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accomplishment

flerly — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:23 +0000

For no particular reason I care to disclose, I just felt the urge to say today that I’m feeling a peculiar sense of accomplishment. I just feel on track in several areas which are I guess just generally making me feel in control and if not happy per se, at least are easing some stress.

I can see the way out of this hole… it’s not an oubliette after all.

In other matters:
10K Classic went well. Yes, I actually did it. Wow, I did not expect them to take photos of the participants as they approach the finish line. Who’d want to buy that? Not me. Egads!

Light the Night walk approaches, and so far so good that mom is still interested in joining me. The notion of us doing this together, maybe even with sis and aunt G, well, just makes me really happy. Cannot believe how generous everyone has been with donations.

I’m sure the recent “100-year record” rain and flooding have reminding many folks of the many hidden joys of homeownership, and we haven’t been spared. Turns out our house is deep in need of some maintenance now… some water leaks in unexpected places, likely need a roof soon and gutter work, and our front retaining wall seems to be sagging. Nothing catastrophic from the rain, thank goodness, but there is a healthy list of things to do building up for sure.

I’m wondering if todays lovely cool weather and sunshine might be contributing to my overall good mood. Probably. Don’t tell JamesT, but I do love fall best of all! Whoops! =)

I only did a TINY little happy dance… I swear

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A belated thank you

flerly — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:38:12 +0000

I just wanted to take a moment to thank aoide for the thought of inviting James and I along on their winter cabin trip. Relaxing and fun doesn’t encompass it, as we not only remembered how wonderful an outdoor hot tub can be in the winter cold, but also discovered that a wood-burning fire is ever so much more romantic than gas logs.

Our adventure finding the place will be something we laugh about every time we get in James’ car — or I will, but hopefully he’ll get over it and laugh, too. Someday we’ll go back up there to hunt down the pieces of his car he left in the ditches and potholes.

We were glad to share in your first viewing of Serenity, and maybe next time we’ll work on making up some better “old Bob stories” to tell you when you ask 100 times… or maybe we won’t have to make them up, since we now have “beer bottle of doom”!

Anyway, in case you didn’t already know — the trip was a blast, and we appreciate you so much! Just thought you and “the world” ought to know!

Long day…

flerly — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:56:00 +0000

For the record, “exhibition” as in “exhibition matches” is a key word when thinking about going to a tennis event. It is as opposed to “competitive”, and I suppose any normal person would have already known that. Rowdy, beer-drinking crowd aside, it was still fun to watch the players just have fun with the game. Random people came in to play a point every now and then against the celebs, cows hung from little parachutes randomly fell from the ceiling into the squealing crowd – mid-point or not, and how many people can yell “foot fault!” and it still be funny, I mean the guy moved back 3 feet from the line.

The thing was, even “goofing” with the game, these guys are awesome and just make it look effortless. But there was definately goofing involved, ie. “losers go butts-up for 2 serves” or serving to knock our opponents beer off the wall on the bounce.

Anywho, tennis event. Been there. Done that. James got a pile of pictures, and hopefully he’ll find at least 2 or 3 he’s happy with.

Afterwards, directly to Bob’s where the time just got away from us. I knew I was taking some really long blinks during RockBand, but damned if I really believed it was going on 5 a.m. On the bright side, with a half-bottle of vodka in him, James actually slept through the night.

Okay, so now, must shower and get on with the important things we need to get done this weekend before we just run out of time.

San Diego in a nutshell

flerly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:45:00 +0000

Saturday: Alejandro’s Mexican Restaurant – they know shrimp cocktail and margaritas

Sunday: Cuyamaca Rancho State Park to Julian, CA (elevation 4235 feet) to pick up the frewtnut great niece at girl scouts – Julian Cafe knows apple-pumpkin pie – Then Rifftrax for The Matrix

Monday: Balboa Park: San Diego Zoo (It’s turtle mating season), San Diego Automotive Museum (Ferrari!)

Tuesday: Guy/Girl Day, where JamesT hangs out with the senior chief. I do lunch with niece at Taco Salsa (where they know her name and told on her that she’d just been there the day before) then go shopping and see Twilight at Otay Ranch mall.

Wednesday: Balboa Park: San Diego Aerospace Museum (with the Star Trek experience!), San Diego Natural History Museum, lunch at outdoor sidewalk dining on Coronado, then dinner at PF Changs, B&N and Bolt at Otay Ranch mall.

Thursday: biscuits & gravy to hold us over until turkey & ham to hold us through Wall-E to hold us through pumpkin pie, pecan pie & cheesecake (then Maalox)

Friday: SeaWorld, leftovers, and Rifftrax for “Spiderman”

Saturday: “What the Dickens?” at Balboa Park, complete with Christmas carols and grown men in elf outfits, then a drive up to Del Mar to photograph the sunset and have dinner at Jake’s Del Mar

Sunday: San Diego Wild Animal Park (great-niece in control of my camera!), pop our In-n-Out Burger cherry, and leftover pie!

Monday: Chillout with more shopping and Quantum of Solace at Angela’s mall – which is Plaza Bonita Westfield in National City. Seriously, she did that. Order pizza, watch tv, more chill out and stay up way too late for our last night.

Tuesday: Hug great-niece 2 more times before school, leave her tons of silly notes, hugemongous brunch with niece (and eventually her hubby) at F-Hop, more hugs, ride to airport where we lament not having driven around by the water in San Diego more this visit before then, more hugs, then home.

The Southwest Experience^TM has pretty much already been documented, but it should be noted that at about 2am, when we finally got home, Kitty was only somewhat insanely happy to see us and the only thing trashed from her having run of the house for 10 days was the San Diego shotglass that I’d bought on my first visit, which she’d knocked off onto the tile by the front door and smashed but good. James’ reaction, “Kitty, you could have just called us.” Yeah, we were tired.

If more fun could have been had, we couldn’t have survived it. We have 3 billion pictures to sort through.