I’ve been away a lot this summer, but school has started for Sunshine and I’m back and not going anywhere until October.  My summer was amazing and fun and exhausting and I’ll try to blog about it at some point.  I love traveling, but boy do I love coming home!   The summer was crazy busy, but I also got a taste of what next year is going to be like when Sunshine runs off and abandon’s me for college.  She spent a month away at a summer program at a University, living in the dorm, eating in the cafeteria and more importantly learning all kinds of stuff for the career she thinks she wants to have.  I, therefore, spent a month alone bumping around in an empty house.  I also went to a number of summer parties, for family and business.  Here’s some of the things I learned over the summer, and a couple I’d already figured out, about being Single:

5. That drool stain on the pillow case?  Yep, it’s yours.  Gross.

4. Sweet Little Old Ladies will tell you all their fears about dying alone.  At night.  In a thunder storm.  Scaring the bejeezus out of you, thus making you sleep with the light on — and wake up grabbing at your wrist to take your own pulse.  (Steven King, move over.)

3. When you’re single, Sweet Little Old Ladies tell you things about their former love lives you really never wanted to know (Or, quite frankly, needed to know).  In detail.  Naming names.  Some of whom are alive and sitting on the other side of the room.  Who cares if it was your favorite uncle who used to bring you peppermints and tell you stories about his horses.  Now, you also know your Sweet Little Old Man Uncle was into Serious Kink.  Like you needed that in your sex starved brain. (Oh, and slapping your forehead will not remove said images, no matter how hard you slap.  Trust me on this.)

2. No matter how long you wait, the car really won’t go get the oil changed all by itself.  Oh, and if you wait until the little yellow light shaped like a wrench comes on? The guys at the oil change place will laugh at you.  Everytime.  And probably point mockingly when your back is turned.