It's been awhile!
Nothing really new happens here, so I don't write very often. The furry girls are constantly in a state between being incredibly lazy and extremely active.
Himself finally got a new job and even had his hours increased (this means if all goes well, we can pay our own rent this month! Woot!), and I've been promised a job in the fall (I work for a school district, so having a job in the fall isn't a sure thing anymore) as long as I'm willing to do sound and probably teach it to one of our newest techs, which I'm totally willing to do.
My photography has unfortunately taking a backseat in my life. Not having any money to get a better camera, or really having the time to sit down and take the pictures really put a damper on taking lots of cool pictures. I'm still planning the Tarot deck pictures, but since I want them to be perfect, I'm taking my time planning them.
This year we celebrated Father's Day with Himself's family. His dad found a 'local' steam train (by local I mean in the same state I live in, but just barely) that served a dinner on Father's Day so we did that for the day. We drove from the Seattle area to the Chehalis-Centraila area (really pretty down there, I love it) which is about an hour away or so. We rode inside the train during dinner, and then on the way back we sat outside on the benches behind the engine. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures sometime, but I forgot my camera at home and I have no idea when my father in law will have his pictures on a cd for me.
After the ride, we took more pictures (my father in law filled up his memory card on this trip!) and realized that the engineer was letting people up into the engine to take pictures and see the inside of the engine. My brother in law and Himself both wanted to do that, so we waited in 'line'. The 'line' was really a small group of people standing around and taking turns climbing up into the engine and learning something about it. We all had a pretty clear idea what the order of people was, and we were all being polite about waiting for little boys to be done looking at the really cool steam engine.
All this order was shattered when a woman walks right up to the engine as soon as aforementioned little boys climbed down and asks if she could climb up. The Engineer has no idea who has been waiting and in what order, so he tells her 'sure!'. As she's climbing up, my father in law asks if she didn't see all the other people waiting patiently for their turn (including two of the best behaved little girls in the world!). There of course was no reply from the rude woman cutting in front of everyone, and she got into position to have her picture taken only to find out that the camera her husband was using had dead batteries. He fumbled with fresh batteries for a moment and finally took the picture. The woman stayed in the engine for awhile longer (she was in there for about half an hour total) until my father in law finally spoke up.
'Hey lady!' He had to call it out a couple of times before she turned towards him. 'Why don't you get off your ass and let the people you cut in front of have a chance!' She came out of the engine apologising for cutting in line saying 'I didn't know!' She went to her husband and they started to walk away. It seemed like the end until the husband did the unthinkable. He came back and started yelling at my brother in law.
A little explaination is needed here. My in laws are not small people. Himself is actually the smallest of them all, and he looks like he could still play football and wrestle (he used to do both in high school). My brother in law is a little taller but he's still a big guy, and my father in law has hands that resemble bear paws (short chubby fingers) and a lot more muscle than it looks like.
It looked like the husband was going to clock my brother in law one, but the wife kept calling out that it was 'the other guy'. He went over to my father in law and started over, saying that they were really sorry for cutting in line but that they didn't know why people were standing around. My father in law was pretty calm, but kind of lost it when the guy said that he 'should be ashamed' because he swore in front of his precious wife. Dad said 'not at all' and left it at that until the guy started up again. Dad approached the couple calmly and more words were spoken. By the time he rejoined the group, Himself and his brother had their turn in the engine and the two little girls were climbing up (they were the luckiest ones because they got to actually ride in the engine with the engineers while they put the train away).
The couple went to their car and waited. As fate would have it, they were parked right next to our car, so we waited until they moved (we had five large people and one grandmother to fit in the car). When it was obvious that they weren't going to move any time soon, we moved our car and piled in. I think we were all expecting the other couple to follow us, but they didn't.
It was still a fun trip, and the food was pretty good. Himself and I are planning on going on one of the murder mystery dinner train trips sometime in October for our anniversary.
Speaking of trips, Best Friend and I are planning a trip to Vegas in late September or early October. She said that she'd pay for my hotel and airfair (she found a package deal that seems pretty good) as long as I can pay for my activities like if we decide to see a Circ show (we both really want to see Ka, but for different reasons: She wants to see it because she's never seen that one, and I want to see it because it has five stages that move. Yeah, I'm a techie geek!), or if we did some sightseeing other than casino hopping. I'm really looking forward to this trip! We've both talked about wanting/needing a weekend away from other halves (she's had wall to wall boyfriend ever since he pretty much quit his job to go to college (he went from almost full-time to less than part-time), and I've had wall to wall husband lately). We might even be meeting another friend there for a day!
