Kind of hard to explain why without letting a tone of dour dreariness seep in to this post...but suffice to say that for quite a while I had stopped really planning things to look forward to.
As of this post, I have deposits down on two separate trips for this year: one for late-May/early-June and the other for early-December. Those do not count one I will be making in early-mid-November as a guest of Herr
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Not sure if I'll be attempting to stick to my (of late) birthday trips or actually plan a party here in Atlanta for myself. Still need to think about that one as my 40th (2007) still left a bad taste for me when HALF the respondents saying that they would attend never showed with no excuses shared...even lame ones.
Could always make a Facebook "Event" of it...