Current location:	Caribou Coffee
Current mood:	sick
Current music:	Jars of Clay - "Love Song for a Savior"

"Leonardo da Vinci couldn't have sculpted something so immaculate."
The past couple of weeks have been extremely busy for me... at least on the weekends.  Three days after I left Spokane, Ryan decided he was going to return to Minnesota to visit his family for three weeks.  During his time here, he drove down here to the Cities and spent a weekend (May 16-19) with me.  I took a day off, so I'd have more time with him, and took him to some of my favorite places, which included:
--Polka dancing at Gasthof's (Friday night)
--Running around Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet (Saturday), and Minnehaha Falls (Monday)
--Lunch at The Bad Waitress (Saturday)
--Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Loring Park, and Lowry Park (Saturday)
--Kikugawa (Ryan hung out at my bar Saturday night when I was working.  He ate sushi, asked me to make a few cocktails for him, and wrote me notes)
--Psycho Suzi's after I was done working Saturday night, where he met Seth, Ruth and Ruth's roommate, Zoe
--Church at St. Joan of Arc and Destiny Christian Center (Sunday)
--Lunch at The Happy Gnome (Sunday)
--Minnesota History Center, martinis at Moscow on the Hill, walking around Cathedral Hill, Common Good Books (Sunday)
--Lunch at Galactic Pizza, ice cream at Sebastian Joe's, and browsing the shops in Uptown (Monday)
--Meeting Scott at the Happy Gnome for beer and food (Monday)

I visited my parents in LF this past Memorial Day weekend, and also had the opportunity to see Ryan again.  He accompanied us to church on Sunday, made his famous chicken fettucine alfredo for us for lunch, and saw all sorts of embarassing pictures of me from when I was in high school.  I also saw where he grew up in Royalton, and rode a four-wheeler for the first time.  Dan, his best friend and my cousin, hosted a bonfire with Steve and Bill (Dan's brothers/my cousins) and their significant others Sunday night, and invited us to come over.  There's nothing quite like sitting around a campfire, drinking beer, eating s'mores, and reliving memories.

I think I've had too much fun the past two weekends because I'm now feeling under the weather.  My throat increased in soreness as the day went on.  Let's hope it's just a mild cold.  I hate being sick.

Oh, and Minnesota Women's Press will be publishing an essay I wrote in an upcoming issue.  I will post it when it's available online. :)