Phew. That was close!

This morning while I was taking a shower, I realized a potentially horrible awful mistake I had made.

I mentioned Michelle.

She’s supposed to be a surprise.

Not to you. To our good friend Brian who already lives in LA. When Shea and I first started planning this road trip, Michelle was still on the fence about whether or not she’d be able to join us. So, when Michelle decided she was in, we conveniently ‘forgot’ to tell Brian and all agreed to keep it a secret. Bringing Michelle along will be our little surprise. Actually, I think the true surprise will be having all four of us together again once we get to LA. Aww.

So, you can see why I quickly finished my shower, turned on the computer at 6:45am, and deleted any mention of Michelle from this blog. I had recently added a link to this blog on my Facebook page and was worried Brian would see it and read this!

Since then, I’ve come up with a better solution. I put Michelle back in the blog entries (it just didn’t seem right without her!) and instead… defriended Brian on Facebook and made my profile private.

If he asks, my plan is to act stupid. Judging by my previous flub, that shouldn't be too hard. :P

34 hours.

So last week I mentioned our fast approaching road trip. We leave in less than two weeks now. I can’t believe it! Here’s our route:

That above translates to 34 hours in the car (at least)!

As of right now, the farthest I’ve ever personally driven is eight hours to my friend Lianna’s wedding in Virginia. And... I actually split driving time with my other friend Meghan. I’ve been on family vacations to OBX and Disney World (11 and 17 hour drives respectively), but those don’t really count since I probably spent most of the time sleeping… or fighting with siblings.

So needless to say, this is going to be 34 interesting hours! Luckily, there are three of us going, so Shea, Michelle, and I actually only have to drive 11ish hours each… and we’re stopping four places along the way, so really it won’t be that bad.

The worst part will be when Michelle and I fly home together, leaving our best friend in LA.

But hey, maybe after spending 34 hours in close quarters, we won’t mind. JUST KIDDING!

I intend to twitter along the way, so you can keep up with our journey in the right sidebar or at http://twitter.com/ludakrista!

Blog Fright

Oh. So I’m supposed to write on this thing?

It’s funny how one day over two weeks ago, I spent hours signing up for this blog, choosing a color scheme, designing the header, tweaking the twitter badge javascript, and contemplating fonts… and then never wrote anything until now. I was all blogged out and I hadn’t even blogged yet. Bad sign? Perhaps.

I think I was just intimidated by the first entry. Even as I type this, I’m biting my nails… a nervous habit that I rarely ever do. Oh. Or rarely ever admit that I do. Do I do it a lot? I certainly don’t do it every day… right? Honestly, I don’t. I’ve seen people much much worse.

I’ve kept a diary since first grade… 20 diaries and counting… most of which are 3-subject spiral notebooks. They take up almost an entire shelf on my bookshelf. It certainly wasn’t hard to pour my thoughts out into those… but now this blog… open and in front of everyone… Even if I don’t reveal anything too personal or shocking… it’s still weird to me. I guess I have stage fright. Blog fright?

Anyhow, hi. Here I am. I’m starting this blog mainly because I’m going on a road trip soon with my friends Shea & Michelle and I want to write about it. But I plan to keep writing even after the trip, so we’ll see what happens!