No, this isn't really about IKEA. Let me explain. This Sunday, we took Kathy to the American Girl Doll Store in Atlanta, GA for Kathy's birthday. It was tons of fun! Sarah Mary, and I all took our old dolls and we had a party! We had lunch there, and our dolls got there own chairs and everything! Kathy was thrilled. It was a total surprise for her. She thought we were going furniture shopping at IKEA. Haha. Then she got to pick out stuff for her birthday present from the three girls. Mom and Sarah snuck away to buy a surprise present for Kathy to actually open on her birthday. What a thought. :) That is traditionally how it's done, is it not?
Who has seen X-men? (if you haven't, you need to.) :) Who likes Wolverine/Hugh Jackman? Who knew he sang?!?! We made this discovery a few months ago when we saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (No, he doesn't sing in there, but we researched him after we saw that.) Who knew he sings the lead character, Curly, in the 1999 Broadway Production of Oklahoma?!?! We are about halfway through, and it is really fun. For a musical and a Western, it's probably the best I've seen. (Sorry, John Wayne, Rio Bravo is definitely next.) It's three hours long, and a little slow, but again, for a western and a musical it isn't bad. Curly definitely beats Troy Bolton any day. (Sorry, all you HSM fans out there.) Anyway, we're only at the beginning of Act II, but I really like it so far. Maybe we could watch it some time with the afore mentioned friends-of-20+-years. when we get to see them again. :( I think they're the only people that read my blog anymore. I don't even know if they read it anymore.*sigh*. If this is an incorrect assumption, please comment and tell me otherwise. Happy Labor Day Weekend, again.
sz
So....it's been two weeks since I posted. So.....nothing much has been happening. So.....Any ideas for a brilliant post? So......no school on Labor Day. YAY!! So...some people who had been our friends for 20+ years now turned a visit from us down this weekend so they could paint their living room WITHOUT US!!!!! Maybe we'll decide to speak to them again when we cool off. Maybe. Have a happy Labor Day Weekend, all you people who read this!
sz
So, I guess I have to start from the beginning. Last Monday, Peter and Dad went to their first Boy Scouts meeting. Peter just turned 11, (the necessary age for starting Boy Scouts) so they decided Monday was the night. They got there and, as it turns out, once a month the Scouts go on some sort of trip together. This past weekend there was a canoe trip on the Hiwasse river. Peter and Dad went. Obviously, I wasn't there, but it sounds like they had a good time. It turns out that Peter's troop leader was a friend of ours, which was really good, because he only knew one other boy on the trip. Meanwhile, at the place-of-much-stress (a.k.a. HOME) we were having quite a different experience. Stored in our basement were numerous boxes of pictures. 20+ years of boxes, actually. We were assigned to sort through and organize them by year so that we could have them scanned and put on external hard drives. We did that (most painfully) on Friday night. Saturday morning came, and we thought we were in the home stretch. When we woke up, we discovered that Mom had only slept 5 hours that night. Fun, right? Don't get me wrong, she wasn't grumpy, just......tired. So, Saturday, she took a nap, and then we were finishing up pictures. Mainly putting the pictures in labeled boxes and bags. We realized that all our hard work the night before didn't do much because we didn't really know what year some of the pictures belonged to. So, it took all of Saturday night to finish those pictures, but we all went to bed with a feeling of accomplishment. All of us, that is, except Mom. She realized that we had photo albums with all of the pictures we had just sorted through that were already in order, (thus eradicating the need for Friday nights' 6 hours of work) and that we also had negatives of all of the pictures (thus erasing the need for Saturday's work). So, she didn't sleep at all on Saturday night, and come Sunday morning was exhausted. After church, we came home and worked on photo albums all morning and afternoon. We cleaned everything up and, at 3 o'clock we had ice cream to celebrate being DONE!!!! For real, this time. YAY! Then Mom took a nap. She wook up at about five and we ate, cleaned up again, and played spades until Dad and Peter got home at about 9. So, which weekend would you have chosen?
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home: (no pictures available)
School officially started yesterday. :( It's really sad. Oh well, it was gonna happen sometime. That being said, I will not have much time to blog (not that I did it that much, anyway :)). I will try to update you on the more important parts of my life, but right now, there's not too much. I guess I'm back to biology now.
Sorry for the long break in posting. Not too much has been happening around here lately. Swimming is over for the summer, and we have been organizing our upcoming school year. Oh, fun. I have started piano lessons again and am much discouraged by the amount of technique etc. that I have lost over the summer. So sad. Anyway, tomorrow Mary and I have a rafting trip with our year round swim team. YAY! We're sooo excited! I'll write more about that later.
