My birthday was nice. We managed to go to a restaurant for the first time since going gluten free - Maggiano's Little Italy. They have a gluten free pasta option that was pretty awesome. The only goof (that I saw or felt) was putting strawberries on top of cookies for me as a birthday desert. Consideration win, cross contamination avoidance fail. We also made it to the beach and the movies. And Shawn baked me a gluten free 2-layer chocolate and yellow cake with homemade cream cheese icing. Yum!

Emotionally, I'm pretty neutral about turning 30. Maybe I just haven't had time to process, but so far it's just fine.

I've been working a new job for a little over a month. Between that and school, there's not much time for anything else. I knit when I can and have my social Friday nights. I'm looking forward to the semester being over so I can find more time to spend with people, and get more hours in at work. Also, I'm slightly burned out. I'm enjoying math (a lot) but my other class is more debate than anything, and it's wearing me out.

We move in 9 days - email/Facebook/whatever for the new address if you need/want it and I haven't sent it. We are so far behind on packing, but we have two weeks to complete the move, so it shouldn't be horrible.

I'm happy about the national election results. Not so happy about local/state results. Desperately hoping that the ambiguity of the language of No. 2 doesn't cause all the harm I fear it will (the stated purpose is horrible enough). Mostly I'm just hoping people can stop using politics as a weapon against each other so much. It's so painful to watch.

Overall, things are busy, but good. I just wish I could kick the mild cold I've been fighting the past couple months.