A Surprisingly Sane Blog

Tomorrow we’re headed off to Seattle.  Can you believe this is the first time that James and I have taken a trip together with the girls by ourselves that wasn’t dance-competition related?

Whew, that was a mouthful.  Did you catch it all?

Nearly every time we’ve left town for the last several years, it was for a West Coast Swing convention.  Last year, in all fairness, we did go on a cruise to Alaska.  Our first actual vacation since our honeymoon almost five years ago.  However, my entire family (including my grandpa) went with us, so we had a lot of help with Julie. Oh, and April was just a 6-month-old bump in my belly at the time, so no extra poopy butt to clean.

But tomorrow is a first for us.  There won’t be anyone to help us out.  We’re not headed off to visit family.  We are flying into Washington with the intention of getting a little more familiar with the city that we’re going to call home in the not-so-distant future.

I can’t wait.

Okay, so I guess we’re cheating *just a little*, though, because there are a number of dancers we know from the Seattle area, and we’re planning on checking out the WCS scene while we’re there.

But besides that, it’s uncharted territory for us.

And really, not to drive you guys nuts or anything, but I am just itching like crazy to tell you all something related to this move, but I can’t yet because I’m not allowed to!

Grrrr… I know, another secret.  Trust me, it’s just as hard on this end not being able to spill it.

Current Mood: Cool

Please go back and read comment #15 under my post from a couple days ago called A Poll: Abortion.

A reader shared a very beautiful and unique perspective based on her own experiences raising a child with a disability, and it’s definitely worth reading.

Yesterday I was dealing with a serious lack of creativity and motivation.

I picked our babysitter up, closed myself off into the dance room with my computer, and stared blankly at Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for about five minutes straight.  Usually, the ideas pour out of my head so fast that I can hardly get them on the computer screen before they race in the other direction.  But yesterday, well, yesterday I just wasn’t feeling the website design love.

So I opened up the Open Office document containing the file known as My Book instead and regained my sense of creativity.

And that’s when it hit me.  I really am doing this.  I am writing my book, just like I promised myself.  I was an exhilarating thought, and the words tasted like honey as I watched them sprinkle onto the page at record speed.

So in case you were wondering why the hell I only updated my blog once yesterday, there’s your answer.  I was busy keeping a promise to myself.

Current Mood: Happy