Catching Up...

Last weekend was a blissful weekend...time away with D, a visit with one of my very best friends and her fabulous husband-to-be, and birthday cake made by my mom. It was wonderful. Then no school Monday (holiday), another, ANOTHER, calamity day on Wednesday (black ice and pea-soup fog), and meetings all day Friday. Altogether, not a bad week.

And I’m off to visit another of my very favorite people in a few minutes. She had a baby boy last Monday and I’m taking them dinner and gifts. I can’t wait to see the little guy!! Plus I figure a little bit of time in the unsure, bleary-eyed, what-day-is-it-again? upheaval of a house with a new baby should put to rest all of my recent maternal pangs of wanting just one more around here.

Here’s for Jessisca...a little info on big happenings at our alma mater a few weeks ago during the Valentine’s Day snowstorm. The tradition goes that if the archway of the main building on campus is filled with snow, classes will be cancelled for the following day since (oh so wrongly assumed!) no one will be able to enter or leave the building. It wasn’t such a big deal, I suppose, for this to occur back when we were students and this main classroom building was, in the words of my dear friend AM, a s***hole. However, I think the campus folks got a little crazy this time because the building just underwent an $18 million renovation. I think Jess will get a particular kick out of the “passionate pipers” element to the story.

Oh. And one funny before I go... Last night D and I left the kids with my nephew and his wife so that we could go to dinner. When we returned, my niece-in-law said that she and A were playing Go Fish. As she was dealing out the cards, he all of a sudden looked at her and said, “So. Whaddya know about Anna Nicole?” I didn’t know whether to laugh or be horrified. Finally, my addition to People.com is coming back to haunt me.