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Lightning bugs! There are lightning bugs outside my window!!

And I saw a hummingbird today ... um, at one of our flowering bushes.

I have nothing else of import to say. :)

My friendslist seems to be erupting into spontaneous applause today just at the fact that it's September. Yay September. Let me join in - I'm thrilled that summer is over and fall is *almost* here. Woo.

galagan took the afternoon off yesterday, and we drove to Brattleboro, Vermont. (Why Brattleboro? The answer is mostly because we could.) It was a gorgeous day - and I even spotted a few stray branches on those Vermont trees starting to turn colors. Note that yesterday was still officially August, which seems Too Early for These Things. Not that I'm complaining. We drove into New Hampshire purely for Elena's benefit - it was her 21st state. Yes, you read that right. (Before the grand cross-country drive, she had been to *6* states though. That effort really pushed her into new territory. She has been to more states than she is months old - that would be 18, next week). Anyway, we wandered around downtown Brattleboro, which is very cute and quaint. Elena did not want to walk though. She's in a phase where she will only walk 10-20 feet before falling to her knees and whining.

Today's big accomplishment has lots o' back story. ( Back story cut for patheticness and rambling )

We are the proud renters of a house!!! It has its own 4 walls and *everything*!!!! Yay.

kassrachel and yaoobruni are wonderful hosts, as most of you know.

While not running around looking at apartments or exploring, I was mostly a hermit on my trip, because well, I could. I got to sit all by myself and read books and not deal with other people or their demands. I don't get that opportunity much (or ever). So I was non-social, and I didn't get to see anyone while there. But there will be plenty more opportunities for that later.

I read many books while gone (all titles and authors off the top of my head) - including Three Junes, by Julia Glass, which I really enjoyed. The Commitment, Dan Savage's book about marriage (pretty good), a whole lot of Dykes to Watch Out For collections (yay!), and much of Anne of Green Gables (it had been a while - yay again!).

Um.

I could rant a tiny bit about my trip home, which was mostly fine (United sucks, "on time" does not mean "we have landed" to me but "We are getting off the plane now" (related: to the ground crew at Dulles - I don't care if it's raining and other people gatechecked their bags, I want off the freaking plane! so unlock the doors!), stupid girl from Florida sitting behind me needed to STFU). Ahem.

Anyway - we leave SOON. Wow.

ETA: I also read Tender At the Bone by Ruth Reichl. Very good.