catching up...

i realize i have been a little absent from the blog lately, so thought i would share some of the many small things that are making up my life right now, just so we're all on the same page. you know?

1. i am moving. not until the end of july, and not out of salt lake, so no one panic. the final straw in a years' worth of housing annoyances, which included disconnected gas lines, frozen pipes, possible meth contamination and sketchy handy-men who left strange notes under our door, was our completely lame landlord announcing a few weeks ago that he was selling our house and not renewing our lease. the sad news is that, even with the aforementioned debauchery, we love our house and hate to leave it. the good news is that we found a new house that is equally charming and much more functional in lots of ways. not to mention that our new landlady is named lola beatlebrox. no joke. just say it out loud. lola beatlebrox. she may or may not drive a flying school bus and her husband definitely does drive a musical taxi in park city. briana has already settled in to the new digs, and ck and i will join her later this summer. you are all invited to help us move in. and then to help us celebrate when we are done.

2. i have a new phone. being technology-averse as i am, this is big news. i hated to give up my old phone, and i am still trying to figure out how to use this new one, but it was time to make a switch. my old phone was coming up on three years, which might as well be 300 years when it comes to these thinbgs, and it was never the same after i dropped it in the bathtub last year. plus emdawg always made fun of it. my new phone is red and slides open instead of flipping open, both of which are exciting new features. most importantly, i can still dance to my ringtone.

3. sarah was in town for a few days, en route from india to washington d.c., where she is starting the next chapter of her life.



i think each of us get a handful of really significant and important friends in our lives, and sarah is one of mine. it was so wonderful to curl up in my bed and laugh until our stomaches ached. i am glad that we are at least on the same continent now, even if not the same time zone.

4. i was elected to be president of my board at the ywca. it is definitely an adulthood-arrival moment to be the president of something that is not a young women's class, and i am petrified and thrilled all at once. my first major (but actually minor) responsibility has been to organize gifts for outgoing board members and it's gone well so far, so i am taking that as a good omen of things to come.

5. i have a new "lady doctor" and i adore her. incidentally, she is also joelle's lady doctor and will deliver her baby when that blessed event occurs. it's nice to like your doctor because otherwise i would get depressed by conversations that go like this:

marital status?
single.
sexually active?
no.
have you ever been?
no.
tobacco use?
no.
alcohol?
no.
drugs?
no.
do you wear a seatbelt?
yes.

could i seem like a more boring person?
definitely not.

6. i can't stop listening to the new weepies album. or to kings of convenience.

7. the team with whom i went to india presented about our trip today at the rotary district conference. this is momentous for a couple reasons. one, as the conference was in lehi, i had to break my usual "don't cross 3300 south" rule. and, more importantly, we got to see the team visiting here from india. so fun. i especially loved hearing sentences like, "i am being married" and "i am coming from kerala" and "i am basically a travel agent." on the downside, the crowd was pretty dead. the only thing that really went better than when we presented at the district conference in india was that no one hung an enormous banner over the screen where our presentation was playing.

8. sallee and i completed our final training ride today, and saturday is the little red riding hood century. 100 miles, here we come. i keep thinking that once that whole thing is successfully completed, i will feel like a more normal person. here's hoping i'm right...