Where have I been?

Okay, so I've been slacking on the blog...where?

• At work, training a new direct report who's located in Mexico City (which will be much easier when she has a computer and phone line of her own!)
• At home, thinking about work.
• On the train reading, actually re-reading, one of my all-time favorite books, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. The guy's brilliant -- I highly recommend either this book or The Satanic Verses.
• Watching and listening to the Cubs with Mark, and going to a couple of games at Wrigley with friends.
• Online and other virtual places like the post office, preparing for my upcoming trip to India (Friday 5/2: submitted passport application, told that passport will arrive in mail in 4-6 weeks; Friday 5/9: passport arrives in mail, complete with freakishly hologrammed-over photo of me.) Upcoming fun includes booking flight, getting visa, and being stabbed in the arm with various immunizations.
• Watching American Idol, which mercifully ends next week so I can have two nights a week back.
• Tending to my plants, which are all excited about the warm(er) & sunny spring weather. Except the giant aloe vera plant, Vera, who decided to sacrifice succulent glory and crash to the ground twice in one 24-hour period...she's convalescing now.
• Talking to my mom and sister on the phone, and attempting to plan a trip to Texas later this year to see sister, bro-in-law, and new baby (whose sex I should know tomorrow so I can call her/him by name!)
• Forgetting that I have a vacation in the nearer future, to Seattle...fortunately that one comes with great hosts (Mark's aunt and uncle) and a loosely pre-arranged itinerary (so I don't have to do much in the way of planning.)
• Also forgetting that before I gallavant off to Seattle or India, I need to also arrange for places to stay on a fun road trip to Maine that Mark and I are taking with his brother and sis-in-law (and fetus Spanarkel.)
• Fighting spring weather-change sinus pressure and accompanying crushing headaches.
• Knitting...I can provide no further details at this time.

That's all I have in me now...hopefully that's a satisfactorily thorough update!