Happy Valentine's Day!
Feb. 14th, 2009 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
knitchick1979Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!
I'm off to a staff meeting for Anime Central, then to try and fix my phone, and then home for pizza. Hopefully our favourite pizza place is doing the heart shaped pizza again this year!
So Thursday evening, after helping out a bit at the Fashion Club bake sale at school, Carole and I went to Mitsuwa and Super H Mart. I got some stuff to try and make myself a bento for today, and also for trying cool Japanese recipes. Then we went to get her dad to give him a ride for work and I ended up tripping in a baby Chicago pothole in their alley and doing a faceplant. I'm okay, didn't even break skin, but despite not looking like it has any damage, my phone is I think screwed. It turns on but it wouldn't charge, at ALL, wouldn't send texts, wouldn't go on the internet, wouldn't make calls. *sigh*
Friday was travel day. I raced to the library to give![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pockychopstix a little froggie I had put together as a Valentine for her (along with a couple of my cookies that I had made for the bake sale), then we headed out to Indiana for a wake. It was my great-great-aunt. My grandmother's mother was one of *ten* kids (srsly!) and this was one of her sisters. Aunt Theresa made it to 103 years old, bless her!! I am so happy I was able to weasel my way out of work to get to her 100th birthday party (it was Saturday after Thanksgiving and I was still at Hobby Lobby so it was a feat). Apparently that was the last time she was really with it, she started to decline after that.
So we spent the evening visiting with family (and I kept trying to remember who was who cuz this is extended family I never get to see). They had some pictures up so I was playing the can-I-name-these-people game. I did kinda well I think! Of that family I was lucky enough to get to know quite a few of them, I didn't see Aunt Theresa much but I did get to see her a few times, and at her 100th. Grandma Schiavone (my grandmother's mom) died when I was still young but I did get some happy times with her and I think of her every time I sit down to knit. Or sew one of those sequin calendars. Aunt Mary lived with Grandma Schiavone a while and she gave me a couple crocheted doll blankets before moving out to Arizona (one of which I keep on my bed, my crocheted Jack doll and crocheted Seren kitty are snuggling in it right now). I saw Aunt Stella a few times when I was little, we spent some time with them up in Michigan on our way back from Mackinac Island -- her pasta was the first thing I really ate on that trip because I had gotten the stomach flu, so it's known as the magic pasta :) Of course, Aunt Mellie then complained it was *her* sauce and Stella didn't say so (gotta love Italian fights ;)
So of the ten in Great Grandma Garreffa's brood, there's two left. Aunt Mellie and Uncle Chuck weren't able to make the trip down from Detroit for the wake but we talked to their daughter a bit. There was one picture from a wedding that Maureen was remarking about when it had to have been, because Great Grandma Garreffa was in there. I said it was 1978 she died, because she missed me by about a year. She was waiting for me because I was the first of my generation and if I had been born she could have gotten in the newspaper for five generations alive (would have been her, Grandma Schiavone, Nana, my mom and me). I'm told she used to sit there and list off all her kids and all their kids etc.
So now today is the Acen staff meeting. I need to get off the computer and get my bento finished up and packed so I can be ready at 11. Hopefully Sprint can fix my phone or do something (like give me a loaner phone or an upgrade) so I'm not without a phone long. But if you try and call or text me, now you know why I'm not answering.
I'm off to a staff meeting for Anime Central, then to try and fix my phone, and then home for pizza. Hopefully our favourite pizza place is doing the heart shaped pizza again this year!
So Thursday evening, after helping out a bit at the Fashion Club bake sale at school, Carole and I went to Mitsuwa and Super H Mart. I got some stuff to try and make myself a bento for today, and also for trying cool Japanese recipes. Then we went to get her dad to give him a ride for work and I ended up tripping in a baby Chicago pothole in their alley and doing a faceplant. I'm okay, didn't even break skin, but despite not looking like it has any damage, my phone is I think screwed. It turns on but it wouldn't charge, at ALL, wouldn't send texts, wouldn't go on the internet, wouldn't make calls. *sigh*
Friday was travel day. I raced to the library to give
pockychopstix a little froggie I had put together as a Valentine for her (along with a couple of my cookies that I had made for the bake sale), then we headed out to Indiana for a wake. It was my great-great-aunt. My grandmother's mother was one of *ten* kids (srsly!) and this was one of her sisters. Aunt Theresa made it to 103 years old, bless her!! I am so happy I was able to weasel my way out of work to get to her 100th birthday party (it was Saturday after Thanksgiving and I was still at Hobby Lobby so it was a feat). Apparently that was the last time she was really with it, she started to decline after that.So we spent the evening visiting with family (and I kept trying to remember who was who cuz this is extended family I never get to see). They had some pictures up so I was playing the can-I-name-these-people game. I did kinda well I think! Of that family I was lucky enough to get to know quite a few of them, I didn't see Aunt Theresa much but I did get to see her a few times, and at her 100th. Grandma Schiavone (my grandmother's mom) died when I was still young but I did get some happy times with her and I think of her every time I sit down to knit. Or sew one of those sequin calendars. Aunt Mary lived with Grandma Schiavone a while and she gave me a couple crocheted doll blankets before moving out to Arizona (one of which I keep on my bed, my crocheted Jack doll and crocheted Seren kitty are snuggling in it right now). I saw Aunt Stella a few times when I was little, we spent some time with them up in Michigan on our way back from Mackinac Island -- her pasta was the first thing I really ate on that trip because I had gotten the stomach flu, so it's known as the magic pasta :) Of course, Aunt Mellie then complained it was *her* sauce and Stella didn't say so (gotta love Italian fights ;)
So of the ten in Great Grandma Garreffa's brood, there's two left. Aunt Mellie and Uncle Chuck weren't able to make the trip down from Detroit for the wake but we talked to their daughter a bit. There was one picture from a wedding that Maureen was remarking about when it had to have been, because Great Grandma Garreffa was in there. I said it was 1978 she died, because she missed me by about a year. She was waiting for me because I was the first of my generation and if I had been born she could have gotten in the newspaper for five generations alive (would have been her, Grandma Schiavone, Nana, my mom and me). I'm told she used to sit there and list off all her kids and all their kids etc.
So now today is the Acen staff meeting. I need to get off the computer and get my bento finished up and packed so I can be ready at 11. Hopefully Sprint can fix my phone or do something (like give me a loaner phone or an upgrade) so I'm not without a phone long. But if you try and call or text me, now you know why I'm not answering.
