Carpooling again...YAY!!

Scott is home, finally. This makes the commute so much easier. I swear, one more day of driving alone and being denied the privilege (and convenience) of the carpool lane, and I might have lost my tenuous grasp on sanity. I was 45 minutes late for work on Monday because it took me an hour and half (!!!!!) to go 26 miles. Doesn't sound nearly as bad until you take into consideration that all but 4 miles of that is freeway and should take, at the speed limit, no more than a half hour. Oh, well. Such is the price we pay for living outside the city. Anyway, the point is, I'm soooooo glad he's home!

Making Pasties

So, Jessica went home last night so that she could spend time with Cris, since they are on different schedules and don't get to see each other much as a result.  But we got the pasties started yesterday, and the first half of the batch baked so that she could take them home with her.  

My main goal for today was to get the second half of the batch baked and frozen so that my kitchen wouldn't look like a tornado victim (pasty making requires large amounts of flour and space and dishes to prepare, and it does get messy).  I finished them up around 2:30, and used the leftover dough to make cinnamon rolls, which are usually quite tasty because I put TONS of sugar on them :)  Here is a link to the wiki article on traditional Cornish pasties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty

Scott is still in MI, and my roommate is at work, so I have the house all to myself (except the canine crew), and am enjoying the quiet and solitude.  I think I'll catch up on laundry, some scrapbooking, and Nora Roberts book I'm really into, and some television.  Wow, I just realized that I get to control the remote!  Sweet!!

Caffeine

I am pinging off the walls!! Kristin and I carpooled in today since Scott is in MI, and we stopped at this little coffee shop I have had a gift certificate for since X-Mas 2006 but hadn't used yet. I got a latte 16-oz latte, and learned that I really don't need that much espresso in my system all at once. It tasted so good, though. I'll definitely be going there again, because they are inexpensive and the drinks were really tasty. Kristin had a chai latte and said that was super, too. Next time, though, I don't think I'll get such a big drink. The jitters are not so good, but the energy is nice.

So tired...

Ugh, I have not been running on all cylinders today. I had to be up an hour and a half earlier than usual yesterday morning so that I could make it to a PCC seminar in Federal Way by 8:00. Then, I was so exhausted yesterday after work that I fell asleep on the couch reading a book. Scott did, too. We snoozed for only a couple of hours, but it made getting to bed at a reasonable hour impossible. I wasn't tired again until 1:30 am, and we had to be up at 3:30 to get Scott to the airport for his lovely red-eye flight. He's going home for his grandmother's 95th birthday. So Jessa is coming up this weekend to hang out - it'll make the weekend way more fun. If I had to hang out by myself, I'd probably be a total vegetable and somebody would have to dig me up come Monday.

Hmmm...Me, a blogger?

It seemed like I was reading an awful lot of blogs lately. So rather than saving them all to my favorites, I thought maybe I would just start my own. Why not?

Things going on in my life right now:

I'm a new auntie! This is so exciting - I just wish I could have been there for the big day, but that is the price we pay for living 2000 miles from home.

I'm planning a wedding. I have so much time to do this in, I'm not really pursuing too much right now. We do have the location for the reception, though, and also the church. And a date (sort of). It will be either Saturday, July 17, 2010 or Saturday, July 24, 2010. See - I told you I had awhile to plan :)
http://www.mcfaddensgrandrapids.com/photos_pearlroom.php
http://www.umcmiddleville.org/

I'm also planning a baby shower. Jessa's baby girl is due in November, and we are planning a little get-together at her house for the end of October. I gotta get my rear in gear!

The military has had me running around quite a bit lately, as well. There are quite a few units getting ready for deployment, and my unit has a hand in each one of those pies. Hopefully, all of the running around will get me in shape for a December PT test. Nothing like running two miles in the cold and rain (and possibly snow!) that you can certainly expect from Seattle that time of year.

Well, I'm hungry, it's lunchtime, and I don't have anything else to report right now, so I guess this is it for my first blog!