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Memorial Day kicks off summertime. Kids are getting out of school, graduating, moving on. I’m ready to move on mentally. To have a break. I really haven’t been too too stressed lately, but basking in the laziness of the wedding aftermath has been therapeutic. I’m ready to do something exciting. I’d like to take a mini-honeymoon since Danny and I won’t have our real honeymoon until Christmas, when we have time to go somewhere for 10 days or more.

I’ve been doing some cleaning lately. I took the time to go through the piles of mail that have accumulated over the last month. Aside from gathering up a two inch stack of mail to be shredded, I culled through the ads and flyers and found a 1.5 year old gift certificate to Amazon that my cousins sent me for xmas back in 2004. It is set to expire in early June, so I decided to just spend it on whatever I wanted. I usually try to spend gift certs on useful items: appliances, books, etc… This time, I used it to buy two soundtracks from the show The O.C. I don’t watch the O.C. but I feel that A: soundtracks can have some fantastic music, and B: they connect me to current pop culture that I miss out on bc I’m wrapped up in my cable TV shows or friends’ blogs. Lately, Danny and I have been saying that music on the radio is crap. I get so excited when one of the local radio stations has a 90’s weekend. Am I old? Has it been 10 years since I graduated from high school, when I cared about going to concerts?

My high school reunion is next weekend. I’m looking forward to it. I think it’s because I’m staying busy and still trying new things. I haven’t resigned myself to a life or a job or even a geographic location. I can’t take full credit for my circumstances though. I’ve been given lots of opportunites not to mention the support of Danny, my family, and my friends. I feel like I can walk into my reunion and say “yes, I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing.” I never thought I’d be able to say that but I can. And I am very very very lucky and blessed. I have the confidence to move forward, but I wouldn’t have it without the hundreds of little pushes and catches from so many supportive people. I guess my point is, it’s not all me and I’m saying thanks. So, thank you.