And where did September go?

The last month just simply disappeared while I was jaunting about seeing a bunch of different airports.  I was in Rome for a week, home for 4 days, then in Dallas for a long weekend, home for 3 days, and am now in New York and will be in Boston soon.  I didn't bring my laptop on either the Rome or Dallas trips, and just fell out of the blogging routine.  I'm definitely a creature of habit, and am getting back in the blog practice again now.

I did finally manage to post some of the photos that I took in Rome.  I struggled with Picassa and my home network and ended up renaming each individual photo file so I could have them display in the order I wanted them.  It was a laborious (and probably unnecessary) process.  I can outsmart the TypePad display algorithm, dammit.  I'm having fun with my digital camera and am starting to play with simple digital editing effects.

I had a tremendous time in Rome celebrating my sister Martha's 40th birthday, and my 39th.  It's a great city.  I find that 2,000 year old buildings make me feel quite youthful, still.

I bought myself shiny new Tumi luggage as a birthday gift to myself, which has already been a useful and appropriate gift.  My black rolling carry on bag split its zipper in Hong Kong in July 2000 and has been barely hanging in ever since, and the blue Kiva rolling duffle bag I bought to go to Africa in March 2000 has just about given up on me.  Loving my silvery luggage so far -- certainly easy to spot on a luggage carousel.

While fruitlessly hunting through SoHo today for jeans that don't give me plumber's butt (what IS it with jeans these days?), I went into Bloomingdales and saw this orange Tumi laptop case, which I almost bought, but didn't.  It's good to practice self-restraint once in awhile.

Other fun things in September were: 

• celebrating Cecelia's birthday with the Feld family in Dallas, and not getting hit by Rita
• getting to go to a real live Broncos game, courtesy of my friend, Howard Diamond
• taking my 16 year-old niece, Morgan, homecoming dance dress shopping
• spa day at the St. Julien with Mollie Fager
• lunch at Mi Cocina in Highland Park with Lara Peirce
• being back in Boulder after the summer in Alaska and sharing time with friends and family

Additional neglected habits I'd like to restore in October are exercise and reading books.  I'm still flossing daily..

Comments

[Abby]

So jealous of your Rome trip. Glad to see you're back to blogging. I figured that you were off having fun.

Boston's weather has been pretty nice. Clear and crisp.

[Martha]

Amy... I had an amazing 40th birthday in Rome with you!! Thank you for a week to remember. It definitely helps to have such a wonderful tour guide as you. I'll have my pictures posted soon.