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GET A CUP OF COFFEE, GONNA BE A LONG ONE, FOLKS

disclaimer: pictures are ba-ad. forgot to take them until tonight. daylight pictures are always so much better for me. i hate the flash on my camera, and i suck at photoshop. the picture of jax is great, though.

thanks for the birthday wishes! here’s what i got from bill:

then came the construction/decorating projects:

basement is a work in progress – no pictures available

jax room: except for a little touch-up work, here it is:

matt (and mel) and mark’s room / guest room

obviously, we’ve gone futon-crazy.

bill and stacey’s room:

done: paint, new floor, new mattress, rebuild bed, lamps, bedding, etc.

needs: some touchups, mirror doors on closet, closet reorganization/build, reorganization in bill’s work area, but it’s basically done

i did a little “redressing” of two of the bathrooms. they still need to be painted.

i’ve also been getting together jax’s final credits for his high school graduation from what we lovingly call the ECSOFA (eric clapton school of fine arts exits only in our minds – it’s what we call jax’s home school high school education). DONE. credits approved by the overseeing teacher, papers submitted to local school superintendant. jax will be signing up for classes at local community college this week. (YAY!) mark took this picture of jax -- i think it's the perfect graduation picture for ECSOFA, don't you?

bill and i DESPERATELY wanted to have a “prom” for the ECSOFA (really a big graduation party – a mix of all ages, friends, family, etc.), period prom attire required for all attendees. j nixed it. we are just too weird, he says. i was dying to see bill in the black “jumpsuit” tux that he wore to my senior prom again. oh well. i don't know what i did to this picture to make bill look like a 4-foot hobbit. i suck.

mark was home for a week helping with the house projects. i know we couldn’t have done it without him. he is a wonderful young man, we are blessed to have him in our lives. we adore him. without reservation. he’s leaving for baltimore this week to find an apartment. he’ll be living and working in baltimore, and bill and i are looking forward to lots of long weekend trips there! no, mark, you may NOT take sheba!

matt and mel are settled in their really nice new apartment in columbus, OHIO! he’s starting in the direct-PHD track program in computer science next month at THE ohio state university. mel’s starting at her new job today with verizon.

this saturday, bill and i are heading down to columbus (while matt heads UP to cleveland for a saturday night outing with jax!) to the hilton at easton town center with a bunch of college baseball friends and wives, “dt” (donnie) and lee, “buck” and chris, “diesel” and his wife, “press”, “kinger”, and bob and joyce. neither “scrotie” (yes, his nickname was scrotie. i never asked why. didn’t wanna know) and wife or his brother, greg, and his wife will be there cuz greg’s back at home in indiana after some heart surgery at the cleveland clinic two weeks ago (bill and donnie went to visit him, report he looks better than he has in ages). but i just had to write those names. we are old people, folks. the nicknames crack me up. i want a nickname! wait. let me think about that. umm. no. better not. at least not from this crowd.

one last thing. during one of our trips to target, bill and i (in the bedding aisle) overhear this. a mom shopping with her soon off-to-college daughter: "if you get a down conforter, you're gonna need a bidet. honest to god. bill almost choked. i, of course, showed no reaction at all until we were 4 aisled away. we laughed ourselves silly.

Posted by Stacey at August 2, 2004 09:21 PM