Since I've been back, I've had a rough time getting a connection, but have been storing up in my little brain a lot of the things I'd like to post about...

I didn't make the Cherry Blossom Festival and I didn't make church.. I did enjoy some of the other old haunts and new visits that I'd been hoping to see, and made some new friends or got better acquanted with folks I already knew. It was a great trip, and I'm very glad I went.

I've been home since Tuesday, but still on leave until this morning. So I cleaned a little, I cooked some, I went to a really great church service last night and then stopped in at the Starlite afterwards since I hadn't been there in a week and a half. It was good timing; some of the folks I've been needing to reconnect with were there.

Since I worked out a couple of times while in DC, my post-leave PT wasn't as bad this morning as it could've been, and I'm confident that the PRT in two weeks will go just fine for me. I probably need to be doing something about my sit-ups, though...

I beat the burn-out, for now. I'm still looking at some other options to make the Navy and myself nicer for eachother. A few of us in the office may be taking a college class together (since it's one we each need) this summer, which I think would be fun.

It wouldn't be as unlikely at this moment for me to reenlist as it was before my trip -- that's why I wanted to go to DC, to put things back in perspective and shake some of the negative connotations about myself and the military going together.I'm going to visit Gramps and Jan tomorrow, and mom and Mary and John and Peter and Sloane will all be coming up from the South as well. I'm just going for the day and then back here for Easter Sunday service and hopefully some good hanging out afterwards. And cleaning on Monday.

And trying to get artistic again.. just the couple of things I did while I was DC and before heading up there helped me remember how much I need those creative outlets even if they don't look especially charming on my college transcript. So if I can't take artistic classes in college, at least I can do some stuff at home and maybe it would even be worth a financial investment to take some fun classes in my own time.

Right now, though, I'm enjoying my newest issue of Paste Magazine and the DVD this one came with. I always look forward to those issues the most and all of them come with CDs, and the CDs and the DVDs and the articles and the website and the music distribution company that is the foundation of their business all help me to find out about great new music which I would otherwise most likely never hear.

Aaah, Paste.