Is it really 2006 already?

Happy 2006 everybody!  I'm back from my travels so let the LJ updating resume.  I'm happy to say that I'm as pasty white as I was when I left - no way am I going to succumb to 70 and 80 degree weather and get a sunburn in the middle of winter.  So here is my trip to Arizona by the numbers:

• We put just over 1000 miles on our rental car in four and a half days.  Whoo-hoo for unlimited mileage!
• Zero inches of snow encountered.  Snow?  Who ever heard of that in the middle of winter?
• Ugh!  It was 76 degrees on Christmas day.  And me in my sweater was all toasty HOT.
• Visited two National Parks - Grand Canyon and Saguaro. 
• 10 million - just about the number of times I said the word cacti.

promises, promises

Heh, I think everybody wants my resolution for the new year to be to get a cell phone. While loitering in a mall in Phoenix this past week I contemplated getting one (I'm sort of obsessed with getting one that's not in the Sacramento area code - just to be difficult). The urge will rear it's ugly head when I go to San Antonio in a couple weeks. But this is me sighing at the thought of finally breaking down and getting one. Outlook not good for it happening.

Real New Year's resolution? Um, to be nicer. Yeah, nicer. Which probably also won't hold up well, but I'll be trying.