Life update
May. 28th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyI am a bad little LJer! Bad! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caitirin disagrees because she's wonderful and beautiful and the most perfect wife ever in the world. Even if she has a cold sore.
Things of interest that have happened recently:
- There's a new guy in our unit at work. He's okay.
- I got a CD by a Japanese ubercute pop band called Under17. Holy GOD, it's adorable and peppy and catchy and charms my socks off. I listened to it on the plane both to and from visiting Caitirin's parents last week.
- Speaking of which, we had a fabulous time :) It's very nice out there, and the irritation brought on by having to deal with Caitirin's grandmother is fading into that now-just-an-amusing-story state. When we got out there and Caitirin's mom was driving us home, I saw a rainbow cloud. It was incredible - the sun was shining on the edge of this cloud, and the entire cloud was a spectrum of color with rainbows at the edges. Another cloud near it had edges of rainbows too. I've never seen this before. I figured it must be something about the altitude difference (much higher out there). I should look and see if I can find pictures online!
[edit: It was kind of like this, only the bands were a lot thicker and the cloud was smaller, so the colors filled all of it.]
- In early May I saw a faery trail. You know faery circles? Dark round patches in the grass? Well, one morning I was dropping Caitirin off at the bus stop and it was one of the first very dewy mornings. The lawn near where I dropped her off was alight with dew. The sun was still low and the grass was brilliant with it. And as I drove off, I saw a dark path, consistently about a foot wide, straight from the forest to the road.
- I had put in an application for a job at Caitirin's university for a web writing job, and although they're in a hiring freeze and couldn't hire anyone at the moment anyway, they sent me a rejection letter. It wasn't the normal one, though, and it said they were impressed with my credentials.
- We wrote and had dinner with_melisande_ last night, and it was incredible. She has a really great net tent thing, and her garden is gorgeous, and her family is just beyond wonderful. They cooked us hamburgers and homemade potato salad, and Caitirin and _melisande_ and I sat around a fire after it got dark and made s'mores and sang and looked at the stars. She lives out in the woods, so you can see the stars so sharply. I haven't sung around a campfire since Caitirin and I went camping back before we moved in together. And this time there were three of us so we could sing beautiful rounds :) And we sounded great. It was wonderful. And there was talk of shirtless!Thomas, which makes any situation better XD
- I'm in a medieval historical fiction reading mood, and I'm reading Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries (SO GOOD!) and The Pillars of the Earth, which is less well-written but still pretty interesting.
Ooh, a TV show about Herculaneum is on.
caitirin disagrees because she's wonderful and beautiful and the most perfect wife ever in the world. Even if she has a cold sore.Things of interest that have happened recently:
- There's a new guy in our unit at work. He's okay.
- I got a CD by a Japanese ubercute pop band called Under17. Holy GOD, it's adorable and peppy and catchy and charms my socks off. I listened to it on the plane both to and from visiting Caitirin's parents last week.
- Speaking of which, we had a fabulous time :) It's very nice out there, and the irritation brought on by having to deal with Caitirin's grandmother is fading into that now-just-an-amusing-story state. When we got out there and Caitirin's mom was driving us home, I saw a rainbow cloud. It was incredible - the sun was shining on the edge of this cloud, and the entire cloud was a spectrum of color with rainbows at the edges. Another cloud near it had edges of rainbows too. I've never seen this before. I figured it must be something about the altitude difference (much higher out there). I should look and see if I can find pictures online!
[edit: It was kind of like this, only the bands were a lot thicker and the cloud was smaller, so the colors filled all of it.]
- In early May I saw a faery trail. You know faery circles? Dark round patches in the grass? Well, one morning I was dropping Caitirin off at the bus stop and it was one of the first very dewy mornings. The lawn near where I dropped her off was alight with dew. The sun was still low and the grass was brilliant with it. And as I drove off, I saw a dark path, consistently about a foot wide, straight from the forest to the road.
- I had put in an application for a job at Caitirin's university for a web writing job, and although they're in a hiring freeze and couldn't hire anyone at the moment anyway, they sent me a rejection letter. It wasn't the normal one, though, and it said they were impressed with my credentials.
- We wrote and had dinner with
_melisande_ last night, and it was incredible. She has a really great net tent thing, and her garden is gorgeous, and her family is just beyond wonderful. They cooked us hamburgers and homemade potato salad, and Caitirin and _melisande_ and I sat around a fire after it got dark and made s'mores and sang and looked at the stars. She lives out in the woods, so you can see the stars so sharply. I haven't sung around a campfire since Caitirin and I went camping back before we moved in together. And this time there were three of us so we could sing beautiful rounds :) And we sounded great. It was wonderful. And there was talk of shirtless!Thomas, which makes any situation better XD- I'm in a medieval historical fiction reading mood, and I'm reading Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries (SO GOOD!) and The Pillars of the Earth, which is less well-written but still pretty interesting.
Ooh, a TV show about Herculaneum is on.
