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So, what was supposed to be "a week or so" turned into over a month.

Shame on me!

I'm sorry, guys!

Anyway, since then:


I went down to LA for a weekend to visit Trillance. While there:

I purchased a season pass to Disneyland (yayyyyyy!)

I wasted time going to talk to my dickhead brother-in-law to see if he would act like the 30-something year old man he is (nope.)

And drove all the way the hell to Ventura in stupid LA traffic to see an old friend and coworker who herself had driven across the entire country to go to a dog show (she breeds Rhodesian Ridgebacks). I wanted to take her out for dinner in gratitude for writing me an amazing recommendation letter for my applications, but alas she absolutely stubbornly refused to let me pay. (grrr!)


I then returned to San Francisco... frantically cleaned up my apartment, finished hanging pictures, etc... tried furiously to get my applications done...and worked a couple of days before my parents arrived and we went on our big adventure to Southern California.


We drove down the coast from San Francisco to San Simeon one day:

Then continued on down to LA the next, so I could drop my parents off at my brother's place for the weekend.

I turned a quarter of a century old that weekend, and to celebrate I went mini-golfing with the best man in the world.

...and I had to sit with him in the emergency room in the middle of the night in the most ghetto hospital imaginable. On the hottest day in LA history (113!), he had surgery.

The next day, I came back to the hospital to learn how to help him change his bandage so he could be released, and - for the second time in my life - I fainted.

I got my parents, and we went out to visit some family in Riverside and then on to Palm Springs. Trillance met up with us in Palm Springs.

I took about a million pictures at Joshua Tree, which turned out surprisingly well from my lil point & shoot...

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Saw Carol Channing get her star in the Palm Springs Walk of Stars...

Got drunk at a mexican restaurant with my family...

And did some hiking.

I got back to the Bay Area with Trillance on October 3 and went back to work...

I FINALLY finished my applications, (YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and rewarded myself with a fabric shopping trip. (Well, OK, technically they're not ALL done, but the remaining one isn't due until January, so I have a little more time for that one!)

Oh yeah! And Trillance is shooting some models for a Chinese latex-wear company. Lucky me - I get to model! They sent me custom fit stuff, which I then proceeded to try on and take pictures of myself in....

OK, I think I am now done inundating you with pictures. (It's just been so long!!! *sigh*) I have a whole bunch of messages in my inbox to get to, and I promise you guys I WILL! Tomorrow!

I love you all lots and lots!!!!!!


XOXO

Mere