Friday: dinner

After work I thought I'd try getting the raking done...the next two days are going to be a tad busy and there are lots of other chores on the list, so I thought I'd at least try. Things were going well and I was just getting to the exciting part (i.e., the place with more leaves so it's easier to see progress) when the gnats attacked. So I decided the other half of raking could wait.

Ashley and Stanley came over tonight. We went to Grand Central and had some good food and then taught them Hand and Foot. The girls almost won but the boys squeaked out a win by just a few hundred points. Oh, at one point Flurry sniffed Ashley's hand, got a little pet, started to walk away, and then remembered she didn't like new people. So she did the weakest hiss ever. Silly cat.

Thursday: hole

Today wasn't quite as busy as yesterday which was a bit sad, but I did get caught up on a lot of things that I needed to do.

Half way through the morning I went to the restroom and realized there was a huge hole in the butt-seam of my black pants. Then I remembered that I had told myself to always wear black underwear because the seams were a little sketchy. I, of course, had forgotten that and was wearing white underwear because I only wear these pants about once every three months. Luckily, a coworker had a mini sewing kit so I did a quick repair job and ta-da! no more problems.

However, this now makes two pairs of my pants that need repair. :( The to-do list for the weekend keeps getting longer.

Wednesday: catching up

So first the photos that wouldn't upload:

Aunt C and I

The family

Ping Pong

Clay showed Small Group how to use their cloth diapers on Tiger.

Oh, this one is so true.

And now that all those pictures are posted, a few more random things. We had a retirement party at work and there were these amazing brownies. They were frosted brownies with Oreo crumbles. I had three.

I also spent 45 minutes looking for a little blue cylinder with about four other people. It had bounced on the floor and ended up in someone's garbage can.

It was a really busy day which was awesome.

Oh, and yesterday I found out that So You Think You Can Dance is on on Tuesdays and Wednesdays this season. Since Bible Study is Tuesdays, I might have to ask my wonderful and very kind friend Dusty if he'll record it for me.

Days: this and that

We made it safely home from Michigan, although the plane ride changed Ben's cold from annoying to terrible. We managed to make it to most of the favorite restaurants including 8th Street Grille for chicken corn chowder, Good Earth for #5: The Pueblo, and 84 East for Baked Spaghetti.

Today work was rather busy, which was exciting. Tomorrow even looks busy. Then we had a small small group tonight. There wasn't really anything planned, so it worked well. We played Double Solitare (or Dutch Blitz or Nutzee). I pretty much stomped everybody. There's just something about that game that works for me...Ben doesn't play it with me any more because he says that I always win.

Well, I had a whole bunch of pictures to show but they are taking too long to upload. So you only get a few. Maybe more tomorrow.

Sunday: quote

I found this reading my book (and no, it has absolutely nothing to do with the weekend)

"Some say that crying is childish. Daniel - who since the bith of Godfrey [his son] has had more opportuntiies than he should have like to observe crying - takes a contrary view. Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part , that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions."

Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

Friday and Saturday: more Michigan

Oh, lots of things happened these past few days. I have a few pictures, but the cord is upstairs and the camera is ...somewhere...and I'm too lazy to get it.

Friday we slept in. We saw a happy Scarlet for lunch. Then for dinner it was the whole family and Grandma Hilldore which was a lot of fun. Afterwards we played some Wii and teased the kids. It's amazing how two little burp cloths can keep a kid super happy and entertained for hours.

Saturday morning we saw my parents and got caught up with them. Then off to Jacob's football game...I didn't really watch very much. Aunt C did stop by so I got to see her for a bit and get caught up with that side of the family. Then it started raining so we all crowded under some big umbrellas. Travis ran to the car to get another umbrella and when he popped it open everyone laughed because it was so small.

Then off to see Abby and get caught up with her a bit. Thanks to facebook mainly I at least knew some of the major points in her life, so it was nice to see her again and get some of the other things that are going on.

Phew..this is turning into a long post. So the rest of the day was spent with family.

Thursday: Michigan

Today we went to Michigan! Yay! The flights went well. I love looking at the houses when going into Detroit and wondering what is going on down there...there are so many houses that there are probably happy people and sad people, nice people and mean people, babies and adults, people in love and people struggling with a breakup.

Then I tried figuring out what happened at all the industrial looking places. One place looked like all it was was a truck hub...a bunch of littlish buildings with trucks backed up to them on all sides. There also didn't seem like there were a lot of huge parking lots which surprised me a bit.

Also going into Detroit there were two women in the seats behind us...

"Is that Lake Michigan that I see?"

"Umm, I think so. Well, Superior is by Chicago so that must be Michigan"

sigh

We then got in and since we had managed to not check any bags got picked up right away. We talked with Larry and Cheryl until it was time for bed.