Something Just Like This

It's been a busy week offline.

Last night I saw Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre with singinglark, her daughter, and my co-worker CW. It was fantastic. Very powerful pieces.

And of course I was in FL visiting my family. I had a lovely time staying with my cousins Saturday and Sunday. Well, the driver from the Peruvian restaurant we ordered dinner from couldn't find the house, ignoring the directions my cousin's wife texted him. We got our food 2 hours after we ordered it, and it wasn't even that good. She also introduced me to the show Younger. It was pretty funny. Watch the S1 trailer; the show is in it's second season, I think.

On Sunday we went to Butterfly World. One landed on my aunt. The baby in the photo is my baby cousin. ( See Photos. )

My mom picked me up on Monday and we went to visit her parents' graves. Then we went to see my step-grandma. She was tired, so we only stayed an hour, but it was good to visit with her. She says she's ready, even though she's not sick, she's 95. Her body doesn't work the way she wants it too. It's a bit of a curse having an intact mind and a body that doesn't let you engage it.

Work wasn't too crazy when I got back. It had been pretty slow while I was gone so it only took me one day to catch up.

Now I need to spend my weekend working on the last chapter of my LoT 5 Times fic and also watching the new season of Daredevil.

ETA: Also, I might need this Deadpool shirt.

I must rant a bit here. They had a late start to their day, so rather than find some way to pass the time until our meeting time, they decided to start going through the the British Museum without me. Guess what part they started with. Yep, the Greek and Egyptian exhibits - the ones the museum is famous for. When I got there, they expected me to do the rest of the museum with them, then go back to the main part if there was time. o_O Excuse me? After going through one room with them, I told them that I was going to go off on my own, to see the part of the museum I had come there to see and I'd meet up with them later. I could not believe they had done that! I had time before we were meeting up too, but I found other ways to amuse myself because I knew I was going to be going through the museum with them. It never would have occurred to me to start without them. It's just so rude. Grr. That's what I did. I took a few hours to go through those exhibits and then called kallie_kat at her hotel when I finished to see if I could come over, explaining why I wasn't with the others. They beat me back to the hotel, and we all went out to dinner together near the Tower Bridge.

I'm back from Italy! I had such a fabulous time that it was hard to come home. Yet, at the same time, we were all ready to go home. I'll work on a summary of my trip, but I want to make it nice, with links and stuff, so it may take a while to get together today. Pictures may take longer to get uploaded.

I'm off to go through everyone's LJs to see what you've been up to while I was gone. If you posted fic, it'll take me a while to get caught up reading it, but I'll get to it eventually.

Only 9 hours until I'll be on a plane on my way to London, via Detroit. Everything is all packed. I've got 5 tops & 2 pairs of pants plus what I'll be wearing, plus an extra pair of shoes, a rain jacket and umbrella, plus my black denim jacket. I've got my laptop, CDs, 2 new books and a notebook. My new camera, my passport and my e-tickets are in my purse already. (Gotta love on-line check-in.)

All I have to do is make it 2pm so I can leave work, go home, change clothes, put a lock on my suitcase since I'm checking it, and call a taxi.

This day can not go fast enough. London & Scotland here I come!

I'll see you all at the end of the month! rileysaplank and mara_sho I'll see you sooner. *wink*

Elisabeth

It looks like I'm going to get to see Serenity opening weekend! I emailed one of my movie buddies earlier this week and she said she'd be happy to go with me that weekend. *squee* We'll see it Saturday, October 1st, with dinner first. (I'm guessing she'll get a group together since my birthday is on the 3rd.)

mara_sho & rileysaplank - if we're able, maybe we can all see it again when I'm in Scotland later that month. I'm guesing you'll both be up for seeing it more than once, and I'd love to see it with actual fans, which my local friends I know are going more because I want to see it than because they're familiar with the story.



I'm also getting excited for my trip to Seattle next weekend. I know I haven't talked about it much, but there's been other trips and stuff going on. I'm going to stay with Kat (aka KallieRose) for four days, September 15-18, but I'm taking the 19th off to sleep after my red-eye flight. I'm hoping that I'll be able to meet up with wickedfox while I'm there too. I've never been to Seattle before, so I'm really looking forward to it. I also have a cousin who lives there who I have tentative plans to see.