full house empty house

since sunday is a "work day", i TRY to take some time off on fridays. it works about half of the time... but today i'm home enjoying a house full of people. z is home for the first time since he left for college and our friend tami and her son jesse drove up for the weekend from florida.

yesterday we "kidnapped" lauren from school so we could have a family lunch together (welcome to moe's!). for any of you with kids still at home, don't take those all-family dinners for granted because they'll be scarce before you know it.

so anyhoo, we've got this house full of people but...everyone's gone. z is with his girlfriend sheryl, lauren is at school then work then a haunted house, cindy tami and jesse went to ikea. i'm home with the dog. think i'll get another cup of coffee and practice piano. not bad.

dust and 802.11g

sanding down the spackling in my dining room - a lot of dust in there. needed to get a little fresh air so i'm sitting on my back deck catching my breath. the weather is cool, humidity is low and my 802.11g wireless network is rocking!

tonight is lauren's homecoming. amazing how much more goes into these things than when i was in school. kind of like an early prom. i'm sure she'll have a great time.

home improvement

finally - some rain in atlanta. we went quite a while without it. that's the good news. the bad news it that i've been driving the old mustang convertible around today - the one that needs a new top - the one that leaks so much that it's raining almost as much inside as outside. oh well, could be worse.

spent some time today spackling the walls in our dining room. we decided to take off the old wallpaper. how hard could that be??? worst home improvement project of my life. but now we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. should be able to start painting this weekend.

decided to NOT go to a couple of events i normally attend - catalyst and the fbc men's retreat. too many good things can be a bad thing. need to keep a little margin in my life.

lucky

this is a recent picture of z in his backyard.


so here it is october already. and i've received a bit of grief about not updating this blog enough. it's time to break down the walls of blogdom - who says you have to update it all the time. maybe sometimes you just don't feel like talking... :-)