now that i am working my whole life has turned upside down. i cannot party late and have my own schedule of fun and pure merriment. i get tired quick. i have to wake up at 8:00 am no matter what. so the flavor of "weekends" has changed as well.
first off, i love working and this was long awaited and necessary if i was to keep the 3 grams of sanity i had left. i am proud to say the grams are growing by the minute. it is great to have a purpose and to be busy. it is great to wake up at 8 am no matter what.
this weekend was great too. the kind of weekend that you spend relaxing and prepping for work which included... finishing work on saturday and leaving for a wonderful weekend to our summer house in garni. arthur's family is great. they are such wonderful people. they are fun and funny and are really real. so we spent the day hanging out in his cousins village house. his cousin's family repatriated to garni from yerevan and live a traditional village life. they excavated their home (an amazing space on the edge of the cliff with garni temple on the other side)... and found an old bread factory with ten huge tonirs and big pots, pans and huge vases. amazing stuff. i mean hundreds of years old. they have the most wonderful backyard with a dog, chickens, rabbits, and baby pigs. they are a nice family and differ from most other families in the village. they will not start eating until (anouche)... the wife and mom, sits at the table.
arthur's summer house is two floors so it seperates into a space for two families. his parents and sister's family lives in yerevan but escape to garni during the summer weekends. his parents take the bottom floor with his sister and us kids sleep on the top level. his sisters children are 18, 15 and 8 (all girls) so we had a lot of fun... playing ping-pong, a water fight, cards and singing. ellen, the 8 year old, and i presented hovhannes toumanian's "The dog and cat" and arthur's mom was narrator. we ate and ate and ate including american corn which arthur had brought back the seeds for years ago. yummy sweet corn.
yesterday we spent all day just hanging out ... eating watermelons and visiting family. we were back in yerevan by 8:00 pm . our video guy came over so we can have our final say on the editing of our wedding video. then i took a nice long shower and tv'd myself to sleep so i can be ready for this... another week of work.
first off, i love working and this was long awaited and necessary if i was to keep the 3 grams of sanity i had left. i am proud to say the grams are growing by the minute. it is great to have a purpose and to be busy. it is great to wake up at 8 am no matter what.
this weekend was great too. the kind of weekend that you spend relaxing and prepping for work which included... finishing work on saturday and leaving for a wonderful weekend to our summer house in garni. arthur's family is great. they are such wonderful people. they are fun and funny and are really real. so we spent the day hanging out in his cousins village house. his cousin's family repatriated to garni from yerevan and live a traditional village life. they excavated their home (an amazing space on the edge of the cliff with garni temple on the other side)... and found an old bread factory with ten huge tonirs and big pots, pans and huge vases. amazing stuff. i mean hundreds of years old. they have the most wonderful backyard with a dog, chickens, rabbits, and baby pigs. they are a nice family and differ from most other families in the village. they will not start eating until (anouche)... the wife and mom, sits at the table.
arthur's summer house is two floors so it seperates into a space for two families. his parents and sister's family lives in yerevan but escape to garni during the summer weekends. his parents take the bottom floor with his sister and us kids sleep on the top level. his sisters children are 18, 15 and 8 (all girls) so we had a lot of fun... playing ping-pong, a water fight, cards and singing. ellen, the 8 year old, and i presented hovhannes toumanian's "The dog and cat" and arthur's mom was narrator. we ate and ate and ate including american corn which arthur had brought back the seeds for years ago. yummy sweet corn.
yesterday we spent all day just hanging out ... eating watermelons and visiting family. we were back in yerevan by 8:00 pm . our video guy came over so we can have our final say on the editing of our wedding video. then i took a nice long shower and tv'd myself to sleep so i can be ready for this... another week of work.
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