First of all, the best news of the week is that a very generous and nice photographer who is the father of a woman my mom works with, and who now owns the studio in Mechanicsburg that did my parents' wedding photos, is now in possession of all our wedding photos and is going to re-touch them all so they actually look like professional wedding photos. Once he's done, I will begin filling the albums and frames I've collected, and I'll be buying a few more albums and frames so I can give photos to everyone who needs them: My family, Paul's family, Becky the amazing dress-maker, members of the wedding party, and other family members. I'm quite relieved.
That's one issue with pictures; here is another: I take tons of pictures all the time, and then I don't show them to anyone for a while, so here's another chunk of catching up! Lots of different stuff. Captions of the photos are serving as the rest of my blog post.
Click here or on the title of this post to just look thru my Picasa albums yourself, or enjoy some new slideshows below.
At the end of this album is our finally-completed kitchen!
Some random fun stuff:
Lunar eclipse:
Bread I baked to take to Nawakwa book group:
...but since book group was postponed to April due to bad weather, I'm headed over to my parents' house to meet Paul, see Hannah, and eat the Dal soup my mom made to take to Nawakwa. We'll have ourselves a cozy, yummy evening!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Had a great Valentine's dinner at Confit. Even got to use the wine bag someone got us when Paul remembered we had it and thus didn't have to use the paper PLCB bag, yay! I was excited to have a wine bag, especially such a cute and decorative one. But now I have a bit of regret: when we had lunch at Confit with Johanna, Henry, and Crystal just after Christmas, we shared a large French Press coffee pot, and it was possibly the smoothest, tastiest coffee I've ever had, so I ordered a small pot to go with my sweet dessert tonight. Paul had one mug of coffee, and I had two, along with about 5 bites of my dessert. Now it's almost 1:30am, and I don't think I can fall asleep yet. I did get to watch 3 new episodes of "House" (2 actually new, the other new to me), and I also managed to produce a limerick comment to Katy's haiku post, so the evening is far from wasted. Did I mention dinner was incredibly delicious? I had roasted lamb.
Maybe I'll try to go to sleep now...
Maybe I'll try to go to sleep now...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tit for tat
This is the second week of the first period of SAIC's fiscal year, which is when we have to finish closing the books on the previous fiscal year, and so it's about the busiest week of the year for anyone connected to finance, which means me.
It is also the week that the Juniata alumni association sent out my e-mail to all alumni living in Dauphin and Cumberland counties asking them to help host choir students on April 4.
It's been a busy week.
The good part is, it means I have put in so many hours already that by the time I work a full day tomorrow and a few hours on Friday morning, I will have logged a bit of overtime by the time I leave at noon on Friday to pick up Katy from the Harrisburg Amtrak station. And then I get to spend my afternoon hanging out with my cousin and Aunt Ninny, showing them my apartment, and having lunch, to which I believe Ninny has promised to treat us. It will be lots of fun!
I can also show Katy the prosthetic tit I am knitting for my mom-in-law, who recently became short one tit of her own. Seriously, read the pattern, it's hilarious, but also completely legit. All the women I've shown so far have been fascinated, but since Katy knitted the womb from the same site years ago for her mom-in-law (who was, of course, short a womb of her own, altho the knitted one is probably slightly less useful than the replacement tit), I think Katy will appreciate the knitted tit more than most. I really need to keep working on it, but I'm in the middle of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, just finished the second book, and I'm finding them much more amazingly wonderful this time thru than I did the first time, probably because I have a religious studies minor under my belt now, and I just can't seem to put it down! I recommend them highly to anyone with even a low tolerance for the fantasy genera. Really great stuff.
It is also the week that the Juniata alumni association sent out my e-mail to all alumni living in Dauphin and Cumberland counties asking them to help host choir students on April 4.
It's been a busy week.
The good part is, it means I have put in so many hours already that by the time I work a full day tomorrow and a few hours on Friday morning, I will have logged a bit of overtime by the time I leave at noon on Friday to pick up Katy from the Harrisburg Amtrak station. And then I get to spend my afternoon hanging out with my cousin and Aunt Ninny, showing them my apartment, and having lunch, to which I believe Ninny has promised to treat us. It will be lots of fun!
