full on updates and weird hobbies
updates? yah - so i quit my job of four years cuz i was sorta kinda 1.5 years overcooked and done and such and i meant to take 3 weeks off to relax, get some professional massages, do funny things with herbs, succumb to some asian torture treatments, or imbibe beer, wine or any appropriate alcoholic beverages in the middle of the day and make intoxicated phone calls to my friends at work to rub it in; and generally just kick it, but... well... it didn't quite work out that way.
i did have a wee bit of time off. about 1.5 weeks and i did manage to head down to Northern California mid-week to spend QT with the parental unit and such and that was all lovely and cool, but i've started a new job and well... it couldn't be more wonderful.
but let me digress. I flew into Reno bright and early on a Monday morning and got an immediate lecture from my mother for losing a wee $25 on slot machines cuz the damn poker, BJ and Craps tables were either full, too expensive, or unavailable to me at 8:30am, and so then i got guilt tripped into playing the penny slots with " the lomdues" with strict instructions to hit the "pull" button only once every 30 seconds so as to save my money and increase the quantity of free bloody mary's comning our way. ;) god love mother; bless her precicous, ridiculously hilarious and beautiful heart.
so that was a wonderful start to a wee too short vacation and it only became more interesting and fun with my new discovery of Geocaching. To be fair, it wasn't my discovery. at all. It's something my parents have been obsessed with for a year now and it's a very odd sort of treasure hunting hobby that just about everybody in their right mind should make vicious fun of until you actually do it. and i did. do it that is. Geocaching takes you to places you would never ever ever go and it challenges you both physically (in some circumstances) as well as mentally and creatively. I had no idea what a huge thing it was until i plugged in my own south seattle address in the geocaching website and discovered that there were 4,000 geocaches hidden just within our itzy bitzy ZIP CODE! hay-zuess-maria-ho-zeh!!!! that is just RIDICULOUS! i can't wait to Ma and Pa come to visit with their GPS and we can geocache our little nerdy brains out.
upcoming events? I leave for Raleigh, N.C. next week for a very overdue visit with a dear dear friend of mine. Stay tuned for "Tales from a Red State".
i did have a wee bit of time off. about 1.5 weeks and i did manage to head down to Northern California mid-week to spend QT with the parental unit and such and that was all lovely and cool, but i've started a new job and well... it couldn't be more wonderful.
but let me digress. I flew into Reno bright and early on a Monday morning and got an immediate lecture from my mother for losing a wee $25 on slot machines cuz the damn poker, BJ and Craps tables were either full, too expensive, or unavailable to me at 8:30am, and so then i got guilt tripped into playing the penny slots with " the lomdues" with strict instructions to hit the "pull" button only once every 30 seconds so as to save my money and increase the quantity of free bloody mary's comning our way. ;) god love mother; bless her precicous, ridiculously hilarious and beautiful heart.
so that was a wonderful start to a wee too short vacation and it only became more interesting and fun with my new discovery of Geocaching. To be fair, it wasn't my discovery. at all. It's something my parents have been obsessed with for a year now and it's a very odd sort of treasure hunting hobby that just about everybody in their right mind should make vicious fun of until you actually do it. and i did. do it that is. Geocaching takes you to places you would never ever ever go and it challenges you both physically (in some circumstances) as well as mentally and creatively. I had no idea what a huge thing it was until i plugged in my own south seattle address in the geocaching website and discovered that there were 4,000 geocaches hidden just within our itzy bitzy ZIP CODE! hay-zuess-maria-ho-zeh!!!! that is just RIDICULOUS! i can't wait to Ma and Pa come to visit with their GPS and we can geocache our little nerdy brains out.
upcoming events? I leave for Raleigh, N.C. next week for a very overdue visit with a dear dear friend of mine. Stay tuned for "Tales from a Red State".
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