2009
20
Aug
16:26

coming down the pipe

   Posted by: arcanai   in Nuthin' Special

seems like we’ve got an awful lot going on over the next few months.  here’s a sampling of some of our upcoming fun:

  • hubby’s birthday is next weekend.  the plan was to have a casual gathering of all the usual suspects around here but we can’t seem to get things settled enough to really set plans.  very up in the air right now due to family stuff in ‘bama.  my guess is that we’ll end up there instead.
  • hubby’s boss and another co-worker are supposed to be coming down for a working “retreat” the week after next.  it’ll be our first professional company.  technically, jt is a coworker and he’s come with his family several times, but since we practically lived with them when we first moved to ga and have been around all their kids since birth and babysat over weekends it’s hard to count him in that category.  anyhow, i don’t know that they’ll actually be staying in our home but i’m sure they’ll at least be in the building and, no matter what, it should make for some interesting times.
  • the week after that, my cousin and CIL will be coming to visit.  i’m so psyched!  it was such fun last time they came up here.  although i guess i’m going to have to try harder to kill her with my kayak this time. 
  • that same week we’ll also be having our first stranger house guests as an old friend of my cousin will be bringing her little boy to visit with my cousin for a couple days.  i’m a little anxious about this… not because i think she’ll be an axe murderer or anything… but just because it’s a bit odd to have strangers in my home.  which i’m sure is how my cousin felt when our friends sylvis and peach stayed with them on their recent visit.  although, in my defense, they had been plurk and scrabble buddies for almost a year so they at least virtually knew each other.
  • the middle of september will be my ten year high school reunion.  i doubt i’ll bother with it.  after all, i didn’t bother to show up for my graduation, why show up ten years later to celebrate it?  actually, there are really only a couple of people i’d drive six hours to catch up with and they are both across country (and one will be seven months pregnant) so i doubt they’ll be bothering with it either.  i had a very small circle of true friends in high school and i keep up with most of them online or IRL anyhow. 
  • toward the end of october, we’re taking two weeks of vacation for which we are both SO READY.  we’ll be doing two cruises, one little two nighter that we got for free for booking our cruises last year and one seven nighter.  we’ll be spending the in-between days playing tourists in south florida.
  • originally, my cousin was supposed to be accompanying us on the two nighter but life got in the way of those plans.  instead, my sissy and BIL will be dumping the kids and joining us.  i’m very excited since we don’t get to spend much adult time with them.  not that i don’t absolutely adore my kids, because i totally do, but it’ll be a lot of fun to spend a few days with just us four adults.  here’s hoping this “free” cruise doesn’t suck.
  • if my cousin has her halloween anniversary party, we’ll make it back just in time for it.  of course, after disembarking a cruise and driving back to orlando, i’m not sure how much fun we’ll be but that’s beside the point.  she’ll be happy if i just refrain from making her clean.  now costumes… that’s a whole different concern.  i’m so lousy at costume ideas and/or execution.  i absolutely loved my costume last year but i guess it would be pretty lame to wear it two years in a row. 
  • we still haven’t decided on the holidays this year.  after losing both grandmothers last year, we had talked about swapping holidays this year – thanksgiving with his family and Christmas with mine – but we haven’t really discussed it since then.  not sure what we’ll be doing. 
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3 comments so far

Sylvis
 1 

whew, that is a lot!

August 20th, 2009 at 19:02
 2 

I’m tired just reading that.

And, hey, there’s nothing (much) wrong with hosting strangers!

August 21st, 2009 at 8:08
 3 

i was pretty worn out from typing it!

August 21st, 2009 at 13:40

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