never go to bed mad. stay up and fight!

just kidding ;) guess who officially moves in today?... nately does! he'll be arriving on an 11 pm flight and hightailing it to our apartment where i will be scrambling to clean and shove furniture aside to make room for all the boxes scheduled to arrive in the morning! i can't wait ;)
in other news, i had a fantastic weekend with the ivey clan and co. in PA this weekend. lots of great hits were played and i discovered my hidden talent for the kazoo (also known as the substitute horn section). i also sang the dolly parton classic "why'd you come in here lookin' like that" which was fantastic fun :) we also celebrated john and nina's anniversary with songs specially written from them by granny :) after a day of music, we canoed down the yough, ate some great pizza and wings at phil's, and canoed some more! monday we played crouquet and drank tasty cocktails :)
tonight, i'm picking cleo up from "a pet's palace" on my way home, her orlando home away from home :) she appears to enjoy it - she was scheduled to have a bath this morning and should be nice and worn out from playing with the other dogs :)
lunch hour's about over- back to work! :)

how much is your house worth?

crazy internet and it's privacy controversy. know someone's address? well then you know how much their house is worth, complete with a satellite picture and assigned values for all nearby homes. check it out. i'm not sure how i feel about this... mostly, i think i like being able to easily access the info but still. what do you think?

happy middle of the week!

this week is speeding along quite nicely ;) nate headed home yesterday midday and returned to a flurry of packing and getting ready for the movers this morning. mom and marty are in england this week, so i'm missing my regular phone calls with my mother :) they'll be back on her birthday next week!
i'm so excited to leave for PA this weekend :)
i had a great time at the industrial engineering conference (it was here in orlando). it was so much fun to be a "disney IE" running around wearing my pin lanyard and talking to people about what i do. we had a great time clowing around with the engineers from starbucks (based out of seattle! i'm jealous!)
in other news, the powder princess (my lovely blue bike) has returned home after a stint in new york city and multiple trips out on the huckleberry trail thanks to my sister :)

beat the five o'clock rush, leave work at noon!

The Soul by W.S. Merwin

Is anyone there
if so
are you real
either way are you
one or several
if the latter
are you all at once
or do you
take turns not answering

is your answer
the question itself
surviving the asking
without end
whose question is it
how does it begin
where does it come from
how did it ever
find out about you
over the sound
of itself
with nothing but its own
ignorance to go by

hip hip hooray!

nate's coming to florida today! :) it's smooth sailing from here on out (at least from my end- he still has to pack and move!) we'll be hanging out in orlando this weekend, and then next weekend we'll both be in PA for music weekend and everyone will be home :) i can't wait! i sent nate a list of lisa loeb songs per his request so i'll know at least one of the songs he plays. then we're going to hit the road with our talent! (visions of tobias and lindsay on arrested development are playing in my head)
i've gotten lazy with blogging about travels and visits since i can now post entire albums of pictures ... but my mom and i had a WONDERFUL time! the flower and garden festival at EPCOT was tons of fun as was magic kingdom. we had breakfast with winnie the pooh and friends and dinner at the animal kingdom lodge. i think my favorite was the spectro magic parade though. i know it's silly, but i tear up. i'm a sucker for the music and the characters and the magic of it all ;) but i guess that's why i work here! it's a bit of an occupational hazard to be that emotional about your product though, don't want to be reaching for the kleenex box at meetings!
last weekend, m was here to visit her sister and family and i got to spend some time with them which was great :) we had a great time at animal kingdom with her nephew s and finished off the day with ice cream (as every good day should end).
i think that's it for now :)

stolen from jilian's blog...

i belong in paris! :)

You Belong in Paris

You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris.You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.

notable 'quote'able

"There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

stranger than fiction.

there are 58,000 people that work for disney in orlando. the nation's largest single site employer. that's more people than live in blacksburg! isn't that crazy?

low lowercase word of the random interval in which i will post one

is innocuous.

Pronunciation: i-'nä-ky&-w&s
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin innocuus, from in- + nocEre
1 : producing no injury : HARMLESS
2 : not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : INOFFENSIVE, INSIPID
- in·noc·u·ous·ly adverb
- in·noc·u·ous·ness noun

i heart orange yogurt

mandarin orange to be exact. i used to LOVE that stuff and then i could never find it at the grocery store anymore. but here in sunny florida, the grocery store has it's own tasty brand of it...mmmmm.... okay, back to my breakfast!

exciting visitor to the orlando realm

my mom arrives tomorrow! :) i'm so excited to show her around -- we have a few things planned, but mostly plan on playing in the parks since she's never been to walt disney world :) (we were a disneyland family, which made sense geographically).
short post as i'm off to bed, but i'll post pics next week from our many adventures :)
oh! and 26 more days until nate moves to FL!