Dying for vacation

I'm loving this weather, despite the fact that having no AC in the house makes me wilt a bit. It's given me spring/summer fever in a very big way. This morning as I walked from my car to the BART train, something in the breeze made me think of camping. I can't wait for camping!!!

In the meantime, our vacation fast approaches. Next week I fly to Boston to meet DH where he will be working that week. We are taking a long weekend to be tourists in the city. I'm so excited! I've never been to the east coast, not counting JFK airport. The forecast looks to be in the 60's and some sun, some rain....so we'll definately bring umbrellas. At least it will be warm-ish despite the rain so no problem.

I've got a little game plan for us, and my friends at work who are from Boston are going to give me some restaurant and bar names of local spots that they recommend. Did I mention that I can't wait? I LOVE traveling!

Happy Mo Fo New Year

Another year, come and gone! I've got to say that 2007 was a good year. We went to Ireland (*sigh* I wish we were there again) and we bought a house. Those are decent things to have done ;)

And now for another year. What will this one bring? Lots of home repair likely lol, maybe another trip. We are talking about New York and Boston. We're not sure if we'll have enough dough what with all the repairs we'd like to make on the house in the next 6 months. But it would be nice and I might have to say "fuck it" and plan the trip. Some other alternatives I've been thinking of would be a trip north to Seattle and British Columbia OR a road trip to Arizona and Utah-ish area. DH has never seen the canyons there and I think he's missing out. I do have the travel itch again already so we'll have to do *something*!

How about some resolutions? Yeah, I know. Resolutions are stupid and all anyone ever does is break them. Last year I had a mantra instead of a resolution and it was gone from my mind before MLK day. But wtf here are my resolutions for this year...pretty typical, but just the same:

• eat healthier
• cook more
• drink more water
• walk/jog more
• do more arts and crafts (drawing, sewing, crocheting in particular)
• learn to knit

And then there is the house...of course. What I'd like to see done this year on the house:

• Fresh paint, inside and out
• New light fixtures
• New windows (hopefully we'll get a big enough tax refund to fund this one)
• New garage door
• Hardscape in back yard (shade cover, new retaining wall, raised beds, fence to dog run)

Now ask DH, and you'd probably get a different list. But that's my list so there you have it. And now, in my sadness, I must return to work. I have many emails to read and meetings to set up.

I lift my coffee cup to you...

Blah Blah Blah

No time! I'm late! I've feeling that way alot lately, hence the lack of posting. Gypsy Junk has been bugging me for pictures but I've been otherwise occupied when I'm at home where all my pictures are! (Forgive me, oh two solitary people who probably are reading this, for posting about things you probably already know about) One of my work parties went off last night. Everyone loved it thankfully, and the food was pretty darned good. We had it at Beckett's Irish Pub in Berkeley and the service was terrific and the ambience even better. I would definately return there, and plan to soon for the Ireland crew reunion and picture swap session. Yes, yes...I know...I haven't even posted any pictures of our trip to Ireland! We went in late May and early June with some excellent friends and had an excellent time. I have many photos to post...perhaps tonight I'll get around to that. Imagine...two posts in one day!!

So aside from that let's see...what has happened since the last post? Nothing much. My other big work event I was working on got cancelled. I'm sad, because I was looking forward to a trip to Seattle even if it was during December. Hopefully next year will bring some more trips up there...it's kind of a nice break in routine. I need to drag hubby up there one of these days...he's never been there and I think he'd like it. Hopefully not too much, because I sure as hell don't want to move there!

Last weekend I managed a trip to Sacramento and Carson City to see friends (for some fun gaming sessions) and parents respectively. This coming weekend I'm flying to OKC to see my brother and his family. Poor hubby gets left behind with the dogs every time!! And heaven forbid he might manage to feed himself while I'm away?? I think not! The poor boy will starve if I don't stay home more. Not that he would be all that excited about gaming and family stuff.
There will be yet another trip to Sacramento soon to finish aforementioned gaming session...after all we are three days into the swamp, haven't finished the task at hand...and yes, I'm a nerd.

All this travelling about has left little time for house/yard improvement. My cabinet doors sit on the table in the garage with only a coat of primer. The unattended dog poo is threatening to rise up and become some kind of dog-poo-elemental force in the backyard which will attack us vicariously through filthy pup paws. And the persimmons...yes I think I'll have to end my post now and try to find some recipes for persimmons before I resign myself to doing expense reports and scheduling stupid meetings for the rest of the day.

Signing off...