blakspring

Running on fumes after landing at JFK airport around 11:30 pm on Sunday night and then being at work at 7:30 am the next morning.  Was tempted to nap when I got home but decided to push through and go to volleyball.  So now it’s almost midnight and I need to get to bed.  London [...]

After my last post, GeekHiker asked how I can afford to travel so much, and I realized that I need more than three sentences to explain everything.  Sometimes I get lucky with plane tickets.  I wanted to go to Bali from early July to early August but the cheapest flight was $2000.  I kept pushing [...]

My disease has struck again.  The disease that makes me itchy if I haven’t been on a plane in a while.  The sickness that makes me anxious if I’ve been hanging around home for too long.  So to remedy the situation, I am heading to the airport on Tuesday afternoon and flying off to London.  I [...]

Between coaching volleyball and working extra weekend hours at the public library, I haven’t had much time lately to stop and ponder my life.  It occurred to me today that about five weeks ago, I passed the one-year mark of the end of my life with D.  And it occurred to me that I am [...]

I realized that I forgot to include the weirdest Halloween story in the last post.  It was about 2:00 AM, and Ultra and I had just gotten out of the subway station in our neighborhood.  She was rockin’ her cavewoman outfit and I was rockin’ my Juno belly.  A Fred Flintstone was walking behind us [...]

Just when i wrote a whole post about my totally lame lack of Halloween costume, I have to take it back.  Little Sister found out that I was costume-less and refused to let me go out like that.  She kept insisting that there must be some last-minute get-up we could come up with.  Considering I was [...]