Lone Man #6

Had a good, quiet, albeit lonely, day.

• Got up, ate, got ready
  
• Home taught a great little family
  
• Went to choir practice
  
• Went to church
  
• Came home, changed, and made a late lunch/early dinner
  
• Wrote a few missionaries
  
• Wrote some thank you notes
  
• Caught up on SeenOnTheRoad and blogged a little
  
• Plan my week
  
• Made lunch
  
• Talked to Jill for a little bit
  
• Scriptures
  
• Phone calls
  
• Get ready for bed
  

No new notes today...

Lone Man #5

How I kept myself busy today:

• Got up, read scriptures, got ready for the day.
  
• Went to the Post Office. Got Gas.
  
• Did a week's worth of dishes I've been putting off.
  
• Chop carrots for lunches and salads. Make lemonade.
  

  Aside: These small Kool-Aid packets were on sale, so we tried them. It feels wrong to need to pour 1 cup of sugar (or splenda) into a 2 quart "soft drink"....anyway

• Late breakfast of leftover blueberry pancakes.
  
• Hang up my suit coats I've left on the couch.
  
• Tried to renew vehicle registration online; realized I needed to get emissions.
  
• Read a few pages of Preventing Surprise Attacks while waiting for emissions test.
  
• Came home and renewed registration.
  
• Work on pre-registration stuff and pre-assessments (for school and stuff).
  
• Ate leftover breadsticks and tried canned Maryland crab soup for lunch (wasn't that great)
  
• Take out the trash.
  
• Go to the library and pick up a book for Jill.
  
• Unloaded the dishwasher
  
• Dealing with Twitter (Un)Support on a hacked account issue for one of my handles. It's incredibly hard to (1) get answers and (2) manage your personal data (ie, tweets) -- pondering closing them all down in a fit of frustration over data control / data liberation.
  
• Received 4 emails from the property management company for our apartment complex regarding service requests. Only problem: they weren't from me, and they were from 4 different complexes. Responded to each of them notifying their service center of the problem.
  
• Cooked dinner and cleaned up.
  
• GVidChat with Jill and CJ !
  
• Course planning and other prep
  
• Traveling salesman made the house smell like bad men's cologne; only had the door open for 15 seconds and had to run the a/c for about 20 to get rid of the headache. Good luck, guy...
  
• Read CJ her bedtime story
  
• Finalized course planning for the whole grad program. (Until I meet with my yet-to-be determined academic adviser, that is...)
  
• Spoke with Jill one more time
  

Didn't mean to have so many driving excursions, but hadn't planned on needing emissions (the e-mail renewal notification didn't tell me I needed emissions, so I only found out once I Notes found today -- (mushy/almost-TMI warning ;-) ) Pantry:

Things we love about Daddy: He is so smart! He thinks things through and knows how to make good decisions. (12/15)

Back of Preventing Surprise Attacks:

Things Jill loves about Jeremy: His hairy chest! =) (2/15)

In the freezer between some meals Jill left for me:

Things we love about Daddy: He gives the best hugs and snuggles. (10/15)

Need to find: 6, 9, 13

Lone Man #4

More notes I found around the house:

On the "homey" saying hanging by the front door (apparently I never look up when I walk in the door...):

Things We love about Daddy: He makes us miss home. (1/15)

On our multi-frame with wedding pics and baby pics:

Things we love about Daddy: He lvoes Mommy and everybody knows it. (5/15)

In my collar stays carrying case:

Things Jill loves about Jeremy: He makes me feel beautiful, amazing, and smart. (14/15)

Need to find: 2, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13

Lone Man #3

Some more notes hidden around the house:

Found in the medicine cabinet:

Things CJ loves about Daddy: He loves Me! (7/15)

Found in Good Night Moon

Things CJ loves about Daddy: He reads me bedtime stories and lets me sit on his lap. (8/15)

Found tucked in between the plates in the cupboard:

Things Jill loves about Jeremy: He loves to do dishes (or at least he loves a clean kitchen!). (3/15)

Lone Man #2

[update] this day should be #1 (8/16) - I just happened to write it later. I wasn't planning on counting the number of Lone Man days -- it started as just post #1, post #2 -- so I won't bother to fix it. I did add some photos below, though.

Went to the U.S. Marine Corps Sunset Parade on the grounds in front of the Marine Corps War Memorial with Chance & Jenny and Jaron and Tana.

The Commandant's Own and the Silent Drill Platoon put on incredible performances.

Very moving to hear the 21 gun salute followed by taps played by a lone bugler standing atop the massive base to the Memorial; it still gives me chills.

I tried to snap some photos with my Bb and snag a few seconds of video. Of course, Chance took lots of photos. Here's one he posted to his photo blog:

(click through for a larger size)

Been a busy day and a half, even being a lone man. If I have a moment I'll update with some of my shots.