Yeah, it's been a while.
Sorry for the long absence, leaving you hanging about the details of my li'l ol' luv life. Justin and I are fine, in fact we just got back from two days in Yosemite with his parents. During his spring break, we went out to restaurants, went shopping (of course) with his parents, had dinner with his aunt, the aformentioned Yosemite, made freezer burritos for lunches, and I joined a soccer team and played in two games. I made a decent attempt at making peanut butter pie, Tom Yum soup, black sticky rice w/ mango, and some stuff I found on Orangette. I bought 1000$ of furniture: a couch, a loveseat, a chair, a coffee table, two end tables, and two lamps (good lord I'm still in shock, and so is my bank account!) after weeks of furniture perusing on craigslist. All in all, a very nice week together. And then of course, we promptly had a fight the first day back in school(him) and work(me). About Yosemite bouldering ratings, of all things. The honeymoon, as they say, is over.
That's not to say that the relationship is over, though, so no bad mouthing yet. Given that this is only my 2nd serious relationship, for things to be settling down and stretching and working through issues seems to be somewhat normal, especially after 14 months together. I'd like to lie and say it's easy, and if you were to ask me in person I probably would, but there's just something about blogging that makes me hang it all out there and say "to heck with it!" This is another good reason to stop...bring some personal boundaries back into my life.
There's also a physical reason I haven't been blogging: I'm on the way to developing carpal tunnel. My right wrist has been on fire lately, so I went to see the Intel nurse, and basically years of bad computer posture have left my tendons very irritated with me. And I have tendonitis in my thumb from those two years in the biology lab. And possibly tennis elbow. So, before I fall apart any further, I'm taking some time off from blogging. I've already stopped playing WoW, so this is the next step: less time spent on the computer, more spent outside/stretching/improving circulation. And the tendons in my mouth are still perfectly fine, so feel free to call me on my new RAZR...same number, new carrier, total BS that they castrated the phone though. Hey, it's good to know where your priorities are.
Talk to you in a bit.