1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't believe we are now 10 years into the new millennium. Anybody remember Y2K? How silly and almost quaint it seems now. I generally do a wrapup of the year on New Year's Eve, but I think tonight deserves a look back at the entire decade ( Read more... )

So, I barely even update this thing anymore. Pretty much moved on to Facebook and occasionally MySpace. But I need more than a handful of characters, so here I am. It's hard to talk about myself and my thoughts on a semi-public forum, because I feel like I'll be seen as either a) lying or b) bragging about certain things in my past. Which has led ( Read more... )

Currently on hour 42 without sleep, and hour 31 involving airports/airplanes. Long story short, US Airways sucks. Short story long, we were supposed to fly back from Anchorage on an $1133 credit that expires July 28. When we tried to book the flight, the credit suddenly became $833. After many phone calls, it was determined that we were charged a $ ( Read more... )

Can I just say that cruise ships and hostels are wonderful places to meet men? I chased a really young but really hot guy (he was at least 21, since he was being served, but probably just barely) around the ship for awhile. Then I met a devastatingly handsome Ukrainian crew member with whom I'm still in contact. The first night at the hostel, I ( Read more... )

My job, my livelihood, the very essence of my being is my words. I am extremely descriptive, and capable of bringing virtually anything to life with the way that I write about it. Yet words fail me now. Here in Alaska, it is a truly different world. I look out the window and I see snow-capped mountains. Down the street walks a young couple, wrapped ( Read more... )

So finally, after YEARS of trying to get there, Alaska has indeed worked out for us!!! Thanks to airline credits from last year's fiasco, we are flying FREE of charge to Seattle on Southwest. From there, we will board a bus to Vancouver to catch our ship, the Celebrity Millennium, for a seven night Inside Passage cruise to Seward (outside Anchorage ( Read more... )

Note to Father: The fact that you have real-life grownup crap to take care of, like your car maintenance and doctor visits does not in fact make you special or unique, or give you the right to curse me out when said things do not go as easily as planned. I take care of all those things, and hold down a job too. Yesterday, I put in 18 hours at said ( Read more... )

Shamelessly stolen from Geek 2 Geek:

Top Questions Asked by Geeks:

Why do they put braille dots on the keypad of a drive-up ATM ?

You know how most packages say "Open Here." What is the protocol if the package says, "Open Somewhere Else?"

If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

If you tied ( Read more... )

So we've decided to finally, after four years, go on the road with the RV. A lot of reasons, really, but I think it's finally time. And I'm having a huge emotional reaction to everything. I mean, yes, I've been living in this RV for years...but I've sort of been rooted. Now we're going to be rootless and not tied to anything or anyone. I'm excited ( Read more... )