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//insert travel freak out here

Eeep. Kyle and I are leaving on a jet plane in couple hours. Heading to the airport in 30 minutes. This is probably not the best time to be drinking another cup of coffee. ::flailing arms while running in circles:: This is normal behavior for me before any type of travel. STRESS! It’s just what I do. We are heading to Anaheim for the SCVA Boys Junior Classic, i.e. a 3 day volleyball tournament. fun! I am not taking my camera, just my phone, so lucky you! Get ready for lots of photos of a blurry Kyle blocking the ball LIKE A BOSS! If you don’t see any tweets or fb status updates for awhile, you may assume I’ve snuck across the street and am riding Space Mountain on an endless loop! Don’t tell Kyle.

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Then the I-5 tried to kill me…

Of course. I finally make it home from the 4-day volleyball-fest, get caught up on my sleep, and the welcome-home-allergies I thought I was experiencing turns out to be a cold. It’s 93 degrees outside and I have a cold. This sucks. So Kyle had his first club volleyball tournament last weekend. He is on the NCVC 14-1 team (got bumped up from the 14-2 team after his 2nd practice) and he did great! And I could tell you about how absolutely exhausting those 4 days were, or how I should have stayed in Malibu on Monday night but decided to drive home instead and then the I-5 tried to kill me and I had a near-psychotic episode and was delirious by the time I got home, but you don’t want to hear about that. How about some pictures instead? And before I start hitting the NyQuil, let me show you something I put together between last week’s evil blog migration woes and this week’s PTI-5S* recovery – my new website www.dawnblanchfield.com! I would like to thank Schmutzie for encouraging me to check out Squarespace and I can not say enough good things about my hosting company Tiger Technologies for…

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