then why am i their mascot?

Yesterday was my first day with no school, no visitors, no David--just me at home with just the cats. I woke up late, lounged around, finished my small to do list, watched some movies on Netflix's Watch Instantly... not much. When David came home, we talked about how the cats were probably enjoying having one of us home all the time, which somehow brought us to the idea that we needed a cat nanny. I tried to remember the conversation to share it, but I can't even figure out how it came up. I do remember doing an impersonation of how us having cat nanny would be like... but it was that kind of "you had to be there" funny...

It's been weird being on summer vacation again. I have to remember what I learned last summer: how to do little during the day and not become restless. It's difficult because summer nights always makes me want to go out with friends, but the few friends I have here in Virginia are not in Williamsburg--not exactly easy to call them up and say, "hey, let's do something!".
Last night, I got sucked into watching a Jon and Kate Plus 8 mini marathon. I didn't like that show at first, but both Megan and Natalie mentioned it recently, and nothing else was on (it was... uhh... after midnight. Hey! I'm on vacation!), so I gave it another chance. OMG. So addicting.
Today, I've read out on the porch while the cats napped, watched the fluffy clouds go by, gone grocery shopping, ate a salad and drank coffee (bloom has really good coffee! Something I learned while Katy, Mike and AJ were here), made oatmeal toffee bars (LOTS OF THEM!), listening to two episodes of This American Life (I'm so behind with the podcasts!) and StoryCorps and now I'm waiting for David to come home so we can go sign our lease in front of a notary, do our laundry, and finish The Tudors.

I realized that I did forget to mention one thing that Megan and I did while she was here: made TONS of references to one of our favorite YouTube-er, mittymoo. Between the "Come see the treeeee!", "my son is gay. my son is gay?", "he's here! he's gay! get used to it!", and "where you takin meeee? no, don't tell me! i want to be surprised!..... where are you takin meeee?", my parents probably thought we'd both gone batty.
I think I still love this one the most: