It is impossible to encapsulate the past few days in a few words in a short amount of time but I will try to give the hi-lights from Saturday 'til today as I have had a running commentary in my head of what I would write, given the opportunity. Memorial Day weekend was spent in Austin, unfortunately Houston was not a possibility (a-whole-nother bunch of MP3's,) LeeAnn needed quite a bit of help getting her house ready for the realtor to put it on the market so Friday night we gathered all the garage sell materials, priced them all and Saturday morning, bright and early, there we were, outside, in the hot, damp, humid Austin weather. I drug everything out at 6:30 and then at 6:50 it started pouring, luckily LeeAnn was back by then to help me drag everything back in. And so we presided over the garage until around 11:30 when we packed up everything that had not sold and dropped it off at GoodWill. While I sat there, sipping my diet Pepsi and occasionally picking the damp curls off my neck I figured out the stats. Not including prep time we made apx $100 in 5 hours. That's $10 an hour per person just for that amount of time. Simply put, I'm not sure if it was worth it. We got home, FINALLY, and I crawled into bed and didn't re-emerge until 4 pm. MOST EXCELLENT!! One sad part about that is that I missed the Sox game. I was a sleeping.
Soooo then it was Lord's Day, the meeting had been moved to Houston for the weekend so LeeAnn and I scoured the kitchen and cleaned all the blinds and ran errands, that took all day, somehow. Until Sunday night when I crawled upstairs, set myself up with the baby blanket I'm making for Amy and watched the game. Thunderstorms were blowing in and in the 5th inning the lightening stopped teasing and it began to rain in ernest. The tree outside my window snapped in half in the 7th inning, LeeAnn made the BEST oat pancakes (I used up all the flour, oops) at the top of the 8th and then, sadly, the cable lines broke at the bottom of the 8th and that was that. Wonderful evening, I was so happy that it was raining and thunderstorming during the game. Rain is a comforting presence, it wraps you up. So Monday, all the flower beds were wrecked so we had to go and buy more plants and mulch, clean all the windows and something else. It was a very a-typical Memorial Day.
So Tuesday at the gym I recounted how unhealthy I had been over the weekend, I thought about more intensive cleaning, people coming in and out to visit the house, and basically I freaked. Just a little freak, nothing big. ;) I had a little pow-wow with Emily at JP Java after work, I called LeeAnn and told her I had to move out and then we went and saw Madagascar at the Drafthouse (EXCELLENT movie) with Lisa, Mommy, Austin, Lauren and Lauren's mommy. After the film I was able to move out, with Emily's help, in about 45 minutes. :) Quite proud. Poor LeeAnn had caught her foot on fire and was quite immobile on the couch. It was funny and sad at the same time. So now I'm living at home where it is much hotter, about 4 degrees above the Derricks but there's a pool and deli meat. Here's hoping it works.
In other news the Oasis caught on fire and mostly burned, the thunderstorm lightening got it. The salsa part is still open though. Simmons College contacted me and invited me to a info session on June 13 so unless something goes horribly awry I will be in Boston from June 11-14, staying with either Jessica or Sophia or both. They have a the grad program that I think I'm going to pursue, I FINALLY found something I'm genuinely interested in doing. They offer a concurrent MS/MA in library science and history. Simmons would be my second choice after UT who offers slightly the same degree except that I would have to get my PhD in History instead of just my MA. I'm not sure if I want to commit to that right now. It has been suggested however, that I could get special permission to get a MA first and then decide on the PhD. That way I'm not stuck. Other comparable programs are located in NC and SC. I don't particularly want to go there. Okay, well time to get back to work.
Soooo then it was Lord's Day, the meeting had been moved to Houston for the weekend so LeeAnn and I scoured the kitchen and cleaned all the blinds and ran errands, that took all day, somehow. Until Sunday night when I crawled upstairs, set myself up with the baby blanket I'm making for Amy and watched the game. Thunderstorms were blowing in and in the 5th inning the lightening stopped teasing and it began to rain in ernest. The tree outside my window snapped in half in the 7th inning, LeeAnn made the BEST oat pancakes (I used up all the flour, oops) at the top of the 8th and then, sadly, the cable lines broke at the bottom of the 8th and that was that. Wonderful evening, I was so happy that it was raining and thunderstorming during the game. Rain is a comforting presence, it wraps you up. So Monday, all the flower beds were wrecked so we had to go and buy more plants and mulch, clean all the windows and something else. It was a very a-typical Memorial Day.
So Tuesday at the gym I recounted how unhealthy I had been over the weekend, I thought about more intensive cleaning, people coming in and out to visit the house, and basically I freaked. Just a little freak, nothing big. ;) I had a little pow-wow with Emily at JP Java after work, I called LeeAnn and told her I had to move out and then we went and saw Madagascar at the Drafthouse (EXCELLENT movie) with Lisa, Mommy, Austin, Lauren and Lauren's mommy. After the film I was able to move out, with Emily's help, in about 45 minutes. :) Quite proud. Poor LeeAnn had caught her foot on fire and was quite immobile on the couch. It was funny and sad at the same time. So now I'm living at home where it is much hotter, about 4 degrees above the Derricks but there's a pool and deli meat. Here's hoping it works.
In other news the Oasis caught on fire and mostly burned, the thunderstorm lightening got it. The salsa part is still open though. Simmons College contacted me and invited me to a info session on June 13 so unless something goes horribly awry I will be in Boston from June 11-14, staying with either Jessica or Sophia or both. They have a the grad program that I think I'm going to pursue, I FINALLY found something I'm genuinely interested in doing. They offer a concurrent MS/MA in library science and history. Simmons would be my second choice after UT who offers slightly the same degree except that I would have to get my PhD in History instead of just my MA. I'm not sure if I want to commit to that right now. It has been suggested however, that I could get special permission to get a MA first and then decide on the PhD. That way I'm not stuck. Other comparable programs are located in NC and SC. I don't particularly want to go there. Okay, well time to get back to work.
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