This is what happens when you buy a house 3 miles from your parents' (formerly your grandparents') house ( Read more... )

Friday morning, I went out to the community college to talk to some of their faculty-in-training folks; once a year Mac asks anyone who can make it out to come talk to the newbies and help them with lesson plans, reassurance, etc. Well, when I got there, I was paired with someone who is graduating from the same program I am, that I've tutored in ( Read more... )

Scrabble. Barbeque (italian sausages, hamburgers, potato chips, raw vegetables, baked beans). Ice cream at Homeland Creamery. What a very nice day. :)

It is my mom's birthday on Monday and Father's day today, and Faith's schedule produced a well timed 3-day weekend, so my sisters are in town. Yesterday, mom was over here visiting Val, so I rode back with her to the house (stupid battery). There was Scrabble and lunch and a trip out to Target for mom's present (she wanted a new food processor) ( Read more... )

Oh, dear LJ. It's been awhile.

Most of Jeff's family lives in California, and we've been making noises for a couple of years about going out to see them (and in my case, meet them). Well, we finally booked the tickets and did it.

( flights and Berkeley )

And verily, it's been a busy (mostly) few days.

• Thursday, I taught a class, and then drove out to Hippie College to get my computer accounts set up (again, they didn't just carry over from the summer, curse it.) Then it was out to Social Security to put in for a replacement card (because guess who can't find hers). Then the co-op for groceries ( Read more... )

So, yesterday. Christmas grocery shopping with my mom and Hope. Scrabble (I lost, badly). Home, lunch. Back over to the parents' for more games with Hope and Andrew. Zombie Joyce. Home. TV and movies and knitting with Jeni. Val made chilli. It was a good day ( Read more... )

It is really gross out there this morning. Chilly, hard, driving rain. Gray skies. I'm glad that when I do go out in it, it will be totally voluntarily ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a lovely day. I had off and Hope had off and Andrew had off, so we converged on my parents' house about 10. There was yet another grocery store trip, there was lunch (Harris Teeter now Food for Life brown rice bread, and it turns out to be pretty good), there were a lot of board games. Faith rolled in about 6, and there were tacos ( Read more... )

• I've been lacking in brain cycles lately, hence the lack of posting. I go to work, I do my thing, I come home, I work, I WoW, I talk to faecat and play Scrabble with my sisters, I sleep.
  
• Last weekend, we tripped down to Raleigh for jeni's birthday party, which was very low key and very nice. There was dinner at Neo Asia, featuring incredibly good red ( Read more... )