Back from my 1,600 mile trip.

I drove a long way by myself and I didn't die. Awesome. :D

I went home to Michigan for a week and a half. It was a great experience. I drove 1,600 miles all by myself! I spent a couple days with a good friend from college and had dinner with another college friend. Went to all my favorite places, met with some friends from home, had both my favorite foods that my grandmothers make. And I got to spend an entire week with my two gorgeous nieces. They are four years old and seven weeks old and incredible little ladies.

Now it's my first day back at the office. Things are going well so far. Getting things done and getting back into the swing of things. We're working on uploading the content to our new Web site that will launch in just under two weeks. It's supposed to be complete by tomorrow and we're trying to upload 18 months of news content in a day. Eak. Plus, the server keeps crapping out on us so I've done... one issue worth of content. Oh well. It'll be something monotonous to get me back into the grind and I can easily do it at home.

I'll do a photo post of my amazing nieces and my wonderful trip shortly.

In the meantime I've become addicted to the Twilight series. I wrote an article for our paper when the last book came out about a year ago. I hadn't even heard about it up until then. Then one of my then-coworkers (who is a few years older than me) started reading the entire series. She finished them by the time the first movie came out and convinced me to go to the midnight showing with her on a Thursday night. I'm sure our boss/editor was thrilled at that decision. Now I'm finally reading the series even though I've had the first book since Christmas. It's good summer reading but it's not the most excellent writing. I guess that's what happens when it's a good story. It seems to be mostly ... lusty.