Arg. Been a while since I've written -- again.
So, I'll make with the skinny: Last week was all about celebrations. G had her 31st birthday on Wednesday. Saturday, G & I celebrated our 1-year anniversary (which we mark from our first date).
G's birthday: In the morning, she worked on her "31" poem. I made breakfast: a crepe variety pack -- 3 different fillings. We got a later start than we'd hoped, but got ourselves eventually to Oaks Park.
We had about 1 hr 45min there, which was actually a really nice length (on a cloudy weekday with short lines). We started with the roller coaster (!), went on the carousel ("carrousel") for 31 revolutions (love that metaphor!), rode the haunted mine ride, played skee-ball (won candy necklaces and plastic stars), roller skated (!), thwacked each other with bumper cars, and concluded with a beautiful ferris wheel ride. And btw: cotton candy is underrated. :-)
Back at the house, we hosted a smallish party. My contributions: two pineapple upsidedown cakes, cooked the previous day -- and an 11 foot tall burning man! I started work on the burning man back on Saturday. It was a wooden frame made of dowels, covered by brown butcher paper painted with numbered, acrylic stars. On the inside, I hung 31 burnished tin stars that I'd made from shingles (33 cents each!). The stars tinkled like wind chimes; the idea was that they would tinkle in the fire, be falling stars, and make neat klangs on the pavement. Mostly they did so, though the man tipped over earlier than I'd hoped. A shout-out to Leopoldo & mph for doing documentarian duty for me!
Saturday G and I reenacted our first date, going to Chez Machin for lunch, then coming back to the butte to pick blackberries. Heck, we even played it in character -- trying to ask the same questions that we had the first time.
On to other news... The new crisis line Development Committee is beginning to take shape. I've volunteered to go in to the office and write up a summary of outstanding grant and to document our Fundraising Plan, such as it exists in verbal consensus at this point. I'm pleased -- I've gotten the tasks I was angling to do. Looks like I'll probably be involved in hiring the new Development Director, too. Didn't anticipate that responsibility -- but it's probably sensible, given that I was on the previous hiring committee.
So, I'll make with the skinny: Last week was all about celebrations. G had her 31st birthday on Wednesday. Saturday, G & I celebrated our 1-year anniversary (which we mark from our first date).
G's birthday: In the morning, she worked on her "31" poem. I made breakfast: a crepe variety pack -- 3 different fillings. We got a later start than we'd hoped, but got ourselves eventually to Oaks Park.
We had about 1 hr 45min there, which was actually a really nice length (on a cloudy weekday with short lines). We started with the roller coaster (!), went on the carousel ("carrousel") for 31 revolutions (love that metaphor!), rode the haunted mine ride, played skee-ball (won candy necklaces and plastic stars), roller skated (!), thwacked each other with bumper cars, and concluded with a beautiful ferris wheel ride. And btw: cotton candy is underrated. :-)
Back at the house, we hosted a smallish party. My contributions: two pineapple upsidedown cakes, cooked the previous day -- and an 11 foot tall burning man! I started work on the burning man back on Saturday. It was a wooden frame made of dowels, covered by brown butcher paper painted with numbered, acrylic stars. On the inside, I hung 31 burnished tin stars that I'd made from shingles (33 cents each!). The stars tinkled like wind chimes; the idea was that they would tinkle in the fire, be falling stars, and make neat klangs on the pavement. Mostly they did so, though the man tipped over earlier than I'd hoped. A shout-out to Leopoldo & mph for doing documentarian duty for me!
Saturday G and I reenacted our first date, going to Chez Machin for lunch, then coming back to the butte to pick blackberries. Heck, we even played it in character -- trying to ask the same questions that we had the first time.
On to other news... The new crisis line Development Committee is beginning to take shape. I've volunteered to go in to the office and write up a summary of outstanding grant and to document our Fundraising Plan, such as it exists in verbal consensus at this point. I'm pleased -- I've gotten the tasks I was angling to do. Looks like I'll probably be involved in hiring the new Development Director, too. Didn't anticipate that responsibility -- but it's probably sensible, given that I was on the previous hiring committee.
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