5 days in Dallas is 4.5 days too long.

I just returned from a work trip in Dallas. I went 4 days without seeing the sky or breathing fresh air. Saturday night my roommate made me go out to dinner so we could get out of the hotel. I'm so glad that we did I think I may have lost my mind if I stayed in the hotel another minute.
I've taken the day off so I can unpack, eat food not prepared by a hotel and hopefully get my car licensed.
I'm thinking about taking a quick nap first...

In a Week

In one week I'll be in Orlando for the National Convention on PKD! I'm excited to go, I love seeing everyone and this year I'll be leading Chapter Training, which both scares and excites me. At the moment though I am so exhausted from preparing for it that I really just want to spend the next 7 days in my comfy new bed. Two more days of preparing, then I can relax Monday and Tuesday - because its too late to do anything else after that point anyway.
Here's hoping to make it Florida without crashing too badly.

time warp

It is 7:30 Monday evening. The sun is still bright and the house is a balmy 78 degrees. I spent most of the traveling home from my weekend with alexa and my head (and body) think it is Sunday morning. Very strange. With tomorrow being Tuesday it really feels like I've lost a whole day. Where did my Monday go?

The trip to Minneapolis was great. I always love hanging out with Alexa and this weekend was no different. Highlights include: Seeing the MN Rollergirls, eating salads and watching Step Up, buying ridiculously huge sunglasses at H&M, realizing that I should have just let John Hodgeman's description of the Mall of America (see episode: getting and spending) be enough and praising the heavens above that I never have to return to it's madness - mall madness!, getting an awesome (and much needed) hair cut, eating biscuits with lobster gravy at Hell's Kitchen, and best of all - just spending time with one of my nearest and dearest friends.

Whew, what a fun weekend!


Bonus: Michael planted golden forsythia in our side yard and it makes the house look fantastic! Yea for productive husbands!