Misc Chatter and YaYa's first communion dress

Still no phone, eight days after the (big) storm. In fairness I haven't asked Time Warner to come out in the last few days, simply because I've been busy and the house is a mess. But saints preserve me, as much as I hate the thing I'm actually beginning to miss having a home phone.

Oh, a belated happy twelfth birthday to my niece Caitlin, who was pretty po'd I didn't announce her birthday here on the actual day. Here's hoping you hear 'happy birthday Caitlin' on at least 88 more days in your life. Love you.

School (finally) let out for the summer on Friday, the day we went to see that movie. After the show we went down to Mayfair Mall and I set foot in Macy's for the second time in my life, shopping for First Communion dresses for YaYa.

The event isn't until next year, but they're on clearance now. We liked several and wound up buying three: one for my niece, one for YaYa, and one as an alternate (since returned).

This is YaYa's, taken that night via camera phone in my parent's kitchen. :

We're still not sure where the ceremony will take place. The school, which is supported by six parishes, idiotically seperates the class and shoves the kids to their respective parishes. The problem is we are not parishioners in any of the six, and so as it stands YaYa will have to attend seperate religion classes at our home parish (this, despite attending Catholic school) and celebrate her communion with a bunch of kids she doesn't know. Grand.

Oh, more good news. The transmission on Lisa's van went out for the third time in two years. That van's always been a lemon, straight from day one, so tommorrow we're going van shopping. The money put aside for a new roof will now have to be diverted to the car situation, which bites.

Ah well. Such is life.

Hope all is well with everyone.