I wish the weather had been better this past weekend for the Balloon Fest. All but one of the six launches were grounded due to just about every bad weather condition short of snow--wind, rain, fog, tornado watches, thunderstorms, hurricanes, etc. The funny/annoying thing was that it would always happen just at launch time. During the late morning ( Read more... )

So I think it's going to become a Thursday tradition to go to the Rollodrome with Beth and TJ to skate. I had originally come up with it last week while trying to think of something fun to do around town that we hadn't done in a while--I was in the mood for something more than hanging around in front of a TV and chatting. That's fine most nights, ( Read more... )

I'm just about done the big busywork project they gave me here in the office a couple weeks ago to work on when I have nothing better to do, so I figured I should slow myself down a bit. Unlike a lot of people, I don't mentally "check out" when I'm so close to being finished, but I kind of wish I did. I'm so ready to be done, but I'm close. I can ( Read more... )

Well, I'm feeling much better today. At this point, I sort of have to pep-talk myself through the day--the best part of it being my twenty minutes a day of chatter with John at lunch time--and some days I just don't have the energy for it. Yesterday was one of those days ( Read more... )

Well, I feel accomplished today. I was bummed for a little while because a bunch of people got to go to FunSpot--the three-story arcade in NH--today, but I didn't really have the money for gas to drive all the way there, and still have enough to get back to school on Sunday ( Read more... )

As New Years' go, this year wasn't anything particularly spectacular. Trish invited everyone over to her place like last year, but it ended up being just me showing up for various reasons. I didn't even get there until close to 10:00 since I had to work until about nine. We watched the second and third Pirates movies with her parents and sister, ( Read more... )

I was actually crossing the street to take a couple pictures of the neighbor's flowers when John rolled up to the house around 4 PM on Friday. Just like last year, I didn't so much invite him up to the Balloon Fest as threaten to cry if he didn't come. (Hey, this is my favorite weekend of the summer--I'm allowed to pout and cry just this once.) ( Read more... )

For a belated birthday party, I had the girls up at the camp for some good old-fashioned hanging out just like I do every year. As usual, people were busy, but at least most people got a chance to stop in and say hi. Tricia and Christine got there earlier than I expected, and I was running late [also as usual] but it was alright. Lin wanted to get ( Read more... )

Despite some hangups involving my debit card being denied for no reason, I scored a great deal on a camera on eBay on Wednesday. The going price for the Nikon D40 + 1 lens is $599, and the longer zoom lens that they sell on the side goes for about $200. The two-lens bundle at Best Buy is $799, which isn't really a deal ( Read more... )

I had a great day yesterday.

It was Sunday which means it was automatically my day off from work. Even the sleep was nice--I don't remember what I was dreaming about, but I woke up grinning. Mom and Lin had brought home some BK for breakfast to eat before church, which was nice. Went to Mass afterward, and I really felt there for once. Well, not ( Read more... )