Jennifer's Joyous Journal

Remiss

Wow, I've been extremely remiss in keeping up with this journal. That's truelly a bummer because I've done some fun things since I last made an entry and I"m sure I'm not going to remember everything.

Last Weekend
Last weekend seemed to last many more days than it actually did. I went to Houston on Friday to meet Deon, my sister's "friend". We spent a couple of hours playing pool at my Aunt Margaret's house, then got all dolled up to go see Guy Forsyth play at the Continental Club. I was feeling kinda tired when we started out, but I ended up staying at the club with Mom and Margaret until well past 2am...way past the the time my New York sister gave up the ghost and went home to go to bed. Does anybody really wonder who the "old married woman" is?

On Saturday, I missed out on going to the new Aquarium to drive back to Austin in time to take Homer to Walnut Creek Park. Afterwards, all three of us went to the O'Reilly house for dinner and a movie. Homer is great about hanging in the backyard when we go out - we never feel guilty for leaving him out there all day - but it's even better to be able to visit friends in the evenings and take Homer with us. He always has a great time with the O'Reilly dogs.

Sunday we were suppose to go to the Zilker Kite festival, but it was postponed a week due to the weather.

This Weekend
Yesterday, Stepan tricked me into buying lunch for him at the Alamo Drafthouse. We watched Old School, which wasn't nearly as bad as I thought would have been. It was actually fairly entertaining. Saturday evening, we went to Selected Shorts on Tour - a Celebration of the Short Story. It's a weekly programmed aired on our local NPR station that tours through Austin every year. We always have a great time. This year, the selections included "Popular Girls" by Karen Shepard and read by Fionnula Flanagan, "Nightingale" by Tobias Wolff read by Stephen Lang, and "Part of the Story" by Stephen Dobyns read by the host, Isaiah Sheffer. They had a reception following the reading where we could have met the readers, but they didn't have any pastries or refreshments this year as they did in years past, so we just went home to our puppy.

Today, we met Carlos and family at Schlotzski's for breakfast, then went with them to the Zilker Kite Festival. The day was beautiful, but there wasn't much wind. As an extra bonus, Danny and Joanna joined us for an hour or so. They were on their way back to Ft. Worth after seeing Mama Mia in San Antonio with Joanna's family. We had a very relaxing day, but we spent way too much unprotected time in the sun. Step and I are fairly sunburned.