And life goes back to normal, whatever that means. It always does, don’tcha know? The other day we were driving down Glenwood Ave., and it occurred to me that you would never know that a tornado had struck devastation to half the houses along the road two months ago, as every trace has been cleaned up, cleared away, and life went back to normal. So did mine after the In-Laws’ departure. Not that they caused devastation. Only DELIGHT.

Wednesday evening, after we dropped them off at the airport, we went to the gym as usual. When we got home, we were still so wired up and everything that we decided to go to cheese dip to decompress. I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to go, and I really did. Cheese dip is where we most like to decompress. We go there upon returning from a long journey instead of relaxing on the couch. So it was natural for us to go there. And it was delicious as usual. You just can’t beat the cheese dip + el blanco combination, ya know? Maybe it’s all in our heads, but that doesn’t make it any less effective.

Thursday was a day just like any other day, as far as normalcy goes. We went to work, then to the gym as usual. Although we had planned to go grocery shopping after the gym, we decided to put it off until the weekend since we had enough food in the house for dinner. After I showered I hopped across to the Canadians’ house to say a quick hello to the female half. I’m not sure if I mentioned that the Canadians bought the house across the street from us? Yes, I’m sure I did because our street is now christened The Commune. Anyway, the male half has been gone all week so I went over to say hello to the female half and see the progress of the painting she’s doing on the walls. Then back home for dinner and Jeopardy! before sweet, sweet sleep.

Which brings us to today! Friday! Before a long weekend! Thank cheeseness for Memorial Day! We have no plans over the holiday weekend other than to relax and have fun. Sunday morning we have F1, which I might skip, and Sunday afternoon Ray and I are going to have lunch and go shopping like ladies do. We are going to check out the new H&M store out in Lawrenceville as well as the new Steve & Barry store, which you might have heard about because it has pretty styles of clothing, and every piece is under $10. Sarah Jessica Parker’s new line, Bitten (featured in last season’s Project Runway, hee) runs in these stores.

Otherwise, I plan to not play hostess, let the floors remain un-vacuumed for 24 hours, watch 80 gazillion episodes of The Wire, and yes, you guessed it, go out to eat. What are YOU doing?