Geez people!

I'm sorry...I was on vacation for half of May and then I moved 2 weeks ago and had "technical" difficulties. But I'm back, and committed to blogging on a regular basis once again. I'm also going to the gym again. This should be an eventful week. I don't know that anyone really cares, but I will now highlight the last 2 months or so...

Dominican Republic, May 14-20 - Paradisus Palma Real - ABSOLUTELY, HANDS DOWN THE BEST RESORT I'VE EVER STAYED AT. Except for the mosquitoes. I had I think 8 or 9 massive bites...I'll work on getting pictures up soon (my photo shop in my home office is still a work in progress). Trust me, they were nasty. And I used repellent. The only downside to the trip was that it was a work sponsored trip, which means that I periodically had to play nice with people I wouldn't necessarily choose to vacation with. Oh, and Will and I have officially sworn off motorized water sports in foreign countries. We went on a aquatic tour in a 2 seater boat...really cool except that it was low tide. Let's just say we needed some assistance in getting back to dry land. Dominican rum is very tasty...this revelation just strengthens my love of rum and the Dominican.

Trip home was quite the adventure. We stood in line for security for oh I don't know, an hour and a half? Between the hubby and I we had 5 bags. The screener looked in one half heartedly and slapped stickers on the rest of the bags indicating that they had been screened...did I mention that their airport amounts to a really big hut? Definitely not high security there. We leave the Dominican on separate flights - Will flying to Dallas via San Juan and me flying to LAX via JFK.

Dominican to Dallas - Will gets to San Juan and is then delayed there for 4 1/2 hours due to weather in Dallas and mechanical problems resulting in a plane change. He arrives at his hotel in Dallas at approximately 1:30 AM local time and has to be in a meeting at 8:00 AM.

Dominican to LAX - First, it was RETARDED that we flew to JFK before heading west to LAX. Even more retarded is that we had a very short lay over given that we were going through customs at one of the busiest airports in the country. Let's just say that my suitcase and one of the Sauer's suitcases were the LAST TWO bags to get dropped onto the carousel at 5 minutes after our flight to LAX was scheduled to depart. Let me also point out that the last 4 Staples people were the 4 people from the IAM group. We made a pact at 5 minutes to scheduled take off that we'd leave no man behind. We get our bags go through customs and head off towards the counters/gates to see if we'd be sleeping in NYC. We run into the travel people who tell us that the flight was delayed giving us about 20 minutes to get to the gate. We recheck our bags (which is the most retarded part about customs) and race off towards the gate. We arrive there to find that the flight has been further delayed, allowing us to eat something - YAY!

Dallas, May 22-24 - Rangers game was cool. Texas is far more green than I thought it would be. I'd definitely go back, but like everywhere else, I couldn't really imagine living there. I get a massage and lounge around (lots of reading) while Will attends meetings/seminars. My return flight is uneventful. Will's is not. Weather delays him AGAIN for another 4 hours. Remind me to never fly with him!!

While we're vacationing, we're also trying to close escrow on our new house (pictures on my MySpace page). I don't even want to try to tally up all of the fees we paid to email or fax from the Dominican or Dallas. We got home on the 24th and signed the escrow papers on the 25th. We got our keys on the 31st and moved in on the 2nd. We didn't have internet access until the 11th and then the power was shut off by the builder on the 12th (PLEASE don't get me started on that!). I'm about 75% functional in my office right now...docking station has been ordered and then I just need to get going on the photography and scrapbooking stuff. Yes, I know it seems ridiculous, but it's a 4 bedroom house - I have an office, Will has an office, we have our bedroom, and a guest bedroom. When we have kids we're going to be fighting over who is going to give up their office...I'm thinking the guest bedroom goes first. :)

Much to the dismay of my boss, I'm taking 2 vacation days this week to work on the house and 2 more 4th of July week. He seems to forget that Maternity Leave Round 2 is about to start and I'll be 2 down on my team again, thus halting the ability for me to take any vacation time. I won't recover from that until October when they both return...sigh. Thank goodness I have committed to religiously attending the gym beginning tomorrow. I'm gonna need the stress relief.