I can also show Katy the prosthetic tit I am knitting for my mom-in-law, who recently became short one tit of her own. Seriously, read the pattern, it's hilarious, but also completely legit. All the women I've shown so far have been fascinated, but since Katy knitted the womb from the same site years ago for her mom-in-law (who was, of course, short a womb of her own, altho the knitted one is probably slightly less useful than the replacement tit), I think Katy will appreciate the knitted tit more than most. I really need to keep working on it, but I'm in the middle of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, just finished the second book, and I'm finding them much more amazingly wonderful this time thru than I did the first time, probably because I have a religious studies minor under my belt now, and I just can't seem to put it down! I recommend them highly to anyone with even a low tolerance for the fantasy genera. Really great stuff.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Busy weekend!
After another very busy week at work, I'm going to have a really busy weekend! Fortunately a busy weekend is a good thing, so it will offset the busy week at work, which isn't so great (but it's really OK and it will be much less busy after next week).
Start off with Friday night grabbing dinner and going to see a play at her school, after which I wouldn't be surprised if Paul and I end up hanging out with Vince.
Saturday during the day I'll either knit, read, clean, paint, or some combination of those, and I will definitely make King Cake and fresh rolls for Sarah's party; that night Paul and I are going on a bar tour in Harrisburg for my co-worker Aimee's 31st birthday. The bar tour doesn't start until 9:00, but we won't stay out late, because Sunday is the busiest day of all!
Sunday starts out with Bell choir playing at 8:15 and 11:00 (gotta be at church by 7:30!) with new member's class in between. At 11:00 bells are only the prelude, which is good because Paul and I have to leave as soon as the bells are done playing so that we make it to Nawakwa by noon to help Kathy make chicken and waffles! I'm super excited that Kathy called Paul to come help with a fun winter Nawakwa event. Once all the chicken & waffles have been eaten, Paul and I will leave from camp and go directly to Sarah's condo in Ashburn, VA for her super bowl party with Ginny, Jeneane, and Chris! It's a long way to go on a Sunday night, but worth it to see the VA crew. Luckily Paul and I don't care much about the actual game, so we'll probably leave before it's over to make it home by, say, midnight.
Other fun things in the near future: a visit from cousin Katy on Friday 8 Feb so she can see our apartment, Valentine's day, Nawakwa book group Feb 22-23, Juniata Central PA alumni winter gathering on Feb 23 in the evening, and going with my Mom to visit Hannah in Mansfield to finally see her apartment Feb 29 - Mar 1. So much to look forward to!!
Start off with Friday night grabbing dinner and going to see a play at her school, after which I wouldn't be surprised if Paul and I end up hanging out with Vince.
Saturday during the day I'll either knit, read, clean, paint, or some combination of those, and I will definitely make King Cake and fresh rolls for Sarah's party; that night Paul and I are going on a bar tour in Harrisburg for my co-worker Aimee's 31st birthday. The bar tour doesn't start until 9:00, but we won't stay out late, because Sunday is the busiest day of all!
Sunday starts out with Bell choir playing at 8:15 and 11:00 (gotta be at church by 7:30!) with new member's class in between. At 11:00 bells are only the prelude, which is good because Paul and I have to leave as soon as the bells are done playing so that we make it to Nawakwa by noon to help Kathy make chicken and waffles! I'm super excited that Kathy called Paul to come help with a fun winter Nawakwa event. Once all the chicken & waffles have been eaten, Paul and I will leave from camp and go directly to Sarah's condo in Ashburn, VA for her super bowl party with Ginny, Jeneane, and Chris! It's a long way to go on a Sunday night, but worth it to see the VA crew. Luckily Paul and I don't care much about the actual game, so we'll probably leave before it's over to make it home by, say, midnight.
