Noon on a Friday in summer. Schools starts in a couple of weeks, and people seem to be trickling in and out of Columbia to vacation and field work assignments and business trips and who knows what all. Lots of people seem to have August 1 pegged as the time to start stressing out about fall, especially those people who are involved with school in some way. I have seen Halloween candy in the grocery store. It is officially late summer.
I have had a productive week of work, which feels good. I like to get stuff done. My desk is a mess, though. My office at home remains clean. I managed to clean the kitchen nook last night too. Well, the floor at least- the kitchen table remains a dumping spot for all kinds of paperwork. Tomorrow I want to sand down and repaint the door frame of my house. Or, at least, I want to get started on that. It shouldn’t be that big of a project, and it needs to happen in the morning because the door gets full sun all afternoon. It just bakes. All in all, I think I am on target to get the house clean and in good shape for friends to visit next weekend.
I am still working to get my iTunes back up and running, though last night I made some progress with rebuilding playlists and stripping out the loads and loads of duplicates that are weighing everything down. I keep having trouble with podcasts. I like the way that my iPhone lets me know how far I’ve listened in a podcast, while my old iPod doesn’t, but my iPhone is hard to pause if I have it set to unlock only with a passcode, which is annoying. I guess I don’t really need a passcode, really, but I prefer it that way.
It’s supposed to be a good weekend, door painting and all. Hanging with friends tonight and probably family Wii-playing tomorrow, and I’m driving up to my old hometown in northern Missouri to do baby photos for an old friend of the family on Sunday. It will be hot all weekend, and I’m hoping to get to go swimming tomorrow. I’d also like to stop by the Tastee Treat ice cream stand in Brookfield on the way home on Sunday. (I hope they’re open on Sundays!) It will be nice to be up there in late summer- I’ve always loved that area in late summer. The chicory and Queen Anne’s lace are blooming, though I’m not sure I’ll be there at the best time for good light if it’s sunny, and it’s supposed to be sunny.
Well, big news! Tracy is almost definitely moving to Portland, Oregon, at the beginning of September, where she will be fully, gainfully employed after many years of schooling. I am excited for her, and I’m being taken up on my offer to help her move the cats there. Over Labor Day, I will get to take the big trip westward through states like Utah and Idaho. I actually don’t know which I’m more excited about- adding more western states to my been-there list or the fact that I will have a reason to visit Portland more often in the future. Both and either and everything. Maybe not so much the actual trip of 20+ hours with screaming cats in the car, but everything else. Lots of big road tripping this summer! But it’s nothing in comparison with a cross-country move. I am more than a little envious, but I have nothing but best wishes for her there and hope to live vicariously through her adventures!
The photo above is from western Nebraska on my big Out West trip. This blog often looks too plain for me. I need to liven it up with more pictures.
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