bug bites and lightning bug jewelry

I'm afraid I'm going to have a lot of the former..... Matt and I went to Bob and Susan's and played volleyball tonight. Good times.

Sprout and I caught a lightning bug and removed its light... I gave her a ring... and then she rejected me and smeared it on my hand.

On the way home Matt decided to be adventurous and take a poorly maintained gravel road... *sigh* and I just got my suspension fixed...

Such a pretty night.

Rockville

Happy Decoration Day! I spent most of it in airports and on planes. But... I did finish three books. :) And my ears didn't pop, which was amazing.

It was a really good weekend, I really kind of enjoyed it. I was having second thoughts about going Friday afternoon... Matt and I flew out by ourselves because we didn't get tickets until I knew that I didn't have to work- and then I switched jobs so it didn't matter anyway. I set off the metal detectors and got the full pat down again. Seriously, every single time I fly! And they opened our bags and searched them in Peoria. They must be really bored.

We spent a lot of time outside, which was really nice. Took a walk to a reservoir... one of the girls I stayed with drove a carload up a dirt path to the top of Soapstone 'mountain' to see the view... sang a lot and ate a lot. Met a lot of new fun people. Tried to blend... good times.

The midwest definitely feels very different than New England. I felt like I should be reading Thoreau or Emerson or something. They don't have any straight roads. I was really turned around all weekend. O well. :)

So our flight options were pretty limited and we left pretty early this morning... ugh. This time I took all of my pins out after we got dropped off and I didn't set off the detector and I didn't get poked and prodded and it was great. Matt of course got subjected to a random shoe check. I think they were bored too, it was pretty quiet at the airport this morning.

I'm really tired now and I'm not too excited to get up and go to work tomorrow. But I might get to play with making glue sticks. woot.
Blessings.

Did you hear

about the two antennas that got married?? The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was great! *grin*

Last Saturday night the w-ton yg had a grandparents supper. Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Pearline (my third grandma) were all busy.... so Shelly and I invited our great uncle Bill and his wife Lucille. They're pretty great. And I like his jokes a lot. We had a blast. This is a really funny picture- Lu is the only one who looks halfway normal. She's pretty up on technology... this was taken with her digital camera and she emailed it to me this afternoon.


So why did the parrot wear a raincoat? He wanted to be poly-unsaturated!!! Good stuff.

ducks

So I really like my new job. And the people that I work with. They have a large supply of rubber duckies from that Oriental Trading catalog.... including scientist ducks. They sometimes get hid in people's offices when they're gone, or for birthdays, or promotions. Which I love. :D

i love the smell of doughnuts in the morning

so today the yg served lunch at church... and it was a huge wedding... and it was mother's day. lunch went remarkably well. people have a lot more patience with inexperience and mass chaos on days like today i think. but we had plenty of help in the kitchen all day, didn't run out of food, and hopefully we didn't leave it in too much of a shambles.

there were so many people there... they set up 250 chairs and there were still people standing in the back. eeesh. and next Sunday is another wedding.

this afternoon i was curled up reading a book and jakey casually mentioned that i had gotten a text message but i shouldn't worry because, "i took care of it." um.... so i ran and got my phone.... he definitely replied "chuck norris" to amber's text. i laughed a lot.

rita and karen are in town. which means lots of family dinners at which there is too much food and four or five unrelated conversations all going on at once.

blessings.

random poetry night

so it's been awhile... tonight we read Robert Burns.

good stuff.

the lilacs are blooming. :D

... pretty sunday

I've had a quiet weekend, which is nice once in a while. :)

The sunburn I got two weeks ago decided to start peeling.

It was so nice out today I just had to lay out on the porch with a book. (I have got to get rid of these crazy NC tan lines...)

Gab invited me to morton's hymn sing. Then we went to Dairy Queen. Good times.