~ planning a trip ~

Not to be a negative nelly, but it's easy to lose the motivation for blogging when I get no love for my amazing posts. Honestly, people, where's the love?!?

What's news in my world?

Some of you may know about Josh's major dental procedure last week. Poor guy, hasn't been feeling well (for various reasons) for almost a month, and he tops it off with teeth extractions and a root canal. *shudder* At any rate, we've been watching a lot of movies lately. Last week we saw Forbidden Kingdom which I would not recommend, mainly because of the awkward teenager cast to play the awkward teenager. blech. Then we saw Jumper at the dollar theater which was decently entertaining but I would not necessarily give a thumbs up.

In the way of school, praise the little baby jesus that this semester's almost over. I've been spending some time at the library working on a final project which I couldn't care less about. This entire semester has been a complete waste of time and I could be bitter about the BS that I've subjected myself to, but instead I've decided to abandon all feeling on the matter and just get through it.

Since you all have expressed such an abundance of interest in my knitting projects, my update there is that I'm almost finished with another project. I've been a busy bee working on something that I'm hoping to get a lot of use from this summer. I'd tell you all what it is, but I think I'll keep you on pins and needles of anticipation before unveiling my amazing creation.

In the way of cycling activities, they have been taking place mostly at the gym instead of outside. The weather has not been cooperating in the way that I would like it, so poop on that! This weekend, I did go on a lovely mountain bike ride and enjoyed the wind in my face and my heart racing. I found myself musing once again at how much I like my new bike, and what a perfect fit for me it is. I've been looking at the schedules for upcoming mountain bike races pretty regularly, trying to decide which one to enter next.

As you all know, my birthday is coming up in about a month and I've decided to take myself on a trip to celebrate. What's mildly amusing is that, because plane ticket prices are a little on the expensive end these days, I've been doing an extensive search of ticket prices to various cities in the region. Yesterday, during my daily internet browsing, I discovered that Dooce will give a reading of her book in Salt Lake City on my birthday! And for a moment, I actually considered going down there for the reading and to get a signed copy of the book. Obviously, I discarded that thought almost before I had it - - after all, toasting one's birthday should involve celebratory libations, which is facilitated by being somewhere that does not have odd liquor laws. As of this writing, I'm pretty close to confirming my plane ticket and hotel. The purpose of the trip is not so much a 'vacation' but rather to live it up and have a crap ton of fun. I'm hoping to spend my trip walking around, having good coffee, shopping, hiking, going to musical concerts, dipping my toes in the ocean, and eating seafood.

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