Okay, so, wow.

I've really been neglecting my website.

I've been neglecting my email, too.

I'm sorry.

I don't know what it is, really. Work has seemed extra busy, lately, and by the time I get home my brain is goat cheese and it's all I can do to stay awake during the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Also, it's spring, and the time changed, and it's so pretty outside that all I want to do is read magazines on the back porch when I get home.

Lots of fun stuff has happened in the past two weeks as well, like my sister Sarah coming for a visit. We just hung out all weekend, really - driving around Austin, visiting places like the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, taking walks in pretty parks. Buying a "new" couch and trying to explain to the cats that scratching this couch would be a VERY bad idea, unless they want to see my eyes pop out of my head.

You know, just lazy vacation stuff.

I went to see Ryan and Christie last weekend, and spent the entire time clutching my stomach and laughing till I almost threw up at stories involving real life man boobs and mole patches. (You don't want to know, I promise.) I got to meet their new dog, Roudolph, who is the cutest little white love-muffin of a Chihuahua I've ever met. Because Ryan is like my fairy godmother and Santa Claus all rolled into one, I got belated Christmas, New Years and birthday presents that rocked my world, including some awesome jewelry and champagne flutes. BFFs are awesome, right? The only thing missing was Paco, the only and only Prince.


I miss you, Shrimp.

Today Brad and I made a very important step towards The Future. Or rather, The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives.

We gave up our digital cable television.

It's about time, really. I've become such a TV junkie, and it just doesn't make sense to cut off my right arm and mail it to Time Warner Cable each month when it's so pretty outside, and when there are so many stories to be written and books to be read.

Don't get me wrong, my heart hurts thinking about missing the Golden Girls on Lifetime, HBO, and any reality show on MTV. Seriously.

But that's why I had to do it, you know?

I think this means only good things for the website, for my writing, for the little pretend lives that live in my head, just waiting to have their stories told.

I'm planning some fun times with Adobe Photoshop this weekend, be forewarned. You're excited, I can tell.

And I promise to write you back soon. Seriously.

Lucy loves you |