Weekend in Natchez

Weekend in Natchez

We had a really fun weekend in Natchez. Pretty relaxing, really charming town, and fun visiting with our B&B proprietor as well as David's family at the wedding. Now it's time to get back to the books in preparation for my exam on Saturday - probably not much else to report at this time. Click above to access my photos from the weekend. More detail about the trip to come. Just happy to be home for now.

Gone fishin'

This week has been a doozy! Between yardwork, errands, a WF board meeting, day-long meetings at work, taxes, studying, and preparing for the weekend, I am bushed! On top of that, I have had either allergies or a weather-change cold thing starting. Yesterday I was a little sneezy and runny. Today, sinus pressure and stuffy head. If the night and day temps could just stay closer together, I think I would be feeling better. Here's another calming, zen photo of the backyard - it makes me feel happy looking at the flowers.

Tomorrow morning we head to Natchez, MS, for DH's cousin's wedding. Looking forward to spending some quality time with MIL's side of the fam. Pictures to follow on Monday. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Tax Cat 2007

I'm getting them done, but boy is it a pain. Either the stress or something I ate in the last two days keeps giving me little hives on my face. Ugh. Although, my Tax Cat advisor seems to be on top of things...LOL! Does he count as a dependent??

On top of that, I went online to look for available dates for a mutiple choice section of the ARE today, and for some reason, my authorization to test number is NOT RECOGNIZED! I went backwards and tried to register for a graphics section, and IT WAS RECOGNIZED! ??? Can someone tell me what's going on here? I'm authorized to take the whole freakin' thing! Anyway, I've got an email in to them to get this corrected ASAP and I'm going to hit the phone in the morning to see what I can find out there. Hope I am not on hold for hours...

Weekend round-up

Let's see...what did I do this weekend?

Saturday - Spent late morning/early afternoon with some friends at the High. Saw the current Louvre exhibit (mostly Egyptian collection), Georgia O'Keefe again, and other random stuff in the permanent gallery. Had a lot of fun with our friends and had a late lunch after at Vickery's. Late afternoon and evening were spent at work, finishing up getting some files posted for our current overseas job.

Sunday - Made some yummy waffles and bacon for breakfast. I think I have this recipe down now that I've made it twice. I did take some photos, but the pics don't do them justice, so you'll just have to imagine them melting in your mouth... Spent the afternoon weeding wild violets out of the center bed of my front yard (ugh), picking up all the bridesmaid dresses for Cyndi's wedding (yay - but all except mine, b/c one of the buttons was missing its fabric cover, which they're fixing this week), taking photos of all the blooming stuff in our yard, and now, getting ready to make some dinner. Then more studying for Site Planning! Enjoy the pics.

Kitty Capers

Our "Big Tuna" (reference to The Office), Mr. T, Stinkerbelle (I guess that should really be Stinkerbeau), Beastie Boy, just turned a ripe 6-ish years young this past month. We don't know exactly when his birthday is, but I think celebrating on the Ides of March is appropriate for a black cat. I guess that is really middle-aged in kitty-years, but he still loves to play. Thoth loves string, feathers, and his seagull on a string. A couple of shots from playtime the other night... His latest hidey hole this week has been the bottom drawer of DH's armoire, or my dresser. His own personal kitty caves. Or Le Cave de le Chat Noir. Just keeping this joker entertained is such a stress-reliever...he makes me laugh all the time!

Year Six

DH and I celebrated our 6th anniversary today! We had very enjoyable day. After making yummy waffles for a late breakfast, we went over to Lenox Square to visit the Dogwood Festival. It was sort of weird since they moved it to a big asphalt parking lot this year due the city not allowing festivals in the parks because of the drought and worrying about the grass, but I still enjoyed it and there still appeared to be just as many people there. One of my favorite jewerly artists was there, Molly Dingledine (www.mollydingledine.com), and of course, one of my anniversary gifts was a necklace that I got to pick out. :) I got DH a waffle cone maker (that was the closest to "iron" that I could think of!) Then we had a very nice dinner al fresco at one of our favorite restaurants, Canoe. Happy Anniversary, Honey! I love you!

Big Step

I took a Big Step (for me) today - I scheduled my very first ARE exam! I'm set to take the Site Planning division on April 26th - wish me luck! If you're interested in reading more about what the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) involves these days, check out http://www.ncarb.org/are/index.html. I have a total of 9 divisions to take. Each costs me money. Fail one div and you hafta wait 6 months to retake it. Very stressful. All support (monetary and moral) welcome!