weekend getaway...

       so yeah, i'm a credits whore (see widget below). i use them to support my premium habit, and i generally get just enough every six months to avoid paying the $15 for the next term. i rarely give minis, so if you ever get one from me, it must be special. anyway, i'm on a little weekend getaway of my own. one of my best friends, brandon, has been trying to get me to come visit him for quite a while, but without the use of a properly functioning (or licensed) vehicle it makes such things difficult. i needed the getaway, though, and i just happen to be old enough (i'm getting a kick out of this because it's the first time in a while that i'm enjoying being old), so i rented a car for the weekend and drove the four hours to the little apple: manhattan, kansas, where brandon is finishing his masters in food science and nutritional sensory analysis. there's not a whole lot to see in kansas, but manhattan is in the middle of the konza prairie and that last little bit of drive is quite breathtaking.

       it's been an odd one, though, starting with the car rental. apparently you need a major credit card to rent a car? yeah, i thought it was odd, too. i have a debit card (that can be run as credit) and i had the money for the rental and the deposit, but they wouldn't let me use it. kinda dumb, if you ask me. fortunately my responsible little brother who messes with such things as credit cards was a few blocks away on his lunch break and came to my rescue. so we got the car worked out. so now i'm in manhattan, and we have a blizzard. oy. haha. it's almost april, we've had 60-70 degree weather for the last couple weeks, and we get several inches of snow (which stuck, oddly, and it's still falling). it looks really pretty on the dogwood blossoms, but it's so random. i just hope it clears up before tomorrow because i absolutely hate driving in the snow. i very nearly killed myself doing that once.

       other than that, though, it's been a lovely weekend so far. we made dinner at b's girlfriend's place and the theme was "tiny foods." very fun. then we went out to a live jazz thing, which was cool but they really needed a jazz pianist. i was a little too far gone to care anyway. and today we're going to watch the mizzou game and see manhattan a little. i'm excited. pray that the snow melts, though. i'll update as the weekend continues. later taters!