Well, that's about it. More later
Himself finally got a new job and even had his hours increased (this means if all goes well, we can pay our own rent this month! Woot!), and I've been promised a job in the fall (I work for a school district, so having a job in the fall isn't a sure thing anymore) as long as I'm willing to do sound and probably teach it to one of our newest techs, which I'm totally willing to do.
My photography has unfortunately taking a backseat in my life. Not having any money to get a better camera, or really having the time to sit down and take the pictures really put a damper on taking lots of cool pictures. I'm still planning the Tarot deck pictures, but since I want them to be perfect, I'm taking my time planning them.
This year we celebrated Father's Day with Himself's family. His dad found a 'local' steam train (by local I mean in the same state I live in, but just barely) that served a dinner on Father's Day so we did that for the day. We drove from the Seattle area to the Chehalis-Centraila area (really pretty down there, I love it) which is about an hour away or so. We rode inside the train during dinner, and then on the way back we sat outside on the benches behind the engine. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures sometime, but I forgot my camera at home and I have no idea when my father in law will have his pictures on a cd for me.
After the ride, we took more pictures (my father in law filled up his memory card on this trip!) and realized that the engineer was letting people up into the engine to take pictures and see the inside of the engine. My brother in law and Himself both wanted to do that, so we waited in 'line'. The 'line' was really a small group of people standing around and taking turns climbing up into the engine and learning something about it. We all had a pretty clear idea what the order of people was, and we were all being polite about waiting for little boys to be done looking at the really cool steam engine.
All this order was shattered when a woman walks right up to the engine as soon as aforementioned little boys climbed down and asks if she could climb up. The Engineer has no idea who has been waiting and in what order, so he tells her 'sure!'. As she's climbing up, my father in law asks if she didn't see all the other people waiting patiently for their turn (including two of the best behaved little girls in the world!). There of course was no reply from the rude woman cutting in front of everyone, and she got into position to have her picture taken only to find out that the camera her husband was using had dead batteries. He fumbled with fresh batteries for a moment and finally took the picture. The woman stayed in the engine for awhile longer (she was in there for about half an hour total) until my father in law finally spoke up.
'Hey lady!' He had to call it out a couple of times before she turned towards him. 'Why don't you get off your ass and let the people you cut in front of have a chance!' She came out of the engine apologising for cutting in line saying 'I didn't know!' She went to her husband and they started to walk away. It seemed like the end until the husband did the unthinkable. He came back and started yelling at my brother in law.
A little explaination is needed here. My in laws are not small people. Himself is actually the smallest of them all, and he looks like he could still play football and wrestle (he used to do both in high school). My brother in law is a little taller but he's still a big guy, and my father in law has hands that resemble bear paws (short chubby fingers) and a lot more muscle than it looks like.
It looked like the husband was going to clock my brother in law one, but the wife kept calling out that it was 'the other guy'. He went over to my father in law and started over, saying that they were really sorry for cutting in line but that they didn't know why people were standing around. My father in law was pretty calm, but kind of lost it when the guy said that he 'should be ashamed' because he swore in front of his precious wife. Dad said 'not at all' and left it at that until the guy started up again. Dad approached the couple calmly and more words were spoken. By the time he rejoined the group, Himself and his brother had their turn in the engine and the two little girls were climbing up (they were the luckiest ones because they got to actually ride in the engine with the engineers while they put the train away).
The couple went to their car and waited. As fate would have it, they were parked right next to our car, so we waited until they moved (we had five large people and one grandmother to fit in the car). When it was obvious that they weren't going to move any time soon, we moved our car and piled in. I think we were all expecting the other couple to follow us, but they didn't.
It was still a fun trip, and the food was pretty good. Himself and I are planning on going on one of the murder mystery dinner train trips sometime in October for our anniversary.
Speaking of trips, Best Friend and I are planning a trip to Vegas in late September or early October. She said that she'd pay for my hotel and airfair (she found a package deal that seems pretty good) as long as I can pay for my activities like if we decide to see a Circ show (we both really want to see Ka, but for different reasons: She wants to see it because she's never seen that one, and I want to see it because it has five stages that move. Yeah, I'm a techie geek!), or if we did some sightseeing other than casino hopping. I'm really looking forward to this trip! We've both talked about wanting/needing a weekend away from other halves (she's had wall to wall boyfriend ever since he pretty much quit his job to go to college (he went from almost full-time to less than part-time), and I've had wall to wall husband lately). We might even be meeting another friend there for a day!
Well, that's about it. More later
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