Other fun things in the near future: a visit from cousin Katy on Friday 8 Feb so she can see our apartment, Valentine's day, Nawakwa book group Feb 22-23, Juniata Central PA alumni winter gathering on Feb 23 in the evening, and going with my Mom to visit Hannah in Mansfield to finally see her apartment Feb 29 - Mar 1. So much to look forward to!!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
workin' hard
I was at work from 7:15 Tuesday morning until 6:00 in the evening. I only have to work 3 hours a day for the rest of the week to get in my 80 hours this pay period. I also worked about 5 hours over the long weekend (from home). *whew*
When I got home last night, after catching up on comics online, I made dinner from scratch in our newly-functional kitchen! I even did dishes. This is why I want to get into a class at HACC or something - when I'm super-busy, I'm more motivated to do everything, including housework.
Then Paul and I watched this bizarre and very B movie called "Existenz." It had Jude Law in it, and Willem Dafoe, and yet it was one of the most awkwardly acted movies I've ever seen. The plot was also hilariously uneven and contrived - Paul and I kept looking at each other like, "WTF???!?!!?" Plus, I totally called the ending about 10 minutes into the movie: I said "It'll be that they were inside the computer game from the beginning," and Paul said, "Yeah, probably." And they were. It was pretty ridiculous.
Got up at 8:15 this morning and took a shower. Now it's 9:15 and I guess I'll head into work, and stay until 3:00 or so, depending on how much work I have to do...there is a lot, but I got the big thing that was due done yesterday. I'm certainly going to end up with probably more overtime this pay period than I've ever had before...too bad I don't get overtime pay any more. Ah, well.
Going to Ashburn, VA for the super bowl to visit Sarah and Jeneane. Looking forward to that! Ginny will have moved in with Sarah by then, so they'll have Ginny's big screen TV (since I care about actually watching the game so much), and also Ginny's 2 cats and Sarah's cat - they're merging "families," which in this case means their cats. I said it was like the Brady Bunch, but updated for the 21st century! Tee hee. Now that I have a kitchen, I can bring something yummy to eat. I think I'll also crack out the 1-gallon plastic pitcher and come up with something yummy to drink.
Is anyone in the Lebanon clan free this weekend? I want to visit. Or be visited. Altho I guess I should really paint the trim in the dining room...and finish putting stuff away in the kitchen...yeah. Whatever.
Alrighty, for real now, getting dressed and going to work. Seriously. OK, bye.
When I got home last night, after catching up on comics online, I made dinner from scratch in our newly-functional kitchen! I even did dishes. This is why I want to get into a class at HACC or something - when I'm super-busy, I'm more motivated to do everything, including housework.
Then Paul and I watched this bizarre and very B movie called "Existenz." It had Jude Law in it, and Willem Dafoe, and yet it was one of the most awkwardly acted movies I've ever seen. The plot was also hilariously uneven and contrived - Paul and I kept looking at each other like, "WTF???!?!!?" Plus, I totally called the ending about 10 minutes into the movie: I said "It'll be that they were inside the computer game from the beginning," and Paul said, "Yeah, probably." And they were. It was pretty ridiculous.
Got up at 8:15 this morning and took a shower. Now it's 9:15 and I guess I'll head into work, and stay until 3:00 or so, depending on how much work I have to do...there is a lot, but I got the big thing that was due done yesterday. I'm certainly going to end up with probably more overtime this pay period than I've ever had before...too bad I don't get overtime pay any more. Ah, well.
Going to Ashburn, VA for the super bowl to visit Sarah and Jeneane. Looking forward to that! Ginny will have moved in with Sarah by then, so they'll have Ginny's big screen TV (since I care about actually watching the game so much), and also Ginny's 2 cats and Sarah's cat - they're merging "families," which in this case means their cats. I said it was like the Brady Bunch, but updated for the 21st century! Tee hee. Now that I have a kitchen, I can bring something yummy to eat. I think I'll also crack out the 1-gallon plastic pitcher and come up with something yummy to drink.
Is anyone in the Lebanon clan free this weekend? I want to visit. Or be visited. Altho I guess I should really paint the trim in the dining room...and finish putting stuff away in the kitchen...yeah. Whatever.
Alrighty, for real now, getting dressed and going to work. Seriously. OK, bye.
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