Last night was the first time that I've ever been in the house alone in all of the 10 months we've owned it - that is, with the exception of the few days after we bought our house and before Dale & Jacqueline moved in. Dale and Jacq are out of town for a few days and Steve was out with a friend. It was such a strange feeling to be the only person home and I wasn't quite sure what to do with myself.

Cleaning, laundry and packing for our trip to St. Louis was at the top of the list. After that though I just felt so lost in our quiet house that it almost made me uncomfortable. I decided to watch a movie and halfway through realized that if I really wanted to I could stretch out and take up the whole couch since I didn't have to share my space. Oh, I was living dangerously!

I'm looking forward to our whirlwind of a quick trip to St. Louis this weekend. Thanks to the long hours I've been working, (on Wednesday I didn't even get home until 8:00 pm!) I decided to leave work a bit early today so we can get to town before midnight. I hate that it will be such a quick trip, but I'm really looking forward to seeing friends...too bad we won't get to see everyone we wanted too though.


My cousin Liss got sent to Korea this weekend. She's in the air force and has made it through 2 tours in Iraq and has lived all over the world these last few years. She's such a special girl and we couldn't be more proud of her. She'll hopefully only be in Korea for a year before she heads to Germany for a few years....can't wait for that as I've been itching to get back to Germany lately and would love any excuse I can get to head over there for a visit. Germany is one of those places in the world where I feel the happiest and wouldn't mind a bit if for some reason we ended up moving there some day. One can only hope though...