more coming eventually!

So after a really long time without any updates....

I bought extra room on Picasa web albums and am working on uploading all the thousands and thousands of photos I have to it. It will take a while longer to get them all up, so I probably wont actually update until after the new year. But I will eventually!

If anyone wants to take a look at those I have put up so far, here is the link
http://picasaweb.google.com/revolutiontoast

It is nice to be able to have loads of extra room for all my photos now! It wasnt even worth updating since I was completely out of space for photos, and updates without photos are boring.

An update: what a crazy concept

+ Wes finally got his eye surgery. He was going to get the LASIK but apparently his eyes are all weird so he had to get the other type. Anyway, he's still recovering and he's off of work until next Wednesday. Until then it's lots and lots of eye drops, laying in dark rooms and not doing too much else. Hopefully he will be recovered enough to do something for his actual birthday this coming Tuesday.

+ We're less than one month away from the wedding. Even closer than that? Being back in the States: May 13. Currently, I am SICK of planning the wedding and asking people to do stuff re: the wedding. I am thinking we should have just used the money for some crazy trip instead. Oh well. No turning back now.

+ Speaking of which... I'll be in Chicago May 15-17 for a SND MeetUp. Super excited for that. Plus I plan on doing some "Chicago eating" while in town. Hot Doug's, here I come.

+ The big WOMAD festival is currently going on in Abu Dhabi. It's a big cultural music festival featuring lots of live performances on the public beach. Totally free. Robert Plant, of Led Zepplin fame, is headlining tomorrow night. I'll be there.

+ Wes and I secured tickets to the big Abu Dhabi F-1 race for the weekend of Nov. 1. Should be insane.

+ We're starting to come to the realization that no one will probably come visit us here. I think what it comes down to is people imagine the UAE and the rest of the Middle East as a non glamourous place. It's too bad, really, because the UAE is full of glamour and flash. Since we've come to this realization we've decided to just go ahead and start using our vacation time. After wedding season is over we're looking at trips to India and Istanbul for sure... both are easy (and cheap) weekend trips for us. Also in the near future: Malta (staying with realitives makes it cheap).

The National wins 22 design awards

Elysia made me take down my other post because it was too braggy and ripped on the paper's competitors.

So here, just check out THIS article instead to see the awards the paper won (and the 8 or 9 Elysia won) at this year's SND competition.

Lazy.Bored.Apathetic.

So many words can describe why we've stopped updating this blog.

Wes, well, he doesn't update anything (Facebook, Blog, MySpace, Twitter, etc. etc.) and I've given up and have resorted to 140 words or less.

Twitter. So much easier.

Day-to-day at: leashpj33

In case your one of the 200+ people ignoring my 50 messages about being in Michigan

Yes. I am in Michigan. WE are in Michigan. Have been since Jan. 15. I like how many "friends" are ignoring that fact. We fly 7,000 every weekend!!

I'm not bitter or anything!

Anyway, we head off to have a vacation from our vacation Saturday AM where we head to Cincinnati and Nashville for a few days. In fact, I REALLY need said vacation from our vacation. It's been a hard time here (most being spent in the hospital with my mom). If you don't know about that just ask me, please don't post about it on this blog. Too impersonal.

See you Abu Dhabi cats in no time.

How time flies...

Today marks one year of being in the UAE for me.

Crazy.

Now's not the time to come vacation in the UAE

Why?

Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmed dies

Things in the UAE will be closed for 7 days of mourning.