there.....and back again.....

ok, so today i drove to columbus, ohio.......and back again.......on a single tank of gas......and numerous shopping digressions.....the highlights are as follows.......seeing the newly rennovated osu horseshoe stadium....complete with a new upper deck......it was really neat to see, although the likelihood of me scoring a ticket to any future game is in doubt unless i endow a chair or make some other major contribution.........the west side of columbus that i really never saw when i attended school on the 'high street'....midtown.....the coolkids lived there.......and that happens to be where my mother's surgeon practices.......well.....now i know just what is in upper arlington.........lots of stores that look just like stores everywhere else........the surgeon's office was down the street from a starbucks, a home depot, an office max.....you get the picture.......another highlight was the pottery barn outlet in washington courthouse (not jeffersonville......those are NOT the best outlets....)..if ever i have need of reasonably priced stuff for a new apartment....i would drive back there in a heartbeat......great prices....neat stuff.......i didn't buy any of the neat stuff........and i actually talked my mother out of buying me a set of christmas china because..........christmas is the only time i get out the german china i inherited from my grandmother.....and though i do not like it i do enjoy talking about how much i dislike it on a yearly basis..........i also mediated on the buying of ill-suited christmas gifts...for which my family SHOULD be eternally grateful.........if i was truly as mean as advertised i would have gone along with these choices and had a good laugh on christmas morning.....but even i am not that mean..........the downside of the trip was the traffic.....and having to cross the little miami bridge twice........it is a really high-above-the-water bridge.....and it terrifies me each and every time i have to cross it....i am certain that my blood pressure goes up....and my pupils dilate........and i clutch the wheel........few bridges get that much of a rise out of me.........ah well........i am back home....and have a glass of australian white in hand....and life is good.......until she has her surgery in january.....i'll keep you posted.....