please you send me to answer

Dear sir

Ms.Sarah Devore

I can recieve your reservation 20-22Jan(twin room,jap,without bath).

room rate(1night) 7000yen

If you stay here please you send me to answer.

thank you

This means we are really doing this! Going to countries where people speak Sarah English!

Exclamation marks and everything!!!!!

Flight itinerary update you don't want to know, but I'm telling you anyways!!!

US - Tokyo

Tokyo - Singapore

Singapore- Northern Indonesia

Medan Indonesia - Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (cheap tickets for $30 each!)

YAY!!!!

I'm looking into maybe reserving a resort somewhere on our way in Malaysia, you know, just for fun.

Now this is getting fun!

Living without

So, the question has been posed by life and we have to respond whether we like it or not.

What do we need and what can we live without?
- Permanently
- temporarily
- in a year from now
- for the next 11 months on our backs

It's so weird!

and to have to think about it in that sense....all 4 options blundered together of what's going where and when and how and who...

Why, hello half used bottle of shampoo! Hmmmm.....can I take you with me to Thailand? Or should I try to use you up before I leave? Or do I put you in a big dark box for a long time and hope your cleaning qualities are still active and liquidy in a year from now? Or do I dump you in the trash?

I've been going thru our things in stages over the last few weeks, slowly sorting thru the things we definitely don't use or need first to save brain cells later.

Now the time has come to start thinking bigger...like sofa big. Like, all of our furniture big. Most of it has recently left the building, and the other half is on its way.
These are the things I don't really mind. It's almost a relief to watch them walk out the door into new happy families. The tough part is about to come.....all the things we keep, every single item will be sorted stacked piled categorized boxed up and shipped out to one place or another...and they have to be worth keeping.

I was going thru our books yesterday, boxing them up (books are an exception to the rule...they cannot be thrown out, no matter how much we don't read them!) and while organizing little piles into other little piles, I found a photo album I made in highschool. I had put together bits and pieces of everything. A clipping from a newspaper, a baby picture, a movie ticket stub, senior pics...it was totally one of those moments of wow...here I am...all of those moments from being a kid, highschool, college, rock bands, orchestras, proms, friends from far and wide, all of that is part of me, and even though I can't bring them with me, not even the photo album, all of those people and experiences are coming along inside of me for the ride. Just as this next adventure will add to the pot for the future.

Maybe the the pot just keeps getting bigger and bigger? The more people and experiences I add, the more space opens up inside my heart for more.
Maybe it's not about the stuff, I can always buy more shampoo ANYWHERE! It's about living to the fullest I can in every stage of life, including this transitional one.

Holy cow!
We're really doing this!

tid bits

Lots of things! Lots of things!
I'm going to blabber them all out at once! AHHH!!!!!!

WE PASSED!
Rodolfo and I passed our immigration interview! According to the Federal Government, we are a legitimate married couple! Yay?!? YAY!!!!!

BIRTHDAY DAY!
It's my birthday this Friday! 27! Yay?!? YAY!!!!!

Inflatable love.
We bought inflatable pillows online! Along with little mini travel unbrellas! We are SO SET for a world trip across multiple continents!! Nothing says "prepared" like mini umbrellas! Right? RIGHT!

Traveler's Insurance.
If someone out there has any clue how that mystery works, you just let me know! I've researched 15 different companies, entered in our ages, birthdays, nationalities, trip dates etc, and looked at 50 different options and I'm even more perplexed then I was before I started! I DON'T KNOW IF I'M GOING TO BE DISMEMBERED!?!? Grr? GRRR!!!!!

Spices.
We are I believe 60% towards our goal of using up our delicious spices. It's become some kind of pre trip challenge between the two of us....which is both wonderful and painful. Garlic hummus...not such a good idea.

Shots
We are good to go! Almost! Our last round of shots for both of us is on Thursday! We are ALMOST THERE! Bring it on weird funky virus/bacterial/blah di blah! Bring it!


Now, it's just enjoying our last couple of months in Madison as much as humanly possible. A bathroom. A bedroom...a closet! Limited resources from here on out. I have to enjoy them while they last!!!

AFRICA!

Allright. Back to trip plans rather then trips!

We have tickets for Africa!
So now, Asia and Africa are accounted for, that just leaves Europe!

Rodolfo found a great deal thru Egypt Airlines for $700 each including taxes.

