oh week of unendingness and the like

this week has been so many things. it has been slow. it has been long. it has been...boring. you know what i say to that??

harumph.

loud. and. clear.

yesterday (7/29) was my mom's wedding anniversary. 30 years ago she'd married my dad. i love the pictures from that day. my mom in her floppy hat. my dad in his unbuttoned shirt. they were so 1979. if i had any pictures, they'd be on here. alas. they live in the closet at my mom's house. in a dusty box. my parents were only married for 5 years. i had never thought of their marriage in terms of years before i asked my mom yesterday. it was odd to put a number to it. and think about our 3 year anniversary sneaking up on us in a week.

in other anniversary news, today (7/30) was my (maternal) grandparents' wedding anniversary. it would have been 65 years had my grandpa been alive. what a marriage they had. how unconditionally loyal they were, one to the other. it certainly gives me something to strive for in my own life. a successful and lifelong partnership with my husband. oh, swooning swooners.

tomorrow will mark the tail end of the end of july. i don't know why it seemed to be such a challenging month for me. as i said a couple of posts ago, this july has seemed eternal. at the same time, i cannot grasp that it will be august this weekend. (or that, we will indeed be celebrating our wedding day happening 3 years ago...)

i don't know that i can say time is flying (with the exception of said long-suffering july). more like teleporting. i mean, at every turn it's the next month! soon we will be ringing in twenty-ten!

CRAZY!!

aaaaan.yw.ho.
the good news is that tomorrow is friday. as well as the end of this seemingly hopelessly neverending july. i will say that i've meant to have been blogging this entire week but with early nights (zzzz) and no great time at work for this chatty banter (*you've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone*) i have been left with only daydreams of posts. repleat with pictures and poems. and the like. but for now, for tonight, this is all i've got.

muah

as july is all around us

for some reason july seems to be going on forever.
two weeks ago i was getting panicky about quarterly reports.
and other such work nonsense.
and i had 3 more weeks to go!
now here we are. good ol 7/22.
we have nine days left!!
will july never end??

perhaps it is all the forward-thinking mr b and i have been doing.
we have three trips to chicago in the next three months.
so we are daily talking about departures and arrivals.
layovers and checked baggage.
our three year anniversary is just a couple of weeks away.
and beyond that the day of my glorious birth :)
that's a lot of stuff to be excited about!

it leaves little time to think about the now.
but the now is so pleasant. so worthy of our thoughts.
i do love the feeling of this little blog waiting for me.
"fill me with your thoughts and words and sentences,"
it chimes.
and how could i do anything but oblige?

things in the now i am excited about:
-joint birthday party for mr b and our good friend mr r this weekend
-so you think you can dance!! (my new fav show)
-my headache is on its way out...phew
-i get to head home in about ten minutes
(what could be better??)

i know you think i've forgotten about my goal of putting up pics from the fourth of july.
but i have not forgotten. i am guilty of not even having said pictures on my computer. how is this possible?! so, apparently it is more of a long-term goal...but i promise they will be worth the wait. especially the ones of the kiddos. heartbreakers, all of them.

kisses, my friends!
(if i knew french, that's the kind of thing i'd say in french)
(help me out, s!)