This blog should be called TheTravelFiles

Posting today from beautiful Lindsborg, Kan., home of the Bethany Swedes...

Yearbook camp Number ... Oh, hell, I've lost count.

It's going well so far - good kids who are engaged in what we are trying to do.

Living in the dorm is far from Shangri La, that's for sure. No TV, no internet access, prison beds, sheets and pillows, and this morning I shared my shower with 3 ginormous spiders.

Ick. I. Hate. Spiders.

i heart wifi and i heart sirius 23

okay, so here I sit at jeff and kat's - checking email and updating blog on the pool deck. god, i love wireless internet, and satellite radio - "here I go again" is playing on hair nation.

we moved into apartment in kc, just back in doodah for the weekend = i'll be adding photos as soon as i get back to kc. love the apt., miss all my wichita peeps.

i ain't wastin no more time, but here i go again.

Leaving the home office

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's here. It's officially the last ChittumFiles post from the Holyoke office. As soon as I get this posted, and Adam checks his email one more time, we're shutting down the Mac to pack it up for the move.

I'm so glad I got to attend one last book club at Kat's house. It was a small group in attendance, but a good time nonetheless. I said goodbye to some of my oldest Wichita friends - Jaime and Denise. I can't believe how long it's been since my first year at the Eagle. (And Denise still thinks I'm 22! Keep it up, girl, keep it up!)

Kyle and Lauryn got to meet tonight, as well.

First, they had their own toddler book club.


Then, toddler book club became a lesson in sharing. (They're both only children...)!


Aunt Jill with the original coolest babies in town, who are now among the coolest 2-year-olds in town.

Dinner at N&J last night was excellent as always. I love this photo of Lauryn and Adam. It looks like she's thinking, "This guy's full of crap!"



And, thanks to Lauryn's parental units, I will be in satellite radio heaven during my trip to KC tomorrow! Yes, Adam and I are now the proud owners of a Sirius satellite radio system. I. LOVE. IT. We've been listening all day while we were packing.

Photos of the new digs to come on Friday!

By the way, check it out: It's a red-letter day! I've finally made it to the Big Time - I'm on Lori's World!

Maybe some day I'll rid myself of job-A.D.D.

Yes, yes, changing jobs is always exciting, and I'm excited about moving to K.C., but I am SO over moving. I guess I am not cut out for a nomadic society. I hate shoving stuff into masses of boxes and loading up the truck.

Can someone out there please invent the magical mover? Just wrinkle your nose like Samantha on Bewitched and it's done in a flash?

I told Adam that next time we do this, we should just hire movers and be done with it.

BUT, I did get to do something semi-cool yesterday. My Uncle Mark is letting us use his car trailer so that we don't have to sell our souls to U-Haul. We brought it down from K.C. last night, and my little car was small enough to fit inside. So, to save gas, and to save me from dying in a horrible fiery car crash on the turnpike, we loaded up the Vibe and I rode in the cab of Mark's truck.

After 10 solid days of Yearbook and Newspaper from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., I was in no shape to spend 3 hours on the turnpike in the driver's seat.


This is me, being very Michael-Knight like and pulling the car out of the trailer. There's Mark on the right. It was all very Kit-Car and "Knight Rider" esque...



And like I said, I'm sure the neighborhood association will have their panties in a wad over this. Oh well. It's so nice to come right out the house, down the porch and straight into the truck. Maybe this will be the first time we move that one or the other of us doesn't throw out our back. Cross your fingers. Hmm, I just noticed - I think my favorite part of this photo is that it looks like there is a Pepsi truck sitting in my driveway next to our red car. Too bad we're not receiving endosement money.

Tonight Adam and I continue the "World Tour" of our favorite Wichita restaurants before we leave. On tap? N&J Cafe.

On a completely unrelated note, I hear Lindsey Lohan got aNOTHER DUI last night. Wasn't she supposed to be in rehab? Chalk up another awesome role-model moment. At least Paris Hilton is ACTING like she got religion or a conscience while she was in jail. Let's at least try to put up a good face, Lindsey.

Post-Quaff (in more ways than one)

Here's a pic of the KC workshop crew at the Quaff bar on Quality Hill. That's Mike, me, Jeanel and Gene Simmons, er...Shannon.

Finally posting from the friendly confines of our Holyoke house. But, the trailer is parked in the yard (I'm sure the ladies of College Hill will have the police at our house first thing tomorrow morning), and we're officially really packing stuff up.

I tried to photograph the trailer, but the camera battery is dead (Adam had camera, I had charger for the last 10 days), so you'll have to wait til tomorrow for that one.

We tried the new little Japanese place near our house for dinner after I got home. It feels like I can't remember the last time Adam and I actually ate a meal together since I've been on workshop overload. But, nothing like moving to bring two people closer together, right? It's oh so much fun.

Hey Bartender

Maybe I've opened my own bar in KC?



One more night of yearbook workshop, and tomorrow I get to go home. Phew. I'm ready. I don't think I've been away from home this long without Adam since I went to Berkeley in 2005. Don't get me wrong, I love to travel, but it's a lot more fun when we do it together, and when there's more play than work!

I'm not gonna lie...

the iPhone sure is pretty, and its features are pretty darn sexy to anyone who is into techie-geek crap.

That being said, I'm not sold on it. I was messing around with my new friend Shannon's iPhone tonight, and I thought - here's a great idea - I'll get online and do a blog post from the phone, just so I can say I did it.

Well, being at a yearbook workshop, of course we were in a hotel where once again you had to pay for wireless access. Not a big deal for an iPhone user, right?

Wrong. Its built in internet network was WAAAY too slow for me. I don't want to go back to the days of dialup.

So, in conclusion - iPhone looks good, but operates a little too slowly for me at this point. I guess you just have to make sure you can always get to a wifi network.