August 24, 2009: The Family Returns Home

I got up and got to work thinking that I would be able to get some free time this morning so that I could go out to breakfast with dad, Liesl and Dominica.  That did not managed to happen.  We ended up being able to go to lunch about fifteen minutes early.  That was as …

August 23, 2009: Hanging with the Ohioans

Liesl was up during the night so Dominica did not even get a solid four hours of sleep before she had to get up before six this morning to work on our Disney reservations.  I think that she was up until around two last night just preparing for them.  She moved the laptop up to …

August 22, 2009: The Ohioans Come to Visit

This morning was a crazy cleaning morning.  Tons to be done.  My dad is coming to visit early this afternoon and then later on today my grandparents and my aunt Gayle are coming in from Ohio to stay for the weekend.  This will be their only chance to ever seen where we live before we …

August 21, 2009: Dominica’s Birthday and Big Cleaning Day

Today is Dominica’s thirty first birthday! Dominica and I (and our families too, I imagine) are still in a bit of shock surrounding the whole “moving to Texas” thing.  We are now desperately attempting to plan, as much as possible, for what to do next.  We are still in the process of moving to Peekskill!  …

August 20, 2009: Moving to Texas

I spent the whole of this morning and early afternoon eagerly awaiting some amount of solid news about what is happening at work.  I’m pretty good at dealing with disasters but I am exceptionally poor at handling “pending decisions.”  It is less of the unknown but more of the “known, but no one will fill …