Hi there! I'm in Dallas! Again!

Erica was married on Friday and yesterday I went to the reception/open house at her parents' beautiful home. Got to see most of my Dallas friends (alas, Leia and Jim couldn't make it), wear a dress (I know!), sit outside next to the pool, eat some sushi, and visit.

Today my dad's wife said, "Let's not get cleaned up before going out for breakfast, let's just throw on hats and go." I thought this meant we'd be returning to the house after getting our bagels and getting cleaned up before actually starting our day. Then I found myself at a mall, in the shirt I slept in last night, looking awful, but shopping way too successfully. 8 hours later, we closed the outlet center and came home for dinner. Still unwashed, but dressed well anyway.

In other news, I believe I may have a disease that I kind of brought on myself. Kind of? No, actually, entirely. I'm facing some major changes to my lifestyle to get to a place where it won't need to be managed with pharmaceuticals. I have suspected it for some time (ever since the non-fasting blood test that showed my glucose levels to be twice the recommended upper limit), but have lived in stupid denial ever since. This week I'll finally take the fasting blood test and see how much trouble I'm really in.

Oh, and I learned on my flight out here that it's a really really bad idea to sleep during takeoff and landing. If you neglect to pop your ears during the altitude changes, then it takes forever (like, hours) for your eardrums to readjust, and everyone sounds like they're down a tunnel until they do.

I think that's all the social, financial, health and transportation news I have to impart at this time. Later, alligators.