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August 30, 2005
Hello! I am back! My little hiatus was longer than expected, mostly because I got back from our recent trip to Seattle (more on this in a moment) to discover that Movable Type, which is the weblogging program I use to update this journal, had forgotten who I was. It told me my username did not exist. It would not let me log in. To my own journal, hosted on my own webspace! This was somewhat frustrating, to say the least. I tried a few things, but eventually just gave up and sent a support e-mail to the friendly folks over at my web host provider, and they fixed it eventually. So here I am.
The big news here is that Hurricane Katrina has made her arrival in central Ohio. Obviously we are experiencing nothing like what hit Mississippi and Louisiana, but nonetheless our back yard is completely flooded, as is our driveway; my potted plants out front are swimming in several inches of standing water; and there's a pool of water rapidly forming in our basement. And, no signs of stopping. I hope the basement drain keeps up or we're going to have to start ferrying boxes upstairs to keep them out of the water.
The kids of course love the rain, because they have rain coats and like stomping in puddles. Stazi is the proud owner of Zeke's old ducky raincoat, which he just outgrew, and Zeke has a brand spanking new yellow and blue raincoat with a big dump truck on the front of it. It really doesn't get much better than that when you're 3 years old.
In other news, we just got back from Seattle, like I mentioned before. It was really a pretty good trip and the kids were really happy to see all their Seattle relatives (and vice versa). I had a good time too. I ate approximately my own weight in sushi, I visited with friends, and so on and so forth.
Traveling to Seattle is always bittersweet for me these days. I see all the people we miss and the places we miss, and sometimes it becomes a little overwhelming. Part of it is just homesickness for a place that I loved, and part of it is remembering the mostly-happy time when Keith and I were starting a family with our new baby. We had a lot of good memories in Seattle.
But then, I was happy and relieved to come home again, too. That's the reality of having two families living 2000 miles apart. You're never really 100% satisfied, no matter where you are. So you just have to settle for being mostly satisfied, and I am, it's just hard to go back to the place we left sometimes.
Phew. That was pretty heavy. I had some more stories to share, but I guess the deep freezer and the Saga of the Toyota's Dead Battery and the tale of Mommy Spazzes on the Preschool Calendar can wait for another day. Besides, I have to go check the basement again and make sure all our photo albums aren't floating away to Kentucky.
Posted at August 30, 2005 6:41 PM