Two weekends ago, I headed back down to Florida to play with my rugby team in the Florida Cup. We lost (boo!), but came in third (yay!), out of four teams (boo!). More importantly, I got to visit with tons of people I love and miss and that part was good.

Then I got into a fight with one of the original Dreamgirls. I’m not even getting INTO that.

Last weekend, my sister and I took a long-awaited trip to Las Vegas. We partied and gambled and saw shows and walked around till our feet wore off and all we were left with were bloody stumps. I’d only been to Vegas once before, and while I had a decent time, my memories were grey – I didn’t really feel the need ever to go again.

Let’s just say this trip made me love Vegas again. Mollie and I are already planning our next trip.

This weekend starts really soon. I just got back from the grocery store with the supplies we need for Thanksgiving. This is the first year of my life that I’m not either joining family, or joining with other Floridians away from their families for a Sunshine State Orphans Thanksgiving Dinner. It’s just Matt and me, cooking and eating our favorite foods and enjoying the first holiday we’ll spend in our new home, and I can’t believe how much I’m looking forward to it. He should be home any minute and I’m anxiously awaiting…. simply because I can’t wait for it to get started.

Friday, a close friend who lives overseas but is visiting FL is driving up to spend the weekend with us, and I’m very excited about that as well.

I’m feeling grateful today.

Vintage Jamie:

Harry Bush has since passed away. That’s kind of a downer, but he was a great guy, a wonderful friend, and he lived a terrific life.

Oh, this is cheerier. My best friend commented on the Vintage Jamie from my last entry, because it brought back so many funny memories. Reading through this one should do the trick for Maggie again – I know it did for me. And, I have a follow-up!

Little did I know that years later, while anchoring and reporting for a radio station in Miami, I would get the chance to interview Mr. Gore. I blew off an alumni event I was really looking forward to in order to see An Inconvenient Truth, and thought long and hard about how the next morning’s interview would go.

Despite all of that, when Gore said, “Hello, Jamie!” I blurted, “So… do you like, totally hate Florida, or what?”

There was this horrible pause during which I thought he didn’t get it, and that I’d blown the whole thing, and then finally, he laughed and replied, “No, I love Florida!”

And then we got on with the interview. Me and my imaginary pen pal. Al Gore.

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