Aaaahhhhhh vacation

Vacation......

i didn't have to
do the dishes, do the cooking,
do the laundry,
get up at 7.30 am,
put up with the drunkards that populate our neighborhood,
even think about if it was going to be nice out (every day was cloudless skies and perfect sun),
go grocery shopping,
clean the house,
go anywhere or do anything, check my e-mails or cellphone,
suffer watching portugeese tv (if it's originally in english they use subtitles! - and they love american tv series)......

i had to.....
remember the sunscreen and the parasol when we went to the beach,
put gobs of cream on -because i only got sunburned once thankfully,
consider how my suntan was coming along,
concentrate to try to understand portugeese (i've made considerable progress from two years ago),
ask J.D. to translate fifty million times,
decide if i wanted lemon or lime juice, or both, for my evening coctails,
cut the tags off lots of new summer clothes,
try out my new bronze nailpolish (which i have had on for a week because i didn't do any dishes :),
take ticks off of manteiga from time to time (j.d. 's family has a house in the country next to goat farmers - tics love goats apparently),
re-learn how to eat grilled sardines (it really is a whole procedure),
eat lots of really good food & cheat on my diet......