I left Virginia three weeks ago and lived out of a suitcase small enough to carry on the airplane. Now I am back in Alexandria, and I got to sleep in a bed (when I am at my parents' house, I tend to sleep on the couch, cause I no longer have a bedroom, and the guest room is always occupied and I am allergic to it anyway; I could have slept in Connor's room since he wasn't home, but the AC was broken and I could get a better breaze in the living room) all to myself. And now I am clothes that weren't in the suitcase! Yay! It makes me absurdly happy. _

I have this new shirt with a large keyhole in the back (on purpose, not a randomly made hole due to having a cheap shirt--it is Old Navy, so that would be a distinct possibility). I wore it a couple times in California, and I never managed to get sunburnt. Either the shirt seriously shifted today, or Jamie was just much better at putting sunscreen on my back than Anne. _

I downloaded the new version of Firefox. I'm not sure what I think of it so far. _

Our plane landed half an hour early last night, but that meant we still got in around midnight. Despite packing light (all my stuff was a carry on) we had tons of luggage, because we needed to bring back all this stuff for selling skirts (we spent hundreds of dollars with UPS to ship stuff back, because we knew Southwest wouldn't let us bring it on the plane). We had ten bags to check through, which with five people meant we only had to pay for the oversized bags of the tents and clothing racks (which was nice). Then we got all ten bags and our five carry on suitcases and laptops and whatnot into a stupid small sedan. A lot of stuff went onto the roof. And then we drove from Philly to Harrisburg and got home around 3. _

I'm sorry about double posts. Flickr seems to be flaky. I had some more pretty beach shots, and an amazing picture that Jamie took out the window while we were on the Golden Gate bridge to show, but I'm giving up for now. _

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More beach.
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More beach.
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We drove down the coast from Santa Rosa to Oakland (Con was pissed; he sat the Oakland aiport for like 4 hours waiting for us to come get him). The coast was beautiful. And also cold.
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