I always say that my sister is crazy for walking so much during the day (she's now up to "five miles at a clip") and my brother is a freak for walking at night, but I've been looking for ways to fill the time between leaving work on Fridays and going to Shabbat services at the temple. If we're busy enough, I'll stay at work until services. I ( Read more... )

My city hosted a downtown art walk yesterday (Friday the 13th); unfortunately, they hosted right during Shabbat services, so I couldn't really go, but I did catch the tail-end of it while I was biking home from the temple. There were still a few artists out with easels and framed stuff on the sidewalks. (I would've taken pictures, but I lent my ( Read more... )

I'm on a little staycation from work right now. I don't have anything big planned, but I am trying to get out and do stuff. Today I drove downtown to help rebuild a local park that burnt down in an arson fire earlier this year. The original park (also volunteer-built) was huge, and this new one is going to be even bigger. I was on a team with a ( Read more... )

I have to admit that this year, Back-to-School wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. I did have a few days when I thought my voice was going to give out, though. To celebrate it being on its way out, I went to Little Caesar's last night (for the first time in almost two weeks!) and rented Let Me In. I've made a goal to try to watch one ( Read more... )

Any guesses as to where Rebecca was at five this morning? She was lying in bed, eating chocolate chip cookie dough out of tub! And at five this evening, I was listening to my bad-ass Cajun grandma mumble to herself in French while she cooked pumpkin muffins. Not a bad day.

So far this weekend, we've turned off our air conditioning and turned on the ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a good while, so here's a recap of what I've been up to. As you can see, it's not much.

Have you ever had a dream that left you feeling incredibly pissed-off when you woke up? I dreamt last week that Sara opened all our windows and threw all my stuff out onto the street. (Useless fact for the day: dreamt is the only word in the ( Read more... )

The best of summer is...

A) Me yesterday, sitting on the grass with my dog, enjoying a cold pink lemonade sno-cone and a hot frito pie from the sno-cone stand. One of my goals for this summer is to try as many flavors of sno-cones as I can, except for the ones I obviously won't like, like hot tamale and wedding cake. (Bleh!) The pink lemonade one ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was able to get to McDonald's before they stopped serving breakfast, which I almost never do. McDonald's is an interesting place to be in the morning. There is always a huge throng of old men in baseball caps, drinking coffee and talking, and yesterday there were two young guys walking around tables telling people about Jesus. They didn ( Read more... )

NCIS is taking over my life. I've watched it on and off for the past several months, but I've only recently realized what an awesome show it is, and now I never miss an episode. The other day I was out riding my bike and agonizing over whether to come home and watch NCIS -- I mean, what if it was a Kate episode? Then I would've cut the whole bike ( Read more... )