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Just a quick, late post to keep up with the one a day. (though I am still behind 3 I think)
The unpacking and purge 2.0 goes well. The kitchen in mostly together and the living room is almost livable. (does anyone know how to get coffee smell out of couch cushions? There was and 'incident') I should have some internets starting tomorrow and permanent in home service monday.

So more later!

Current Location: Panera

And everyone needs more happy molecules.

Happy thoughts for the evening.
Plans with friends
Pretty dresses
Stompy shoes
Hot showers
Good music
Kittens
Good movies
Fuzzy blankets

(this message brought to you by the ‘Get a Better Attitude Council’. The GBAC also advises that the beatings shall continue until morale improves.)

Current Mood: stumbling towards ecstasy

So here is how the trip East ended up. It was a fantastic, exciting, grueling epic 3 week adventure. I am so happy we got to see so many friends and family. None of the visits were long enough, they never are it seems. And I am unspeakably grateful to everyone who housed us and the fur beasts, you are all saints. He entire trip reminded me how much I love cities. Somehow there is texture in a city that I can’t capture anywhere else. It was our first time in the Pacific NW, and I am now dying to go back.

San Diego
Leaving LA – 10/18
7 hrs
CA coast & Big Sur – 10/19
1 hr
Monterey – 10/19-20
2 hrs
San Francisco – 10/21-22
11 hrs
Portland – 10/23
3 hrs
Seattle – 10/23-26
12 hrs
Montana – 10/27
23 hrs
Chicago – 10/28-11/2
9 hrs
KC – 11/3-4
4 hrs
St. Louis – 11/4-5
11 hrs
DC – 11/6

I have all the photos up on the Picasa site now. http://picasaweb.google.com/faeriefyre
Captions are sporadic, but I will keep working on them.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Panera

I need to start doing these in Word when I think of them. Lots of ideas when I have no access to the web. Can't remember a damn one when I sit down to the interwebs. :P merf.
So I guess some bullets:

--> I have not totally lost all progress in the last five weeks. My formal from 6 years ago fits again and I have been comfortably wearing my size 4.5 engagement ring the last 2 days.

--> unpacking is moving along. Slowly but surely the house is taking shape. Hopefully we will be ready for guests in a week or so.

--> Interwebs hook-up scheduled for Monday. grrr...

--> Job hunt commencing. Going to do some networking with old employer Friday. Starting to design the portfolio add in for my resume. If anyone has any contacts in the architecture/building/design world I would love to meet them.

--> wine tasting and MC ball planned for Saturday. One is decidedly more fun sounding than the other.

--> I am currently perversely addicted to Legend of the Seeker. And no it is not a good translation of the books. Much to my dismay.

kk running off. More tomorrow.

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: Panera
Current Music: Legend of the Seeker

So I own my post a day in November 3 posts plus today so I am quickly posting a mini update to be followed soon-ish by something more substaintial.

In short I made it to VA, aka new 'home', Friday afternoon. Herded all the fur beasts inside (insert growling screeching and claws here)then proceeded to sleep for almost 30 hours straight. Guess my body had had enough of sleepless nights in strange places. (Yes I actually tried to make a straight run from St Louis to NOVA in one go. I landed in Marathon WV and no I have no clue where that actually is) Yesterday was cuddling and videos. kinda pathetic but hey. Today is much box unpacking and a 2 hour stint at 'the evil empire'. (grrr..)

more later.

ciao ciao

Current Mood: productive
Current Location: 'the evil empire'

All epic journeys involve at least one night spent in the car.

I love old bricks.

Whenever I start a job search I need to be sure to spend a little time, or a lot, doing things that remind me why I love what I do. I spent all of this morning and some of the afternoon wandering around St Louis taking pictures of houses and street lamps and old warehouses and power plants. It was very good and it has been far too long since I have had the uninhibited desire to wander down random alleys and through not quite vacant lots. Of course as I was taking a series of shots of nice row houses in Layfette Park, it occurred to me. How does one prove that they are a trigger happy architecture bum and not casing houses? I should really figure that one out.

Headed onward to DC/NoVA.

More later.

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Location: somewhere in Kentucky
Current Music: you don't want to know

I have zero desire to go to a hotel tonight. Right now I’m at a Denny’s. Pancakes and tea. Nice. (There is actually no access here so this will be posted down the road. I guess.)
I had dinner with a couple of friends from Pendleton that had moved to St. Louis after getting out of the Marine Corps. It was nice to just sit and talk while her kids ran around being cute. I could have stayed there but they were all settling down for bed and I didn’t want to intrude. Nor do I particularly feel like settling down.

I'm now sitting outside a Super 8 leeching their net connection. I considered getting a room but they don't have any. I have yet to decide if I am going to wander over to the other motels that probably have rooms.

I actually think I am going to head into St. Louis and drive around.

Current Mood: odd
Current Location: car in St louis

I forgot about autumn. I forgot how much I love it. The crisp wind, the smell and taste of the air. Crunchy leaves under foot.

I found myself walking down Massachusetts St in Lawrence KS. Feeding the meter and wandering back to good food with old friends. After a lovely afternoon of shopping in a college town.

Then we headed off to consolidate cars and find the last piercing studio in my five city adventure. It was a good day.

Tomorrow? Off to St Louis.

night night

10+ hours alone (ok with 2 cats but they don't talk much) in a car make for lots of thoughts. I have apparently retained very few, as I am unable to access them.
Career and houses and relationships and parties. So yes I want all these things. Unfortunately now I am in Jenny's den and am at a lack for deep thoughts. Maybe more will come later.

Indeed it is. That lovely season where writers everywhere take to the keyboard and celebrate NaNoWriMo.
I do not harbor delusions of authorship, but I do know the value of the written word. Hence I will be celebrating http://www.nablopomo.com/ .

Who knows maybe it will even last longer than a month.

In deciding this, I just took a stroll through last year's meanderings. It was fun, informative and reminded me of things I had forgotten. Things that want for doing, thoughts that want for thinking, art that wants for making.

Care to make something beautiful with me?

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: Chicago

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