i want to be a part of it....

So I'm back in the blog world. Let's be honest; I'm sick of MySpace. It bores me. I am no longer driven to blog there. So we're going to revisit the long-ago-abandoned blog I set up here well over a year ago when things were very serious and stressful and I needed an outlet for the preservation of sanity. Maybe this will motivate me to write a bit, as I haven't been doing enough of that. Well, unless you count translating laws and rules regarding retirement plans for state workers. Thrilling material, I assure you.

So the latest is that my trip to NYC is coming up in two weeks. Two weeks?! Doesn't seem real. I was beginning to think the world stopped somewhere outside of Puyallup, and if you go beyond that, you'll just drop off the edge into oblivion. It's been a while since I've been anywhere besides the western half of the U.S. Actually, the NYC excusion in 2006 was the last time I was anywhere east of Evanston, WY. Not to say this part of the country isn't lovely; it is. I'm just ready to broaden my horizons again.

Not only am I going to be in a fabu city, but I will be seeing some friends from London town whom I have not seen in a ridiculously long time. We will be convening for a long weekend of tearing up the town, and I am predicting total misbehaviour. Although the trip feels somewhat last minute, the decision itself took all of about five minutes to make once the suggestion was thrown out there.

This was more or less the way it went:

Me: "I wish I could go to New York."

Mariana: "You should!"

Me: "Hmmm...ok!"

Ok, so what's even better? "Can it get any better, really?" you say. Yes, it can! Adi and I will be joining Miss Mariana and Miss Ana in Mexico for even more fun just two weeks following the New York trip. Hooray! I've never been to Mexico, apart from the one day jaunt across the border into Ensenada, which I would say doesn't qualify as it's more of a garbage pit than an actual town. That's a whole different story.

So needless to say, I'm very excited for these upcoming weeks. Things are looking good.