6 month friend

Dear Blog:

It's officially been 6 months since I last wrote you. I'm sorry that it has taken me this long to write. I'm a terrible friend. Thank you for waiting so patiently for me and allowing me to pick up where I left off. I will try my very best to not be a six month friend. Let me give you a recap of what has been going on:

I became a real artist, you know, one who sells their art in stores. (actually I made some silhouettes that my friend Leah saw and liked. She said that she had a friend in CA who runs a little second hand shop that is trying to find some things to sell. She took some with her and I'm thinking that she probably forced them on her friend. Ayways, I ended up with $65 and now I call myself a real artist)

Then, I had a dream. In my dream I was wearing this ring that was a button. I can't describe the button ring except to say that it was truly the best ring I ever had. I woke up and decided that I must have a button ring. I tried to find one online but they weren't really what I was looking for. I decided I had to make one myself. These aren't the best examples but the only ones I had pics of.

This led to me dabbling in other forms of jewelry making, like this necklace.

Then, Portland had a freak snow storm. Too bad I live at work, it's hard to call the boss and tell her that the commute is too bad and I just can't make it in. It was fun for a few days until I realized that I was responsible for shoveling the sidewalks. I'm pretty sure the snow storm was Sam Adams fault, everything that goes wrong in Portland has him to blame.

I was so bored that I decided to wrap all of my christmas presents in fabric and make funky name tags.

I think that's about it, oh, wait, no, there's one more thing..........I got married. I am now officially Caitlyn Derry Limon, the wife of Thomas Limon.

We stayed at the Nines, the new luxury hotel in Portland. However, when we got to our room there was someone else in it. The Hotel Manager was very apologetic and gave us a room on the Club Level for our troubles. The club level gives you unlimited access to the Club Lounge where we could get complimentary drinks, which unfortunately didn't matter to either of us and I was just too embarassed to ask the waiter for a Shirley Temple. However, we did appreciate the complimentary appetizers and newspapers that were also in the club lounge. Also, for our troubles we got a complimentary plate of chocolates sent to our room. Plus the Hotel was absolutely beautiful. Everything was decorated in brown and turquoise which is one of my favorite color combinations.

And that brings us to now. Thomas finally started hearing back from some law schools. So far he's been accepted to Gonzaga in Spokane, WA and Willamette in Salem, OR. He got scholarship offers to both schools. We went to check out Gonzaga this past weekend. It was a beautiful school. As for Spokane, it's definitely a quirky town. Oddly enough it's the second largest city in Washington and it's also the smallest city to ever host a World's Fair in 1974. We decided that anything we saw that was a little strange and unexplainable must have been left over from the World's fair. Spokane was very cold and although it doesn't stay that way year round I decided that it can't be referred to as winter, it can only be referred to as tundra season, which I think lasts for 2-3 months. While we were there we discovered this run down castle home that I fell in love with. I told Thomas that if we move to Spokane I would drive by that house every day to see if it was for sale, and when it finally came up for sale I would take out whatever subprime loan I had to for us to buy it, to which he agreed. He also promised that if we ever lived in that house he would dress up like Mr. Darcy once a year and court me properly. Who am I to refuse an offer like that.

It's been great catching up with you, I'll write to you again soon and by soon I mean not in another 6 months.

Your friend,

Landy