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I can't wait. Expect many posts basically consisting of, "Have I mentioned I want a motorcycle?" ;-)

I'm back! :-) Had a great time on the anniversary trip-- we've now been married for a year and two days. lol

Kansas City was fun, mostly. We went to the Ameristar Casino first (the name of which I misheard when Chris first told me about it, so I kept calling it the Amritsar). Went in with 100 dollars, won 78 of it back, so not too bad. Then we tried to drive further into Kansas City to find a little pastry shop I'd heard about, but then I really looked out my window and saw that every other shop was either closed-- at midday on a Friday-- or boarded up. Graffiti everywhere, and there was a guy peeing behind a phone booth. Me: "Hon, how about we just go to Wichita instead?" Chris: "Already working on it."

So we went to Wichita, and went to see Ashley and her friend Crystal. Ashley has a tattoo now. It's a Dragonball Z symbol of some kind (which looks kinda like the upper half of Satan's trident to the untrained eye) and huge. I still think she's at least vaguely nuts. ;-)

(and remind me sometime within the next few days to do a friends-locked entry on religious influences on my life. It's been brewing for a while, and flipping through some of the 'Christian' stations on the way to El Dorado-- where you can get country music or evangelists on the airwaves and remind me to bring CDs on a car trip next time-- helped me refine a few things)

When we got back, we went over to mom and dad's and watched the last four episodes of Long Way Round, which they really enjoyed. And since Chris and I have both decided to start trying to eat healthier, we made tandoori chicken for dinner there. (I finally got a chance to use my Indian Regional Classics cookbook, yay!)

Sometime today we're going to head off again to St. Paul to visit his family, and then tomorrow and Wednesday I'm not entirely sure what we're doing. Loafing, probably. And I'm definitely going to story-plot. :-)

So, after a little while of not starting to read anything new (shame on me) I picked up Long Way Round and started reading it.

This book is making me want a motorcycle, darnit. And I don't even know how to ride one.

Okay, so I sortof do-- get on behind someone else, and wait for the Risk-Taking Suicidal Voice of Doom to start in with, "Going seventy is too slow. And who needs a helmet, anyway?"

Actually, I don't even need a Suicidal Voice to get me in trouble. Once, when Chris still had a working motorcycle, we went to a neighboring town at dusk, and by the time we headed back it was really late. So we're on this monotonous stretch of road, and I'd been up early that morning, and I started getting drowsy but figured I could make it to town--

Next thing I know we're at the side of the road, and Chris sounded very, very stressed. I'd stuck my hands in his coat pockets and fallen asleep, on the back of a motorcycle that didn't even have a sissy bar.

I just got the movie Drowning on Dry Land on DVD today (Naveen Andrews, Barbara Hershey; road-trip-of-sorts movie).

I have to be at work at 6 a.m. tomorrow. But I just *know* that after I get done writing this evening, I'm going to be watching it.

I also got Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World, the book about Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's motorcycle trip. So I might be up watching a movie *and* reading.

I will so be on autopilot at work.