The month is passing quickly. I can't believe it's halfway over. We've had a lot of changes in the house lately. Drew left for New York to pursue his last year of grad school at Columbia. A friend of his from France, Marie, briefly moved in with us until she found a permanent place to live in DC. She's since moved. Her stay was a mere 2.5 weeks. Milton found a job in Raleigh and has moved (mostly) to start his new position. He still has some of his things in our house, which he's promised to get by the end of the month. It was a pretty fast move. When he was offered the job, they asked him to start four days later.
Right now we have two open rooms, one of which we have to fill and the other of which Marie and I are thinking we'll fill to bring in some extra cash (and reduce our rents). It would be great if we could.
We celebrated Marie's bday last week. She wanted to go to dinner and then we came home and had her friends over for games and socializing. Marie had a good time and any excuse to have a party is fine by me!
This Saturday we have plans to join French Marie and her beau, George, for a day at Mt. Vernon. I've lived in DC for over 3.5 years and still have never made it to Mt. Vernon, so it should be a fun day trip. Next weekend the four of us are planning on heading to NYC to visit Drew for the weekend. I'm excited about seeing NYC since I haven't been in well over 14 years.
I'm eying a half marathon in VA Beach in March 2010. I haven't done a long run in a while and this seems like just the race to get me motivated back into shape (and back into some pants I've outgrown). The race is a St. Patty's day theme since it's the week of the holiday. People apparently get dressed up for it- in their best Irish green! It looks like a fun time and a good first half marathon. Mal has agreed to do it with me so we'll make a sisters trip out of it!
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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, sounds like its never a dull moment in your life...People coming people going I can't keep up..Today has been a rainy day...all day.. Billy went to the movie you talked about on facebook last week....he loved it....run a mile for me..
Dean
Well I believe green is one of your best colors so you should run in this race with green on! Perhaps one day we can "run" to Ireland & visit where some of our relatives came from. Perhaps I can get up there to cheer you on in that race! :-)xoxox ed
When I was thirteen years old my folks took Gida and me to Mt Vernon. It was the first southern plantation I had ever been to and I remember how impressed I was seeing how they lived 'back then'
That was my first trip to DC and New York and such a different world than Oklahoma. We usually went to California or Colorado - no southern plantations in either of those states. The news yesterday said that the students in Ok do not know the name of our first president. At least we knew that much back then. XOXOX jd
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