Looking ahead at 2024
Hello! Looks like I haven't blogged in 4 years, lots has happened since then. The major points: *After 5 years of friendship, my friend Derrick and I started dating, bought a house in KCMO together in February 2021, and he is now my fiancé Derrick! We have 2 dogs together- Petri (sweet Petri, who is now 8!) and Ivy, our shiba-inu of 3.5 years. They LOVE each other and play all the day. Derrick and I plan to get married sometime in 2024 in a tiny ceremony. *My wonderful partner Zay and I have been together 6.5 years, and have started going on yearly dive trips together. Earlier this year we went to the Caymans. We have our collective eye on Belize and Guatemala next, possibly in the spring, to catch the whale shark migration. *I completed my life goal of visiting all 7 continents. In October 2019 I solo-ventured in Australia (and met cool people along the way). Last winter I took a month off to join a National Geographic expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falklands/Ma...