strong>for 1 week and TWO weekends. It boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

It is literally like having spring break at the ripe old age of 28 <\/strike>29. I am so loving this. I'm pretty sure that this is going to be a post that Gene would reference when he asks me…oh, sorry. Censored.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Friday, I cleaned a lot of the house. Living room, dining room, kitchen. Yesterday I continued the cleaning and organized a little in the kitchen and made the dining room look like it's used by someone other than D&D players. Today was to have been devoted to grocery shopping, garbage, etc, but I am planning on hitting the new Borders, the less pretty people mall. Oh, and laundry in there somewhere.<\/p>\n

I have also watched a ton of movies:<\/p>\n

Little Black Book<\/a> (cute, surprising twist at the end)<\/p>\n

High Society<\/a> (musical version of the Philadephia Story, starring the love of Gene's life, Princess Grace)<\/p>\n

Magnificient Obsession<\/a> (terrible, awful, watched the last 50 or so minutes on 16 times speed so I could get to the end of it already)<\/p>\n

My Life So Far<\/a> (Colin Firth looking all yummy as the dad, mmm, glasses…)<\/p>\n

American Graffiti<\/a> (sorry, the only George Lucas movie I've ever enjoyed was Howard the Duck)<\/p>\n

and now I'm watching The Last Waltz<\/a>, the filmed version of the Band's last concert. It is so far the best thing I've watched all weekend. They had a ton of guest musicians, including Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell. Loving it!<\/p>\n

I know there have been more movies. I have practically been chain-movie watching, if that makes any sense. My goal was 1 movie per day while Gene's gone. I've still got tons left, plus I was kind of hoping to hit Blockbuster for some movies that Gene won't want to watch.<\/p>\n

The dogs go to the kennels tomorrow and will be picked up Friday after work. So, I get all week to myself. My plans are to keep the house clean, go to work, eat pizza and pizza derivitives (pizza rolls, etc), read, write, watch movies. I wish I had even 1 day of vacation saved up (stupid bronchitis) to just chill out at home even more. I love chilling out at home by myself.<\/p>\n

I know that talking about loving alone time is a bad thing for a married woman to do. I am never alone, though. Most days, lunch hour and the drive to and from work is as close as I come. And the days where Gene takes the car = absolutely not an alone second or even a second not spent surrounded by people, phones, talking, noise noise noise.<\/p>\n

Scoob's begging to get up on my lap. Gotta go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, did I tell you all that Gene left me? For a week, people. Geez. He's gone to Colorado for a class. He's driving so it takes 3 days to get there. So, I have been left ALONE and UNCHAPERONED for 1 week and TWO weekends. It boggles the mind. It is literally like having…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-ready-to-ramble","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}