Birthday Wishes & Catching Up

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FIRST THINGS FIRST:

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MISSTHINGSPLACE & CALEDONIUS72
&
HAPPY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY TO CATHOUSE MARY

                                                           

Personal Stuff

I got home from Istanbul  yesterday afternoon. What an amazing city. We stayed in the Old City within walking distance of many of the most famous mosques, churches and museums. Lots of cats in the old city! Took lots of cat pictures.  Saw lots of Teddy's cousins but only one cat that looked like Ida.  Oh yeah, I also took a zillion other photos.  I'll be sorting them through over the next weeks - I create a 30-40 minutes slide show (with captions and music for each of my trips) so I see a lot of photoshopping in my future. I'll put a few pics up here at some point.

My new camera is amazing. I've never seen a camera perform so well under so many conditions (interestingly the IA (intelligent auto) setting often took better pictures than the individual modes especially for night photography).

The kitties are certainly glad to see me - I currently have both of them sitting on my lap.  Even after their weight loss that's still 25+ lbs of furry friends.  I was able to sleep on the plane back so I was pretty well rested when I got home. I made myself stay up to 10 PM so I would sleep through the night - and I did. In fact, I would have slept a bit longer but at 6 am two little furrballs decided that I had to get up.

Today has been very productive - all unpacked, mail sorted, petted cats, laundry done, vacuumed, picked up some groceries, petted cats, catching up on LJ stuff, posted chapter of IJ at FF and Teaspoon (we're only up to Chapter 51), finished exchanging winter and summer closets, took a nap, petted cats.

LJ Stuff

I'll be posting the next chapter of IJ tonight/tomorrow but I want to read it through one more time and make a stab at the next chapter before I do.

Thank you to everyone who commented on Treachery - so many great ideas! Now I have to decide what to actually write.

I'm slowly catching up on everyone's stories - it may take me a few days as I don't want to rush through them just to get the job done. I like to savour the angst, adventure, suspense, romance, and oh yeah the smut!!

Before I left I put up a Chicago Theater Review-Speed Edition which included a reviews of Timeline Theater's production of The Farnsworth Invention and Chicago Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.  http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/50065.html

 Apparently the Wall St. Journal liked them as well. Take that NY! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258343200996532.html

Comments

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! :)

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Hey welcome back! I am glad you had such a great time. cant wait to see some of your pix

*hugs*

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Its good to be back! I love to travel, but I also love being at home. Next chapter of IJ up momentarily and then I'll be working on my pictures for a bit.

[missthingsplace.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back, and to be back myself!

Thank you for the birthday wishes, cake and kitty, i love them :)

Now i must get back to writing!

[qoxolyon.livejournal.com]

Did you heard what Rob Matts said about that?

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

'That' meaning the plays, or the reviews?
In either case, no! What did he say?