*blows the dust off her blog*

Why yes, I still exist. I’m being guilted by my newly married cousin to start blogging again. We both made a promise to blog, and she’s kept up her end of the bargain, and I haven’t, so… here I am.

So the last few months have been pretty busy!

In April, I got the chance to visit five states (six states?) in a weekend, flying from CA to Dallas for a layover on our way to Memphis, TN, then a drive to our hotel in Mississippi, and another drive across the Mississippi River to Arkansas for a wedding! lol! After the wedding, we drove back to Memphis, pitstopped at Graceland, and then flew back home by way of Atlanta. I was so freaking tired after that trip. haha

At the end of May, I had the pleasure of attending my cousin’s wedding. She was a beautiful bride, and her hubby is pretty cool. Not only was it fun to see one of my “baby” cousins getting married (the other one is getting married next year! they’re making me look bad! LOL!) but it was great to see family again. I haven’t seen my peeps in WI in quite a few years, so it was really great to see everyone and also introduce them to Joe.

Aside from the wedding, I basically spent the month of May knitting a baby blanket. LOL I found out a co-worker was pregnant and got the invite for the baby shower. I started a baby blanket for her as soon as I got home the day I got the invite. The blanket started out great, but after a few weeks of working on JUSt the blanket, it got really boring really fast. Too bad it turns out so cute, cuz I’ll probably be knitting it again. LOL

I finished it the night before the baby shower, and it was a big hit.

I’ll have more to blog about after this weekend. We’re bottling the wine we picked grapes for last September. I’m sure that will be loads of fun.

It’s been raining for the last 3 or 4 days, but that’s okay. We really need the rain. The only time it actually bothers me is when I’m driving on the highway. What is it about driving in the rain that brings all the jerks out of the woodwork? On my way to work, two out of three days, some jerk has been driving stupid and won’t let me in. I’m not an experienced enough or cocky enough driver to just wing my way into my lane because I need to be there, ESPECIALLY in rainy, crappy weather. It’s not safe, and it pisses me off when other people do it, so I won’t do it. So, I ended up just taking the exit that my lane turned into an off-ramp for, and I took the city streets. Honestly, at that point, I was moving faster than the highway anyway.

If you’ve been paying attention to my Flickr page, you’ll notice that I’ve been uploading at least one picture a day. I’m trying to participate in that Project 365 thing, where you take a picture of something every day, then post it. I haven’t posted them on a blog anywhere, but I’m considering opening one up. I was going to put it here, but the domain and the hosting on this is up at the end of March, and I’m not planning to renew it. I haven’t blogged enough the last year to warrant spending the money on the hosting or the domain name, so I’m not going to. I’ll probably have a LOT to say, of course, once it expires, so I’ll open a new blog somewhere on Blogger or Wordpress.com or something like that and post the address when I figure all that out.

Anyway, this Project 365 thing.. the one thing it’s made me realize (not that I didn’t know it before) is that I am REALLY boring! lol.. there is NOTHING going on here. lol I need to fix that. Or just take random weird angle shots that make it look like I’m interesting. In any case, I had to document today by immortalizing the fact that I cooked dinner in photographic form:

It’s a recipe that I made based off a conversation I had with some friends this weekend, and it’s pretty good. My friend suggested Trader Joe’s enchilada sauce, but I didn’t really feel like going to Trader Joe’s, so I just bought something at the store. It’s just down the street, but that parking lot is HELL. I got the “hot” spiciness, and I think i would’ve liked it better if I would’ve gotten medium or mild, but it was pretty good. Another thing I would do is that I would make it in a smaller pan (8×8?) so I get a bigger concentration of chicken and cheese. This is kinda spread out. Tastes good though, and if it gets the Joe Seal of Approval, I’ll make it again. I hope it does… I’m really tired of eating out. :/

If anybody has any ideas or recipes for cooking at home, I’m all ears!