Pardon me while I vacate...

*sings* I'm on vacaaaaaaSHUN! I'm on vacaaaaaaSHUN! *does the Happy Dance*

With any luck, this one won't suck quite as emphatically as the last one did (hint: last one took place at the very beginning of the Worst Month Ever). As long as I keep busy instead of sitting on my proverbial duff all week and stewing over the Great Unknowns, I should do fine. I've already got a few short-jaunt travel plans, a hair appointment, my anniversary dinner with Kristi on May 1 (oh, just try and look surprised), coffee with at least a couple of friends, and a few bits of official-ish stuff like getting some of the 36,092 backlogged puzzles that are piling up typed and mailed. And yes, there will be downtime in there, too; it's just that I've decided that excessive downtime is extraordinarily bad for me.

If you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go do something completely unproductive....

I've just had a disturbing vision of the future:

Abbey: [playing with her Little People dolls] See, Dad? The girls have hypnotized all the boys, so they win. Except for her: she doesn't have a boyfriend.

I am not looking forward to her teenage years.