I only wish all the things that happened today could be chalked up to April Fools ( Read more... )

Friday: Drove to Austin, mostly in the rain. Got settled in at my parents' house. Visited with my sister for a little while, as she was over dropping off her cat for my parents to cat-sit while she's in Europe visiting Filippo's family for the next three weeks -- they left on the 4th. After we got Corwin to bed, Andrew and I headed downtown to ( Read more... )

As soon as I finish writing this, I'm going to go take my shower and get ready for bed, since I have to get up for work tomorrow.

I watched Dollhouse tonight. ( Maybe mild spoilers )

My cousin John got married last night out here in Katy. My family made a weekend visit out of it, arriving Friday night. My brother and his girlfriend and my sister and her boyfriend stayed at our house; my parents stayed in a hotel nearby as we don't have enough beds for all of them here. On Saturday, they all took Corwin to the zoo (without me ( Read more... )

I'd like to try to sum up the past few days, but not sure how to do so without spending the rest of my awake time this evening doing so. We've spent most of the past week in Austin for our Rice friends' annual New Year's shindig. Essentially what happens is that events are scheduled (or not...some things happen last minute) and folks are notified ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm going to try to jump on the Week of Happy bandwagon ( Read more... )

We're home ( Read more... )

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to make any posts of any substance. I really don't have time to write one now, either, as I should be getting to bed. In a nutshell, here's what we've been up to lately:

( Grandma's funeral )

On Friday, Corwin and I went out to Leander to visit my very good friend from high school, sunflowerkwm and her daughters. I remembered my camera this time (unlike when we visited them last time I was in Austin at the end of May), so I have ( lots of pictures for your viewing pleasure. )

( Thursday, with pictures! )