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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Ch-ch-ch-changes.....

This is where I live....Tucson, Arizona.

(that's partof Tucson all spread out behind the saguaro...there's a lot more of it you can't see in this photo.)

(note the distinct lack of grass in my front yard.)

Definitely brown and dry and dessicated landscape. Saguaros and other cacti, short mesquite and palo verde trees, scorpions, snakes, tarantulas, coyotes.

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This is where I will be living soon...Anchorage, Alaska.

Mark sent me these photos today...he took them yesterday. Yesterday in Tucson it was nice -- in the 60's, clear sky. Yesterday in Anchorage, it was 15 degrees and snowy.

A maritime climate, big trees, snow, moose, bear, wolves, bald eagles, snow, ice, rain, and some more snow. And Denali. The highest mountain in the US is visible from Anchorage.

Good thing I love change!

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Tasina8:12 PM
It's going to be such a huge difference. How do the kidlets feel about it?
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Julie11:38 PM
Zach will be starting college (gasp!) and is thinking of going to U of Alaska Anchorage, and is excited about the idea of living in Alaska. No matter what, next school year he would be leaving Arizona.

Tess is in fifth grade, so she will be switching schools anyway. She, I think, is most worried about wolves eating our dogs (I haven't mentioned lately how mean moose can be, or that there are bears around as well.).

Thor I think will again have it the hardest. He is in a small high school, in the Robotics and Chess clubs, fits in well and really likes that high school.

The kids get itchy feet too. They like moving -- they don't like leaving friends behind, but they love new places and adventures.
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Biddy9:04 AM
wow...talk about a drastic change! i don't know how you do it!
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dawn22412:32 PM
wow.

My MIL loves up there (I won't tell her to come find you :) )
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Julie12:45 PM
Why, thank you, Dawn...
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Jientje3:37 PM
You must be a very courageous woman, moving from one part of the world to another like that! You love change?
You'd better!
Looking forward to that "next life"?
I am?!!!
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You like me! You really really like me!

Or maybe you just find me horribly annoying and are about to let me know. Go ahead, I can deal.

So, whatever, you know, leave a message. Thanks!!!

Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.