Lots of things have happened over the past 3 months, so I’ll give you a quick recap:

• Donald and I finally moved everything in to the new house, and we’re 90% unpacked. We have a few boxes still waiting to find a home (you know that stuff that you don’t want to throw out or give away, but you don’t really have a place for it either?) but everything else is pretty much done. We redid the planter in the backyard (a disaster story for another day) and I finally planted flowers! Some of them look awesome, and others…well let’s just say I’ll be replacing them when the temps cool down a little bit.
• I turned 30 on May 17th and hated every single second of it. I fought it all the way until the night before when a friend said “So you’re 30 now, huh?” I calmly replied “I am 29 for 4 more hours, thank you very much.” I’m not sure why I hated turning 30 so passionately. Maybe it’s because I thought I’d be in a different place in life, or because I’d always (stupidly, yes) considered 30 old. But I’m over that now, and am embracing my 30-ness. (The fact that I am the youngest of my friends, save one, helps me get past my hangups)
• Donald and I took a 9 day vacation in June/July and it was wonderful. We spent 2 days in Arizona visiting three of my best friends (and watching the Angels pound on the Diamondbacks) and then spent Donald’s birthday and the 4th of July out at the river for the rest of our vacation. I love the river. It’s relaxing and fun, and such a great time. Lots of our friends were out there that week, so I did quite a bit of socializing while being lazy. Two of our friends, who we seem to only see during the summer, were there with their 3 boys, and man did they all get cuter over the past year (the boys, not the parents). I had a great time playing with their kids, as well as watching Donald’s newest nephew enjoy his first river trip. (He was 3.5 months on the trip, but seriously looks like he’s 6 or 7 mos. He’s a beefy baby!) We also had the sad experience of watching a fire very close to where we were staying, as it burned on the opposite side of the river. I’d never seen a fire that close before, and it was a little unnerving. But they managed to put it out before it could jump to our side, so we still have a vacation spot to go to.

Aside from all that, I’ve just been working, reading, setting up the house, and spending time with friends. I love our new house, and am very content to stay home curled up on the couch watching a movie, rather than going out and being social.

What have you been up to?