It was pointed out to me by Casey when I ran into him, Jen, and their daughter on the bus yesterday as I was heading home from school that, with the dearth of posts here lately, I’ve been letting down those (poor, sad) souls who depend on my rambling here to live vicariously through me. Sorry ’bout that!
Overall, things keep plugging along. The quarter went pretty well overall (I’m pretty sure of A’s in Programming and English, History could end up either a low A or high B), but school and working retail in the Christmas season have been taking more than their fair share of my free time.
Now that school’s done with, we’re rapidly approaching the end of the holiday shopping season, and various and sundry other concerns have disappeared, we’re looking forward to taking some time to relax. We’ll be visiting my folks in Alaska in a few weeks, flying up to Anchorage on Christmas day and returning to Seattle just before New Year’s Eve. We’re really looking forward to this trip — with Prairie’s family close, we’ve seen a lot of them over the past few years of holidays, so it’ll be nice to get my family in the mix this time; plus, this will be Prairie’s first visit to Alaska (and in the dead of winter, no less). We’re hoping to be able to show her the Northern Lights, at least one moose, and if we can track down one of the silly touristy companies, see if we can get her on a dogsled ride.
So there you go — more goodies for your vicariousness…or something like that.
Hi Mike,
When you get to AK, give me a call. Perhaps the old crew can get together at least once to say Hi and celebrate the New Year.
Hope your travel North is a safe one.
Jill