happy 34th anniversary of the first moon landing. whee.
my sister is in town! hurrah! she got here around 12:30 yesterday after talking the continental agents into putting her on an earlier flight, thus avoiding three more hours of sitting in the miniscule mcallen airport. i picked her up and we kept so busy for the rest of the day that she didn’t even get a chance to rest until last night.
we had lunch at jason’s deli, dropped her stuff off at my apartment, and then headed to walmart to drop off her 11 rolls of film. while it was being processed, we went to the grocery store and watched an episode of trading spaces here in my apartment. then we went back to walmart to pick up the photos, grabbed dinner at chik-fil-a, and went to old navy so katie could spend her birthday gift card. i’m sure she slept well last night!
this morning we got up to go sailing. gavin and jen both wanted to come along, so becca stayed behind, leaving me solo in command of the sailboat. it stressed me out more than i had expected–being “in charge” and all. i was sort of nervous the whole time we were on the water, and the facts that 1) we rigged the main sail slightly wrong, 2) the wind alternated between strong and non-existant, and kept changing directions, and 3) we had to launch from the powerboat/jetski ramp…well, all of that did nothing to help my anxiety. in the end, we stayed on the water for almost two hours, i guess, but didn’t end up doing anything more than sailing back and forth at the hilton end of the lake because the wind and the main sail kept acting up. so, not as successful an outing as last week’s, but i will improve with practice.
katie and i did absolutely nothing this afternoon. we ordered pizza for a late lunch, watched the braves score 8 runs in the 8th inning to come back to sweep the 4-game series with the mets, and then vegged. i watched movies on hbo while katie napped, and then started reading the new harry potter book. we went to see “bruce almighty” at the theater tonight and both gave it ho-hum reviews (neither of us are that crazy about jim carrey), came home, finished off the pizza, watched the space station go by overhead, and…now it’s about bedtime. 🙂
