Hello! I am still here! I have groceries enough to wait out the oncoming snowpocalypse. Considering the constant hammering the East Coast has gotten this winter, I'm feeling pretty lucky if we just get this one really bad one, but talk to me again tomorrow and see what I say. I may have turned into a total baby about it all ( Read more... )

Okay, so I am terrible. I've been home from the honeymoon for three days and I have barely touched my email, haven't responded to very kind good-wishes comments from before the wedding, haven't been able to even wrap my head around sorting through the 1,728 pictures our photographer handed us on CD the day after the event, and I haven't gotten ( Read more... )

Okay, that was so much more sitting in vehicles than I want to do ever again. Four-hour flight Thursday evening, five-hour drive Friday, really long ceremony in the blazing sun Saturday afternoon, five-hour drive Sunday, four-hour flight today. I am worn the heck out ( Read more... )

Lookit me, I'm home! Had a wonderful trip, though there was a good deal more actual transit involved than I usually do--two full days each plane and car for ten days gone--and my ass and shoulder are much worse for the wear. The family is wonderful, and Zee Franch were a lot less annoying to me than they were the summer of the Yellowstone trip ( Read more... )

So I'm outta here again tomorrow. Skiing with the sister and kiddos is the plan, though there is still no snow in the particular patch of the Alps where we hope to ski. The preparations are going... Hmm. "Well" might be a strong word ( Read more... )

Not a whole lot meaningful to report here this morning, but I felt like posting anyway. Have been having a lovely week at home, very quiet as usual. Things of note:

* Friends Saw Holly and Andrea and their new baby, Collin, who is adorable and a huge, smiley flirt, and has that crazy baby smell that makes my ovaries twitch. Will see them again ( Read more... )

Bags are packed, cab due in 25. Head shrunk, coping strategies outlined. Cat care and keys sorted. Bits of three different fic-related SPN projects in my bag and/or on my computer. Just need to break the 'puter down now and get it into my backpack ( Read more... )

Well I'm back. Chicago seems lonlier than ever now, except that I'll be able to check LJ compulsively as I will have access to a computer pretty much any time I want it. And I have lots of things to do to keep me busy and not thinking about how nearly all of the people I love live far, far away from me. Not all. But most of them ( Read more... )

Well. I was going to post pictures tonight, but it turns out to be much more gargantuan a task than I had anticipated. It will have to wait til I get several nights at my home computer. In the meantime, I will spill out narrative details of my trip, with just a few visual aides ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say I'm back from the Great Western Trek. Many adventures were had, and only one minor sunburn. Otherwise, I'm really clean for the first time in more than a week, I smell wonderful, and I'm off to what promises to be a peaceful night's sleep in a room all my own in a bed with a real mattress I don't have to share with any ( Read more... )