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[annathepiper]

+0: New Friend on the Friends list! Welcome to silme711, fellow Russell Crowe fan, who has a habit of posting yummy strings of pictures of Mr. Crowe over on her journal. Also, of interest to Germans and Germanophiles, she's in Germany! ^_^

+1: Attention Kentuckians (especially you, wildshadowstar): solarbird and I are coming to Lexington to visit over the Christmas holidays, from 12/21 until 12/29. So if you want to see us, sing out while supplies last! We're anxious to see my family there, since we haven't laid eyes on 'em since Dad passed away in 2001. And my little brother has had two extra kids since then, and my little sister's got her new baby, too! Now, I'll just have to figure out which instrument I'll be able to take on an airplane trip.

+2: In between editing Chapters 4 and 5 of Faerie Blood's third draft last night (which is proceeding nicely), I wandered around the house doing assorted chore-type stuff. I mention this because I was listening to the iPod at the time, and singing at the top of my lungs along with the best tracks off of Something Beautiful*. Much to my satisfaction, I held out the last note of "John Barbour" along with the lovely and talented Séan McCann. Yes indeed, my voice appears to not only be back, it's improved. However, that last note is a killer; anybody who claims Séan has lost vocal power since GBS's earlier days when he first recorded "General Taylor" is on crack.

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[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed Monday night: I caught the last 342 home, but nobody else got off the 245 to get on it. :-(

[annathepiper]

If you were looking for me, I was on the 342 before it. :) I've been catching the 245 that stops near building 50 roughly around 5pm--I say roughly because it's SUPPOSED to get there at 4:52 and it has, as I have previously lamented, been frequently late. (Though yesterday it showed up on time and with a different driver; we'll have to see if this continues.) This usually gets me to the Houghton P&R in time to catch the 5:14 edition of the 342.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Gazerwolf wouldn't mind you gals stopping by our place to meet the rugrats. We'll probably be busy the 24th and early 25th, but I'm off work that week and the boys will be on spring break.

Do you need a hotel room for any of those dates? The Radisson should be slow that week, I'd be happy to see about getting you a friends & family rate. (That's usually $49/night plus 12.36% taxes, down from our standard $179.)

[annathepiper]

My brother has already kindly offered to put us up in his basement, but thank you for thinking of us. :) Should that fall through for some reason, we'll keep that as a backup plan.

And it'd be great to see you and Rickey and your boys. :)

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

They ask us to request reservations at least two weeks ahead of time, though since we're nearly dead empty that time of year they may be okay with shorter notice.

[annathepiper]

Okay! Hopefully Marc won't wind up having any issue putting us up. He says we can sleep in his basement, and only one of his horde of children has a room down there, and doesn't like it anyway. ;) So he figures he can convince Charlie to sleep elsewhere for the duration.

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't be too much of a problem, since that's where I've slept when I've gone over to spend the night. I don't know what my work schedule is past December 2 as of right now, but I'll let you know ASAP. I'll even see if Sarah wants to swing by sometime so you won't have to make multiple all over Kentucky.

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks! :)

[gazerwolf.livejournal.com]

Not a problem.

Hell... if your brother falls through. We have an air mattress.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! We'll probably be okay, but at the very least, we need to do dinner or something. :)

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Can't say for sure, but I doubt Aunt Eileen would have a problem with you staying with us in Gravel Switch, that is if Tanya isn't in at that time, although, I could sleep upstairs for the duration even if Tanya was in if necessary since I have a full size bed now. That's one great thing about our house, we're used to many, many people staying over and can accomodate several people, just a matter of reshuffling. Also, can't speak for definite for Sarah, but ditto for her also not caring, since I know they have a spare bedroom. Sarah and Daniel's house is a three bedroom house, one is theirs, one is the baby's and they have a spare. Bardstown is really out of the way from Lexington and Gravel Switch isn't much better, but if you don't want to spend the money on a motel/hotel and wouldn't mind the drive, that's another option. Since EKU isn't that far from Marc's place, I could escort you by and show you what dorm I live in. I'd show you my room, but I think the school will be totally shut down at that point like they're gonna be for Thanksgiving break and not let anyone in the dorms for whatever reason.

[annathepiper]

Seeing the campus at least might be cool if we have the opportunity. :) And thanks for the tip re: Aunt Eileen and Gravel Switch, and re: Sarah and Daniel. We'll keep those in mind as backup plans as well.

Looking forward to seeing you!