i haven't had a vacation this long for quite a while. it's nice. calm before the storm, one could say ( Read more... )

it's been a while since i posted, other than the friday night roller derby that rocked my socks. practice since then has been just as cool, i assure you ( Read more... )

at least i'm going to try to keep it short. i had visions of recounting an hour by hour outline of the journey, but my memory (much like my liver damage) has faded :)

first, pictures here - click on any to see the whole album!


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ok, so the flight back wasn't the magical experience of the trip out, but it landed and that's a positive. and it wasn't so bad to re-freak me out about flying again in general, so that's also a positive. the fact that it was like we were driving on a gravel road with lots of pits was not positive, but what does one do, flying in the summer over ( Read more... )

at dinner after the rehersal - jesse's brother and me and chris. having lots of fun - and lots of margaritas :)

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and let me tell you, i certainly didn't drive here. :)


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thanks to the driving skills of the husband, we're home. so much to say, but not tonight. i'm exhausted in a way i rarely experience ;P we partied this weekend like we rarely do, probably because we all knew this might be the last D*C for a while for some of us, but who knows. maybe we just had a lot of steam to blow off. either way, we had a great ( Read more... )

• faireraven - i have your pattern.
• costume stuff is done for me, not so much for others. this is not a bad thing at all, and i almost like the last minute rush, but i'm still a little frazzled by it ;)
• three days woooooot
• the dogs have been misbehaving lately at home, so today was back in the crate day. they'll need to relearn their way out*
• weekend was ( Read more... )

the traffic getting through knox (where i wish i could have stopped to say hi to liakela but it wasn't possible, alas maybe next time!) and getting onto 81 was miserable. we're still making good time, but jeeze people - we're tryinng to break land speed records here ( Read more... )

that's today - i still don't know when exactly my night ended, because i crashed out - i think on the swing on my in-laws back porch, but i don't remember waking up and going to the real bed, which is where i woke up. i suspect i'll have to wait for chris to wake up to get that part of the story :P i do know that they went back to lighting more ( Read more... )