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My hair, it will no longer constantly try to trap me because I lean against it, thanks to galaneia trimming it for me!

My knee is mostly healed from my trip, and now just itches like mad.

I have plans to visit deyo and company around Xmas and New Years!

I found my missing watch... in my pants pocket. Confusing!

Grading papers is an odd experience, especially since we are expressly _not_ trying to teach them basic writing skills and I desperately want to fix everything.

Larger dose of sleep meds maaaaybe helping me sleep deeper (no longer with the constant dreams that I remember because I'm sleeping shallowly enough to remember them). My brain is certainly working better!

I'm a prime number tomorrow. Yay, primes!

I was hoping to go see birds at Wilson Farms with galaneia today!

Or, possibly, go see orchids, tropical plants, and Tillandsias at Mahoney's in Winchester! Ok, yes, I could do that some other day.

But restless! Want to go do something interesting! And darn you, snow! (ok, technically, snow + wind + lack of snow tires on my vehicle)

Bah.

Had dinner with metahacker, galaneia, and a visiting omly, which was lovely.

Then lovely cuddles with a very sleepy omly during various chattings among the four of us, and some of ayalanya's jar cakes. Then omly returned home with the help of a briefly visiting salvbard.

Soon, bed.

Natural break in my work, and a need to leave in a few minutes means that I actually have time to write a post! Shock!

( because it's polite! )

And some humidity, but hey.

( cut because it got long )

Both in our house specifically, and in terms of not renting. :) No real order.

A fan in the bathrooms with showers in them.

Enough space in the kitchen for more than one person to be preparing themselves food.

Having an office separate from my bedroom.

Being able to plan what should go where, both for my rooms and for shared rooms, separately and as a group.

Learning how to do more things around the house, and being _able_ to do more things around the house.

Garden!

Large tub in the first floor bathroom with which to sooth my frequently cranky muscles.

Being able to paint my room and office as I like, with the caveat that I don't want to make either metahacker or galaneia unhappy about my color choices. This is not currently seeming to be a likely problem. :)

Lots of space, including a guest room! (albeit on the top floor)

Eventually a woodshop which I get to help out in! (I like making things, but making things is difficult when one has no spatial awareness. So I'm a good helper, if people are good at explaining what needs to happen without relying on spatial awareness)

Getting to know our neighbors. :)

Ok, enough for now. Back to things which need done before I head out for therapy!

(also, having two houses to shovel is a lot of shoveling. Esp with the fact that the new house has a roof deck!)

Last I updated on travels, I was in Escalante, UT.

( Zion )

( vegas, again?! )

( Capital Reef )

( Moab )

Currently in Escalante, UT.

We escaped Las Vegas to head toward the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I don't recall the precise places we briefly stopped through and/or saw outside the car window, but it was certainly not a direct path, on purpose.

The Grand Canyon itself was, indeed, grand. Kind of difficult to parse, grand. There are pictures, of course. Mine, metahacker's, and galaneia's. Uploading pictures, as per usual, is slow. (I'm still back at stuff previous to picking them up from the air port!)

Tiny cabin was tiny, but the larger ones were not available when we booked the one we did get. And hey, we were staying on the North Rim. That doesn't suck. :) There was some hiking, as well as a severely sleep-deprived metahacker, which was sad. Also, altitude eats people's energy and brains.

From the North Rim, we went to Page, passing through a number of pretty things on the way, including south of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, and over the Navajo Bridge. We ate in a former paddleboat, all unknowing until we had finished, for dinner. From Page, we crossed the Glen Canyon bridge, and I think went back to spend the night in Kanab, UT.

This morning, we left Kanab and headed toward Bryce Canyon National Park, passing through lots of pretty stuff on the way. In Bryce, we took the shuttle in, had a picnic lunch, and went to the end of the shuttle trip. From there, we took pictures, jumped back on the shuttle, and then walked from that stop to the next one north. We ended up deciding against walking another 0.5 miles from that stop to the next one, so as to be kind to altitude-affected people. We saw lots of birds, one of which was both blue-ish and green-ish, and turned out to be the Violet-green swallow. We also saw woodpeckers (tiny!), ravens, antelope, elk from far away, and other things that I'm probably forgetting. Yes, there are pictures. :)

After Bryce, we headed for Escalante, UT for the night, and had tasty dinner at the restaurant attached to the hotel, which specializes in smoked meats.

And now, I'm chilly and going to stop trying to upload things for now. Brr!