There’s lots of good things going on in business so 2011 is shaping up to be a banner year. My office looks like a hurricane, well worse than the usual hurricane, and lots to catch up on. Sort of glad to have the day/week unexpectedly.

We woke up in California and voted 4-0 to skip Disneyland and head home. We have all had about all we could stand with torrential rains, no sun and cold. We got in about 6:30 last night, I got the Santa things all done and that was it. This morning Lincoln woke me up with an entire dissertation of how strange it was that Santa filled his stocking with the very kinds of candy we have here in the house. He speculated that Santa has magical powers and knows what each child likes and on and on. Little does he know Santa hadn’t expected us here today and had to make do.

This is the first real year where the children have seen the joy of giving gifts. I was quite touched to see Sierra’s insistence I open what she had made for me before she opened her own gifts. A nice sign indeed.

All is well in my world. God bless.

We got up this morning and headed for Universal Studios. It isn’t raining but the sun isn’t shining either. Only about 50 degrees which for me is just plain miserable. How do
people do it? The day was good but brutally cold but a good day nonetheless. 12 days and no sunshine, not one day of putting on sunglasses. About ready to head home

Well more of the same. Another day of massive rain. It finally let up enough where we decided to continue our journey but damn if we didn’t hit more of it in LA. Only thing funnier is we checked the weather in Vegas and it’s raining there too so it’s just a wet trip. Did a little work this morning, which all feels good to be headed in the right direction and I like where 2011 is going.

We finally stopped in Malibu and hopefully it will be clear enough tomorrow to enjoy it.

Hmm, the weather has been challenging. We laughed about whether we should have checked it before we left, but we probably wouldn’t have come and we are glad we did. We were headed north of Santa Barbara but the weather won out and we are further north, camped by the ocean for two days now. My children were born and raised in the desert so this stuff pouring out of the sky is fascinating to them. We expect to take back off tomorrow.

Well anyone who knows me won’t be surprised to learn camping out isn’t my thing. And that was true long before I became a Queen. It’s a lot of hard work, there’s a lot of mud and some real strange sounds in the woods. We are having a good time though. When we first took off we had sleet, rain, fog and some hellacious winds. I mean serious winds. When Don relieved me from driving he said man this is tedious. I say yeah if I wanted this kind of tension I would go play a big poker tournament. He thought I was kidding. I said no it’s the same thing, one wrong move and you’re out.