I would like to start this post by saying I really wish I could be in two places at once, neither of which is here. Half of me wants to be back in Iceland, where my family is and where I love, well, pretty much everything about it. The other half of me wants to be in Wisconsin, for obvious reasons.

I talked to my dad last night and he sounds great and should be discharged tomorrow, hopefully. He still has chest tubes that are draining fluid and they have to be removed 24 hours prior to discharge, and they still were in yesterday so today’s discharge wasn’t going to happen. Because of concerns for his blood pressure immediately after the surgery, my family decided to wait to tell him about my aunt’s passing, and I felt really bad for my mom that she had to hold that in and not be able to talk to my dad about it. It’s just been a really hard week. The funeral was yesterday and I really wish I could have been able to be there. I feel so bad for my uncle and cousins.

So yeah, I’ve just been feeling very blah. Don’t really feel like doing much of anything. The good news is that today I watered the lawn, before I killed it (our friends very nicely kept the backyard watered while we were gone). Now I have to mow it at some time. I haven’t mowed a lawn in about 12 years. I still have to clean out the car, I still have to unpack! I still have to make dinner (we have a reservist coming to our office this week and I invited her over for dinner tonight - what was I thinking?) which means I still have to go shopping. And I’m just feeling so blah.