gone, but not forgotten

Sorry for the lack of blogging, I've been on vacation. Hence why there were no new post, and no Monday Madness. It was so nice to get away, but it's also nice to be home.

Our vacation was to New Mexico to see the family, as usual. We had a wonderful time seeing friends and hot air balloons. I have so many pictures of balloons, and basically nothing else. Hopefully I'll get around to posting them soon.

On said vacation, I did two pretty major things. One, we bought our wedding invitations! We're doing all the typing/decorating ourselves, and that's not even close to started, but we bought the actual invites we'll mail, and all the fun stuff we'll need to put them together! We has something else in mind when we went to the store, but we came out very happy. I'm really looking forward to starting the process! It's going to be a lot of work, so we'll have to start soon. Luckily we got a new typewriter ribbon.

The second thing I did was get a tattoo. It's my second tattoo, but the first one I can actually see (tattoo #1 is on my back, and I never even think about it). This one is on my wrist. It's the longitude and latitude of my Alma Mater. I'm happy with how it turned out, but I slightly freaked last night, realizing what I just did. I think not being able to see my first tattoo didn't make me realize the longevity of these things. Oh well. It's not that I don't want to have it, because I wouldn't have gotten it done in the first place, but it's just so weird to see still. The hubs-to-be also has an arm tat, and he says it just takes some getting used to. He did a little panic dance at first too, but now he doesn't think about it even being there. I like that, and hope it comes soon for me. I'd like to stop staring at my wrist all day.

So now it's back to work and back to the grind. I love visiting, but home is comfortable. Too bad for us, we came back to winter starting in Boston. It was a chilly 35 degrees this morning, with an eventual high of only 47 today. It's days like these that I wish we never left the warmth of the desert!