I’ve been quiet for the last few days getting ready for our leap-frog trips. The house is clean, my desk is clean, my critiques are done, my bags are packed, and I’m all set to leave the house at 3:30 in the morning. Whee! I’m so excited. I’ve got work to do on the planes, and the weather is supposed to be nice all the way from Denver to Chicago to Pittsburgh, so if there’s a delay it’s the airline’s fault.

I’ll do my best to check in here and there during residency. The weather’s supposed to be nice in Greensburg, so perhaps I’ll get some pictures of Seton Hill’s beautiful campus.

Have a great week! I know I will.

We’re home.

It’s 6pm, Denver time, and I’ve been up for 17 hours.

Airline score:
US Airways – Negative 26.7 bajillion
Midwest Airlines – Way more than that.

My brain can’t compute anything complex at the moment, but aside from being a little late (maybe 20 minutes?) nothing went wrong as soon as we shook the USAir dust from our feet. And we even got warm cookies, which is darn hard to beat.

Especially after the total idiocy we experienced in the predawn hours today.

I’m ready to collapse.

I’ve been quiet this week – that’s in part because my brain got just a bit fried on Saturday when I finished the novel’s rough draft, and I’ve been doing as little as possible since then in an effort to let it recuperate. 

Yesterday was our three year wedding anniversary. (Woohoo! Go us!) I spent most of it cleaning and doing laundry, and packing for our trip to Ohio this weekend. Model wife, eh? If only. 

At any rate, I’m working half a day today and then going home for last-minute packing and heading out to the airport. I hate taking evening flights headed east, but flying when we are saved us $200 each, so that’s the trade-off. At least it’s a direct flight today.

We’ll be in Ohio over the weekend – on Sunday my brother will be ordained and installed as the associate pastor of a church in Cincinnati, so it’s turned into something of a whole-family event. Speaking of Nathan’s new church, the senior pastor there keeps a great blog, so head on over and say ‘Hi’ to Russell Smith if you’re so inclined. 

And for those of you who miss Shiloh’s antics, here’s another of her favorite activities:

Notice that she uses the laser dot to get going and stay motivated, but once she’s running, she doesn’t bother with trying to catch it. She’s too smart for that. Or so she’d like us to think.

I’ll try to post over the weekend, but if I don’t, have a lovely couple of days without me!