just when i thought i was out....

i have this friend with whom i am in frequent contact these days. but there have been times throughout the past 20 odd years (we met in second grade and i'm pretending to be younger than i am), during which we spoke only sporadically (clueless). the nice thing about those times during which our contact was infrequent, was that we would always, always pick up just where we had left off, not bothering much with the details of where we had been and what we had been doing since we last spoke. it was, and is, the sentiment of our communication that was more important, and we always managed to get caught up without the seemingly mandatory fill in session. so, you, my dear blog should be just like that friend of mine. therefore i will skip the details of the past 13 months and just pick the story up from here. and we'll get caught up along the way, somehow.

13 months later and here i am, a married elementary (charter) (see, there' s one detail down) school teacher with two loving kittens and an oddly shaped apartment in east harlem (spaha, didnt you know?). i love my happy home life but south america, of course, calls once again. other places call as well but anthony and i have decided that brazil will be next for us. so in 2 weeks, we will leave for a rather lengthy honeymoon of 6 weeks. we will start north, in recife, and go south towards rio. we might hit the pantanal and other places along the way. so if you are at all interested in stories about us bumbling our way around another south american country (but in portuguese this time) check back soon. i might have blogged something by then.