Vacation

I had a whole week off work!! I was pretty much a world traveler and did more things in the last 7 days for myself than I have probably done in my whole life. Wow, what does that say about me, lol :P I went to visit some good friends (I consider them my family) in Dallas for a few days. Stephanie and I talked and talked, got pedicures done, and just kind of relaxed. Their home is a second home to me. Their three kids are such a treat to be around and totally cheered me up.

I drove back down to Austin on Tuesday and re-packed for my flight to visit Angela in Maryland. She has the cutest house, and it was so much fun to see the new remodeling she's been doing! While I was there, we did some shopping. Apparently I am a "shop with girl friends" noob, because I didn't know about the whole unspoken rule that when trying on clothes, you MUST come out of the dressing room and show each other what you are trying on. That's what I get for coming from a family of all boys, lol. As we were driving home from shopping, we stopped by the Amish Farmers Market in town. I can't believe all the stuff they sell there! Of course I was just as amazed by the bigger-than-you-head red strawberries as I was excited by the gummy fried eggs I bought!

We met up with our friend Jen later that night for dinner at The Melting Pot. I didn't get any fun pictures because I am bad bad at a) having a camera at the right times, and b) assessing the best times to take fun pictures. Here are a few random ones I took with the camera on my phone either way, hehe. We thought it was apparently really funny to take pictures of each other taking pictures of the fondue spread. Angela ended up with the picture of me taking a picture of Jen taking a picture of the fondue, hehe.

We kinda relaxed at home on Friday since it was pouring rain, and enjoyed making the Papa Murphy's Pizza delivery guy come bring us some grub. We watched a plethora of movies, my favorite being The Little Mermaid because, come on...it's just so fabulous! We managed to assemble the bookshelf/cabinet that Angela had to wait 4 months for. It was totally worth the wait because it fits perfectly! Later that night, my friend Ryan came in town to hang out for the weekend.

Saturday was the trip into DC. By mid morning it wasn't raining as much, so Ryan and I headed out. I'm glad he has more of a sense of direction than I do, but we still managed to see whatever sights we could find. I got to ride in TWO cabs! I know, cool huh? Ok maybe not to everyone, but it was my very first time. I had a lot of first times on this trip, and got overly excited about most of them, hehe. It was a fun outing for sure.

The first day back from a great vacation always sucks doesn't it?! How do I keep forgetting that? I hate unpacking suitcases and doing the subsequent loads of laundry. I never manage to "clean up before I go", so I always come back to a messy house. The first day back at work is always the hardest too. It's like somewhere in my brain I thought I could just get a job as a contractual vacationer and never have to bother with the whole 9-5 bit. Today at work I noticed there were piles of stuff on my desk, but I had no desire to do anything about it. It can wait until tomorrow, but not the next day :)

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I lurk, therefore I am.

I do just about anything I can to lurk anonymously because I, until now, have been a non-blogging american. We are a dying breed.

It's quite habitual too--my blog reading. When the PC boots up I check 3 different email accounts, 3 or 4 different website forums, my facebook account, my myspace account, and my online banking account. Then I move slowly into the night of blog lurking. I have quite a collection of blogs and they are all very precious to me.

Slowly but surely, some of the blogs I frequent have been going "private"...what's a girl like me to do? I can either a) mark another one off the list and be forever out of the loop of xyz friend or b) admit that I am a lurker and get help with it. So thats what I did :)

For no apparent reason I also decided to start my own blog because Aimee and Alta High 2000 said I should. I have nothing really important to say, nor anything really cool to share with the world but maybe I will some day! Until then, feel free to read my random thoughts.