- Ivy graduated from UCSC
- Uncle John and Lynda Ann visited from West Virginia
- Uncle Jack and Emma visited from West Virginia
- Olivia graduated from Notre Dame
- My mom moved to HMB
- We bought a house (okay, a condo)
- Olivia went to Australia to sing for the Pope
- Three more of my co-workers quit, including my beloved Robin
Other than that, not much happening here.
Sheesh, I am exhausted!
Some highlights:Ivy's graduation from UCSC was wonderful. The best part for me was the Theatre Arts Department ceremony - a much smaller event and Ivy was, in effect, the salutatorian. We were all very proud.
The night before the ceremonies, a group of us (me, Eric, Olivia, Uncle Jack, Emma and Kris) stayed at a hotel in Santa Cruz and had a grand old time (Despite the fact that we were squeezed into two rooms with a grand total of two beds.) Never mind, we made it work. By the way, the rumors you've heard of scantily dressed youth and topless matrons in the hot tub are...totally true. I'm not naming names, though. After some hot tub shenanigans, we retired to our rooms and Kris read aloud to us...from the latest David Sedaris book. I love my Kris! And my family rocks...
The 3-6 Mafia Moving Crew (featuring a mover named "Squint") that handled my mom's move into the senior housing mobile home park. What a stir those guys made! This was prior to my watching Season 1 of the "The Wire" on DVD, but they looked like they could've stepped right out of the Baltimore project location of that show.
Work continues to be depressing as hell...you know it's bad when the local homeless guy tells you to "keep your chin up." Employees are dropping like flies. I have a photo taken at a work function from two years ago-11 of the 33 employees in the photo are gone now. One of them died, but the other 10? Fired or quit. Things are grim, very grim.
That's it for now. I'm sure we'll have lots of posts coming soon, what with the move, Olivia heading off to college, Ivy going to Europe...I'll try to keep up, but life keeps interfering!