What's the great deal about it? Multiple stops!
We'll fly into Johanesburg and get picked up again in Tanzania, giving us a couple months to experience the world cup and travel the coast thru South Africa/Mozambique/Tanzania.

From Tanzania, we'll have a week in Cairo Egypt and then back to London for our European adventures!!!

WHOO HOO!!!!!

Turkiliciousness

I am a team captain.

This is a very amusing statement for those who know I'm not a team sport type person.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only sport I've ever done well at was floor hockey (it's the Minnesotan in me) and that career ended right around 5th grade when I grew boobs...is it related? who knows!

ok...so what's this captain business about?

I've discovered my nitch! and I'm quite proud actually! I kind of, sort of, like to run! If you count nature peeping and stopping for pee pees as running activities.

Why not soccer or tennis or something?

I'm the pacifistic type, so the only person I like to hurt while working out is myself, yes...that is really why...but yet at the same time, I'm very aware that I'm quite extroverted, (I looooooove being around people)

Solution:

Public massive running!

Something about the thumping of feet, the sweating, the large amount of designer running paraphernalia all around me, it's like being in the running of the bulls without a horn up your ass! It's awesome!!!

Next massive sweat experience here in Madison is coming up on Turkey day, and last years experience was so much fun (the running, the sweating, the quasi free half of a banana) I decided to make it a team experience, complete with team eating of the turkeylicious turkey afterwards!

We even have a team name! Turkeylicious!

Team mascot is still under discussion, but I'm sure something will be worked out by the big day!

So, if you are looking for a calorie burning extroverted activity come Turkey day, sign yourself up! The more the merrier!

Paz

Paz is the new member of our little family.

Back story:

If you've heard it already, skip ahead to the non green.

When I was 6 I wanted a dog, badly.

So badly, I copied out the names, descriptions, genres, height and weight of every known dog imagineable. I was OBSESSED!

So you can imagine my parents response to:

CAN WE GET A DOG?!? CAN WE GET A DOG?!? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!

Parental revelation to getting out of the poop scooping, grooming and vet check ups?

"Ok Sarah, you can get a dog.... if..... you can prove that you are responsible enough to take care of a smaller pet"

What pet did they choose at the all holy home of glass surrounded puppies and kitties?

A morning dove I named princess. (that's me, my name, yup, Sarah means princess...I was extremely egocentric as a kindergardner.)

Fast forward to 3rd grade...she's still kickin' and healthy as a..bird.

Because I was a bit awkward at making friends, my parents let me bring princess with me to class, which is where Princess met a bird lover in my 3rd grade teacher who adopted her fully into the class room as our mascot of all things "cool". She would go to meetings with princess on her shoulder and always had a few droppings on her somewhere's or others...

THIS is where Paz comes in.

First grade teacher revelation: hmmmm....we teach the solar system with kids running around the room with globes, why don't we teach sex education with birds?

TADA!

Paz.

that means peace.

she named him.

It was Montessorri school, what can I say?

One minor problem/solution to my hippy education, was an entirely different kind of

hippy education.....

Paz..

laid...

eggs.

We have ourselves a fine pair of lesbian doves.

OH, yeah, we got a sex education! Except for the whole mysterious bird vent system.. google it.

...and I kid you not...they would do it night and day. In the cage, out of the cage, on a table, in the air, all possibilities are open for youthful, happy, healthy lady birds.

After that awakening education to the class, Paz and Princess came home.

In college...yup...still alive... I decided they should live with me because they could die at any moment and I needed to be there emotional for them in that momentous occasion. Did they? Nope. But I'm pretty sure princess had a stroke one night in the fall of 2003, when I heard a little but sturdy thump in the dead of night...1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds.....and then the slight shaky pitter patter of uneven little birds feet. Princess didn't walk quite the same after that.

Fast forward to Thanksgiving 2007.

Yup. She finally kicked the bucket. After 1998-2007 R.I.P. my darling Princess.

Which leaves forgotten about Paz. Like many college aged young ladies with adventures to go and get done, I left her on my parents, deciding I was unable in my chaotic, crazy youth to watch over a small tiny bird that sits in a cage. I know, I'm lame.

Which brings us to now!

Paz is our official first pet as a married couple.

I always thought...dude, I'm NEVER going to be one of those lame couples who practice having babies by purchasing a pet...but I have incredible news....

