And you can tell how busy by the fact that it’s taken me until Wednesday night to get anything online from last weekend.
AND my sister can tell because we completely failed to acknowledge her birthday on Monday (we suck!)… and now we’re in that awkward phase of trying to decide when we should call.
Meanwhile, life marches on.
My cousin Lisa was in Ithaca, NY, for training so she came by Friday night to visit. We spent the day together on Saturday out and about in the Cazenovia area. After a Central Daylight Time breakfast, we went to Chittenango Falls State Park for a picnic and a walk. The falls are running strong with spring run-off, although we haven’t had any rain in a week or two.
We also walked around the village of Cazenovia and did a little shopping. We also tried out Nate’s new backpack transportation. I think I need to work a bit more on the adjustments because I felt like I was going to fall over backwards most of the day.
On Sunday, Lisa headed home (visit again soon!!) and after church we went to a “kite fest” at a local park. It was pretty low key, although there was a fairly decent amount of wind. Rather gusty though so the kites were fairly unpredictable. Just a few people flying fancy kites and several kids flying the normal little kid variety.
On Monday (when I should have been calling my sister for her birthday {guilt}), I double checked all of my camera equipment for a photography gig Tuesday night. I borrowed another camera from a guy at work (an XTi) so I could run two setups with less lens swapping. It went fairly well and I came home with around 4.5 GB of images. That’s about 350 shots, of which I hope to get 50 good ones and maybe 25 really good ones.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Nice post-it-on-the-blog workaround on the “how do I let my sister know that I completely realize I forgot to call” issue.
Seriously, you’re not in hot water. NO ONE on Joe’s side ever remembers to send a card or call (and you guys usually do both). I talked to my mom-in-law (who’s a saint and this is not to be construed that she and I have issues) for a full 45 minutes on Monday, and she never mentioned my birthday. But … the piece de resistance … Joe forgot. Entirely.
I pointed his oversight out to him at about 10:40pm. He’s been 100% working on trying to get his graduate assistantship and sabbatical to go through. But still. I have to say my overall birthday was more than a bit lackluster. The one (and pretty much only) upside was the giant chocolate muffin with a candle in it from my co-workers.
So … 37th birthday? Completely uneventful and rather a letdown (Feeling guilty enough now? It can’t rate to what Joe’s feeling. Maybe you should give *him* a call. He’s been jonesing for some gaming action, anyway.).