whew!

my m-i-l's surgery went better than expected, and it turns out we were only there for about an hour--must be a kaiser record of some sort! which is great, because i took her home and hung out for a bit and then left around 2pm to get back to work. all of a sudden, i'm slammed with work! editing jobs are pouring in, which are not my most fav thing, but so easy i find them hard to pass up. what else can you do while sitting on the couch with one eye on the tv? so now i have a HUGE book to edit (600 pages--holy crap!) and one more quick pass through the other book (much smaller, thank goodness), then i have to get all my regular stuff going again. all of which is to say i'd better get working and quit slacking. but the best part is we're socking away our vaca money and may hit the predetermined savings mark much sooner than we expected. yay!