Some newer pictures of my house, taken today. (Skip through the first ones you've already seen)
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In other exciting news ... I am now officially out of my apartment! While I'm happy because that's one less thing on this insane list of deadlines I have, I leave with a touch of sadness. That apartment was good to me and I'm sure I will miss it from time to time, like when I'm paying the bills for this place! haha So for those of you who planned to send me lots of cards and mail ... you'll just need to hold off until my cute little address stamp shows up and I mail you my new one! :-) And one last bit of good news: Mom's surgery went well yesterday! She was up walking around last night and went home this morning. She says her leg feels a bit better, but now she just has some surgery pain to get through. I guess having them use a roto-rooter on your spine isn't the most fun thing in the world, but it will take care of far worse pain so I imagine she'll tell me it was worth it.
Happy Birthday to Carson! It was yesterday (23rd) but I'm slipping in my aunt duties. I didn't even make it up there for his birthday! I shall miss his "ornery ones" and look forward to the terrible twos! haha He's a little stinker and I absolutely love him for it. I imagine somewhere in the next few months he will pass up Bowdrie in size!
Disregard my earlier statement that now would be a great time to meet the love of my life. Once I got all my clothes and coats moved over, I didn't have nearly as much extra closet space as I thought I would! So never mind :-) My apologies to you very excited matchmakers out there. In other news, I loved the report from Montana about Jonathan's Father's Day. Bowdrie and Carson got to go take him a donut and wake him up -- oh boy, that's fun stuff in their little worlds! And so they did, but then after they gave him the donut they stood there staring at him with such sad/expectant little faces that he wound up giving the donut back to them to share. The kids were happy, the Dad wound up getting nothing more than a good laugh out of it, and that seems to be the way it goes for dads! So 3 cheers for Dads :-) I guess I'm not much better than the little darlings - aside from a couple shirts, my present to him was letting him putter around and help me on things wi...
Moving is fun! It makes you appreciate order .... like today when I discovered that I hadn't moved over the shower curtain yet so I had to come home to the apartment to shower. Fine except I had moved all my towels to the house! Aargh! Luckily my aunt had brought over some ugly towel that had been in my hopeless chest and smells strongly of cedar, so I at least had a towel to use! Oh the fun continues :-) I'm delighted with the great job the painters did on my place and the carpet is lovely, and I'm just as happy as can be with how everything is coming together. It will take me a while to sort through all the stuff I've accumulated in the past 6 years here and figure out what I still want and what I won't miss. There seems to be more and more falling under the latter category! Off to work~
Hello from HOME! Yes, we made it! I'm in Puyallup this morning and mom even had some mountain dew in the refrigerator for me in case I was in total withdrawl. Thanks to the magic of the world wide web, I was able to email her from one of those countries and let her know that we were going to need massage appointments this morning, so those are already scheduled!! I can't say I'd be sorry if I never saw that backpack again (now that it's empty)!! I was carrying 1/3 my body weight as luggage yesterday -- I don't recommend that! I can't claim one favorite memory or place because there are so many different wonderful memories that can't be compared to one another. So here is a list of the first 10 that come to mind: 1. Seeing the David, in Florence. To think that he was carved from one block of marble, and to see the detail in his ribs and chest muscles and his veins and even the detail of crinkles in the side of his hand that was holding the stones --- I...