Into the groove

Back to work after a quick trip to Lubbock for a rather unexciting, lopsided football game (thankfully in Tech's favor), the arrival of the first of our Balloon Fiesta visitors, and Monday off. I'm finding it hard to get back into the flow of work. Perhaps because I'm anticipating another day off on Friday when my sister and her family come into town. Perhaps because I know it is a slow week in the library with few classes scheduled. Maybe I'm just having a hard time getting started on this chilly morning.

We've had a nice visit with our friends so far. Their oldest daughter, Kelly, is 3 and, as is usual for the littler visitors in our house, obsessed with getting the cat to like her. Yesterday, while she was supposed to be napping, I heard little feet pattering upstairs and our bedroom door shut. Upon inspection, I found Kelly, dressed in her Cinderella dress and holding her pink fairy wand, laying in our floor, trying to convince Jubjub that she was nice and could pet him. No deal, kiddo. We don't get to pet him often, even when dressed in our princess finest (which Paul looks fabulous in, by the way).

Chris and Karen are leaving on Wednesday morning, leaving just enough time to change sheets and wash towels before our next guests arrive that afternoon. Paul's cousin Doug, his wife, and 2-year-old daughter are stopping at our house on their way to Ruidoso. We've never had them visit so it should be interesting. Not that we don't like them; it's just difficult when you don't know what kind of houseguests people are. High maintenance who require lots of our attention and energy? Easy-going enough for us to point in the general direction of the kitchen and let them fend for themselves? Some place in between? At least they have cats so hopefully Bethany won't even notice Jub slinking around the joint.

In the mean time, things are picking up a bit with library patrons and I really should use this time to get some book-ordering related work done. Enough dilly-dallying on a feels-like-Monday Tuesday morning.