When I was back sort-of-home (city of which hometown was/is a suburb, basically? or, well, another suburb of the same city? the lines are a bit hard to completely figure out sometimes) for my grandfather's funeral last Fall, I got to catch up a bit with a cousin of some degree, something removed... it's a bit hard to keep track of my paternal ( Read more... )

... so, this weekend, the odds are pretty good that either myself (SC), my sister (MA), or our mother (VA) are going to be right in the path of a hurricane named for our maternal grandmother.

*eyebrow*

(Dad is, at the moment, safely on the Gulf Coast, away for now from things like, say, earthquakes and mother-in-law-named major storms)

Things I have done on this visit back to the folks' house ( in no particular order )

Up visiting the parents for the weekend; arrived safely late last night (had planned based on having a half-day yesterday...not realizing at the time that the half-day had been inexplicably scheduled for the afternoonPerfectly reasonable drive; slept well, although odd to not have to account for feline location/attention-and-food emergencies ( Read more... )

Hmmm..... well, after a good conference and so on, and a very nice visit to the sister (including meeting the baby!), my travel plans have been derailed by the weather down southwards ( Read more... )

Fnrrrr ( Read more... )

This is apparently the week of movie-related "Huh?"

Seriously; it's the one week where my folks and I get together, relax, watch movies of an evening. And so far, this year? Wackiness abounds.

First, of course, there was the "Rocks Kinda Lay There, Everyone Dies" movie. Then Mom picked "The Proposal," which was actually kind of cute-- "love and ( Read more... )

About a week and a half ago, when I was talking with my mother, she mentioned that a friend of hers had been visiting, and had brought this great book with useful tips for cleaning and keeping the house clean and so on ( Read more... )

So, yesterday, I finally buckled down and booked the moving truck (for the moving), and was poking at people to actually load and unload and trying to figure out number of people, number of hours, etc., etc ( Read more... )

Just a quick post to let folks know that Intrepid Roommate and I are back home from... um... future home? At any rate, think continued good thoughts re: apartment; we have filled out an application (well, written information down for the property manager.... who is either rather harried and trying to handle renting this apartment at the last minute ( Read more... )