outside
One of my greatest joys this week was when I figured out that I could get on the internet from our deck. It’s been lovely sitting out there and working this afternoon.
Now if we could only just put an actual room there.
Archive for August, 2006
of course i saw ‘snakes on a plane’… and the idols
The Idols concert was a week ago today. One thing I will say is that this year’s finalists are way better live than last year’s were. A few of them … Lisa Tucker and Ace Young, for instance … were actually more entertaining at the concert than they were on the show. Which I thought was impressive. We also learned that Chris Daughtry is incredibly popular in Milwaukee. The souvenir stands all sold out of his photo — although Moon was able to pick up pictures of Bucky and Ace, along with their buttons. (She bought Chris and Elliott buttons, too. The Elliott photos they were selling weren’t hot enough or something.)
Although we waited around afterwards to see if we could get an autograph or anything, the performers didn’t come out for meet-and-greet. We did get to see the bus off, though.
That’s Taylor Hicks, taking pictures of the crowd. Peter’s claim to fame is that he took off running after the bus (the only person who did, actually), and after about a half block, Taylor noticed him and pointed him out to the others. He waved Peter on, as if he needed encouragement. (From the other end of the block, I was screaming at him to stop. Because I could just imagine him turning a corner and getting confused in downtown Milwaukee at 11 pm on a Saturday.)
Anyway, we enjoyed our night at the Hyatt, which reminded me that I’m working on a project which will involve both the Hyatt and the Hilton. I’m self-employed, but I can’t seem to get away from work.
Now, today, we saw the aforementioned movie. It was massive kitschy fun. I’m not a movie reviewer, though, so I’ll just send you over to an interesting story about real snakes on a real plane. (You may have to sit through an ad to see it, but it’s pretty painless.)
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buzz buzz
Because I’m as busy as the proverbial insect.
Summer is going by quickly, BUT the kids don’t start school until the ungodly late date of September 6. Even Peter is starting to say that he kind of misses it.
I’ve been doing a lot of virtual work with my virtual new sort-of-employer, and it’s actually fun most of the time. I just wish I had a real office, because what I do is set up at the kitchen table every morning … and then put everything away before dinner. We are still eyeing the deck for a future sunroom, but Pete would like to pay cash rather than get a loan for it, and … well … I don’t think we’ll have that kind of cash to play with for a while.
A sunroom office, though, that would rule.
Moon is in the midst of her rock-and-roll session. The first day was Monday, although we were quite surprised because we thought it was next week. We had an old version of the sign-up form because we’re early adopters and all. The date was changed, and we found out at 10:15, which led to much frantic behavior as Moon roused out of bed and grabbed her instruments so her dad could get her across town.
He’s off this week, which is so very fortunate for us.
Anyway, I’m rather zapped right now, so I think I’m going out to sit on the swing and knit. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have a reprieve from the heat wave.
