what's up?

Just a quick (relatively speaking) note as to what's up these days:

1) a couple weeks ago we played open play volleyball on a Friday night - ended up playing at least 3.5 hours, almost continuously!

2) I broke down and bought an mp3 player. Well, actually it's a pmp (portable media player) - meaning it can play/display music, photos, video, podcasts, audiobooks. LOVE IT! :-) It's an iriver clix2 - sweet little thing with a big screen - just a little bigger than a credit card, looks like a mini tv. You don't see any controls, do ya? No little spinny thing. Nope, you just click on the sides next to the screen - so easy, so common sense - the arrows on the screen point to where you click. I bought it mostly for working out and doing activities that I'd like mobile music for. These pics make it look bigger than it is - it's really small!! They need to have a photo of it on the chunky arm of someone like me - show off its petite size! ;-)

3) Because I now have this fab pmp/mp3/whatever, I've been ripping all of my cd's to my hard drive, plus downloading some tunes. I'm almost done, which is quite a feat because I have TONS of cd's. But now comes the process of creating playlists, etc.

4) Work is getting me down. It's work. 'Nuf said.

5) We're starting to talk about bike trips. There are at least 5 that folks we know are going to do, and that we've been invited to join. Obviously we can't do them all! So we need to decide which one(s) sound best.

6) I'm thinking about getting a new car. It isn't necessary, the beige Grand Am is doing just fine. But it's been 7 years, the GA has almost 90,000 miles, and I've never really liked it anyway. lol PLUS, I'm thinking I need to start putting my money and my actions where my mouth is: if I get a new car it will be a Honda Civic Hybrid. I should come close to getting double my current gas mileage!! And with fuel prices continuing upward, with no end in sight, that will help annual fuel costs significantly. And I can feel good about reducing my fuel consumption and my emissions.

7) I decided to finish a scrapbook I started at CKU-Nashville. It is from my album track "Start Sharing" - and it is the sweetest album. But I decided to stray from the original theme. I know Margie Romney-Aslett (the instructor) would be enthused about it. She always says "it's your album, make it yours." So this album will be about me thru the years, from baby to marriage. I've had a ton of fun looking thru old photos to find some I want to use.

So, ok, there are the last couple weeks in a nutshell.