Rodolfo is FINALLY in love with a small animal! It's a miracle! (He hates dogs, it's his thing, kind of like hating cheese...which both also happen to be the two things I've always obsessed the most about! Coincidence? Or some form of sick personal psychological torture? Perhaps!)

So, for the next two months we will fulfill our suburbanite household requirements

4 bed 2 baths, check

pet, check

patio set, check

What will happen next?

tickets to Japan!

We bought round trip tickets to Japan!
WHOO HOO!!!
Official dates of trip #1:
January 19th-May 8th!

We'll fly into Japan, and from there, head out to South East Asia! Probably Singapore.
From there, we'll head up, up, up, thru Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and by then, somehow back to Japan for a week there.

We also had our first visit with our awesome travel doctor! According to him, if we do things right, and take our 15 shots each in the next two months, our poop won't turn black, our hands won't fall off and our brains won't melt.
We have avoid lots of things in order to not die...water, foods, salad, dirt, bugs, but! If we do it all right, we'll have a marvelous time!

YAY!!!!!

Free Stuff

My coworker has a bucky book filled with coupons,

COUPONS!!!!!!!!

The Minnesotan in me is exuberantly happy!

One that she didn't want was good for a wooden spoon,
"$1.50 value max"

I get to the gitchy kitchen store and immediately (casual strolling pace, so they don't get suspicious) aim towards the spoons! SO GORGEOUS! Dark wood, light wood, so many to choose from, but wait...
none are for afore mentioned $1.50.

$5, $10, definately...Maybe that's allright?? A part of it is free!
I stroll some more.
A LEMON ZESTER! HOW HANDY!
The little glass mini cups that they use on those cooking shows for seasonings!
"A bit of peppa' " "A pinch of salt" "A prick of cayenne" I can see it already!
Little baby sugar spoons!
A mini quiche tart pan!

.....

and then it hit me.
I'm not supposed to be buying stuff.
I'm moving in 3 months.
Kitchen supplies are not ALLOWED!

and I put it all back, but I did head straight over to Trader Joe's to buy a large purchase of delicous food! So all is good!

Farmers Market

Call it what you will,

touristy, busy, noisy, over priced, difficult parking, etc...

We LOVE the Madison FARMERS MARKET!

Love with no bounds.

It's become a weekly Saturday morning date to spend the morning lazing in our p.j.'s and eventually hit the road to catch the last minute deals down by the Capital.

After years of weekly shopping, we of course have our fav's/deals...only good after 1pm!

Here's our best of:

Starting counter clockwise at the intersection of Main and Carroll, here are a few spots you can't miss when you're in Madison on a Saturday!

Oakhouse:

2 for 1! While they last!

Yup! After 1-1:30, everything is buy 1 get 1! Our favorites are the peanut butter cookies and the muffins! If you can get there right at the beginning (1pm) they have some great breads too!

Mushroom lady:

One very rainy day, we got a full bag of portabella's for a measly $10, but this incredible experience has only happened that once...other then that, my father is the only one known to talk her down in price...very impressive...but her mushrooms are to die for! A Rodolfo staple.

The cheese tent! (Main and MLK Blvd)

I think this one is famous for all cheese lovers...I don't actually buy their cheese reguarly, which I do feel bad about...but we did do it once! Their piping hot skillet cheese is a meal on a toothpick! If you can wait your turn patiently in the crowd, there's a dilectable reward on the other side!

(while I'm eating cheese, Rodolfo heads over to:)

Carr Family Farm:

This is where Rodolfo buys his beef sticks/brats/hotdogs. Amazing hotdogs! $4 for a pound I believe, but they are to DIE FOR! While I nosh on my cheese sample, Rodolfo downs his entire beef stick in 3 bites! - We also buy our eggs here! $3 for 1 dozen! AMAZING EGGS! Totally worth the extra dough.

****By now we've reached the corner of Main and Pinckney****

Garlic Basket People:

This is where we get our garlic! Incredible deals on garlic at this corner!

The Asian ladies (all of Pinckney)

There are 3-4 Asian ladies which Rodolfo loves to try to snaggle a deal out of with his puppy eyes....It helps if I'm with him, complaining about how we don't need any more food, and really, can't we just keep moving!?! Right around then, they take pity on the skinny dude, and throw in an extra bag of green beans to fatten him up!

This brings us to Pinckney and East Wash

MELON MAN!

BEST MELONS IN MADISON! BY FAR!

We're on our 6th week of melons from this fine gentleman and we're still in love!

