charles, theresa, ray, rose, and the lunch
ugh, work. reentry after a long weekend is always kind of a pain. i submitted an expense report for one of the partners last week, and it keeps coming back to me with "please provide a receipt for this meal", even tho i keep trying to explain that i can't because there is no receipt. (this particular partner is not very forthcoming with helpful details when he needs me to do something for him. there's always a lot of unnecessary back and forth until i manage to pry all the information i need out of him.)
on the plus side, i have an especially short week this week. :D i should perhaps book my bus ticket to philadelphia. >.<
yesterday was "discover grandma's old photos and oh wait i still have a box i totally missed >.< " day at the parents' house. the photos in question were on pages from an old photo album, the kind that's just a lot of black construction type paper bound together, and you glue or tape your photos to the pages and write your little notes in white. there were a bunch of pages from when my grandparents were dating through to their honeymoon, and then a gap in time because the next bunch was from when my mom was wee. she was so freakin' cute. one of the early photos showed my grandparents and a couple other people sitting on a frozen lake or in a field or something (it was winter), with the caption "charles, theresa, ray, rose (or whoever they all were) and the lunch" - to one side of the pic were these four people, and to the other side was a box that i assumed was the lunch. i loved that whoever took that picture included the food, and that my grandma included it in the caption. heh.
there was also a little photo album of pics from when grandma was a teenager, so it's all her and her girl friends and the occasional boy. like, in front is one of her dressed for hiking and leaning against a fence, and next to that is a pic of a boy dressed for hiking and leaning against the fence, with the caption "the reason for our hike and for our interesting summer". i wonder who he was. this is the grandma who decamped for the big city after high school, but who came home for reasons no one knows and then married my grandfather. they married in 1931 and the pic of her with her friends and the lunch was from 1930, so maybe she came home because of the crash in 1929. the bigger question for my mom seemed to be why her father waited so long to get married. (he was at least thirty-one.)
i also discovered a copy of my mom's paternal grandfather's naturalization papers, which included among other things a list of all his kids, their ages, and where they were born. (lithuania, most of them.) great-grandma was forty-five when she had her last kid. O.O
the random box that turned out to be mine was full of cards and letters - a little decorative cardboard storage box labeled "mail" and another one labeled "more mail" - from college and grad school, including one from my dad that said "hi. think snow. dad." it was very random.
yesterday morning i finished the first round of edits for my bigbang. (yay!) now for the second round. (yay?)
adorable animal pompoms. the hedge is especially cute. also the chipmunks and the rockhopper. (i love rockhoppers. they're the cranky punks of the penguin world.)
on the plus side, i have an especially short week this week. :D i should perhaps book my bus ticket to philadelphia. >.<
yesterday was "discover grandma's old photos and oh wait i still have a box i totally missed >.< " day at the parents' house. the photos in question were on pages from an old photo album, the kind that's just a lot of black construction type paper bound together, and you glue or tape your photos to the pages and write your little notes in white. there were a bunch of pages from when my grandparents were dating through to their honeymoon, and then a gap in time because the next bunch was from when my mom was wee. she was so freakin' cute. one of the early photos showed my grandparents and a couple other people sitting on a frozen lake or in a field or something (it was winter), with the caption "charles, theresa, ray, rose (or whoever they all were) and the lunch" - to one side of the pic were these four people, and to the other side was a box that i assumed was the lunch. i loved that whoever took that picture included the food, and that my grandma included it in the caption. heh.
there was also a little photo album of pics from when grandma was a teenager, so it's all her and her girl friends and the occasional boy. like, in front is one of her dressed for hiking and leaning against a fence, and next to that is a pic of a boy dressed for hiking and leaning against the fence, with the caption "the reason for our hike and for our interesting summer". i wonder who he was. this is the grandma who decamped for the big city after high school, but who came home for reasons no one knows and then married my grandfather. they married in 1931 and the pic of her with her friends and the lunch was from 1930, so maybe she came home because of the crash in 1929. the bigger question for my mom seemed to be why her father waited so long to get married. (he was at least thirty-one.)
i also discovered a copy of my mom's paternal grandfather's naturalization papers, which included among other things a list of all his kids, their ages, and where they were born. (lithuania, most of them.) great-grandma was forty-five when she had her last kid. O.O
the random box that turned out to be mine was full of cards and letters - a little decorative cardboard storage box labeled "mail" and another one labeled "more mail" - from college and grad school, including one from my dad that said "hi. think snow. dad." it was very random.
yesterday morning i finished the first round of edits for my bigbang. (yay!) now for the second round. (yay?)
adorable animal pompoms. the hedge is especially cute. also the chipmunks and the rockhopper. (i love rockhoppers. they're the cranky punks of the penguin world.)