Long overdue and obscenely large pictorial, Texas to Washington... My Bobbie is home!!!!

Texas, miles and miles and miles

Cotton fields

Powdered donuts

some kind of grain

New Mexico

more of the same in New Mexico

and more

Oh! A hill!



real trees!

my monkey boys

a common sight on our trip, unfortunately. I hate U-Haul.

My Michael boy







rest area fun

Markie is king of the rock







Denver Convention center... What a COOL statue!!!

I love this! Still in Denver...

More of Denver

Denver REI - most important :)

finally out of the city again



Wyoming!!





Love this...


















Montana!



Yellowstone River!




morning snow

so pretty... We drove through a full-on blizzard for a good hour or two, but my pictures of it didn't turn out so well.





Big sky





Larch in Idaho, not the greatest picture, but LARCH!!!

Last sunset of the trip, home to Washington

I screwed up NaBloPoMo already. I guess I dont feel too bad about it though - I just couldn't write last night, and I dont want to write here because I feel like I have to - I want to write because I want to, because I have something to say.

I think I might have been a whiny brat tonight. My feelings were hurt, and I made it known, but I'm not sure if I had a right to be hurt or not. Regardless, the end result was Dan and I having a real actual grown up conversation for the first time in quite a while, and that's certainly a good thing. I'm so tired of all the nastiness that flies around sometimes. I just want to get on with my life already.

Brookie's veterans day concert was today at the school. She was nervous, but she did a great job, and was on cloud 9 when it was over. They sang some cute songs, and they all gave little speeches. It was actually pretty nifty. See below, but you may want to turn your monitor on its side :)

I've decided I desperately need an attitude adjustment. I need to pull myself out of this slump. I need to make the most of my world. Ugh.

You know what's really annoying?

Driving home from work tonight, pushing the seek button on the radio, and finding that the only stations in the whole friggin Seattle area that were actually playing music were the ones playing classical music, Spanish music, or Eminem. What happened to radio stations playing MUSIC???

Blogging while sick is lame, lame, lame.

Committing to writing every day and then getting sick sucks, sucks, sucks. Blah.

Tired, depressed, not feeling well, lame post, I know... Tomorrow is another day.

can't.....keep..eyes.........open....

Wow, close call. I was afraid I wasn't going to make it home by midnight, and I was going to screw up NaBloPoMo 2008 already, on day 2. 2007 I mean. See?!? I don't even know what year it is anymore. How lame is that? Today was going to be the big photo post showing my big long drive across the west, but I just can't do it tonight. It's been a day from hell, and I'm depressed, and I'm exhausted, and I'm going to sleep now.

DAY ONE!!!!

8AM, November 1st... day one of NaBloPoMo!! Woohoo!!! i'm exhausted. Fun stuff. I've spent the last week flying from Seattle to Dallas, packing my friend B's entire house into a gigantic U-Haul truck, and driving back to Seattle. We had tire trouble, transmission trouble, and a REALLY long trip. We drove through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and finally Washington. WOW! Pictures coming soon....