Pompeii!

We went to Rome last week, and while it was all incredible, the highlight was the day trip we took to Pompeii. That was bucket list stuff for me, and guys…I was not prepared. Pompeii is huge, and much less haunted than I imagined it would be. Even the visit to the plaster cast of one of the bodies wasn’t so much haunted as heartbreaking, and the city itself is so…it’s so well preserved that I think the state of preservation itself eradicates the hauntedness. What I could not get…

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funny kid :)

Last week I gave Young Indiana the new Pokemon Z-A, which came out the week before. The next morning shortly after he got up, I said, “Have you emptied the dishwasher?” and he said, “I don’t know, have you run it again this morning?” I opened it and it was empty and, as I’d filled it at about 11:30pm the previous night, I said, “Oh! When did you empty this?” Indy, mumbling: right before i went to bed at 5 Me: What did you say? Indy, slightly more clearly but…

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back in the trenches

After 50k and then a week with a cold, I spent ALL WEEKEND asleep, my friends. ALL weekend. I went to bed early. I napped. I went to bed early even after napping. I napped MORE. I went to bed early AGAIN. At that point I really didn’t expect to sleep well, but…I did. I managed not to nap yesterday, went to bed at a reasonable hour, and was RUDELY awakened by my alarm this morning, despite imagining I might actually wake up a bit early due to all the…

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citizenship!

In June, after a journey of 18.5 years by one count and 22 months by another, my husband got his Irish citizenship. The ceremony was in Dublin, and we went down a day early to have a celebratory dinner and not risk missing the ceremony by counting on the trains on the day of. :) It was actually VERY EMOTIONAL and we both cried all over everything, by which I mean, I sniffled gently while he wiped away a few manly tears, of course. The ceremony itself was really quite…

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a pokemon weekend :)

I spent basically the entire weekend playing PokemonGo, and it was GREAT. :D Please know that I do not expect many of the following words, in these sequences, to mean much to most people. :D It was the PokemonGoFest weekend, and I got in the region of 2 million XP, which is an extremely large amount for me. I am T R Y I N G to reach 50th level in this wretched game because, see, I do not play video games, and I never level out in them on…

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