Home for a Holiday

Well, hello...long time, no talk.  Really all I've been doing is putting the occasion 30 Day Photo Challenge photo on here (notice how that "30 Day" thing turned into something more along the lines of "30 Months??").

Tomorrow, I'm heading home for Easter.  It's just a short little trip home.  I leave tomorrow morning, arrive in Indiana tomorrow night, then will be coming back to the Springs on Monday night.  It'll be nice to get a break from work, though, and see all of my family who I haven't seen since Christmas!  It's hard to believe it's been that long since I last saw them all!  Dear Family - come visit me in Colorado!!!!

The biggest recent change in my life is that I now have a dog!! I adopted a puggle named Lola from the Humane Society about a week ago.  She was a stray, so they don't really know how old she is, but the vet estimates that she's between 1.5 and 2.5 years old.  She's adorable, but a bit clingy at the moment.  She has a TON of energy, too!  She's already getting much better with the clinginess after a week, though.  I'm adding a photo in here so you all can see her cuteness yourselves.  Don't let that innocent little face fool you, though...she most definitely has an independent/mischievous streak!  She slept in my bed the first few nights I had her, but last night she had to sleep in the kitchen (it's gated off) because she'd been behaving badly all afternoon!

This morning, I took my best friend out here in Colorado (and truly one of the best friends I have ever had in my life) Margaux to the airport at the early hour of 5am.  She just got back from a competition in Italy last night (she is an athlete in modern pentathlon) so I didn't get to see her.  So, it was 5am or go without seeing my bestie for a week!!  So, we got Starbucks, got lost (apparently I cannot find Colorado Springs Airport when it's dark outside) and sat in the drop-off area chatting for a good fifteen minutes until a security guard told us to move along.  When I got back, I was already awake because of the caffeine...so I grabbed Lola and went on a 3.5-mile run!  Lola pooped out after the first mile or so, but I wanted her to be good and tired since I had to work in Denver today, so she got to stick out the whole thing.  Those of you who know me well know I'm not much of a runner...but I'm training for a sprint triathlon so I've been trying to run at least a 5k twice a week.

Denver has been pretty good today...it's been slow work-wise, and we had a vendor lunch at Hapa Sushi that was fantastic!!  I got a shrimp tempura roll (their's is shrimp tempura, avocado, crab and a few other things I didn't notice before inhaling it) and a California roll, in addition to sampling a few of the others' rolls.  I also sample sake for the first time in my life...can't say I'm a huge fan, but hey at least I did it!

Now, it's back to working for the next hour or so, then I'm back to the Springs to take Lola for a walk and pack!!