This post is long overdue, I know. Thanks friends and family who noticed I wasn’t posting – it makes me feel loved to get the occasional “what’s up?” email.  =)

In the last few weeks, I have:

• bought a house
• bought plane tickets to Hawaii for Christmas
• moved
• bought a couch
• started doing laundry again (the laundry is no longer in the freaky, spider-infested, silence-of-the-lambs-style basement)
• hosted a bachelorette get-together
• been a matron of honor (married off a good friend)
• become a Cleveland Indians Super Fan (finally bought that hat!)
• started and finished an art project (husband and I desperately needed to feel like we’d accomplished something)
• started to digitize old home videos (finally, mom – and I’m getting teary and nostalgic, especially about Leah)

Life is starting to be a little less hectic.  I don’t know if I’d call it settled down, but at least I’m not worrying about moving and putting a wedding together at the same time anymore…  Now I’m just concerned with unpacking and working full time and holding down the equivalent of two part-time jobs in my “spare time” and being out every weekend and having plans with friends every week night…

But hey.  At least I’ll have things to talk about, right?

Here’s something funny.  I’m recording a vhs onto my hd as I type here (fast processors are SO nice), and this particular section, going on 15 minutes now, is my mother taping traffic through a tunnel.  =)  I know why she let the video record like that – we thought she was taping the road (and that she wasn’t very good at recording home videos), but she was really capturing the audio of us on a long drive.  She’s a smart woman – none of us would let her tape us if we saw the camera pointed at us.  I’m glad she did it this way.  =)