The Fall is Coming! The Fall is Coming!

Retardo and I and lots of our friends closed out Summer Vacation this past weekend with a fabulous camping trip. We found a new group site down by Mt. Rainier and the only thing we really wished we had the entire trip was a portable hot tub. I guess we'll have to work on that for next year. ;-)

The weather was sunny and gorgeous, we got a fabulous hike in at Mt. Rainier on Saturday, and everyone danced around the bonfire with me on Saturday night. I am still glowing at the thought of it. My friends are Awesome. We didn't get a lot of pictures--I think both Retardo and I were too busy having fun. :-)

Oopps...

Retardo & I went on our first camping trip with the Element this last weekend, and it went pretty swell. We had a Great Deal of Gear for two people and no pets, but all was good...except for our Red-Neck Neighbors and their Really Loud Radio. We disliked them so much we decided to leave the campground at 5p on Saturday instead of staying another night.


Unfortunately, neither of us really questioned the road signs leading us back to Hwy 101....and we ended up on the wrong side of 101...the side right by the Pacific Ocean. Someone in the Dept of Transportation has a mean sense of humor and decided to name two very different highway parts Hwy 101. Jerks. In the end tho we got to have a nice little dinner picnic on the beach just after sunset. And I don't count mistakes that involve staring at the ocean, so we're counting it a successful trip. :-)

Looks Like It's Almost Summer!

So we've been having summer every few weeks here, an apt metaphor for my moods lately. But I think both the weather in the sky and the weather in me is getting better. I woke up this morning to discover that a) I had lost five-ish pounds (yay!) b) that my MaddyCat still loves me--she came to purr on me despite the fact that she is Very Cranky about her home being invaded by kitten and c) that our baby kitten Artie will come to the sound of my voice and wait for me to pick him up. And that's the short list! There's more! We're going camping this weekend and I get to play in the woods and sleep next to my sweetie for the first time in a week (he's been sleeping with the Artie in the little bedroom). And two weeks from now we're (hopefully) going to Montana. Yay!

It has been a stressful month though--my job should be ending before we go to MT and I don't have a new one lined up yet...and I haven't applied to school for the Fall yet. So I'm poor, directionless, and have an uncertain future. But I gots a nice home and sweetboy, and two babycats, and good friends and family. So things will work out, I know, cuz I've got my fingers crossed. :-)