We took a week off to recharge our brains. A much-needed rest, and we took advantage of every moment.

We did karaoke twice. We're now known as the 'cool table' in the bar, the table where everyone came by for high-fives and other accolades after their numbers. Drunk people kept coming by and going 'WOOO" and giving Tim their phone numbers and stuff.

I swear, I have never had some random female hand me her phone number. EVER. Tim got three in one night. I know I'm married and all, but come on!

We took a day at the Glenbow Museum. Neither of us has been in so many years we can't even recall the last time. The Blackfoot gallery was extensively different than I remember, and left us both with lasting disquiet about our ancestors treatment of the indigenous people of North America.

Spent a day playing board games with friends. Always fun, especially when it begins with a trip to Fatburger.

Got my hair done. Seems my crazy, stuck-in-the-80s-kind-of-gay hair stylist recalled my offhand remark before the wedding last year that 'maybe next year we'll do something more fun'. So now I'm blonde.

Took time to get eye examinations for the both of us. I love our new optometrist. She's about 50 or so with a shock of spikey, bright red hair, wears long leather cloak-style coats, gold twig glasses and orders her staff around like a drill seargent. Uses phrases like, "Oh, I'm not finished with you YET, dearie!" and explains everything she does fully. Love, love, love.

She even emailed me the pictures of my retinas she took. The left one shows signs of a thin retina, which may rupture at some point in the future. Should I start seeing flashes of light or murky bits in my vision, I'm to "email her instantly!"

Wrapped it all up with an anniversary-present-to-each-other spa day. Hot rock massage, sea salt body wrap, manicure, pedicure, facial. Something like heaven. Although I must say, the girl who did my body wrap rubbed sea salt in spots that no one has ever touched me before, you know, without intentions. Don't worry -- it wasn't that type of spa.

After a full day of pampering, I find I am terribly open to suggestion.

Went out for Ethiopian food last night. New one on me! For the uninitiated, Ethiopian cuisine is centered around a kind of vinegary flatbread called injera which you bread pieces off of and use to grab mouthfuls of each dish from a communal plate. All the foods were tasty as well as being nice and spicy. Something we'll try again.

Back to work now, and things are busy, busy. Busy as in I only have time for work and not all the regular messing around I do with blogs and such. So not only have I not posted, I also have not read anybody's in weeks. So if you find I am woefully uneducated on events in all your lives, that would be why.

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