(typed this last night waiting for an airplane)
Sitting in the Philadelpha Airport...stupid place wants to charge me $8 to get online...what kind of crap is that!?!?
So, why I'm in PA. Last month my Grandfather passed away, since he didn't want any services we just waited until the family could get together to spread his ashes. It's been almost two months, so the services weren't as difficult to get through as if it had been just after. Very nice and very short (under 30 minutes). My mom spoke, as did his cousin and some of his old union buddies. I did take some pictures of his family plot, which is right next to my great-grandparents from the other side of the family...weird. Don't know if that was planned in some manner or not. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lindsaycb wrote a letter to him, which we did place on the site for her (and no Lin, we didn't read it :)) I really miss him, his smile, his weather-centric phone calls, the constant picture taking (must be where I get it from :)) and just knowing that he was there for all of us in whatever we needed. Not a fun trip, but it could have been much worse, like when my Grandmother passed away last summer. Both of them in a year. Now I have no grandparents left, but plenty of support from the rest of the family.
Other stuff happened too. My second (third?) cousin Kyle had his 11th birthday party on Sunday, which my mom and I attended (Dad and Caitlin few out before it started) so I got to see my Great Aunt's side of the family. Bunch of little kids playing in a really nice park (oddly, right next to the hospital that my grandmother died in last summer) with the adults munching burgers and cake. My little cousin Alexis is absolutely adorable!
Next time I come out it will have to be under better circumstances...my cousin Scott is engaged, so maybe I'll get to go out for a wedding instead of a funeral :)
What else what else...not really much going on with me lately. Kate and I have been working on the new apartment, got the new kitty kat, driving around the Portland area and finding all sorts of new stuff to go see and restaurants to try. Been hanging out with our friends Gail and Cory quite a bit, and hoping that Josh and Tara will start their planned monthly visit to Portland so we don't have to come out to The Dalles just to see them (Josh has visited 3 times, Tara once...lame! I hope you read this Tara, you need to make it out here more!)
Got a backpack and a laptop from work! Finally have a system running linux that I can play on without screwing up either a) my home computer or b) someone elses computer. Maybe I'll get around to some kernel hacking, I'd really like to mess around with the memory controllers :)
That's about all for now, my flight leaves in 30 minutes and I'm kinda munchy...can't wait to get back and see Kate, Stormy and Quarter :)
(still need to post pictures)Feelin':  okay |
To go or not to go? (check the video, looked fun (fun enough to stand back and take pix of :) ))Feelin':  lethargic |
This weekend was pretty cool. Friday I took my mom for accupuncture in Rockford, and hung out with Diana for a bit. Diana was pretty flustered because for the past few weeks she had been dilligently planning a surprise party for her boyfriend, Jason. To the point where he was pretty depressed b/c no one was going to be coming over or seeing him on saturday. Ha! What she was really fretting about was how to get him out of the house so everything could be set up. More on that later.
The plan was for everyone to show up at 5-530 and decorate, cook, etc. Well, I got there at 545 and was one of the very few ppl there. The keg was already set up, food was being cooked and decorations were being strewn. Not too hectic at all. Firewood was brought, but not started (obviously). Aparantly earlier in the day, Jason had the idea to go get new phones...problem solved on how to get him out of the house! But it didn't take long enough, so they went to Mt Morris to go bowling...and eventually after multiple txts from Diana they're on their way back at 7pm on the dot!
Turn out all the lights, and wait to hear them coming up the stairs...problem was that others kept showing up while the lights were out too! Crazy! Eventually they show up (well, on time) and Jason was totally surprised! He had no clue until a few minutes before when Diana wouldn't let him stop for food or beer on the way home...hahahhaha.
Anywho, the rest of the night consisted of eating (veggie lasagna, bbq chicken, cheese steaks, cheese, corn, potatoes, bread, salad, rice krispie treats, cake, um...), drinking (the keg was gone at 1130!!!) and general merriment!
Here are the pics from it!
Great fun! Now we just have to think of something for Diana's bday next month :)Feelin':  calm |
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Oct. 27th, 2005 @ 01:12 pm
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) fluxblogorg just posted a song by Papas Fritas! I loved their song "Hey Hey You Say" from, oh, 1998...good to see they're still around, cause I haven't been keeping up with them...certainly going to listen to this when I get home. I'm hoping it's as happy and poppy as their previous endeavors :D
I can't believe it's thursday already! Damn! Where'd this week go? Anywho, been discing every day since last tuesday, going to go as much as possible b/c next week it'll start getting dark at 4pm...stupid farmers!
Kate stopped out yesterday and brought me ATHF vol 3 for a belated bday present! Hell yeah! Now I just have to get vol 2! Ate lunch (mac & cheese with veggie dogs), went discing with KT and Ben, hung out with jenndogg04 and Nate, ate some mashed apatoes and corn...mmm...
Nice to see that the Sox won..I watched exatly 2 minutes of the game on wednesday night and didn't hear all the commotion that people have been talking about in the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) niu community...oh well :)
Great to know that WWDTM is going to be in DeK sometime next spring though...I'm totally there!
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