PLAN FOR THE YEAR 2006

Gina's entry is fantastic. Probably.

ok...

1) like it or not, i'm going to have to go back to that fucking eye doctor...

last time i was fitted for contacts at my chain eye doctor, i put the new contacts in, and the doctor had me look at the chart. this is what she said:

"usually you're supposed to wait for them to settle in but we're really busy so you don't have that luxury"

anyway, since i am very smart, i signed up for the contact replacement program, which means that i get enough of a discount at that particular eye doctor that it doesn't make any sense to get my new contacts and new prescription from anywhere else. besides, i can see fine in my contacts. it's just that the left side is itchy right now.

2) somewhere along the line i've become obsessed with the southwest, including adobe houses, southwestern cooking, broiling desert days, mexicans, lights strung up, and faded watercolors. i think about my abobe house in arizona, with my burro and sombrero...

i've taken to listening to calexico at least 3 times a week, and i only own one calexico album.

i had arizona cardinals desktop wallpaper for a week.

as you may or may not know, my cousin works border patrol in arizona, making fantastic money, and quite often i am jealous of him (even though i can feel for mexicans jumping the border for reasons related to improving their lives).

gina and i spoke last evening about my 2006 planned trip to arizona (i want to drive there and see... oklahoma and texas. and new mexico. is that weird?) and i've now rethought it and i think gina and i will drive to colorado and arizona and new mexico and texas and oklahoma (somehow avoiding kansas, which makes me cuss just to think about) over a two week period camping and being adventurous and taking pictures and looking fit and healthy and generally living like an aricle in men's health or conde nast traveler... i need to subscribe to that.

it's a dream i'm having these days and i need to accomplish it maybe.

hey brent you're welcome to join. you're in my adventure plans as well (and don't let me scare you with the following words) as you and maritza join gina and i in our travel adventures all over the world because you're not allowed to have children either. and we need company.

and dave, you can come too.

yes, i posted this two places.