As soon as Memorial Day was over, I started looking forward to the 4th of July holiday. We didn't set off any fireworks, and it was too rainy to go to the waterpark, but we did have a good time anyway. On Thursday night (July 2), we went to dinner and to the movies to see Inside Out. It was very good, in the way that most Pixar movies are. We had a ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, my managers decided to give us July 3rd and 4th off from work! They didn't say why, and I didn't ask. So this means that I got a 4-day weekend! So, what did I do with all that free time? Well, I slept in, vacuumed, crocheted, wrote fanfiction, played with the cats, and listened to the neighbors setting off fireworks (which ( Read more... )

On Halloween night, Sara and I stayed up late watching a scary movie (Insidious -- so spooky) and eating candy. And really, what more can you ask for on Halloween? We also tried to get Tovah to go along with a costume. It was a tiny witch hat made for a dog, so it was a bit too big on her and didn't really work out. I have a feeling she's plotting ( Read more... )

Sara and I went back to Blue Bayou yesterday. This trip went much better than our last one -- there was no rain, so we arrived earlier (even though traffic over the Mississippi River bridge was a crawl) and stayed later. We even ate lunch at the park, which we've never done before. The park has added some new stuff, but a lot of it is still exactly ( Read more... )

Between becoming a Jew, celebrating it, working the back-to-school season, and trying to finish my ficathon, Rebecca's been pretty busy these past few days. I'm off work today, so I'm going to try to recap what's been happening.

( Official Conversion, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 )

Sara and I made a trip to Baton Rouge recently -- or more specifically, to Blue Bayou water park! (She is too good for the little local one I went to with Adam and Eva. Not that I blame her. It's fun, but it's just a puddle compared to Blue Bayou.) Neither of us had been to Blue Bayou in a very long time, and it was so cool seeing all the old ( Read more... )

A few photos from our trip to Hodges Gardens yesterday. My mom and I left around ten and biked for what felt like twelve hours!


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What would you think if one morning you woke up with these lines running through your head?

And one was safe and asleep in his bed,
     Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
     Who later that day would be lying dead,
     Pierced by a British musket ball.

Ominous, right? It's a stanza from "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," and for ( Read more... )

One thing I had wanted to do during my vacation was make a trip to New Orleans to see the cemeteries. (I have heard the cemeteries there are beautiful, almost on the level of Pere Lachaise.) My plan to make a two-day trip and spend the night there was the first thing to fall through. I had hoped that a friend of mine would go with me, and that fell ( Read more... )

My sleeping schedule has been so messed-up lately that I think it might have gone around the clock back to normal. I took a nap yesterday afternoon after I got home from work (think I had a dream about NCIS) and woke up again around seven to go to the movies with Sara and Adam. We saw Paranormal Activity 2, and it was better than the first one - a ( Read more... )