ACT XXI

Memorial Day, 2006

My family has never really celebrated Memorial Day with picnics on the holiday Monday or trips to the cemetary to honor those who have fallen defending their country, but today was special. Mom, Chelsea, and I woke up late (Dad is still in Nevada) to the most beautiful morning all year. The sky was the purest blue I've seen in ages and the plants and flowers all around the backyard were fresh with new life from the light rains on Friday. I think it's really summer. I looked over the ads in the paper while Mom made pop-overs, parfaits, and fresh orange juice, and once Chelsea woke up, we took our breakfasts out onto the patio and sunned our shoulders while watching the dogs roll around in the long grass and try to fly after the birds also having breakfast in the feeders.

As I mentioned yesterday, I told Cody hat I would read the Lord of the Rings by the time he gets back from Europe, so I read The Hobbit over breakfast and later in the crooked blue armchair in the living room.

My camera broke today. It firgures -- three weeks until Europe and the zoom lens will not retract into the case. Thankfully, the nice manager at Staples said that if the camera malfunctions within the time of the waranty, I can just bring it back and he will exchange it for a similar model. The camera I bought was the floor model and the last one, so I'll get the newer model. I didn't get it in writing, so we'll hope that he remembers his promise. Either that, or I'll just have them fix it under the protection plan we bought. I just really want it back before Europe! I don't know when I'll get to go to Europe next, so I'll have to take home as many memories as possible, and hopefully in a more permanent medium than just my mind.

Oh, do you like the new layout? I think I like it, but I would like your opinion. Yes, you.

Cody comes home in 14 days! I miss that guy so much. He'd better bring me a present. Like one of the beaver hats the guards outside Buckingham Palace get to wear.

I have jury duty again tomorrow morning, so I best be off. I postponed it a week so Heidi and I could go together and keep each other company. I hope she remembered.

posted by Jess @ 9:58 PM