I don’t know what your neighborhood has been like this past week, but here’s what’s been going on in mine:

Nothing.

Yup, all the other families have departed for warmer or snowier or more relative-filled destinations during this February vacation week, leaving us working stiffs and/or families whose kids do have school with empty parking lots, stores, and restaurants. Last night I was in the supermarket at 5:30; there were two other customers. And though I feel a bit like Will Smith in I am Legend (the hubby’s choice, but of course) in which he is the only survivor of an apocalyptic event in all of Manhattan, I gotta admit this: I am loving it.

Wherever or whatever you’re up to this week, hope you are too.