WENDY CITY: It's only a chance to pave the path we're on

Saturday, June 18, 2011

It's only a chance to pave the path we're on

Here's the deal. I thought I quit writing in this blog, but over the past few weeks this thing has been beckoning me like a really sweet, neglected stuffed animal crammed under the bed. So here I am.

Why did I decide to initially stop? I'm not sure. I started something slightly less time consuming on tumblr, but I haven't been very good about keeping that up to date. Makes for a poor excuse. In all honestly, I think I've just been incredibly overwhelmed with work-related writing and so updating felt like work? Yeah, that sounds like a good excuse. :)

Anyway, I'm back. With so many details to catch you up on. And pictures to post. And our 2011 list to update. Not that we've been that on target with this list (we were list-killing rockstars last year). We have done some things, though. :)

Here's a list of what's to come (picture-wise):

Photos from our trip to Jerome, AZ -- on this post!
Photos from our trip to Tombstone, AZ
Photos (and lots of words) from our recent trip to Europe! We went in May for two weeks and had an amazing, wonderful, jubilant, joyous blur-of-a-European dream vacay. :)

Before I get to the pics, though, we have some good news! We are moving into a new apartment next month -- woohoo!

We decided on a whim last weekend to look at some house rentals in central and downtown Phoenix and happened upon the perfect place. It's in the Coronado district (which is an area I've always found so charming -- reminds me slightly of an Indianapolis Irvington/Fountain Square fusion - historic homes, lots of independent neighborhood restaurants, pubs and kind of artsy). Definitely more our scene than where we are now, which is more like a depressing fusion of Jersey Shore meets a meat head-packed locker room. Sorry if that's mean. :x

Anyway, the rental is so, so lovely and the landlords are great (a young couple relocating to Portland for work) and it's just perfect for us. :) So woohoo for that! Lots of happy dances were involved with the whole viewing/applying/lease signing that went down this week.

Mmk...Jerome pictures.

More words you can skip if you don't feel like reading: Jerome is a fabulous town about 1.5-2 hours north of Phoenix that every. single. person. has told us we need to visit. It kind of has a reputation for being a "wild wild west" town -- hookers, moonshine, guns, cowboys, mining, gambling. You get the picture. It's definitely quirky -- not just because it's located on the side of a mountain at 5,000 feet -- but because of its history. We went in March and were not disappointed. :)

The Haunted Hamburger, where we had lunch. Jerome has a history of being haunted and has even been investigated by our favorite ghost hunting crew, the Ghost Adventures. Hi, Aaron. :)