weekends away...

So...the weekends since the last post both involved travels as well...first a trip home for Thanksgiving for the extended weekend and then this past weekend a run to the City for a holiday party...and just a chance to get away. Highlights from each...

the long weekend in ann arbor...

• being home
• time with family
  
• the day of the Turkey
• Thanksgiving food...especially the pecan pie
• X-mas tree hunting
• the expanded and finished room
• the first of the X-mas decorations
• time with friends
• SkullSplitter
  
• "You gotta be able to go left so u can co 'click click click'"
  
• Welcome to Portland
• Question: What are we doing?
• Answer: Hanging out, having a good time?
  
• the Hamburglar
  
• darts
• TK Wu
• remembering my headphones
  
• realizing more and more just how much i enjoy being home
  

the most recent City run...

• it being the weekend
• just making my flight
• "Big things moppin'"
• Los' company to get food
  
• SAL
  
• making Ed uncomfortable
• "Sasha"
• "Are you Persian?"
  
• hatin' on Los
• Cybelle's
• stumbling home on my own at 3 am
• surprisingly find a bummed out Los
• beating Duke
  
• college football and Popeye's chicken
• the White Elephant Guilty Pleasures Gift Exchange
• not getting my gift stolen
  
• the new taboo [not that great in the end] and bendy Bob [lots of fun]
• Circus being awful
  
• getting all caught up on Entourage
• a good nite for my boys
  
• catching up with Los late nite style
• Zerzan Bagels
• salmon cream cheese [gross]
  
• brunching up
• tree hunting
• a Target run
• Rubios

a couple of downers from this last trip to the City:

• lint in my headphone jack
• flight delays...ughhhhhhh

at the end of it all, the realization that it's time for me to take the next step in life grows stronger with each of these trips. one could argue it's so many trips away that prevent me from really settling into this phase...but i feel i've become very comfortable during my time here and it really just is time to move on. oddly, trips home make me wonder if there's going to be a stop after the one i hope to make soon. all i really know is that as the new year comes it's time to really put more effort into getting where i know i'm going.