I’m tired. At least it is Friday

I miss old-school music (old school, for me, means mid/late 90′s christian rock). Pandora is awesome for being able to listen to said old-school music. Unfortunately, I can’t get Pandora in my car

I bought some CDs at Half-Price books, though. So I can still have some amount of Old School, in the car. And if I got it together, and figured out how to make play lists work on my nano such that I could easily swap music on and off of it… I could listen to that in the car.

Long story short, I’m whining, there’s an obvious solution to my problems, and I’m just to lazy to deal with it. That’s like, the story of my life.

The six month curse has stuck again. And interestingly enough, it wasn’t me.

In other news, we’re trying to tie down our cruise plans for the summer… so if you’re interested in cruising, let us know kinda soon. We’re looking at going the second week of May. And possibly leaving from Galveston.

This weekend I may try to catch either the CSI exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science, or the Pompeii exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. I feel the need to go experience some culture of some kind. If the museums don’t work out, maybe I’ll talk Chad into going to the movies with me or something.

We have 9 teachers that teach regularly. There are 9 levels of hell. We’re in the river Phlegethon at the moment.
~Mandie, about one of her classes

Um… when did my siblings get old enough (educated enough?) to randomly (yet meaningfully) throw obscure culture references into conversation? It’s funny. Yet I feel old. *sigh*

So we drove to Denver this past weekend, which was awesome (which is to say, being in Denver and visiting people was awesome, having a captive audience in the car for 36+ hours was awesome, the driving itself was not so awesome). I got to see all kinds of interesting things for the first time on the trip though:

1. Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. Ha!
2. Giant windmill things (in Kansas)
3. Tumbleweed
4. Prairie dogs
5. Oil wells (the kind that look like those bird-looking perpetual motion things… not sure how to describe it)
6. The Rockies

I also learned some things on the trip:

1. Kansas is the birthplace of Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, and William Chrysler.
2. The first patented helicopter was in Kansas.
3. In spite of all this, Kansas is lame.
4. Apparently, real trees don’t really grow where there’s no water, so you get stuck with these little weedy trees… which are funny. But not really trees.
5. Those windmill things are bigger than I could have imagined.
6. Traveling to Denver while trying to get over a sinus infection will make your ears hurt. But they won’t actually explode. Which is good.

We got to visit Krys, Manda, and their boys, play Shanghai (though not the last couple of rounds), eat pancakes and sushi (not at the same time), tour Boulder, appreciate the awesomeness of friends who have known you forever and don’t manufacture their own drama, run around Pearl St. mall, and Manda introduced me to a store that sells happy-hippie eco-friendly natural soaps and shampoos and stuff. And they are opening one in Houston. Yay! I might have to buy stock in them or something, seriously.

All in all, the trip was a success. I would definitely do it again, with less car this time, and more airplane.

Did my civic duty and voted yesterday. Not that it really mattered much… I always was one to go for the under dog I had an unrelated excuse to work from home, so I was able to go to the polls at an off-peak time, and mostly avoid the lines. This also meant that I was the only person in my party at the polls who was under, like, 100 years old. (This probably holds true for the other party, as well, but I didn’t sneak over to their side of the building to look)

I went to the first meeting of that Tuesday night women’s bible study last night… it looks like it’s going to be a good group, but (as of last night) there isn’t really anyone my age. And I’m the only one without kids. But everyone seemed happy to have me there anyway. Interestingly enough, there was a woman there who had recently moved from Starkville. So we sat and talked about places we ate and shopped in Starkville, and where exactly we lived.

Somehow, the year has gotten away from me. I was pretty sure it was still the middle of January, and then people started asking me what I want for my birthday, and reminding us to nail down our summer travel plans (since we’re looking at traveling in May)… How did it get to be March already?

I managed to take an hour for lunch again today… I went to Target, and bought Propel and paper towels. Which is entirely uninteresting, but saves me a stop on the way home.

Chad and I bought two apple trees this weekend. One for the front yard, and one for the back. We managed to plant the one in the front, but planned to do the one in the back yard tonight. Unfortunately, no one told the weatherman this, and now we’re under a thunderstorm warning. So it’ll have to be Wednesday, as I think we’re both busy tomorrow night. And tonight, maybe I’ll read or something… or at least pick out a book to bring to work tomorrow. I’m currently in the middle of several (which is typical), so I need to decide which one I want to finish next. Slowly but surely, I’m working through my “to read” list.