This weekend saw a trip to NoDak to help the fam celebrate my Grandpa’s 79th Birthday. This man is a testament to the idiom that “they just don’t make em like they used to”. He re-shingled his roof last summer, put a new tin roof on the barn this last year, and is now fixing up the new house “in town”. Amazing - he took Flyboy (sister’s b/f) and I to the Historical Society to show us some of the old tractors and cars they have there. We young chickens froze our feet off, he was more than fine. Apparently the heater in that model works better than the new ones. :)

The driving was amusing. We rented a GMC Envoy to get us all in there — 4 adults, one 7 year old, and a weekend of luggage. Now, I’m not sure what you remember of the family trips as a kid, but ours were always a hassle at best. My sister and I are both giant PITAs when it comes to car rides. I am “she is touching me/looking at me/thinking about touching me”. She is “I have to pee” every 15 minutes. Thankfully age has mellowed us a bit, but we still have the memories fof these things to help fuel the ridicule and harasssment. Mom unfortunately is now fair game for teasing too — beit that she packed too much stuff, or is getting cranky because we kids are dragging our feet or being difficult on purpose. Suffice to say, there is a lot of good natured bickering and teasing that goes along with getting all of us into one vehicle. The bonus this time was that Flyboy was joining us for the weekend. Fresh target!

It was really fun to see some of the relatives again - aunts and uncles I’ve not seen in a year or 3, cousins that used to help us all get into trouble, and various relatives of my grandparents’ cohort. I feel it necessary to take every chance I can (within reason here folks…) to hang with g-pa and g-ma, you never know what turns life is going to take. I just hope I can be as spry and good humored at 79 as they are. It is very amusing to see those two and how they still flirt with each other — be it over forgetting to put something on the table for breakfast or who was responsible for breaking something — just makes be very happy to see that.

So! The big news for this week is that I waiting for offers from companies — no interviews or calls left, just paper work or not. I’m actually a bit nervous about one offer, if I don’t get it I will end up having to really sit down and re-think my options and what I want to do with them. crosses fingers