$2 for a small, $3 for a large, you can't lose, just make sure to leave room for your giganto monster melons in your shopping bag!

Ostrich Lady

Great spot for your first ostrich tasting, but move along, it's a bit pricey

Which brings us to the corner of Mifflin and Pinckney streets where we must dedicate a tribute to:

Mr. Fill a bag

We miss you Mr. fill a big!!!

"Fill a bag! Fill a bag! As much as you can fit for $5!"

He hasn't been at the farmers market for 2 years now and we miss him terribly.

so from there , flowers, flowers, plants, plants, blah blah...1/2 block later,

THE LADIES! (intersection of Mifflin and Wisconsin)

You want a deal on great looking produce? They have it! Peppers, tomatoes, peas, whatever is in season, they have it and at budget prices...no end of day sales, but their produce is great!

On to Carroll St...

The apple guy:

Here's how it works...Rodolfo 10 feet away, "ooh! ooh! he's here! The apple guy!"

Then we walk up, only to the dude...not the ladies, it's not the same,

guy: What are you looking for?

R: Something...sweet and crunchy. (He always says this...trying to seem like he knows a lot about apples. He doesn't. It's cute!)

guy: try this.

He hands Rodolfo an apple...I don't really think it matters what it is, it could be sour as all get up for all I know.....but Rodolfo always says:

R: I love it! 5 pounds please!

He's a sucker for a free apple sample! "A whole apple Sarah! Can you believe it?!?"

And last but not least on the intersection of Carroll and W Wash...

Grandpa man:

Grandpa man can be distinguished by his cane and stool, while he sits and watches everyone shop, and occassionally yells out to the random onlooker, "We got a deal today! Zukes and cukes!" This is the best spot for 3 for $1! and Great Rainy day specials!!! For cukes, zukes, gigantic heads of lettuce for $1 and fairly priced peppers, this is the place to be! We always go here close to the end of our hunt for all the things we couldn't find cheaper anywhere else. The lettuce always goes bad on me quickly, but! IT'S HUGE!!!!

Here ends my virtual tour!

I hope you check out the real deal next Saturday! Maybe we'll see you there!!!

Preparation, perserverence and all those p's

Leaving for a year....

How do you begin to prepare for that?

Fortunately I have great friends with great ideas!

• Lots and lots of granola bars, check
• Special sheet to sleep on for urky looking motels, super check!
• Tent, got it!
• Two awesome backpaking bags, done and done
• I just got my hep A shot #2, so I'm boostered up for life, and! I'll be booking my travel doctor visit shortly!

Now, there's the less precise decision making factors...

• If we don't know exactly where we are going, how do we know which visas to apply for?
• Where are we going anyways?
• What do we desperately need to take with us and what do we not need quite so much?
• Can teddy come too?
• Are we talking malaria pills and bug nets? or a toured stroll through London?

The truth of the matter is, I have no FREAKING CLUE! That's probably half the fun.
We'll wander around with our heads cut off, and somewhere in the midst of it, we'll discover a passion for Buddha or yoga or peanut butter sandwiches and I guess we'll just go with it! I trust Rodolfo and myself enough to go with the flow. Whatever seems right will be right.

Space Odyssey 2010

January - April
South America
Chile - Argentina - Brazil - Columbia - Ecuador- Peru
This trip is intended as an introduction to South America for me, and gives Rodolfo a bit of a chance to visit friends, hang with fam, stuff like that. It's going to be awesome! And hopefully after that spanish class I'm taking, I may just be able to order my own food this time around!

May
MN/Madtown
For a mini pit stop refresher! Just in time for the great weather! Hmmm....was that planned?

June - July
Africa
South Africa - as Rodolfo likes to gloat - to go visit the world cup!
Rodolfo (to my horror a few months back) randomly put our names, passport numbers and his credit card information into a drawing to win tickets for cheap to see Chile play. This is going to be an experience of a life time!
cheap = $500 for 3 games (two tickets per game)

August - October
Europe
Germany - Italy - Hungary - Slovenia - Turkey - England - Ukraine
It was decided between my husband and I that an exchange was in order. If he gets to go to the World Cup, I get to go to Octoberfest! A deal is a deal! We're hoping to visit friends and check out Europe along the way....specifics not allowed...we'll be going with the flow!

November
MN/Madtown
Just in time for my B-day!

