Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, May 3, 2010

our upcoming high school reunion

Ramsay High Class of 1990 is having its first-ever formal reunion in June, a few weeks after the 20th anniversary of our graduation. Jennifer Venable Humphrey and I have been on board since the beginning, but Mere and Jen Tomlin Bowman have had possible conflicts. Mere thinks she has worked hers out for at least part of the weekend, and today JTB booked her flight home from Oregon for that weekend! Yippee!

Now if we can make absolutely certain that Meredith can slip away from her other commitments on Saturday evening, we will all be there for the gala. One more things to cross fingers and hope for!
--Jennifermagpie
Oooh, look, shiny things! 

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

things are looking up

The for sale sign went up in our yard this morning! I can't really believe it's finally on the market. Fingers crossed that this process is quick and relatively painless!

Kristy came to town yesterday and ended up working her tail off with me, getting the house cleaned up enough for Skip, our listing agent, to come in to see it and meet with us. I couldn't have done it without her. Tom was working outside and shuttling items to storage, so it was just me, Kristy, and the team of feline helpers getting the inside ready to show,

So I'm exhausted but satisfied.

Kristy visits are never long enough. She was here about 23 hours, and I would have preferred she stay a week. This morning we went over to visit Mary-Keeley and Katie, since Kristy won't be able to come back for their mom's memorial service (and I may not be able to get out of teaching, so I might miss it as well). They were doing as well as could be expected, actually better. We laughed and tried not to cry for about two hours. It was good to see them, but I'm so sorry that it was under these circumstances. Hopefully Tom and I will get to go visit Joyce tomorrow or Friday.

When I start thinking I'm overloaded and that I'm ready for things to get back to normal, I need to remember that none of my real estate issues have life-altering consequences. I can handle this!

Also, Jennifer and Scott sold their house in Atlanta; they closed this morning, around the same time the sign appeared in my yard. I hope there's some sort of cosmic positivity going on in the housing market!
--Jennifermagpie
Oooh, look, the shine's coming back! 

Thursday, March 18, 2010

2010 Jenvention

Jennifer Venable-Humphrey and her boys, Robert and Ethan, came to Tuscaloosa yesterday to visit me and Meredith (and Isabel) for our annual Jenvention (minus one, since Jennifer Tomlin Bowman has removed to the west coast). We dined, then we visited the university campus (so Robert could see the library and he and Isabel could climb statues and trees) and Barnes and Noble (so moms could have coffee/cocoa), then capped it off with a bit of Wii at Mere's house.
 
McKenzie didn't arrive until after 6:00, so she didn't get to join us. Bummer, because she'd have enjoyed the boys!