*The most amazing accident happened today. I grabbed my cell phone off my desk and it launched out of my hands, did a flip and landed in the side pocket of my purse, exactly where I would have put it if I didn't have butter fingers.
*Mister and I went to Richmond, VA for our friends wedding over Labor Day. The bride and groom met at our wedding last year and the rest is history. I was kind of a wreck because I had just found out my grandpa had died, but the day was lovely.
*I was a bridesmaid and may or may not have gotten my heel stuck on a little pile of dirt and stumbled my way down the aisle. Completely embarrassing.
*After Richmond we went up to Arlington for a few days. Mister and I pretty much recreated the week we met, eating at the lost dog cafe and visiting the monuments at night. The only thing we were missing was a visit to the ping pong table where we had our first kiss!
*Most everyone we know in the DC area was gone for the weekend, but we did get to hang out with our friends Erica and Ben and cousin Betsy. It was so nice to see some familiar faces. Oh how I miss DC.
*My friends here have started a dinner exchange. I have been gone the last two weekends and had completely forgotten about that. Imagine my delight when I realized I will only have to cook once this week, but have a week full of delicious meals. I'm giddy just thinking about it!
*Mister was supposed to be gone for a whole month with back to back work trips, but it's looking like he may be able to come home a few days early before leaving again. Yessssss!
*Sadly the second half will keep him out of town for his birthday which he's completely bummed about but oh do I have some tricks up my sleeve. It's going to blow his mind!
*I went to Utah the week before last for my grandpa's funeral. It was so great to spend time with my family and to hear so many stories about his very full life. He truly was an amazing guy. I'm a lucky girl to have him as my grandpa.
*I'm going to miss this house. I have very few memories of my childhood, but the ones I do include this hill. Rolling down it, and watching fireworks from it.
*The siblings are clearing out the house to get it ready to sell so we all got to go through and look for treasures. Mister took the job seriously and found some really neat things while donning his first find, this safari hat (he seriously wore it for hours), like this mink collar.
*Here's a close up. Isn't it the most disturbing thing you've ever seen?
*There really were actual treasures though. Next to the mink collar (actually there were two of them) was my grandpa's hat and dress uniform from the Army. It's so neat. I'll have to take pictures.
*Here are the girl cousins, aren't they all so pretty? I was so lucky to have so many cousins close in age. I even have one on my mom's side of the family.
*Mister may just think it's business as usual, but he has a really cool job.
*Not knowing where we'll be in the next few months (due to some outstanding NOW bids) is starting to get on my nerves. I want to make plans (like flights home for christmas) but can't. Ugh. Just tell me already!
*I found about a kabillion blogs written by people in the Foreign Service. On one hand I love hearing first hand about their experiences, but it also makes me feel like I don't really belong. I mean, they're living in exotic places (or are about to be living in exotic places, or just come back from living in exotic places) and are all interconnected and I'm just in Houston, living my normal boring life.
*One good thing about living in Houston though is Blue Bell ice cream. Their new flavor, snickerdoodle, is incredibly delicious.
*I am so happy that the fall TV season is here. I'm even happier that I have the capability of recording four shows at once on my DVR. I don't have any conflicts in my schedule, even after I added the new shows I'm interested in. Booyah!
