Cue Top Gun Music

Hear Kenny Loggins singing, "Revening up your engine....highway to the danger zone, right into the dangerzone." Yeah, this is what it feels like to drive into the big city here (well, at least for me). Also, this isn't my car. My car is old, junky, broken A.C. and loads of adventure to drive! Yes, I love my vehicle of choice.

Traffic today wasn't that bad actually. But, cue Tom Petty singing 'Free Fallin'....."Now I'm free, free fallin. Yeah I'm free.....free fallin.' My life is so not my own. I'm so not in control. Cept, I'm not home with a broken heart like in this song. Far from it, actually. I've got the best husband a woman could ever hope for.

I did a really goofy fun thing today. In our family budget, the husband and I each have 'blow money.' That is, money to blow on whatever we so choose. Well, it's the end of the month, and I hadn't used any of mine. I bought Munchkin #1 a VERY large white tiger stuffy toy for his room, and I bought Munchkin #2 a new Hamtaro hamster toy playset thing - it's a two story clubhouse. It felt really good. My kids put up with a lot having a working mum - especially all the extra work I take on to help others. It's nice to really give them a surprise treat. And, we had ice cream after school today. Good fun.

"It was a beautiful day....I was driving.....I was sublime....yeah running down a dream...working on a mystery....running down a dream." - Tom Petty

Ex-pat life has been very good to us (almost one year now). "Yeah running down a dream.....working on a mystery....going wherever it leads.....yeah running down a dream."

Peace. And I'm seriously looking forward to LONG open roads this summer.