Not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought, ‘Man, I need a new entry for my blog,’ but every time I sit down to start one, nothing comes.

I’ve been busy, so it’s not that.

I had an awesome gig in Salem with Breanna last Friday, then came home to a rockin’ Latin-American-themed house party at my building. Total blast.

Saturday morning, S&W and I went exploring in the hills of Southwest Portland to find as many of the old steps as we could. In the early 1900’s, the same group of people who built the Park Blocks thought it would be nice to have walking trails that linked the Park with the various neighborhoods. Many of them still exist, and they run through the most beautiful old parts of town. We traipsed around for about four or five hours. In fact, we even drove to Powell’s to find a book and look at a map, which we found and looked at, then drove back to a different set of steps. Total blast.

Sunday was house-cleaning day. I did six loads of laundry, washed the dishes, swept the sidewalk and steps outside, and took out the trash and recycling.

I realize this is all very well, but it doesn’t exactly make for an exciting blog entry. Oh well, I guess they all can’t be exciting.

Regardless, I’ve been too busy and too tired lately to be really creative. I’m also still really emotional about the Kelly situation. It’s been tough, especially since Luke is here with Alyssa now. I was very excited to have the four of us hang out once Luke arrived, and now he’s here–which is great, by the way–but at the same time, I feel like there’s a Kelly-shaped hole in the universe. Le Sigh.

I do have a Susie Blue gig tonight, so that will help lift me out of my funk. Nothing like playing great music with great friends to make you feel like yourself again. I’ll be better, and be back on my blogging game, soon enough.

When in doubt, there are always plenty more Yakima stories.