Jesse, I totally get it.
We're going to deal with Paris by mostly not dealing with it. We'll wear our hiking pants and down jackets around to museums, and then for dinner I will bring one nice wool dress and tights and low boots. That's not enough to be worth shipping home, really. That's the plan, anyway, but I haven't tried packing everything yet.
Sparky, good to know about the Turtl thing! And wow, Vienna, that sounds awesome!
We went for a long hike this morning in San Jose on a beautiful mountain, and I should be happy, but I'm kind of down. It's my birthday and we're not really celebrating it because my sister is (absolutely justifiably) depressed.
It's just been such a terrible year.
It has not been a bad year for us overall, but we forgot Gotcha Day, and I don't know whether to say anything to mac about it or not. I am just generally horrible about dates.
Aw, happy birthday, Connie. Your poor sister. I can't even imagine.
Oh, I should have figured that about the deer. If that's why they hung it, anyway. Seems like there should be a huge stain of dried blood under it, right? (Also, ew.)
Aww. I'm sorry Consuela. You deserve to have an awesome birthday. But it's tough. I hope the trip is amazing.
Msbelle, what sort of thing do you normally do for Gotcha a day?
I have taken night time cold medication and don't care that it's 6pm. I want to be knocked out. Sadly I doubt I'll feel better tomorrow, since today was really the first day I felt sick.
Sorry you're down, Consuela. I hope the coming year is lots better.
We usually just go out to dinner somewhere of his choice, or I get him from school for lunch. Sometimes Ethiopian. Just lots of loving on him that day and "remember when" stories to spark his memories.
I'm watching my Miss Fisher DVDs, and boy, the resolution difference between the disks and Netflix is amazing. I'm curious to see if anything's been edited out. Some scene cuts always struck me as a little odd.
Aww, I can see that feeling big, msbelle. Both DH & I forgot our anniversary one year because we were just too overwhelmed with whatever awful was going on in our lives. We decided to just celebrate it later.
Today has involved schoolwork. I just had a small paper and three discussion question responses. The paper has taken F-O-R-E-V-E-R, mainly due to finding resources that addressed the subject. The paper requirements were worded very narrowly which actually made searching for references challenging. I've got it mostly written, just need to do the intro/conclusion paragraphs. Then one last discussion question response and I'm done.
For now. Tomorrow is the start of a class that will overlap the end of my current class and the beginning of my next class. I had planned to be ahead on assignments, not getting them in under the wire.
Well, Happy Birthday to you, Consuela. May the snacks be delightful and Paris not frightful.
