When Evan and I first took off for vacation, I thought I would have tons of time to blog. But alas, the days have passed quickly on this road trip and the only constant is the ever-changing scenery and the growing need for an oil change. Since I have last updated, we hit the JKF [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Day Two-Seven: Breakfast in Dallas, Christmas in El Dorado, and Swampin’ in New Orleans
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four Days Early
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Growing up, my brother Nick and I weren’t allowed to wake my parents before 6:00 a.m. on Christmas morning. On Sunday night, we broke the one and only single rule regarding holidays in the Rex household: we opened Christmas gifts early. Since Evan and I will be out of town on Christmas day, we gathered [...]
Day One: Arizona or Bust
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After spending ten days in a hotel in Thousand Oaks for my glamorous non-profit job, I returned home yesterday with enough time to re-pack my suitcase (okay seven suitcases) and drive to Tuscon. Evan and I carved out the details for visiting his mom and her husband months ago, only to extend our vacation to [...]
I like this
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From “The Writing Life” by Anne Dillard:
“It takes years to write a book–between two and ten years. Less is so rare as to be statistically insignificant. One American writer has written a dozen major books over six decades. He wrote one of those books, a perfect novel, in three months. He speaks of it, still, [...]
76 Days…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…until this guy comes home! We are all getting pretty excited around here.
Wanderlust
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I hate returning back to work and school after a long weekend, only to tell people that my days off were spent drinking gatorade and watching 1980’s movies. It was a nice holiday and a much needed break, but I managed to contract several weird ailments culminating in a (drumroll please….) trip to Urgent Care [...]
