Alaska

We made our reservations for our trip to visit my brother!

We are staying here:

http://www.atasteofalaska.com/log-house/

Which has great reviews on Trip Advisor.

I can't wait!

To Hell You Say!

If you look at the news it looks like the fricken' world has gone CRAZY.


Japan is suffering a horrible double tragedy - the Tsunami and Reactor failures.


The Middle East is...well...the Middle East.


And Obama is...well Obama.  Which is not a good thing.


I had a bit of a problem with the fact that he went to South America


http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/23/2129527/analysis-obama-earns-high-marks.html


Yes, I know it was most probably needed - but really with the crisis in Japan and the unrest in the Middle East he had to take what looked like a spring break trip with his kids to South America?!


And as for his "conciliatory tone" what the hell do we have to be conciliatory for?

Being successful?

Not having civil unrest?

Capitalism?

I really hate that we have a president who apologizes for who and what we are.

All I have to say is get over it, and is it November 2012 yet?

Elizabeth Taylor

She passed away today and I don't know why, but I was shocked.

I guess since she was larger than life I didn't expect it to happen anytime soon.

I was reading her obituary and it had a lot of really nice things to say about her.

Especailly regarding all she did for AIDS research.

She will be missed.

Dream a Little Dream...

I had a very freaky dream last night.

My husband and I were driving in a car / van (it switched between the two during the dream).

He was driving.

And we were going down a mountain, I think we were in Switzerland. Or Alaska. It felt like both.

What can I say, it was a dream...

Anyway, we're driving down and in my dream my husband didn't know how to drive in snow and ice, so he was going too fast.

And I told him to pump the breaks to slow down.

He did but it was too late. We were going too fast and we missed the switchback and went flying off the mountain.

Guess what - there wasn't even any snow or ice on the ground, but we slipped on the ice.

Go figure.

So we're flying through the air, I'm about to have a heart attack, and he does something mid-air.

I'm not sure what but it allowed us to land at the very bottom of the mountain without even getting hurt.

But the car/van was totaled.

And we needed to call some lady to come get us.

Then I woke up.

I was so glad that was a dream!

I'm not sure why I had it, maybe because he was playing video games before bed and I was watching?

A Gracie Jane Update

This is little miss Gracie Jane:

At seven months old.  Yes I said it. SEVEN months old.

Let's revisit the past shall we, the recent past.

Here's Gracie at nine weeks.  Look how little she is!  It doesn't seem possible that she grew so much in such a short amount of time.

This is only a five month span of time.  It's amazing.

I Love America...but....

have to say that I am glad I did live overseas if for no other reason than this one...

Work. Life. Balance.

Before living in London there is no way I would have considered it normal or desirable to take six or more weeks off a year.

Now...

Now it is MANDATORY!

Of course I could only negotiate four weeks from work...but I'll stretch that out. I mean really?! I can't imagine only having two weeks off a year.

And guess where we are going the end of April....FRANCE!

Yes I know the frogs are shits.

But the country is beautiful.

And we have been to Italy many times.

Anyway we're going back to Italy next year. Fun, Fun, Fun!

So I'm looking at our schedule and deciding what to do.

We want to go to Paris, then to the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Toulouse (because my husband HAS to see the boeing plant), Avignon, Ax-en-Provence, Marseilles, Cannes, Nice, then Monaco.

We have 11 days.

So I believe that we may have to cut some of this out. Because I am not super traveller.

I do want to spend two nights in Paris because we are meeting friends.

Two nights in the Loire Valley because I love Chateau and I found this place: http://www.chateauchallain.com/luxurious-suites/empress-suite

I either want to stay in the Empress Suite or the Tower because I LOVE canopy beds.

I would stay in the Royal suite but in the photo the canopy doesn't have a top.

And any room under which I have to call for price...please you might as well say YOU cannot afford this...

After the Loire Valley I figure one day in Bordeaux, because usually those world heritage sites are pretty nice but easy to get through.

Then on to Toulouse - I don't think there is much there but the Boeing plant so we won't even spend the night.

After Toulouse Avignon and Ax-en-Provence. I've looked at Ax and know there is a ton to see, but Avignon - not really sure so that may fall off the list.

Of course Marseilles, Cannes, Nice, and Monaco I cannot miss.

But they are all within an hour or so of each other (meaning from Marseilles to Monaco is about an hour) so I just need to pick a base and stay for a few days.

Then Sunday back to Paris, and home. According to Google maps all of that will take only 24hrs driving time....who knew France was so small!

Did you know it's only 166,757,337 Acres?

Did you know that Texas is 172,044,800 Acres?

And the UK (which is Briton, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) is 59,698,189.11.

Texas is bigger than France, and the UK.

Can I hear a whoop, whoop! AMERICA!

I can't wait for our holiday!

It'll be so fun!

And I have a surprise....but I can't share it right now in case it doesn't work out...but I'll give you an hint...

Expansion.

Au Revoir!

Update on the Gel Manicure...

It lasted about 24 hours before it started cracking and chipping off in big chunks.

That's not even as long as the regular manicure lasts on me.

Those last at least 2 days.

Maybe I have mutant finger nails...

Anyway I went back and had them take the rest of the polish off and buff my nails.

Too bad because I do like having color on my nails.

eh whatcha going to do?