We’ve been snorkeling all day. Amazing stuff. To describe the experience wouldn’t do it justice. So many brightly colored fish and coral, it was like being on an alien planet. I was very skittish at first but got used to it and ended up even diving to the the bottom to check out strange creatures. [...]

We made it across the perilous ocean and to the Big Island of Hawaii. I have to briefly write about our crazy Thanksgiving, even though I’m over it. Then I’ll get into our crazy plane trip here.
Crazy Thanksgiving:
My 22 year old cousin is dating a 35 year old guy that her parents don’t approve [...]

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I forgot to post this when we got back from Laughlin. Someone drew a picture of our Honda Element on the wall in front of the space we were parked in at the hotel. We couldn’t figure out the scenario where that would happen. I thought it would have been [...]

For Novabella and Andy:
My phone is dead. I bought a charger and it isn’t working. Everything is closed today. I’m getting a new charger tomorrow.

It seems like I’ve been doing nothing but cavorting around the country, watching tv. Some may be horrified, some jealous. I’m not quite sure where I stand on the issue.

We made it to Chicago last night. Andy went to Green Bay today to spend some time with his family.
I was helping my mom move a few pieces of heavy furniture. I crouched down to move a power strip that was in the way of a desk and sat down on a terra cotta bowl [...]

It’s tuesday morning, seven twenty three am. Sometimes when I drink too much Red Bull, with or without vodka, I get up insanely early the next morning. I try to avoid both poisons but sometimes they are just too delicious to resist. Yesterday, the Red Bull happened to be with vodka. In fact an impressive [...]

I’m watching The One. It seems to be some sort of awesomely bad si-fi matrix-y movie. It’s horrible and I love it. Heavy metal techno/rock riffs, slow motion and physically impossible violence by people wearing clompy black boots and leather clothes. I couldn’t ask for a better Saturday night on the puffy couch.
*edit* It wasn’t [...]

We’re back from Laughlin. I know, you didn’t even realize that we we’re gone. We’ve taken over Troy and Heather’s living room. It’s turned into a huge nest of blankets, pillows, clothes, open boxes from ebay and a huge sexy backpack (Don’t worry, we’ll clean it all up before you guys get home). There is [...]

My head is hurting and my lips need glossing. Let’s not even talk about the state of my hair. Oh what a disheveled night of board games and overdoses of sugar. Decadently magical.

I’m sitting in a blue, ergonomic office chair in front of a long rectangular, gray laminate desk. We just bought a new (to us) 2004 Honda Element. We were so sure we weren’t buying today, we didn’t bring the checkbook. My husband is driving back to home base right now to get it. Doesn’t the [...]

Today we went to REI and bought a very sexy backpacking tent, some poofy high tech sleeping mats and a few other outdoorsy things. Andy set up the tent in the back yard. I’m considering sleeping out there tonight.

I was going to write about our experiences with used car salesmen where hilarity ensues, but it’s really not that funny. This first one was somewhat amusing with the tag team sales guys practically grabbing our ankles to stop us from leaving without buying a car. We had tried every polite way to leave [...]

We made it to Vegas. This morning we went to Radio Shack and bought the replacement cord I needed for power to my laptop. The internet jones I was starting to feel was intense. We’re staying at Chez Sweezy. Heather and Troy are out to dinner. We’re taking advantage of their huge HD TV and [...]

We’re in Flagstaff Arizona on the way to Vegas. I broke the power cord to my lap top so I’m not able to check my email. We’ll be in Vegas tonight.