"We are not at home!!!"

I don't know what you all did this weekend, but we had the most fabulously awesome weekend here at Sally Central. Wait, what? You hadn't heard? My soul-sister Sally flew in on Friday evening and from the time we picked her up at the airport to the time we dropped her back off at the airport (hey, JAX: three dollars for 32 minutes of parking is RETARDED!), we had the most fun ever. EVER. Mostly, we laughed and ate. We got stared at and talked about by two separate (and clearly fun-free) couples at the restaurant on Friday night. We took IKEA Orlando by storm on Saturday, then stayed up until FOUR AM talking. We solved the age-old question, "How do we eat lunch AND go to IKEA?" Solution: eat lunch AT IKEA. We laughed unabashedly at the most off-color jokes, but in the confines of our own home, prompting John to stage whisper the subject line you see above when we were in public. We coined the phrase, "I was so mad, I could have eaten a baby's head!" (It's a versatile phrase, so you're welcome for that.) And on Sunday, we managed to eat scones, pizza, AND apple pie in the course of just a few hours. The fact that part of that plan involved taking a homemade apple pie TO Jacksonville airport should in no way disturb you. Along the way, if it wasn't already clear, we laughed and laughed and laughed. My stomach hurts today, from all the laughing. When John and I got back from dropping her off, and it started to sink in that I wasn't going to see Sally's smiling face on Monday morning saying, "So guess what?", I started to get wholly and completely bummed out. At the same time, it makes me utterly giddy to think that we'll be getting out of here in less than a year and that we might just get lucky enough to be close to family and friends.