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I wish I could got to Colorado in a few weeks. My High school there (where I went for Freshman and Sophomore years) is having it's 10 year reunion. I only just now got the notice about that! Way too short notice. Since it's the only HS I went to for more then a year it's the one I'm most curious about. Still, I don't see any of my reunions as that big a deal. I only know a handful of people from each school, and all but two people who I'd like to keep in contact with are either on Myspace or Facebook, or I have addresses or e-mail addresses for them, so I've been able to keep up with people pretty well. I'd love to find my friend Cat from Sequoia, and my friend Kelly from Thornton and Lindsay from Woodside. I keep holding out hope that they'll join one of the sites, or that someone who does go to reunion (if they go) can help me get back in touch. Who knows, maybe it'll happen someday, maybe it wont. As far as I know I haven't heard of a reunion for Sequoia, it looks like that'll be sometime in the school year, so more like an 11 year reunion. And Woodside will be having theirs soon... But I really don't want to make any more trips to California this summer, and the price is 3 times as expensive then the one for Thornton! Maybe I'll go to my 25th reunions or something. It's just weird to think of having three different HS reunions I could go to. But I did go to that many schools.

Switching to a different type of reunions... Family reunion last weekend was loads of fun. I've been working on trying to get my pictures up too, but because the file sizes are so large I"m having to take time out to make web ready sized versions to post. Time consuming. It was wonderful having three babies there to hang out with and cuddle. And my nephew Ethan kept hugging and smooching me, it made me feel like very loved aunt. I think I spent more time with kids then grow-ups! Camping was OK, but the first night a skunk slammed into the side of our cabin and sprayed. We have no idea why, but that night the smell was so bad I could barely sleep. The next night the smell blew away with the breeze for the most part, and the last night we had a different cabin altogether. That one was at a slant because of the tree growing behind it, but that didn't bother me at all. Staying at that particular KOA didn't feel too much like camping though, all the sites are so close together, seemed more like a tailgate party! But it was nice. And it did feel like camping when we were at the family reunion site. It's under a giant oak tree at the ranch property of some in the family. There is a stream there, and lots of trees, it felt nice. I wish we could go every year! Maybe things will improve for us financially soon, Kevin's boss is trying to get their groups status raised to a higher tier. Don't know if that'll make summer vacations any easier though... Since Kevin works the tech support, his department tends to be needed the most in summer and his boss is always hesitant to give time off. The only reason Kevin gets a day or two in August is because that's when my birthday is. So we'll be camping once more in August. Again at a KOA, but the Leavenworth KOA is a bit more like camping, and has access to the Winatchee river! That'll be fun, I can't hardly wait! There's also great antique stores, and apple and pear farms in short driving distance, I so look forward to my weekend coming up! I just hope I won't be too sore to enjoy it...

Yesterday was my first physical therapy and I've been worn out and sore ever since. I was worn out and sore before the appointment too, so I just didn't have a chance to recover, and then Kevin and I went to Costco afterwards so all that walking and pushing a heavy cart didn't help either. I do feel like my PT knows what she's doing. She does agree that I probably have AS, that I do have OA and has now added bursitis to my list. Yeah, my hips are messed up in probably 3 ways. She encouraged me to make my appointment to meet with an orthopedic surgeon. That scared me a bit. From what all I've read on-line I'm not sure what good surgery would do on an non-displaced labral tear. The things I've read have only said it's worth it when the tear starts to stick out of the joint, and for now I don't have that. But who knows, I might in my left hip, they still haven't scanned it yet. And we still don't know what's going on with my back. I was able to walk without my cane to my PT appointment, but felt like I needed it afterwards, maybe I should bring it just in case next week. My homework is pretty easy, it's exercises I do for the most part already, I think the pain was mostly from the examination part of the appointment.

Not much else to tell for now. I'll be sure to make a post when the albums are ready.