my journey, destination unknown
It’s been a week. A long, yet happy, week. The girls and I are adjusting to our new schedule — Rob is living in DC, Chloe is doing more homeschooling, and we now have a great new playground to hang out at. On top of that, I’ve been reading “Pride and Prejudice” in my free…
I say to the girls "10 minutes." Camille responds "ok!" Chloe responds "but I have to finish… " iPhone in hand
You must watch this amazing time-lapse video made by a friend of mine. It is even better in “high quality”. Go to YouTube and click on “high quality”.
All the area kids headed back to school at the beginning of last week. While not jealous that those kids get to sit in classrooms, we homeschoolers do like to have a celebration when we reunite for our new session of classes. Today, after registration (Camille is taking Latin and Chloe is taking swimming), we…
The girls and I are home again from DC. We are unpacked and just about caught up on most things, though I do have a large to-do list for work waiting for me to tackle it. Helping Rob move to DC was a bit surreal. It felt like helping a kid go off to college….
If you are intrigued, visit Rob’s Blog… The apartment is in Foggy Bottom, 9ish blocks from the White House and next door to the Ritz-Carlton. Our accommodations are not quite up to Ritz standards. More like grad student standards. But the apartment is clean, is amazingly located and has an incredible rooftop patio/pool. It is…
The apartment doesn’t have Internet yet and is terrace level (no patio), but it does have this awesome rooftop pool! We are next door to the Ritz…
Today starts our DC adventure! Rob packed the car last night, not leaving room for me and the girls to bring clothes. Hmmph. He rearranged, taking out some Legos(!) so that we could fit in our bag of clothes. We’ll be back to Georgia in a couple of days after helping him move in and…
While the girls still had trouble waking this morning, they still managed to get their homeschool tasks done. Just in time for their friend across the street to get home from school and do an art project with them. camille’s art: chloe’s art: Gwyneth’s art:
Last night at the beach, a friend of mine told me about this, I just thought it was hysterical. See for yourself! Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR… PS Having just returned from Japan, I do appreciate their effort to make the name of their restaurant understandable to foreigners…and this error hopefully brought them lots…
In my inbox today: Your iPhone 3G order has been shipped and is on its way to the AT&T store in which you placed the order, please see address below. Your credit card has been charged. According to FedEx, it arrived at the store at 1pm, so I hope to have it tomorrow! Tell me…
I’ve always been intrigued, but the rest of the family is so much more active in this “sport” than I am. Friday, Rob got permission from our city manager to plant a geocache in our little city. He put it out at 10pm, it was listed on the geocaching website at 10:30pm, and was already…
The stars aligned, literally. When Disney announced the Disney Music Block Party Tour, I figured we just had to go. With a star ridden lineup of Ralph’s World, Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants, how could we not go? I decided that the easiest show for us to get to (and perhaps one of…
I promised I would write more about that crazy guy in the last post, but it will have to wait. Today we recovered from our whirlwind trip to DC/MD. Work had piled up, but I plowed through it at a nice clip. There is still more updates to do on the personal side, but it…
due to construction and accidents blocking our way, it took longer to return than expected. so i’ll just share a photo of who we bumped into while loading the car at the hotel this morning. Apparently, hotwire picked the DMBP hotel for us…. so, if you don’t know who that guy with bed head is…
After I woke this morning, and as usual, I headed to my “office” (that would be the dining room table) to read my mail. I was not prepared for the mail in my work inbox. Not prepared at all. IBM pads software lineup; Buys ILOG for $340 million Of course, it didn’t come as a…
Lots of orange up up Blue Ridge … Green is pretty too, of course…
As I had worked so much earlier in the week, it was time to get away from the computer and do something else. After much fuss, as it is always a challenge to get five people out of the house, we hit the road to head to the Georgia Mountain Fair. The girls spotted the…
but maybe now I can learn something new. I’m sure everyone else out there is already listening, or is so up-to-date that they find it to be old news, but I am loving the podcast from All Songs Considered. I’ve listened to a whole lot of shows and now have a huge list of music…
What’s your outlook on life? Do you make lemonade from lemons? I think, in general, I try to make lemonade. I try not to bemoan “Why Me?” but looks for ways to make something good out of something bad. Camille is like this to an extreme. Something happens, and she manages to find the silver…