Yesterday I got back from a great visit in Pittsburgh.  Catherine and Alan are currently performing in a play about Lizzie Borden called Blood Relations.  As Catherine is originally from Fall River, where the Lizzie Borden case took place, she was very excited to land the role of Lizzie Borden.  She also performs as Bridgette the maid, since the ( Read more... )

This date marks the fall of the reign of Sauron!  Praise the halflings!  Praise them with great praise!

...This is one big Lord of the Rings reference, by the way, for those who don't get it.  I am pretty sure that Lee will.  In middle school I read Lord of the Rings for the first time and years later discovered that the day Sauron fell, March 25th ( Read more... )

I put a placeholder post in for this day because I was too tired to write about the events of the weekend before (or was it the weekend before the weekend before?).  Now it's December 16th 2007 and I'm finally making the post.  At 5:26 in the morning, no less.  Hey, whatever works, right?

On Friday Lee and I saw Richard II performed at a church in ( Read more... )

Finally I'm back in Richmond for good!  I've been back since last Tuesday but I'm still settling in and my new status is still sinking in.  After six weeks of traveling, I am no longer a nomad.  After about eight weeks of living in Connecticut (first teaching at camp, then just hanging out) I am finally a Richmonder again.  It feels GOOD.

But man, I ( Read more... )

My huge two-week road trip was a great success.  Catherine and I bonded even more, had new experiences both good and bad, took care of ourselves, ate tons of food that was delicious but terrible for us, and took hundreds of pictures.  We got to meet Tanya, her husband Danny, their son Lukas, and many of their friends and family members.  We watched ( Read more... )

I'm back in Connecticut again.  I drove up on Wednesday night, arrived early Thursday morning.  This time I brought Bossy and Arthur with me, to give Lee a break from caring for them and to encourage him to come up and visit, since he hates hearing them cry all the way up.  They were surprisingly quiet in the car.  I'm trying to get the paper ( Read more... )

It's not that I had a bad week.  I'm just exhausted.

Last Saturday, my parents and I drove up to Syracuse, New York to clean out my late grandmother's house.  We had been talking about going up there, but it wasn't really finalized until Saturday morning when my mom reached the cat-sitter (my parents have two cats also).  The drive is about five ( Read more... )

On Sunday my mom and I went to Catherine's bridal shower.  Last Thursday I drove up to Connecticut, spent Friday shopping with my mom, and on Saturday drove up to Fall River, Massachusetts for Catherine's shower.  As we had hoped, my mom and I had a really good time together.  It was like being friends instead of mother and daughter, almost.  For ( Read more... )

It took me a while to write this, didn't it?  Well, I've been busy!  (For once.)

Last Sunday I drove up to see Patrick in D.C., which I'd been meaning to do since October when he visited me.  I was interested in seeing where he lived, meeting his roommate Bob, and seeing some of his favorite D.C. sights.  It happened that his brother Andrew, who ( Read more... )

Back in Virginia.  Tired.  On Friday I drove down to Virginia with my parents (in two cars--Mom rode with me at the beginning, then finished the trip in Dad's car) and completed the trip fairly late, close to midnight.  We got slowed down for a few exits due to some road work on I-95.  That didn't stop me from staying up all night watching Lost ( Read more... )