December
Asia
Malaysia - Thailand - Laos - China - Japan
We were intending to begin our travels with a trip to Asia, but this will work out a bit better for the schedule. We want to spend quite a bit of time in Asia with less time restrictions, and we'll be more travel saavy by this point!

***Due to travel restrictions getting Rodolfo thru the immigration process, he can't leave the country for more then 6 months at a time. You'll notice the handy breaks inbetween trips. Return date from Asia? Not really sure...we have to get to the other 4 continents first! We'll see how much money we have left I guess.

OK. Gloating over. Back to normal life!

No more squatage!

As yet another part of the complex plan that is:

TRAVELING THE ENTIRE WORLD!

We couldn't sign a year long lease.

In a college town all leases run August 15th to August 14th. It's a dead given.

What does Sarah do?

Why she hops on to Craigslist of course!

She may happen to post an add out of random hysteric potential homeless fear:

$700 Aug-Dec sublet needed (Downtown Madison)

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Reply to: hous-up2wd-1239719288@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}
Date: 2009-06-25, 4:51PM CDT

My husband and I are looking for a 1-2 bedroom apartment/loft from August to December/January (move in/out dates negotiable as is price)
We're leaving the country to travel mid January, so we can't sign a year lease.
We are clean and responsible with no pets. A downtown location is a must, everything else is flexible.

• Location: Downtown Madison
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

3 weeks ago:

"Hi. I saw on craigslist that you are looking for temporary housing. I have a home in Madison, but am out of the country. I need soemone to rent it until January. When I come home. It is a 100 year old 4 bedroom home with a back yard, patio, family room, living room with a fireplace, dining room, off street parking, etc. I have not been home in months and the last people that rented it did not pay the rent regularly (and left me with a huge electric bill). Anyways, I am a science teacher in Costa Rica and will be home to show it to interested people next week"

BINGO!

So, time goes by. we arrange a meeting. What next?

1 day before arranged meeting:

I'm sorry to contact you so late. The house is not in any shape to rent to anyone. The last people left it a mess and there are holes in the walls, etc I'm very sorry.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Well, we ended up talking her in to letting us see it anyway. Turns out interesting people had been living there with interesting tastes in home decorating...and some klepto issues. The last tenant also happened to sublet out her place while not paying rent, you know, to get that last bit of assholery in.

However! As of yesterday! The house is squator free! A lease is signed! and locks are getting changed! Beginning August 1st, we'll have our first entire house living experience!

WHOO HOO!!!!

STUFF!

I never realize how much crap I have until I move.

When that day comes (August 3rd), and I'm suddenly conscious of the pounds...yes, I see it in pounds...POUNDS! of things I will be personally hauling on my own back to

my new abode, it

quickly helps to decide what I need and what I can live without.....does my roommate always agree with me? Nope.

This being said, as painful as a moving experience can be, I occassionally look forward to it now!

It's a great time of reflection and change, looking at what things I used to really love that is crap and what junk I can't possibly live without.

Staring at my poundage, I always think of my poor grandparents, with their cartons and boxes stowed away in the their garage, slowly decaying over time... none of it can ever be thrown away or sorted out to be given away or sold based on one little nagging, annoying, cringing question....

"What if we need it again some day?"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's only annoying, because it's so true! And I HATE IT! No matter what object it is that is under discussion, no matter how much I've used and abused it or not so much, I at one point in my life saw it in a store, stared at it, considered it, bought it, and put it in my room.

Here are a few nagging objects on the chopping block:

6 bottles of lotion: (1 pound)

Really? I mean, REALLY?!?! 6 Sarah? Why do you need 6 lotions? Yes, you're a girl, and they are all different scents and colors, but really?

2nd coffee table: (5 pounds)

It's a perfectly adequate coffee table, and

quite charming....but it's sitting in a corner with stuff on it...the stuff can sit somewhere else! Like, the floor!

Empty book case: (15 pounds)

ok...here's the history: We got it from a friend who was moving, it's too tall and too big to put anywhere normal, so we put it in our bedroom where it holds...ready? NOTHING! It's just hanging out for....don't really know! I once took it apart screw by screw and stuck in a closet when Rodolfo left town for a weekend. When he got back, he put it BACK TOGETHER! Die evil undead bookcase!

5 non matching mugs: (1 pound)

All, of course, probably free from one such and such and another such and such. Have we ever used them? No. Will we ever use them? Probobably not! Will we ever get rid of them?....here it is...But...what if we need them some day?!?!?!?

