Abbie's Real Life Blog

Well, today we have a new President.  I’d say more, but I think the internet is sagging under the weight of talky bloggers talking about it (waxing not-so-lyrically poetic and gushing big drippy tears of happiness), and I don’t have anything to add that can’t be inferred from other things I’ve written.  Obviously, I’m ecstatic.

I went to Uprise Bakery/Ragtag Cinemacafe to watch the events on CNN.  Ragtag had a theater open and it got pretty crowded in there for a Tuesday morning, especially after 11am (CST) when the real shit was happening.  It was a very pro-Obama crowd, of course.  I enjoyed it, even though I was clicking away on my iPhone nearly the whole time.

I’m kinda sorta half sorry that I didn’t go to DC for the event, but only in wish-I-could-say-I’d-been-there type way.  I mean, I didn’t make the plans to go because we were supposed to head to Denver this weekend, but after that was cancelled I guess I still could have thrown some suitcases in the car and headed to DC in my car, stayed with family, done all of that.  But that would have been a motherload of driving for a cold morning in a crowd.  Only a few of the people that I know in DC actually went down there this morning- the rest avoided it like the plague.  I like to think I would have gone if I was still there.

But we’ll be in DC at the end of March for Tracy’s sister’s wedding!  Woo!  All of a sudden I feel the need to start making plans for that, deciding what to wear, etc.  I haven’t been to DC for more than a year, so we are DEFINITELY going to Soul Vegetarian for brunch.  That is a must.  The rest of it will fall into place.

We’re also going to Orlando next month.  I’m going to end up traveling just as much this year as I would have if our travel budget had stayed in place, I think!

It was a nice long weekend, though we did very little.  Wait, not true: we cleaned the house, really cleaned it, and I did laundry (of course) and did a bunch of necessary shopping and watched some movies, most of which sucked.  I processed some pictures.  Tracy did some reading and started to freak out a little about renting a place in Kansas City, so we now have tentative plans to drive up to KC on Saturday just to give her an idea of what the neighborhoods look like.

Tonight I am going to the Jeff City Photo Club for the first time since September (I missed two meetings, and then the December one was cancelled for the weather).  

And today I am wearing my hair up, in public, for the first time since I was in college (at least).  Okay, I wore it up on New Year’s Day, but that doesn’t count as that was just with family.  And I wear it in a ponytail to the gym all the time now, and maybe once or twice to the store, and lots of times at home.  But this is the first time to work.  And it’s not a ponytail- it’s one of those weird fake buns with the messy ends.  Still, though.  I think my hair is officially getting Longer.  It’s not Long, but it’s Longer than it’s been in a long long time.