state travel

i have rules about counting them, otherwise indiana, and rhode island would be covered too. i only count them if i have stayed the night and had a destination there. driving through (even if i stay the night) doesn't count.


visited 24 states (48%)
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weekendness

i went solo for most of the weekend as ross was mostly at work prepping for little house. friday was pretty uneventful, but saturday was SERIOUSLY eventful. in a good way mostly.
first i went to detta's spindle and ordered *da da-da-DA!* my spinning wheel. ( details )

then i stopped at a produce stand and picked up fresh locally grown strawberries, local potatoes (cuz we needed them) and fresh(but unfortunately not local because that's impossible here) nectarines - and headed over to shawn and thistle's place. i REALLY enjoyed myself over there. i hadn't seen them in an age due to the birth of their new-ish son, phoenix, my travel this spring and ross and my surgeries. phoenix is a beautiful, easy-going baby and cedar is actually protective of him, which is cute. he is also talking like mad (though half-unintelligably to me - it took a while for me to realize that when he says "eh-er" he's talking about me). thistle and i talked about politics and family and she says she has a friend who has some wool they are looking to get rid of for free. oh-oh-oh pick me! she is going to look into getting it to me rather than to the trash. i WIN!
( game stuff )

in between shawn and i took cedar out to burn off endless energy after his nap and actually got to talk about real life and books and movies. i think he is going to come with us to go see dark knight next week, but i have to run times by him. that should be fun. i like it when i'm the only person visiting them, or one of two, because i actually get real time with both of them. the gaming and more general stuff is fun too, but shawn and thistle are people i genuinely like and want contact with, even if i am not the most communicative friend to them sometimes. they were also kind enough to loan me lois mcmaster bujold's curse of chalion series and watchmen, which i've been wanting to read for ages. i've already finished the first book and really enjoyed it. much more complex and deep and satisfying than the other things i've read by her (sharing knife). i look forward to the others. i have started watchmen...but i'm still at the very beginning and am not sure what to think yet.
the downside of all this is that cedar is a 2 year old. and 2 year olds demand MUCH in the way of talking. i really strained my voice and hurt myself. i had to go sleep upstairs after ross came home because i was tossing and turning, and wound up doing nothing except reading and sleeping sunday - which really sucked because scott gave ross the afternoon off and he was actually home for me to be with...of course, he really slept most of the time too, poor guy. still i felt like a very unattentive wife. i wish i'd known he was going to be around. i would have come home earlier the night before. i DID start doing some laundry for him after he left, but it isn't the same.