Counting Down

So, we'll finally be taking our honeymoon next month... Yes, we sort of did things out of sequence - bought house, got married, moved into house, will eventually take honeymoon. But, face it - we were just too busy last year to squeeze it in. Kelly's job went away so he was job hunting, moving out of the condo and into the apartment, then the wedding, then moving out of the apartment and into the house, Kelly starting the new job... Not a lot of time to do anything more than drive down to Oxnard to visit with his parents for a few days.

All that may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. Last year was wonderfully busy and chaotic and frantic and fun and different and about as far from boring as you can get. It was great, but really, who had time to take a nice leisurely honeymoon in the middle of it all? So, once we had gotten through the wildest of the wild - around October - we talked about taking a nice trip this year, one that would serve as honeymoon, first anniversary, 50th birthday, and just about every other celebration in 2006 and 2007 (and one or two in 2008 for good measure).

After going to the travel agent with a Mediterranean or Alaskan cruise in mind, we settled on ... a Baltic cruise. Yes, horribly romantic, I know. Aw hell, anyone can go to the Med or Alaska - a Baltic cruise is wonderfully different, like us. So here I am, getting excited because now I get to say it's "next month" and we have the cruise documents and I'm reading the tourist guide books and visiting all the websites I can find.

Oh yeah - and Kelly's taking the Bar exam this month. So while I'm swirling about with brochures and articles and tid-bits of Helsinki wisdom or Stockholm trivia, he's, um, a little more distracted, instead quoting civil procedure or tort law. I don't blame him; the Bar is a grueling 3-day tour de force. One full day of essays, one full day of multiple choice, one full day of pretend lawyer analysis work. He'll be ragged at the end of that week - that's why we're planning the party the next weekend. Margaritas, mai-tais, and dancing girls, whoo-hoo!

And I got a new student at Madonna's tonight! Interestingly enough, not for tonight's scheduled cable class, but she'll come in next Tuesday for a two-at-a-time toe-up sock class. Yippee!