recession travel!

The boy and I had great timing with our Davey's-Wedding-Roadtrip 2k9 to avoid hearing anything more about the fucking swine flu. Holy cow. News is annoying.

Now he's back at work and I'm getting glared at by some holes (6, to be exact) in the wall where a shelf ripped out of the plaster. We're crafty, heh. The harder part is that I got to spend the last 4 days with him, we're back to working opposite schedules, and we're both not caught up on sleep. Post-vacay sucks.

Highlights:
Remembering that Philly's friends in Philly don't call her Phil, and correcting myself to say "Oh, I mean Chrissy" a lot.
Meeting her and Davey's other Chicago friends and completely bonding with everyone so we have new loves fo' life.
Catching up with a select few members of my high school crew <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.genosteaks.com/php/ezgallery/image.php?album=9817&image=1215499155.jpg">Dancing to World/Inferno at a wedding. PUNX.
The rain stopped just long enough for great pictures and to avoid ruining all of our professional makeup jobs, ha.
More to come as remembered.

On a completely different note, I didn't get a job that I interviewed for because of my lack of experience. That wouldn't be as sad if I hadn't met people that I would have been working with and really liked them. On positive notes: I'm still wanted for other positions in this organization, AND wanting this so badly has made me realize how much I want to do social work. Good thing I've been out of college for a year and now realizing what I want to do with my life. Ha. More on this later.

When will my body catch up to the altitude, time zone, and sleep pattern change from this weekend?

Love the party, hate the scene.

The cats are back home after having to "fog" our house to kill the ants. Kinda stressful, but good in the way that emergencies can make you feel warm and fuzzy inside when your friends will take in 3 pets around town last minute.

Austin and I were both off today to spring clean... unpunx, I know. We really were slipping on the house though. Plus our one-year move in date is coming up soon; that's probably a good time to actually sweep under the couches, eh?

At least I have a good home situation. I love my home, my community of friends, our bike shop garage. May brings some worries as we'll be losing Das Fun Haus, Porch Honkey, and Thundy House all at the same time. That leaves the Kitchen, which is good, but not much else in the way of places to have shows. I'm sure Fixed Maquis will start riding/working on bikes again soon too; that's something else to look forward to.

Friday night knocked my socks off so hard that I'm still reeling in happiness from it. I did show up underdressed for Inferno; what was I thinking? Met new kids, saw old friends, our first adopted son met our new one and I still don't know how that went... ha. Security tried to pull a boy off the stage and Jack Terricloth pushed the guard away and pushed the boy into a stagedive. Beautiful. Inferno always keeps me going, even though my 2 dear friends who introduced me to them didn't show. How do we go almost 2 years without seeing each other, but I'm still going on a roadtrip to your wedding? That's true friendz.

On that note: I will always keep my faith in humanity remembering the friends that you can go years barely speaking to, but everything picks up right where you left off when you see each other again. Sometimes it's a little harder to have this faith after a bad day at work.. ha.. but it still keeps me going when I worry that I'm losing touch.