It’s supposed to be 70 degrees today, so I’m going to celebrate by running around pants-free. Sorry, coworkers.<\/p>\n
It’s been really nice the last couple of days, so I took the first opportunity to go work in the garden. I cleared out all the dead stuff from last year along the side of the house, and found a ton of daylilies already growing in there. My tulips are coming up in the front garden, too. I cleaned a billion pinecones from the neighbor’s tree from the newly-landscaped area by our air conditioner, and we’ve put out some of the patio furniture. It’s not too early to put up the hammock, is it? (Answer: probably yes, since we don’t have much grass growing there yet.)<\/p>\n
Every time I want to go crazy and do a ton more work in the yard, I consider whether it’s worth it since I also don’t intend to live in Minnesota much longer. “Do I want to move this?” is the constant question. For the most part, I don’t. It helps that we’ve sold so much stuff on eBay already, which has the added bonus of financing all our vacations.<\/p>\n
SPEAKING OF VACATION (that has to be my most-used segue ever):<\/p>\n
1) My Caribbean travel journal<\/a> is done! Seeing all those photos of Vieques again was painful. I want to go back.<\/p>\n 2) Screw the entire airline industry for the price of airfare. We were planning to go to New York and Hawaii later this year, and the Hawaii flights are so stupid ($1,000+, nothing that doesn’t involve at least one redeye) that we decided to wait on that idea. And we even have the miles for a free ticket, but I still don’t do it because IT’S STUPID.<\/p>\n 3) We decided to do a west coast roadtrip instead. We’re flying into Vegas and out of LA, and we have ten days to do whatever we want. The flight cost $240, so we win for once. I have a lot of things I’d love to do on the list, like Joshua Tree National Park<\/a>, the Pacific Surfliner<\/a>, the Wigwam Motel<\/a> on Route 66, driving to Santa Barbara, and the toast to Ray on Wednesday night at Tiki Ti<\/a>. Some of those have already been reserved! We spent some time looking at VRBO rentals in LA yesterday, and there are too many options to choose from.<\/p>\n 4) We’re still going to New York despite the airfare. I’m convinced it’ll come down. Oh yeah, and we’ll be in New Orleans in a month, too!<\/p>\n Tomorrow my favorite team in the entire universe is playing in the Frozen Four. I’m so nervous I can’t even think about it most of the time. I’m sure you’ll hear how that goes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s supposed to be 70 degrees today, so I’m going to celebrate by running around pants-free. Sorry, coworkers. It’s been really nice the last couple of days, so I took the first opportunity to go work in the garden. I cleared out all the dead stuff from last year along the side of the house, …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/12954691374_c052142a1d_o-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9qt-spring","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}