Gag me.

It's the curse of the stuff.

There are always those items you know you're going to ditch...it's all part of the cleansing ritual....you've maybe even looked forward to it for a few months..."just you wait ugly pair of pants! You may be in my closet now! But come moving day!"

And there's the stuff you really love, but know you should probably toss....like your planner from 6 years ago, or that one pair of boots that looks so cute, but hurts your toes...umm...err....the pain is still too close....can't...talk about it...sigh...

Hopefully we all get thru our upcoming moves in one piece and hope the best for those things unfortunate enough to hit the street corner. May they find a good and happy home!

Trading and Bartering

I've made a major financial decision among many in order to be ready for our year long travels.
This is not big news for most, because I'm a cheap skate, but!
A major question asked when you tell people you are quitting your job for a year is this:
How are you going to pay for it?
Good question!

Over the past 4 years since graduating from college, I've created a savings account. What? Saving money? This is crazy!

So yes, we have funds available, but in all honesty, most of this measly savings was not meant for this trip, but my future Chilean bakery business I'll be starting up in about 5 years from now.

Which brings us to today, or rather 3 days ago, when I made my most extreme, irrational decision ever and am going to stick to it!

For the next 6 months, I'm not going to purchase anything that won't be:

• consumed immediately
• improve our immediate quality of life
• be used for the trip

That may not seem so specific but it is!

No purchasing of:

• condiments (includes spices, herbs and mayo)
• cookware
• major appliances
• canned beans
• clothes non trip related
• (ok, Mayo may fall under: necessity)
• giant bulk purchases of things...like rice!
• random stuff that comes up that you kind of want but don't really need
• anything on clearance! (that's my weak spot, I'll admit!)
• furniture
• you get the idea

The one loop hole to this rule?
Trading and Bartering. If I don't pay for it, it doesn't count!

Just yesterday I traded a pile of books for a travel guide book on South Africa!
I traded a pair of pants for a pair of travel friendly Victoria Secret Sweat Pants!
The possibilities are endless!

I've also discovered a great project going on in Madison that is surprisingly popular!
It's called a TimeBank!
It's kind of like craigslist, but no money involved. You do some form of work for someone else and in return, you can get an hour of work from someone else, but it can be almost anything! Car help! A ride to the airport! Music lessons! Spanish lessons! Babysitting! Cool right?

It's all about the giving and the taking. I just finished my orientation this week, so we'll see how it goes! No money is involved, just connecting with your neighbors and community. It's a cool idea anyway, and keeps Sarah centered on the goal.

Goal = trip = save lots of money

Eye on the prize my friends!!! I'm on it!

So, if you are feeling the itch to trade in some stuff for some other stuff, let me know!
Hello moving weekend! Curbside hunting here I come!

bloggity blog blog blog

Yes, there is life beyond a wedding, it's called marriage!
AHHHHHH!!!!
To be honest, it's great, absolutely, definately without a doubt the best. Woudn't have it any other way from here on out...which is good I guess, because there is no way out!
HWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

I thought it would be fun to keep everyone updated on our lives, mainly for one reason which I will share with you now...totally selfish but I don't care.

While going thru stuff getting ready to move, I found a lot of journals from college, essays, papers, letters, yadda yadda, and man, I wrote some good stuff! Not war and peace level, but occassionally, I have something interesting to say, and occassionally someone might want to read it....which written down like that, sounds super laaaaaame.

Plus, we're getting ready for a year long global trip to better ourselves, who doesn't want to hear about that?
That's right!

So, keep updated! Life doesn't end when you get married, it just gets a little weirder!

check list

manicure
pedicure
hair
make up
shoes
dress
cake?
flowers?
fishing line????
rings! two of them!
parents?
car
mom in law
batteries
extra batteries
extra extra batteries
tide stain remover thingy? where do I put it?
note to future wedding dress makers....lots of fabric = lots of potential pockets ;)
where do I put my wallet? Do I need my wallet?
oh shoot! I have to pay for stuff! Can a credit Card fit in a wedding dress somewhere?
What if we need emergency napkins?!? or toilet paper!
hmm....toilet paper.
music list...
Is it weird to put a music list on a list?
Did I forget anyone?
Maybe I forgot someone and can't remember?!?!
Who am I missing......
...
...
...
oh yeah.
Rodolfo.
Allright.
I'm ready!
Let's rock this dealio! Look out marriage, here I come!