The time has come for my sentence-writing hiatus to come to an end.

I'm so proud of my sister, who snuck out of the house this morning at 7am, to take the SATs all on her own, just to see what they were like.

MLK day got awesome with a morning amanda breakfast, a visit to VS, a cheesecakey lunch, and a quick thrift store run (tomorrow work starts up again for real)!

Sleep-in AND Sleep-over day? Bring it on!

Coming from hot desert weather into 2 feet(!) of snow didn't stop me from walking through said snow barefoot to get our stacks-and-stacks of mail.

instead of valley-of-fire we'll play some pool and see the freemont st "experience" ..... that was the wrong choice.

"no i don't want to go to the hoover dam" said I, so they went alone, but 5 hours later, I happened to be only 4 miles away from the hoover dam, so I went anyways.

went to a breakfast with a salesman, who in the middle of his sales pitch told us "i don't think this deal is for you" and proceeded onto very off-color jokes, and unrelatedly pictures of his family.

billboards here have phone-numbers like 888-8888 on them, and messages like "don't leave this city, real-estate is cheap here, so move in!"

i wish i could say that my stories from the strip were cool, but EVERYONE has the same stories from there, so I can't.

After I regained consciousness after the time change, I have to say that my favorite part of the trip was this awesome trip to red rock canyon, where we even heard an avalanche (too slow to see anything but the end of it) and saw a frozen waterfall in the desert!

A vacation that starts a week after the holiday week seems excessive, and one to vegas triply so!

How embarrassing (both socially and in lieu of an engineering degree) to get to the checkout lane with $16.81 in groceries and only $14 in my pocket.

There are some old friends (Jon M!) that when you see them it's like it hasn't been months (or sometimes years) since the last time: the conversation just goes back to where it was when you left off.

"I could have danced all night" is a song that really (a) gets stuck in my head (b) makes me want to dance (c) energizes me even when i'm tired and (d) all of the above, even when i just hear a 10 second clip on NPR between sentences.

Theo started saying "vroom vroom" while playing with pretty abstract-looking cars but I never told him to do that or that those blocks were cars - how do kids know things like that?

"i know the highest note you can play on the violin!" she said, proudly, and then proceeded to play with her bow on the wrong side of the bridge.

Sleeping on cold concrete never felt so good as when you are in front of a gas fireplace in a hot and humid greenhouse. (zzz)

hot peppers are not a good dessert after a breakfast of berry waffles, peter.