I've decided that I'm a terrible blogger. I'm so far behind that it would be more trouble than it's worth to try to catch up! Here's the short synopsis (and if you want more detail you'll have to talk to me!!):

Since I blogged last: 1) My grandmother passed away. We miss her, but are glad that she's not in pain anymore. 2) Mom started and completed her chemotherapy, and was in and out of the hospital for about 6 weeks after the last treatment. She's doing better now, but is still not back to being herself. 3) I found out that I have an extra bone in my foot... And ended up with tendonitis wearing a brace on my ankle/foot and doing physical therapy. 4) Had the GITP meet-up. 5) Had our 5th wedding anniversary. 6) Went to IN for my grandma's memorial service. I managed to sing the song she'd requested I sing. That was good. It was great to see my family, many of whom I hadn't seen in ages. Jared and I ended up having a several hour long conversation with one of my dad's brothers--I never would have expected that! And spent some time with Papaw. Not enough, but it never is.

Other than that it's just been work as usual. At church Nancy retired leaving the choir without an accompanist (as the board decided not to look for a new one). The church choir had a month long vacation in July. We started back up recently. For now the decision is to go ahead with the Christmas cantata and then 're-evaluate' after that... That was my decision, since I'm still not sure what should be done. Its rough though.

Well, that should mostly cover it.

So now summer is gone. The school year has started. And Jared and I still haven't had a real vacation. Don't get me wrong--I enjoy visiting our families very much. We miss them a lot, and not being near enough to seem them as often as we would like. But it just seems that all our vacation time is spent traveling to visit family. We haven't had a vacation purely for something fun to do (going camping, or to the beach, anything) since our honeymoon 5 years ago. Isn't that sad?

Jared and I tried to go camping last summer, but it didn't happen. This year we had a whole list of things we wanted to do, and didn't do most of it. We did do a bit of hiking, but then my foot put an end to that. We rode our new bikes a few times, but not as much as we'd have liked. We didn't go anywhere (aside from the memorial service), or do anything interesting. We both still have some vacation time, but we'll need it to go to my brother's wedding and then for visiting family at Christmas. So there's no vacation for us in sight. Maybe next year? Who knows, but I'm feeling rather pessimistic right now so I'm going to say I'm not counting on it.

I guess I should be done complaining. It'd just be nice to do something different, new, and fun--just the two of us. At least we got to go see family--that was good. It is better than what some have been/are able to do. So Sheri, knock it off! -- Okay, will do!

On that note I'll close...until next time.